[UKRP] Reforming Government ~ My Ideas
Day 2,835, 09:54
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by Addaway
Bit of a srs bsns article today. As a lot of you will know, for the past four months I’ve been on a bit of a crusade to reform the way Congress has worked, and to make it a productive body. By no means has it been easy and by no means is it a finished job.
But what I would like to talk about as well is reforming the way that our executive functions, the way it interacts with congress and the public. I want to put forward a few new ideas about our Government and how we can get fresh blood in the eUK government.
For as long as I’ve been playing this game (just over two years) and for a long time before that, the way in which the eUK’s government functions has remained almost completely unchanged. The only significant change during my time has been the separation of the Ministry of Health (The NHS) from government control, which occured in late 2013. Since then, the five government ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defence, Finance, Home Affairs and Education have remained the same.
I would like to change that, primarily as a response to the declining active player base in the eUK, but also to make our government more efficient. Here’s what I suggest:
Merging the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs into a single department. There is significant overlap between the two already, for example MoD Prios will be set generally based on FA information from the MoFA and CP. Under this new system, the setting of orders and relations with other countries would be overseen by a single minister(s) with responsibility. Rather than two separate ministries with separate staff, we will have a single larger pool of players with which to work with, improving communication and ensuring everyone is singing from the same hymn sheet.
Merging the MoHA and MoEd into a single department. For quite a long time now, the domestic side of our government has been a mess, with the MoHA unsure what its role actually is. Having two ministries to deal with domestic affairs is silly, one lead minister will do, with under ministers of education, information and entertainment- and a shared pool of deputies.
These changes will essentially split the government into two large ministries- one dealing with foreign affairs, and the other dealing with domestic affairs. This would, in my opinion, help to streamline the government and make it more efficient, and allow us to make better use of the manpower we have- rather than running ministries that were designed to be run by much larger numbers of people.
I would like to see the Minister of Finance’s role separated from the CP, and turned into an independent bookkeeper that will offer advice to congress and the CP on tax and other matters. The ‘Governor of the Bank of England’ would act as a go-between between the CP and Congress along the lines of the dictator; and will be a semi-permanent role in the same way.
One problem which has been correctly identified by some has been that the government doesn’t have enough fresh blood in it. It tends to be the same faces fulfilling the senior roles; in almost a democratic cabal. It’s been the way the eUK has been run for a very long time, with some of the cabals being less friendly and inclusive than others. This is something we address, and I propose we do it by targeting players in the eUK who do not ordinarily partake in government roles.
I’m not talking about recruiting an army of new players, it simply won’t happen- the game itself doesn’t have the capacity to recruit significant numbers of people. I’m talking about the dozens of good, decent eUKers that have been around the block in MUs or parties, but for whatever reason haven’t taken the step into senior ministerial roles.
I propose we try to address this by a comprehensive system of Apprenticeships. That is to say, we get people into ministerial PMs, learning the ropes and slowly taking over actual work until they can get to a position where they can take over first as deputy ministers, and then as full ministers. I have a fairly detailed plan for how this would work sketched out but I won’t go into it here as it’ll take up too much time.
I may well do another article focusing on some of my other ideas in the future but I’ll leave it there for this one. My focus for the next week or so is trying to get congress back on track after my inactivity of the past weeks. My activity should improve once we get into September.
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Sounds good.
Boo!
"with the MoHA unsure what its role actually is"
I can confirm this.
As can I. I spent a term with Rob the Bruce and all we achieved was the successful change of his "About Me"
Damn, that's even worse than me...
MoHA and MoEnt are pretty pointless ministries tbf
Is there a difference between them?
Well MoHA was meant to inform the public which is different to the MoEd when Max doesn't decide to do that too. MoEnt is just something we have to pretend we are keeping our citizens happy, when really none of them actually care or read articles (did any of you read this article? I usually pick a few quotes then go to the comments section).
If we had an active person who could be bothered to do stuff everyday they could realistically run MoHA, MoEd and MoEnt by themselves. There are plenty of guides to republish and entertainment now classes as a few gifs and memes. But of all our "900 active citizens" none of them can be bothered, me included.
Really I should have just made a joke there to look cool, but this issue keeps me awake at night!
Community entertainment is always 10099% more sucessful and generally better than anything govt does, so disregard MoEnt and have like one active minister running MoHA/MoEd as one thingy would work much better.
Isn't this reform of government down to how the CP organizes their cabinet? Most split the ministries into 2 blocks, with a vCP overseeing them. They usually encourage the MoD & MoFA to liaise so we support allies and gain support vice versa. And the MoEd & MoEnt are usually seen as deputies to the MoHA. As theirs no cost involved in running them, unlike in real life, how they are organized doesn't matter.
However, I do agree with an independent, semi-permanent, MoF, possibly appointed by the Dictator. But again, surely that's up to future CPs, to agree to this
Gingers Rule!
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OMG!
Well, with a constitutional dictator in place congress could basically legislate to make the MoF independent and it would be so- the CP currently has no ingame power over the orgs or the MoF.
The reform of the structure of govt is as you say, down to the CP- its just my idea on how best to structure it
No one does anything, Apprenticeships have been done before, you do understand this is game, maybe you should put your efforts into a real job.
Just more rehashing of nothing
UKRP have had 6 years and you still need more reforms? 🙂
I dunno, trying to get new players involved in the game has to be better than role playing being members of the royal family...
What new players, they are either old players or multis, and if they dont do what they say or agree they will just troll and bully them, its best if the old fags just top trying to control everything
Nah we just troll and bully you cos it's funny
You are too weak to bully me even 50 of you, I love it, that why I take you all on and tell the truth about you control freaks and cheats
"...its best if the old fags just stop trying to control everything"
I agree! You going to make the first move and stop controlling that "democratic" party with your MU?
Deffo something I'd look at when I get round to running for CP if no one does it before me
I am especially intrigued by this idea of Apprenticeships.
Do you have any thoughts on how one applies for it or what the selection process is? Will there be minimum criteria?
I'd imagine that it would just be a contact the department you're interested in sort of thing. The idea is to build xp such limited criteria would probably be required. Something along the lines of:
Are you a human?
Are you active?
Will you be a dick?
LOL YOU HAVE BEEN PLAYING SINCE 2008 !!! JOKER !!!!!!!
It is conceivable for someone to try the game and not like it and come back later - I left when erep rising began, was out for 18 months and came back pretty much before you started.
The idea of a semi-autonomous Bank of England really strikes me as a worthy project actually.
Need less government, especially as it has very little to do with how the game is played.
ALL ministries should be abolished, they are ALL unnecessary.
If you want a massive chunk of the ineffectual fighters to be left with nothing to do and then subsequently go inactive, then sure, abolish all the ministries and stop politics and government from happening at all...
A massive chunk of ineffectual fighters is exactly what we always have, so maybe this is a product of the sort of politics we are lumbered with in eUK.
And effectively getting rid of said bad politics achieves what exactly? It's impossible for us to catch up with countries that are fighting cuz them big forig tanks have been training with full TGs for years and noobs get no benefits for catching up, while the big tanks get more BHs and more gold. The gap only gets larger until those tanking accounts go inactive. Getting rid of the politicos doesn't change this fact and all it does is make our total pool of people that fight at all smaller as the lot that spend time on the politics module leave for something less boring/
This then snowballs and causes the media to have nothing as politics makes up a good chunk of articles, leads to no baw, thus no entertainment, more eDeaths and communities within parties to become dead as well, people are bored, more eDeaths, less fighters, therefore less people training and ranking up, therefore less strong fighters, more wipes. Overall it achieves nothing at the cost of a huge chunk of the people that play the game, furthering the game's decline in population.
One positive though: It'll make Sexagenarian happier. Joy of joys, eUK will be so much better off and more successful thanks to that.
Sometimes I wonder if you think through what you say at all or if you just say it for the sake of being edgy...
so we have no need of an MoD to organise our damage, or a MoFA to actually talk to other countries? Okai mate