New Political Module [?]
Che Greco
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With v2 we are seeing new economic and new war modules. But what could happen with political modules? We can wait to find out or make our own assumptions. New Forms of government would be interesting. Here are some examples:
Democracy
This will be the standard form of government. It will work the same way the current form of government works.
Differences from current political module:
Party Presidents who label their parties as authoritarian or totalitarian have the right to remove members from their party and new members will need to apply, the way citizens now apply for citizenship
A new proposal for congress would be expulsion: A congressman can propose to expel another congressman and the law will require a 66% approval to pass.
Another proposal for congress would be to convert a president into a monarch, effectively converting the political system to monarchy (see below)
Monarchy
A President can become a monarch if a congressman makes a proposal and it passes with 66%. However, monarchy can be revoked with a simple 50% majority vote. Presidential elections are suspended once there is monarchy. On the 5th of every month the Monarch can choose to maintain his throne or select somebody else to replace him.
Similarities to RL
Just like in RL, same in eRepublik monarchy is pretty lame. However, it works for some people so why not give them the option?
Are you sure you want to start a coup d'etat?
This is where the fun begins. A coup d'etat can lead to two form of governments: Dictatorship or oligarchy.
How does one start a coup?
Any citizen of the country can stage a coup.
After a citizen clicks the Coup button, they will have an option to create a Dictatorship or an Oligarchy.
In both cases though, the citizen though will have to be a party president.
Citizens will have the option to fight for coup or fight for democracy similarly to a RW.
The cost of starting a coup should be very high for obvious reasons.
Dictatorship
What could a dictator do?
A dictator will have the same law proposals that a president has in a democracy. The difference with democracy is:
The Dictator has the authority to ban political parties.
A Congress will still exist and have the same powers it currently does (including impeachment). However, since the dictator can ban parties he essentially chooses the Congress.
The Dictator has the authority to censure the media by banning existing newspapers and forcing all new newspapers to apply for a license which the dictator must approve.
A dictator however cannot grant citizenships. This will make it harder for foreigners to become dictators since a dictatorship will require multiple citizenships depending on the amount of congressmen each country gets.
How do you overthrow a dictator?
A dictator can be removed by two ways:
1) Political resistance, which will effectively be another civil RW. The cost of this RW will be a percentage or factor of the country's GDP. Therefore if the dictator can manage to help the economy it will be harder to overthrow him.
2) If the congressmen he chooses decide to impeach him with a 66% majority vote.
The dictator can only propose himself to run for presidential elections. He can also effectively terminate the dictatorship by choosing someone else in which case the form of government will return back to democracy.
Similarities to RL
The cost of overthrowing a dictator will be astronomically high which means a dictator would need support.
Random example:
Say eUSA gets lots of gold from taxes
Say an army general from ...eChile wants to stage a coup and create alliance with eUSA
eUSA can supply the Chilean general with the money to start a RW and even troops to fight to help him seize power
Oligarchy
An oligarchy will work similar to a dictatorship, except that the person who starts the coup will need to select a maximum of 5 people to maintain control of government should the coup succeed. These people will be the only ones involved in the government process handling both presidential and congressional proposals (ie no Congress)
Comments
Che for dictator! 😛
sounds fun!
Very nice Che!
ΧD
we should be able to erase congress :F
cool
Slopes for king of Spain
"Random example"
lol
Voted!
Nice
ΓΙΑ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΙΣΠΑΝΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ!!!!!!!
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I love this idea.
Nice, v!
nice one🙂
voted!
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Voted ... that is something interesting ... Che you could suggest the removal of citizenship as well ....
Well this will kill World Alliances for sure. People will be too busy with what happens within their country to worry about anything else.
Civil Wars will go on forever. You get the picture.
Interesting proposal, but I am not sure if it would actually work.
hey metaman72,
exactly the country that can handle its internal affairs the best would be the one that makes it the furthest in international scene.
also this article is sort of a satire. a lot of things wouldnt work 😛
Voted!
Voted!.. (with both hands)
Βάζε ιδέες Che..... 😃
I love it!
The new Political module should be the next thing on admin's priority list. It would be awesome!
its called erepublik not edictatorship
proletariat dictatorship
on top of taxes, gvt sets prices, wages, exchange rates (able to close the currency), can nationalize companies and control pproduction at will
(in general) gvt should also be able to create buffer stocks and create incentives to specialize in specific products, for example with a tax system where you can set different taxes for different products based on their characteristics
@yibjib
eRepublik comes from Plato's "Republic" and not the English definition of democracy (hence the image of Plato)
Hehe. 🙂
I like these ideas. Very good.
Agree with all but an Oligarchy.
As a Greek citizen (if you actually are in RL), you should know that an Oligarchy was used in ancient Greece in Athens at one point, and it involves a group of around 5 people making all of the decisions. These people were usually rich, high social status, and/or noblemen. This couldn't work in eRepublik. There will always be a congress, and one president, so how could 5 people have total control?
proletariat dictatorship lvl 2: government can now also see citizens' and orgs' savings in gold and currencies and their inventories, can take away money and gold at will from any account in the country, and from inventories anything owned more than once (for example if you own two breads or houses they can take away one of the two)
I like it, but congress needs to stay in the game. It keeps a lot of people interested. I don't support oligarchy at all. But still, voted!
btw i think this article is very important in that it shows the difference in QUALITY and type in the additions we'd like to see in the game and the ones nazis want.
nazis want to censor and ban parties and newspapers. ie they want to ban opinions and shut up people. this is a common and hopefully immediately recognized characteristic of fascism. however that does not really change what they can do with the game since it doesnt improve the gvt role in some tangible direction (ie the economy or army)
on the other hand we want more control to play around with the game features, but continue allowing all opinions to be expressed and not banning critism. we want to be able to control the game more efficiently and allow the people to decide which level of control is prefferable.
btw i'd also love to see a much deeper and more complete intergration of national armies in the game.
I like this - very much.
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good but!! eRepublik and not eDictatorship 😛
Voted The admins should see this and add it to the new modules fast.: )
Yes, yes, yes!
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Why not all of that?
no congress in monarchies or dictatorships, you can't impeach a king or queen or a dictator, it's ridiculous
I love this idea! I second this if not third, fourth, fifth, sixth, or whatever! 😃
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i was thinking about that!
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Good ideas voted!
Excellent ideas. Only one is wrong, the ban from Congresspeople by 66% of Congress in democracy. It is not real and would like to two-party systems in ALL democracies which is not realistic.
cool... 😃
awesome idea!!!
"A new proposal for congress would be expulsion: A congressman can propose to expel another congressman and the law will require a 66% approval to pass."
WTF why?
Voted λέμε!
Although you call it a satire, I think these changes are cool and can work and easier to do (with maybe some technical changes to oligarchy ...) than the new military module with hexagonal battlefields and new units.
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Totally voted