[eUK] Full Frontal Nudity

Day 2,681, 08:10 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by VoodooMike71


Obviously there is no nudity in this article - that would be Against The Rules. However, perhaps we can lay bare the current referendum, and - more importantly - the issues surrounding it.

See what I did there? Yes? Clever huh. Not just a transparent attempt to get people to open this article.


Referendum time
Even the cave-dwellers and two-clickers among us can’t have failed to notice that there is currently a referendum running. The topic of the referendum is, essentially, democracy versus dictatorship, and it won’t be running for much longer, so make sure you go and have your say.

However, many people have quite rightly pointed out that this is a serious subject, and therefore warrants serious discussion. People have opinions, complaints, suggestions and - perhaps most importantly - questions. And yet there’s nowhere obvious to air them.

Well, hopefully this article and the comments section below it will help. I’m not arrogant enough to assume that I’m important enough to provide the focus for these discussions (that’s Wayne’s job), but … well … someone’s got to do something, innit?

So let’s start with the referendum itself. What options are on offer?


That seems simple enough. You’ve got three options, with various pros and cons. The following are my interpretation of them - yours may differ:

1. Ditch the dictatorship and return to a democratically elected CP running the country
For: democracy > tyranny
Against: leaves us wide open to a foreign dictator stepping in. Costs 200,000 CC (with no guarantee of success) to achieve.

2. Keep the dictatorship in its current form
For: Protects against a foreign dictator taking over. Seems to be working OK.
Against: No democratic sanction against dictator. As a nation our future depends entirely on the dictator not being a d*ck.

3. Keep dictatorship but make the elected CP the dictator
For: best of both worlds - protection against foreign dictators, but democratic sanction remains.
Against: not part of game mechanics - we can’t stop an elected CP keeping dictatorship. Getting rid of rogue CP requires both impeachment AND revolution.


And that, pretty much, is it. Those are the three options, with their most obvious pros and cons. There are bound to be more options than that, and there are more pros and cons to the options listed. What do you think?

My view is that option 3 is the best (and is the one I’ve voted for), purely because I’m a greasy liberal who craves compromise I don’t like the idea of an out-and-out dictator that we have no control over. Option 2 gives us one of those, and option 1 makes us vulnerable to one of those. That leaves option 3 - the only option that allows the population to vote and select.