eRepublik Version 2.0: Political Parties
Day 361, 07:07
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by Hassan Pesaran
Another series of articles in which I will outline my ideas for a potential eRepublik 2.0. I would like to stress that these ideas are my opinion and my opinion only and as such will not be as complete as would be possible
Although eRepublik has produced a fantastic community around a very solid set of core ideals, that is all they are at the moment; core ideals. Many of the ideas haven't been fleshed out to their full potential in-game and, as such, many National Forums have cropped up to allow players to fulfill many of their ideas and proposals. The problem is that, with these separate forums, players cannot have as great an impact on the game as would be possible if more features were put into the game to allow more creative freedom. Version 1 has already started this by allowing Congress to propose more laws and have a stronger influence in the way the country is run. But I believe this can be taken much further and in these articles I will explore the ways in which it can be done.
Political Alignment
At the moment, political alignment is just a tag for the political party - it serves no real meaning. Regardless of their alignment, they still havent to abide by eRepublik strict democratic laws. Our very own PCP will never have the oppurtuinity to be truly communist if they ever wanted to be. If eRepublik introduced ideas like Communism, Depotism, Religious States and other more extreme concepts it would encourage further diversity within different countries. Each of these would have their own governmental interface, with Communist for example having the ability to stop users creating companies and Depotism could change tax without congress consent.
You would probably say that these are game-breaking ideas. What if, however, there would always be other political parties who can wage Civil Wars against opressive governments? Although in a Depotism there would be no chance to have elections, Political Parties can always rise up with the people and hold Resistance Wars. Even with military backing, which is minimal in eRepublik anyway, the masses would always be able to overthrow a government. Of course, if a Democratic Government is in power, the Civil War option would be unavailable because you can simply wait until the next election.
Thanks for reading my little, crazy, ideas for a potential Version 2.0. I would be really interested in other people's takes on these ideas.
The next article will focus on Resistance Wars and how they could be improved and brought to life.
Although eRepublik has produced a fantastic community around a very solid set of core ideals, that is all they are at the moment; core ideals. Many of the ideas haven't been fleshed out to their full potential in-game and, as such, many National Forums have cropped up to allow players to fulfill many of their ideas and proposals. The problem is that, with these separate forums, players cannot have as great an impact on the game as would be possible if more features were put into the game to allow more creative freedom. Version 1 has already started this by allowing Congress to propose more laws and have a stronger influence in the way the country is run. But I believe this can be taken much further and in these articles I will explore the ways in which it can be done.
Political Alignment
At the moment, political alignment is just a tag for the political party - it serves no real meaning. Regardless of their alignment, they still havent to abide by eRepublik strict democratic laws. Our very own PCP will never have the oppurtuinity to be truly communist if they ever wanted to be. If eRepublik introduced ideas like Communism, Depotism, Religious States and other more extreme concepts it would encourage further diversity within different countries. Each of these would have their own governmental interface, with Communist for example having the ability to stop users creating companies and Depotism could change tax without congress consent.
You would probably say that these are game-breaking ideas. What if, however, there would always be other political parties who can wage Civil Wars against opressive governments? Although in a Depotism there would be no chance to have elections, Political Parties can always rise up with the people and hold Resistance Wars. Even with military backing, which is minimal in eRepublik anyway, the masses would always be able to overthrow a government. Of course, if a Democratic Government is in power, the Civil War option would be unavailable because you can simply wait until the next election.
Thanks for reading my little, crazy, ideas for a potential Version 2.0. I would be really interested in other people's takes on these ideas.
The next article will focus on Resistance Wars and how they could be improved and brought to life.
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I very much agree with the general idea. I find Rule 6 of eRepublik to be limiting. To have a proper idea of what freedom, rights and democracy you gotta allow the potential of having it taken away.
I like the idea not usre how effective it would be
How about a constitutional monarchy for the UK??
why does it have to be communism when it can be democratic socialism... lets not go to extreems maybe just for now...
Well possibly because the PCP are a far left party? And social democracy is just a centre-left form of party.
If people lose their democracy occasionally, they will value it more.
Nice article 🙂
oh and when communism there would be only food and maybe gifts marketplace and everything else would go to the government... maybe?
Title of PM for UK.
We could have title in V 2.0
We still have to go through 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4.....................
In Portugal, a elected communist government, by very large majority was sabotage by the admin because had a planned economy and hindered the market economy by using state own company's, and so on...(I could tell you more about it,but it doesn't matters to you a lot...) In this game we only have the right to play...by the admin rules...has you probably know, the developers of the game are Romanian, probably the nation that most suffered the atrocity's of the Stalinist regime impose during the cold war(Nicolau Ceausescu, ring any bell), above all the people whit gypsy background.
I'm pleased to know that some others players don´t like some of the game rules, but some with very different point of view (for you it "normal" to have a constitutional monarchy, if I didn't came to the UK I will never thinking on this (sure I knew that the United Kingdom have a Queen, in this world who dosen´t!!??) because for me the problem was the interference in ours state affairs, the respect of the majority vote and above all ours sovereignty has a nation in the game, but yours point of view is valid too... glad to know something new, that I never considered)
Good idea, we need more diversity in the way countries are ruled.
The lack of diversity and flexibility in how countries are ruled was one of the things that disappoints me about this on-line world (although, to be fair, what can you compare it to). Unfortunately, I suspect, this will be difficult to change without a major update. The current 'world' economy is based on a gold system, this is very capitalist, the problem with a true communist state is that it has no concept of individual wealth only state property.
At the moment if you had a communist state the only way it would work is if all gold and currency was dealt with by the government, in practise you have communist states that will cut themselves off from the rest of the world as best as possible as a capitalist and communist system cannot co-exist in harmony.
Another problem is that if you were to have a communist state you would have to gift everything, which, from what I understand this takes a long time. Another problem arises that if you don't have any currency you have no way of overthrowing an evil dictator that you may be unfortunate enough to put in power because it will be very difficult to get weapons without outside help or your country starting a war.
I would love to see a wide diversity in how you can run a country but there will need to be some big changes me thinks.