[Non-Sarcastic Reprint] A Constitutional Dictatorship
Day 2,699, 04:53
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Published in United Kingdom 
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by Sir Humphrey Appleby
First published on Day 2,666
An update from a former Dictator. Feel free to listen to this first - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4
Good evening chaps!
Part 1: Dictators and Us
After discussing the role of our new dictatorship on the dental corps and ukrp irc channels I’ve been asked to clarify some of my ideas concerning our role as citizens under an effective tyranny. For those of you unaware of the changes to society a dictatorship brings - essentially the people you elect have no power beyond citizenship acceptance and every penny of taxes we pay is free to be spent how the dictator wishes. The only way to remove the dictator is through a costly £200k civil war and then we permanently face the threat of a foreign-led PTO bringing us back under dictatorship again.
Given how easily it’s been for well organised foreign groups take over similar small countries under this new module, it’s my belief that a dictatorship can bring a large element of security to our country that we would continually be vulnerable without. However; the obvious problem of how we possibly give and enforce our consent on how we are run, in my view, makes accepting a dictator without some sort of constitutional binding unacceptable in the long run. Whilst I think Wayne has made some careful steps in trying to seek legitimacy by involving those he considers elite in his discussions - I don't believe this is a satisfactory resolution as far as the rest of us are concerned.
Part 2: The ‘best for the eUK’
One thing I’m sure a lot of you would’ve noted is the core theme of both Huey and Wayne claiming to be ‘doing the best for the eUK’ in their respective administrations. This is a rather classic position adopted by national leaders and a well received one when conducted properly. The inherent problem, however, is that their ‘best for the eUK’ is limited to their own personal vision and ideology - not necessarily shared by the majority. With CPs at least you have the reasonable confidence your other elected representatives (Members of Parliament) will wake up and remove them - under a dictatorship it is fair to doubt whether they would happily remove themselves. For me personally - the best for the eUK has largely been the wishes of the majority of it’s citizens (for better or worse).
So when finally pressed as to what my solution would be - to either go back to democracy and live in permanent risk of foreign PTO or surrender all contributing liberties to whoever the cabal thinks would be a laugh as Dictator next - I choose both and neither.
Part 3: A constitutional dictatorship
I highly believe that if Wayne should deny Huey or the next CP his democratic rights and try and govern alone if wouldn’t take particularly long for democracy to reassert itself with the overwhelming strength of a pissed citizenry. In my opinion, there is no other legitimacy than democratic consent for a government to operate in a game like this - if people were told that their opinion no longer counts then it doesn’t take a genius to realise they won’t hang about. That said, the security vulnerabilities that the political module has for democracy makes our position in the world extremely uncertain should we catch the attention of an organised MU.
My solution is thus:-
-We should retain the dictatorship under appreciation of the political module and how to collectively operate within it.
-That the dictator officially abdicates the day to day running of the government to the CP and takes a purely advisory role.
-That the dictator respects the democratic rights of the CP and Parliament; though IRC/in message votes and carries out their will in ingame votes.
-That the defence of the country is jointly conducted by the dictator and the Ministry of Defence.
-That the dictator respects the fact they are needed largely to prevent a malicious foreigner taking their place.
-That the dictator accepts that if they defy the democratic wishes of the country they will be deposed and billed £200k (think BigAnt).
Much obliged for reading this far
Appleby
An update from a former Dictator. Feel free to listen to this first - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4
Good evening chaps!
Part 1: Dictators and Us
After discussing the role of our new dictatorship on the dental corps and ukrp irc channels I’ve been asked to clarify some of my ideas concerning our role as citizens under an effective tyranny. For those of you unaware of the changes to society a dictatorship brings - essentially the people you elect have no power beyond citizenship acceptance and every penny of taxes we pay is free to be spent how the dictator wishes. The only way to remove the dictator is through a costly £200k civil war and then we permanently face the threat of a foreign-led PTO bringing us back under dictatorship again.
Given how easily it’s been for well organised foreign groups take over similar small countries under this new module, it’s my belief that a dictatorship can bring a large element of security to our country that we would continually be vulnerable without. However; the obvious problem of how we possibly give and enforce our consent on how we are run, in my view, makes accepting a dictator without some sort of constitutional binding unacceptable in the long run. Whilst I think Wayne has made some careful steps in trying to seek legitimacy by involving those he considers elite in his discussions - I don't believe this is a satisfactory resolution as far as the rest of us are concerned.
Part 2: The ‘best for the eUK’
One thing I’m sure a lot of you would’ve noted is the core theme of both Huey and Wayne claiming to be ‘doing the best for the eUK’ in their respective administrations. This is a rather classic position adopted by national leaders and a well received one when conducted properly. The inherent problem, however, is that their ‘best for the eUK’ is limited to their own personal vision and ideology - not necessarily shared by the majority. With CPs at least you have the reasonable confidence your other elected representatives (Members of Parliament) will wake up and remove them - under a dictatorship it is fair to doubt whether they would happily remove themselves. For me personally - the best for the eUK has largely been the wishes of the majority of it’s citizens (for better or worse).
So when finally pressed as to what my solution would be - to either go back to democracy and live in permanent risk of foreign PTO or surrender all contributing liberties to whoever the cabal thinks would be a laugh as Dictator next - I choose both and neither.
Part 3: A constitutional dictatorship
I highly believe that if Wayne should deny Huey or the next CP his democratic rights and try and govern alone if wouldn’t take particularly long for democracy to reassert itself with the overwhelming strength of a pissed citizenry. In my opinion, there is no other legitimacy than democratic consent for a government to operate in a game like this - if people were told that their opinion no longer counts then it doesn’t take a genius to realise they won’t hang about. That said, the security vulnerabilities that the political module has for democracy makes our position in the world extremely uncertain should we catch the attention of an organised MU.
My solution is thus:-
-We should retain the dictatorship under appreciation of the political module and how to collectively operate within it.
-That the dictator officially abdicates the day to day running of the government to the CP and takes a purely advisory role.
-That the dictator respects the democratic rights of the CP and Parliament; though IRC/in message votes and carries out their will in ingame votes.
-That the defence of the country is jointly conducted by the dictator and the Ministry of Defence.
-That the dictator respects the fact they are needed largely to prevent a malicious foreigner taking their place.
-That the dictator accepts that if they defy the democratic wishes of the country they will be deposed and billed £200k (think BigAnt).
Much obliged for reading this far
🙂.
Appleby
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Best article of the year
now the best reprinted article of the year
I like the new name for the newspaper.
Flashy.
An innovative change from 'a civil service'
hopefully allows people to see the double meaning better :3
This was a pretty good idea last time round
Everything in this article is wonderful - but for the final paragraph:
"at the dictator accepts that if they defy the democratic wishes of the country they will be deposed and billed £200k (think BigAnt)."
Sadly I do not see the 'Send invoice to'. Button on my Erepublik user interface....
We can legislate for that!