And deep within the fortresses of Rome, things were looking up!
The huzzah!!!!!!!!!!!! We may whinge Romans, we may look sullen upon the rich gluttonus (mispelled) neighbors we're surrounded by - but now we're rich! - Haha!
Nation: Commonwealth Union
Economy: Superpower (0/21/0/5)
I'm rich biiiiiatch!!!
(please don't nuke me - this was JOKE!)
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The CU proposes a charity fund be raised... please see E7/P9 thread...
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Democracy a speech by M. Whimly
There is a lack of democracy in the Union. Since I took up the oath of office as Prime Minister of our wonderful Commonwealth and soon became President I have had the oppertunity to talk with some of the most forward thinkers of the world. I asked them of the future of our Union and they said it would fall, that the will of the people was inevitable and that every man wishes to be free. They often quoted the Boston Tea Party and the Magna Carta, 'No taxation without representation'.
The truth is indeed that we do taxate the citizens of Madagascar, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Qatar without asking for their say in the matter of how their money is to be spent. In the past the records of CU budgets prove that the CU economy have taken direct hits to build and later protect the African States from the economic turmoil that the Continent is experiencing. People wish for freedom however and this was not enough to convince the citizen that a 100% budget aquisition for the CU was in their best interest unlike the citizen of New Zealand and the rest of the Union.
Since this law was passed in the early seventies it has become increasingly difficult to invest efficiently in the states to improve their sagging economies. Recently there has been made some progress, some of it has been in the field of economic output but mostly the improvements have been related to education, industry and infrastructure. Our states are becoming bright shining beacons of Africa and the Middle East once again.
With the advent of education the thinkers I mentioned earlier in this speech have become more and more adament that a breakup is inevitable. The states will wish for freedom when they understand that they are 'colonies', that their fate - however much less efficient and secure without the cooperation and peaceful security that the CU represents - is their own to determine.
There are three solutions to this probleem that do not involve a breakup.
The first is to suppress the indigenous populations, become a DemoFascist regime and attempt to trump through the will of New Zealanders by the force of arms. Not only is this a morally and ethically despicable choice, it goes against everything The States of the Commonwealth Union has come to represent. Our citizens, our military, our leaders, and I would never stand for it.
The second way is massive bribery of citizens, a road taken by the illustrious - and I do intend respect - USE. Once again this is an inefficient way of governing and morally unsound.
There are two alternatives that present themselves within sanity, efficiency and the moral paremeters of the Union. Planned decolonization or 'the Vote'.
The Union government will shortly be proposing laws to be implemented in steps to establish a Union government based on 20% representatives each from Qatar - New Zealand & East Timor & Kapp Verde/Marian/Marshall/Fiji/.../ Islands - South Madagascar, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau in which leadership will rotate on a yearly basis. This democractic progress will take 2 years to plan and another 3 in which the colonial vote will be gradually increased up to 20% for all five members. To reduce the currently ruling body in a single step to 20% would mean chaos and I will not allow this to happen as it has in the past when communist countries turn sharply democratic.
South Madagascar as the only state wich has not voted to be included in the Commonwealth Union will be given the choice to cecede.
I have the backing of the Union party, and I urge the members of the Economicists to vote for this. Such a Union will once again include a 100% monetary input from all states and though this may mean that the other states will catch up with New Zealand such a longterm policy dictates unequaled economic power ever seen on the face of the Earth. It has been scientifically proven that with an average growth of a single eco. per semester in 6 years the Union will have a gross net product of 100 economic points.
To the left I have but this to say... Our names will be etched in the history as the most generous of mankind.
Vote for 'the Vote'.
Our legacy is freedom, prosperity, a fight for democracy and survival.
Harken back to the days when we saved Vietnam and led an APETO-expedition to halt the Fascist genocides of the Middle East. Remember the times that we rebuilt the world while world wars ravaged the world.
If we are to be one, we must never discriminate.
Long Live the Union! Long live Mankind!
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... description of right-wing, centrist and leftist attitude to proposal (good enough, excellent, very good)...
This speech was made one half year ago by the President of the CU (she was made President from Prime Minister bit more then half a year ago)... Plans have been made for how to make the CU an including democracy within 4.5-5.5 years. This is expected to be voted upon shortly. (I just need to get back home and write an extra story)
http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=2887677&postcount=238
(please excuse the hyperbole in the original, I'm not used to writing uhmmm 'stories'... which by that I mean having characters creep out of the dark corners of my NES-metagaming solitude to serve my nation as best possible ... gee, maybe I SHOULD think of this as an RPG)
