gert-janl said:
And another new team-member reporting for duty!
I would favor a more organised democracy than previously proposed. I think it´s much more effective if you have 1 turnplayer for a certain number of consecutive turns. This doesn´t mean that someone is less equal than others, someone just has more responsibility. Plus, you can judge the Turnplayer at the end of his term by (not) re-electing him.
I would say to give the president the authority to be representative to the UN, if he wants to. This gives the clearest picture of our team to the others, and the clearest picture of the others to our team.
Team Doughnut sounds fine. I´m ok with that. I´m ok with the countries as well (Iro/Sum/Car)
Why would it be much more effective to have only one turnplayer? If we allow everybody to play the save, that would most certainly be faster, as the first person who saw it could play and send it on without further ado. There may be the potential that we could end up with a bad turn-player, but I'd say it is fairly unlikely that somebody who wasn't very good at the game would attempt to play anyway. Even if that did happen, he would probably be told what he'd done wrong by the other players, making that person a better civ player. And the will of the people must be followed under this system as well; any instructions that the people have given (via discussion and polling) would have to be carried out.
As for equality, this system would make everybody as equal as is possible to make them. You mentioned that the officials have the same amount of power, but more responsibility. However, isn't "more responsibility" just a different way of phrasing "more power"? It seems that the responsibility they gain comes from the fact that they have more power. Under the standard system, the citizens do have the power to elect the president and advisors, but once they're elected, the people don't have the type of direct power that this variant would allow for. They can vote in polls and voice their opinions in discussions, but the final decisions are down to the President and the officials who can instruct him. In this system, we effectively make everybody the President and the advisors, simply by virtue of their being citizens.
Additionally, I think we'll have just the right number of people to make this a reality. A group of (approximately) 6-10 active citizens would make discussion and voting quite possible, while at the same time, it should be small enough that this system wouldn't be at all chaotic. To my knowledge, this is a completely new idea, and I think it'd be quite interesting if we were the first to carry it out and figure out where it went. All the other demogames at this site (including the multi-player ones) have involved a president, x number of advisors, and usually governors and a judiciary. I think this system can work under these conditions, and we really should give it a shot to see where it goes.
