Presenting the Regulation category, for all your regulatory needs!
The only real counterpart to Advancement of Industry has been Environmental, but that leaves a pretty narrow band of options. One can argue that the Social Justice category serves that purpose, but what about those laws that look to benefit the public as a whole, and not just the socially downtrodden? What if you believe in a regulatory state free of welfare? We got your back!
Regulation
Category Description: A resolution to enact uniform standards that protect workers, consumers, and the general public.
So, its Regulation, Mild, Significant, or Strong, right? Wrong!
Attached to Regulation comes a litany of new areas of effect, with the possibility for adding EVEN MORE!
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Consumer Protection
Description: Increasing consumer rights, product standards, accurate labeling, and legal recourse for consumer David against the corporate Goliath.
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Safety
Description: Enforce stringent regulations to keep the average bystander from physical harm.
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Transportation
Description: Planes, trains, and automobiles! Create regulations to increase hull thickness, standardize trade route traffic, or protect shipping.
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Labor Rights
Description: Protecting the workers from exploitation and dangerous conditions at the expense of corporate bottom lines.
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Energy
Description: Bright ideas about power generation, transmission, and consumption belong here.
Category: Regulation | Area of Effect: Legal Reform
Description: Regulate the legal industry, public and private, for access to justice for all.
I think we all know where I'm gonna start, right folks?
On top of our Shiny New Category, we have a new improvement to an old category, Advancement of Industry!
Category: Advancement of Industry | Area of Effect: Commercial Enterprise
Description: The freer the market, the freer the people, right? By people, we mean corporations. This covers all the rights associated with commercial entities and the free market.
Commercial Enterprise is meant to fix a strange problem that Free Trade never quite addressed: You can have pro-business options that do not necessarily conform to free trade in that they don't lower international barriers to commerce. With Commercial Enterprise, you can spell out corporate rights and protections, maximize the right to freely contract, or otherwise promote business, even if it comes at the expense of international trade.
That's right, folks, you now have SIXTEEN categories with a grand total of TWENTY SIX different areas of effect to chose from! That's more categories and AoEs than you can count! Nearly!
We know that new categories create uncertainty moving forward, so please feel free to ask questions about or excessively praise or I guess criticize the new categories here.
Ok, so its one category and many AoEs, but nobody asked you.
EDIT UPDATE:
FYI a couple more category changes have occurred.
The 'Human rights' category has been renamed 'civil rights', and the Gun Control, Gambling, and Recreational Drug Use categories have all been eliminated. The two existing proposals in drug use and gun control still retain their categories and if repealed will have the stat effects a repeal of that category normally would.
