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I typically avoid writing too many articles, but I found the recent election changes just too interesting to pass up writing an article on them. I should note that this article isn’t a summary of the changes, but a short analysis on some of the implication.

Background information can be found here HERE

There are certainly advantages and disadvantages to the recent changes, but I find the disadvantages to be more notable.

The new system sharply impedes the ability of the eUS to make progress.

Politicians shouldn’t remain in office forever. We need fresh blood to keep things new, interesting, and moving forward. While there are some older members of Congress who do a great job, there’s others who suck. The new system only makes it more difficult to remove them.


eRepublik has a class of “elites.” It goes by a ton of names, but that's what it is. There is, without a doubt, an eRepublik upper-class who dominate politics and have for quite sometime. It’s possible to break into this group, but it’s not a simple process.

A lot of these guys are great. They do a great job, and help the eUS immensely. However, there’s others who suck. And to be honest, I don’t have an example. But it’s a fact. There’s always someone in the elite group who just shouldn’t be there. My goal isn’t so much to remove them, but to give the underdog who has great ideas a chance to put them into action.

Under the old process, a newbie running a well-organized campaign had the opportunity to break through the wall and do something amazing. Yes, there were some shitty congressmen who won this way, but there were also good ones. When a shitty congressman won, they just wouldn’t do anything. They wouldn’t necessarily harm the eUS. However, the good ones had the opportunity to really make a difference, and oftentimes they did.

The fact is that many of our current leaders only lead because of who they are, their name recognition, and who they know. Through the new system, if you know the right person, regardless of how much you suck, you’ll keep your spot. It ruins the idea of competitive elections.

Sometimes it can take months to work your way up into the party leadership, whereas previously they could start making a different immediately.

The fact is, this isn’t the change we needed. We needed the ability to revoke the citizenship of certain members of society. Hopefully the admins will make a better change, but I doubt it.

-Elivmar


I would like to acknowledge that eRepublik electoral structures do not have the same results that they would in real-life, likely because the voting base isn’t large enough. In Congressional elections, under the old system, we would have had two major parties essentially predominating in every race. In Presidential elections you see this to some degree, with their typically being two predominant front runners, probably because of a larger voting pool, but it can vary drastically.

For that reason, it’s difficult to predict whether all the parties will coalesce under one banner given time with this system. It would certainly seem like the smart thing to do, but I’m sure that’d only harm the ability of new people to move up.