[EXTRA] Diet Affairs/Election Rule Explanation 8/13

Day 2,105, 10:24 • Published in Japan Japan • by ahava3233

Hi, this is ahava3233 reporting to you from occupied Kanto. In any event, I wanted to write in brief about the matters that were brought up to the Diet this month. Congress activity was minimal this month, so along with that information, I'd like to explain a special election rules relevant to today's elections in this article as well.




1. The Board of Directors

The current regime brought up a plan to give the top MUs access to the organizations as a money-making tool. Basically, funds from these MUs would be placed up in orgs managed by a representative from their respective political parties and all fiscal decisions for the profits would be made by due process by the board, which also includes representatives from the government. However, there has been little publically visible activity on this matter since the nominations. No Diet vote has been held. Nominations to the board have been made public from all parties save the Shinsengumi, who have elected to boycott the board.




2. Self-employment Tax Reaction

In response to the introduction of Work Tax, which taxes Work as Manager by the average salary times our regular income tax rate, the government moved to lower the VAT on food to 5% from 10% due to the shifted tax burden. The measure passed successfully.


So yeah, that's that, anyway, along with that information, I'd like to explain something about the congress elections this month.



Congress Elections: A Smaller Diet

Usually, Japan's congress would consist of 40 representatives from the top 5 political parties. This month however, there will be a smaller amount of representation in the Diet, only 10 representatives will be elected. This is due to a rule from Plato which dictates that a country's congress will only have up to 10 representatives per region it controls, with a maximum of 40 unless a country owns more than 40 regions (in which case, the size of the congress will be determined by the number of regions the country possesses).

Furthermore, if you were wondering, the number of citizenship passes is determined by the following expression.

Voting population * .10 / Number of Congress Members

Where the voting population is the number of citizens in the country over level 14. As we lack census data with such information, each congress member will likely have 2-7 citizenship passes each this month (as generally, with a full congress of 40 people, each congress member has had only 1 CS pass for a while now).

EDIT: Post-election, it has been found that each Congress member has 6 citizenship passes.


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~ahava3233
Speaker of the Diet: July-August 2013