Option 3 in Issue #1082 is:
“Even if Tulsi Haggard stops parading around half-naked, Lisbeth Burrows stops talking about her fry bread recipe, and Ernie Flanders stops conducting symphonies, that won’t stop voters from getting duped,” sulks your Foreign Secretary, Hillary Smoochinger. “As long as elections are a popularity contest, personality politics are going to get in the way of choosing the most qualified candidates. We should just conduct surveys to find out what policies our citizens want, and you could appoint the most qualified experts to implement them. It’s still democracy, except that people are recommending policies instead of voting for candidates.”
I selected it because I like the hypothetical idea of a government run by only the objectively most intelligent people in the society . A sort of academic technocracy. A minster can hold an office only if he is a leading expert in this subject by consensus, with short term limits. Critical issues would be decided by referendums.
However, this selection introduces the autocracy policy, which is far from what it seems to describe.
My question is, would it be possible in any issue in the future to remove the autocracy policy without reintroducing elections? Which official policy is the nearest to what I desire? And why is there such a limited policy catalogue?
