Posts from Actaea

Haha, and now the Mushrooms are a race of techies!

May God help them. Anyone who divides people into techies and humanists is, by definition, an idiot.

The most avoided locations in Actaea are Burhan, Champignons, Steelmen, and Rex Ventorum.

Burkhan is not in Actaea.

However, the Steelmen prove that a country's appeal to tourists doesn't always depend on the level of environmental pollution and toxicity, although I thought that NS believed it did.

God is not in Actaeon.

So, Rex Ventorum is in the top 3.

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"Why make them wear anything?" asks nudist Howard de Groot, standing to attention in your office. "Without clothes to impede them, your soldiers can move faster in battle - and we don't have to waste any more money on uniforms. Besides, all you need is a gun to kill someone, right?"

So, that's where Ment got his brilliant ideas about soldiers not needing clothes.

The Issue

The last remaining health advocates in Kittypink have approached your office with a list of grievances about compulsory drug use.

The Debate

An aging punk rocker with faded tattoos of X's on her hands argues, "The government adding drugs to the water was a terrible idea. Forcing us all to alter our minds against our will; that's state mind control. People should be allowed, at least, to choose to opt-out of this harebrained program. Sure, providing PURE drinking water to the citizens who want it would increase taxes, but think of all the jobs it would create for PROUDLY SOBER people such as myself! With fewer users sitting at home, our nation could accomplish so much more."

"Duuuuuude, we didn't go far enough," wheezes Britney Utopia, creeping into your office from an open window, "It was a great idea to legalize all drugs - and an even greater idea to put chems in the water, so everyone can just chill. Everybody must get stoned, man; it's like that song. Now, it is a shame and an outrage, dear leader, that users of certain socially stigmatized drugs continue to be left out in the cold. It isn't fair that people who like to drink the tap water get it for free, while I have to spend my hard-earned meows importing rare diamondback licking-toads. The government should subsidize all recreational drug use!"

"So many voices. So many opinions. So many options..." intones your sinister intern, Evan Zhimo, shrouded in kretek smoke. "Some people need drugs to keep them calm and supporting our party. Others need drugs to feel good when they inevitably get stuck in miserable, pointless, dead-end jobs. Others, still, might benefit from drugs that help them go berserk on the battlefield. Naturally, government officials such as myself would benefit greatly from enforcing, shall we say, selective sobriety. Best of all, we could harness the power of addiction! People would have to listen to us - or else!"

This is the position your government is preparing to adopt.

"That sounds... downright frightening," shudders Ryan Janssen, your medical advisor, "If I may be honest, I think we went too far when we laced the public water supply with drugs. I'm not saying we should ban anything, but we really shouldn't force anyone to ingest these hallucinogens. People shouldn't have to collect rainwater if they just want a refreshing drink."

The Government Position

The government has indicated its intention to follow the recommendations of Option 3.

Hey, Kosha, watch out, or your berserkers might turn into hippies... And that's it...
To really create an army of berserkers, you need to deprive them of their "dose" for two days and tell them that the enemy has it.

It’s fine with me as is.

Following new legislation in Rex Ventorum, well-off serial killers write monthly checks to avoid jail time.
Following new legislation in Rex Ventorum, the country has been 'going shopping' by annexing nearby nations for their resources.

Toxicity +15, + tourism, + pacifism.
The decrease in employment is understandable – lawyers have lost wealthy clients.

77 minutes ago: Following new legislation in Kittypink, political loyalty is enforced by way of chemical addiction.

Rights and freedoms did NOT suddenly decrease, but defense increased by one point, hooray! And authoritarianism is off the charts, hooray!

A recent severe crash in the stock market of Arkondia and a plummet of the value of the Arc have brought the issue of government bailouts to the forefront of the national agenda.

The Debate

"We need to do something now! The people's welfare -- not to mention all my side businesses -- are in serious danger!" screams your finance minister Abraham Smith. "We need an extensive support program for the businesses that make our country great, otherwise we might as well join ranks with those... third-world countries," he shudders. "Never mind that all the businesses on this list are owned by my relatives!"

Accept

"You're talking about doing what!?" screams Mia Licorish, a noted fiscal conservative and libertarian scholar. "Government bailouts won't solve anything. They'll only redistribute wealth to those the government happens to favor at that particular moment, while placing a crushing burden onto everybody else. The government must instead cut taxes across the board and axe all unnecessary social programs, particularly our welfare system."

Accept

"This brings up an interesting point," remarks socialist author Wil Longbottom. "Why do we allow businesses to become "too big to fail?" The solution, surely, is to break up businesses before they reach such a size that they threaten our economy. Imagine it: community-based businesses, run for the benefit of the little people, not faceless, money-grubbing investment banks! Is there really a reason corporations need to be big?"

who chose what? I feel like each option has some kind of downside

I went with the last option. But it’s not very good for dictators, so don’t choose it.

large enterprises are needed by large and great countries, so this option is not very suitable. and small ones won't be able to handle all industries.

The first one is the best.