ISSUE: DRUG OVERUSE
ISSUE NAME: I Believe I Can Fly!
DESCRIPTION: Over consumption of hallucinogens by the vast majority of adult citizens of @@NAME@@ has led to unprecedented amounts of people bungee jumping off of bridges, cliffs, trees, houses, and most anything over three stories tall… without cords.
VALIDITY: For any nation with lax drug laws, particularly ones that emphasize hallucinogens, LSD, acids, and “mind-altering” drugs.
CHOICES:
[option]“With all due respect, legalizing these deadly poisons was one of the absolute most idiotic, naïve, dangerous, and downright STUPID policies EVER enacted by the @@TYPE@@.” retorts @@RANDOMNAME@@, a nurse at one of @@NAME@@’s largest hospitals. “A guy thinks he’s ‘@@ANIMAL@@ Man’ and leaps off a tower, expecting a grappling hook to swing him to the next building. People think they’re Max Barry and are starting to question everything in government. A guy… hey! HEY! Don’t eat that! It’s mind altering effects areeeeeeeee…………..-|---_/--…^^./”
[effect]the nation has reversed its legalization of hallucinogens
[stats]Drug Use down, Lax Drug Laws down, Crime down, Stupidity down, Intelligence up, Taxes up, Happiness down, “Death by Bungee Jumping” slashed, Liberal Rating down, Lifespan up, Civil Rights slashed
[option]Despite the nurse’s warning, you eagerly ingested the LSD. Swirling into the array of trippy colors, an anthromorphic zebra, sitting in a rocking chair and donning a trench coat, manifests himself before you. “Hello Kevin.” he says. “It’s nice of you to join me in the world of open-mindedness and true exploration of your true self. I’ve heard from the magical triangle kids that you are contemplating criminalizing these beautiful drugs. Why? It’s their body, and if they think their nostrils whisper to them or jump off skyscrapers for exercising their fundamental rights… then so be it. Their body, their right to kill it.” the zebra winks and then vanishes as you regain your sanity.
[effect]jumping off buildings is a societal norm
[stats]“Death by Bungee Jumping” skyrockets, Lax Drugs up, Liberalism up, Civil Rights skyrockets, Stupidity way up, Happiness way up, Lifespan down, “Death by Old Age” slashed, Healthcare Budget up (hospitals increase), Productivity down, Economy slightly up, Rebellious Youth up
[option]You wake up and realize you’re not in your office. You’re hanging by your ankle, suspended by a bungee cord, dangling off @@CAPITAL@@’s tallest building. An unwashed, long haired man, also dangling from a cord, turns to look at you. “Whoa, @@LEADER@@, you, like, saw the zebra too, man… yeah… I was, like, thinking that the zebra was, like, right man. –but he, like, totally doesn't go far enough, man! There are still people who haven’t freed their minds, man! Like, those prudes in the church-temple things, man, like them. The government should, like, totally do its job to make life better, man, and like, totally make acid and stuff, like, compulsory or stuff, man. Just, like, slip it into the water supply, man, and like, we’ll all be drifting off to a better world… man.”
[effect]the consumption of hallucinogens is compulsory
[stats]Liberalism up, Civil Rights slashed, Happiness skyrockets, “Irreverence to religion” added, Lax Drugs skyrockets, Happiness way up, Government becomes looser (it’s hard to rule when you’re always high), Anarchy up (as such), Crime up, Rebellious Youth skyrockets, “Death by Bungee Jumping” immensely skyrockets up, Lifespan slashed, “Death by Old Age” slashed, God Forsaken rating up, adds “Renowned for its forced ingestion of LSD”
