A Presidential Suggestion for eRepublik Rising

Day 975, 21:41 • Published in United Kingdom Pakistan • by Longbaugh

On the 5th of every month, if every citizen voting for Country President was asked to rank the eligible candidates from one to five we'd see a sharp decline in, at the very least, successful PTO's.



Your choice is clear.

The political module for eRepublik works as such so that only candidates from one of the five most popular parties (or endorsed by one of those five) can effectively run for national office. The reason why it's stretched to five is to give off an air of competition and equal opportunity among the woodsplit masses. But, as we all know very well, only candidates from the top two parties ever win a presidential election. In fact, I'd guesstimate that, across the New World, one of the top two parties elects the CP more than 80% of the time.

In my 16 months playing eRepublik I've only ever seen a candidate from the #5 party win the Presidency once... back in September, in Indonesia, when 8uj3l won as the candidate from the Partai Komunis eIndonesia.

The way I see it, takeovers would be further-reduced if the national elections (and the party elections) were changed to an ordered voting format; which is where voters rank the candidates from 1-5 instead of just voting for one.

Consequently, if the CP were to resign or be banned, then the presidential duties would be passed onto the candidate who ranked #2 (not by votes but by preference). I've never liked the idea of victorious politicians picking their own vice presidents. It should be left up completely to the voters, like how it used to be in 19th century America.

Rank 'em and everyone wins.