Zards Dictatorship

Probably can't get it here. I'll go to a dedicated bottle store and see what international stuff they have.

Wouldn't mind some beer, got a bottle of wine in the fridge but not that interested in wine.

I am deeply sorry You can't get it where You are my eNZie friend !! I hope Your future endeavours in the light of such beauties as Baltica are successful ! I bring You closer to the true Slav beer in the sky ! Meanwhile I wish through only a little be-wish You a Slav drinking ! ^^

 
Hm... I assume we are going with a situation where the same odd contrivance of events, divine intervention or both that gave me the job of dictator is also protecting me from being ousted by foreign powers. Because if not, this is going to be a very short reign. Also, I assume that given the sort of contrivance it would take to get me there I'd go mad with power. Well I'd go mad with power anyway really but this is as good an excuse as any.
With that assumption in mind here goes:

First things first, my family members all get jobs in the government. Important jobs. Not to put too fine a point on it but I don't trust anyone else to hold on to the levers of power for me. Also frankly I want to retire rich and when that's your intent its easier if you share the load. X people stealing 1/X of the cash each is less noticeable than one guy stealing all of it. And I ain't stupid enough to actually try and stay in power until someone gets bold enough to off me. Just long enough to get my fix of abusing power and fill my bank accounts with more cash than I could ever spend.

Also, a palace. Got to build my self a palace. I am thinking something asian themed but with rococo style decorations everywhere. Also a literal swimming pool of blood. A ruler has to make a statement.

Next we come to the social reforms. First, split all crimes into 3 categories:
- Treason, punishable by death and burial in an unmarked grave.

- Crimes with a victim. As the name says, crimes that have a victim and produce measurable physical harm. So stuff like rape, arson, theft, burglary, shoplifting, genocide, damaging property, physical assault, violating workers rights etc. These all get punished by life in prison. Where prison is defined as a hellhole that makes orphanages from Dickens's novels look like a 7 star hotel. And life is defined by how ever long you can survive in there with minimal supervision from the guards. Because watching over you is hard and feeding you is expensive. So we just throw in food for half the people and let the population self regulate.

- Other. Stuff like jaywalking, drunk driving or parking in the wrong spot. Nobody cares about these as they have no victim and cause no harm. So just slap them with a fine to remind them how it feels to not have food for a year and call it a day.

And no, insulting someone is not included in these. Or harming someones feelings, being offensive or anything like that. Words can't ever be criminal unless they are directed against me. In which case they are either calls to depose me, which is treason or criticism which is tolerated.

Than we move on to education. TLDR if a kid skips class fine the parents. If a kid has bad grades, fine the parents. If a kid misbehaves in school fine the parents. Unless the misbehavior involves physical violence or any other class #2 law violations in which case that kid goes to adult prison to wither and die like all the other criminals. And if the parents complain too loudly offer them a stay in his cell. I wouldn't want to be a monster splinting families apart after all. Also, remove teachers ability to give grades. They should only teach. Grading should be done by nation level standardized tests. Teachers who fail to produce good results get fired. Teachers that can't maintain discipline get fired. Teachers whose students don't like the dear leader get fired.

Since we already have a good healthcare and social security system in pace I wouldn't touch that. Although I would exclude dissidents and people who I dislike out of spite. Also, drug addicts. They get kicked off the free healthcare system as well. But on the plus side all drugs are now legal and can be bought in a pharmacy for cheap. Just sign a waver giving up your right to healthcare and you too can be the proud owner of a wide assortment of chemicals designed to keep you docile, happy and stoned. After all stoned people are too stoned to dissent against me and people desperately clawing their way to the next fix are too busy to do so. And I like that.

Also, no age limits on it either. Or on alcohol. Or anything really other than driving I guess. And while we are at it abolish all laws pertaining to family issues. Let families sort their internal affairs out internally. Gives them something to occupy them self with other than dissenting against me. And it frees up police to care about the actually important stuff like people talking bad about me on social media.

As for the economy, and again this is with the assumption that the UN or america or someone else won't come down on me hard, nationalize everything. Don't change a thing about how things are run though. Just take a commanding share in every business, big and small. Anything with more than say 50 employees. That way most everyone works for the state e.g. for me. And if you dissent to hard you get fired. And nobody will hire you either so you get to die on the street without food, shelter or medicine. But feel free to hate on your dear leader. It's not illegal after all.

Also, every large intersection gets to have one of those circular road things with an island in the middle. And a statue of me on that island. A statue that turns to face the sun and moon.

And the army gets a 2000% pay raise. So does the police. The money comes out of taxing the rich with a flat 100% property and income tax. As in I take their stuff and make it mine. And by stuff I mean property, cash and people. Because you can't be an evil dictator without at least a little bit of punitive slavery. Just a tad. A drop. Nobody is going to even notice that.

Also there has to be room for a throne made of skulls somewhere in there but I couldn't fit it in with the narrative.

I think that about covers it.

/ In case it wasn't clear, parts of the above post are in jest.
 
Hm... I assume we are going with a situation where the same odd contrivance of events, divine intervention or both that gave me the job of dictator is also protecting me from being ousted by foreign powers. Because if not, this is going to be a very short reign. Also, I assume that given the sort of contrivance it would take to get me there I'd go mad with power. Well I'd go mad with power anyway really but this is as good an excuse as any.
With that assumption in mind here goes:

First things first, my family members all get jobs in the government. Important jobs. Not to put too fine a point on it but I don't trust anyone else to hold on to the levers of power for me. Also frankly I want to retire rich and when that's your intent its easier if you share the load. X people stealing 1/X of the cash each is less noticeable than one guy stealing all of it. And I ain't stupid enough to actually try and stay in power until someone gets bold enough to off me. Just long enough to get my fix of abusing power and fill my bank accounts with more cash than I could ever spend.

Also, a palace. Got to build my self a palace. I am thinking something asian themed but with rococo style decorations everywhere. Also a literal swimming pool of blood. A ruler has to make a statement.

Next we come to the social reforms. First, split all crimes into 3 categories:
- Treason, punishable by death and burial in an unmarked grave.

- Crimes with a victim. As the name says, crimes that have a victim and produce measurable physical harm. So stuff like rape, arson, theft, burglary, shoplifting, genocide, damaging property, physical assault, violating workers rights etc. These all get punished by life in prison. Where prison is defined as a hellhole that makes orphanages from Dickens's novels look like a 7 star hotel. And life is defined by how ever long you can survive in there with minimal supervision from the guards. Because watching over you is hard and feeding you is expensive. So we just throw in food for half the people and let the population self regulate.

- Other. Stuff like jaywalking, drunk driving or parking in the wrong spot. Nobody cares about these as they have no victim and cause no harm. So just slap them with a fine to remind them how it feels to not have food for a year and call it a day.

And no, insulting someone is not included in these. Or harming someones feelings, being offensive or anything like that. Words can't ever be criminal unless they are directed against me. In which case they are either calls to depose me, which is treason or criticism which is tolerated.

Than we move on to education. TLDR if a kid skips class fine the parents. If a kid has bad grades, fine the parents. If a kid misbehaves in school fine the parents. Unless the misbehavior involves physical violence or any other class #2 law violations in which case that kid goes to adult prison to wither and die like all the other criminals. And if the parents complain too loudly offer them a stay in his cell. I wouldn't want to be a monster splinting families apart after all. Also, remove teachers ability to give grades. They should only teach. Grading should be done by nation level standardized tests. Teachers who fail to produce good results get fired. Teachers that can't maintain discipline get fired. Teachers whose students don't like the dear leader get fired.

Since we already have a good healthcare
and social security system in pace I wouldn't touch that. Although I would exclude dissidents and people who I dislike out of spite. Also, drug addicts. They get kicked off the free healthcare system as well. But on the plus side all drugs are now legal and can be bought in a pharmacy for cheap. Just sign a waver giving up your right to healthcare and you too can be the proud owner of a wide assortment of chemicals designed to keep you docile, happy and stoned. After all stoned people are too stoned to dissent against me and people desperately clawing their way to the next fix are too busy to do so. And I like that.

Also, no age limits on it either. Or on alcohol. Or anything really other than driving I guess. And while we are at it abolish all laws pertaining to family issues. Let families sort their internal affairs out internally. Gives them something to occupy them self with other than dissenting against me. And it frees up police to care about the actually important stuff like people talking bad about me on social media.

As for the economy, and again this is with the assumption that the UN or america or someone else won't come down on me hard, nationalize everything. Don't change a thing about how things are run though. Just take a commanding share in every business, big and small. Anything with more than say 50 employees. That way most everyone works for the state e.g. for me. And if you dissent to hard you get fired. And nobody will hire you either so you get to die on the street without food, shelter or medicine. But feel free to hate on your dear leader. It's not illegal after all.

Also, every large intersection gets to have one of those circular road things with an island in the middle. And a statue of me on that island. A statue that turns to face the sun and moon.

And the army gets a 2000% pay raise. So does the police. The money comes out of taxing the rich with a flat 100% property and income tax. As in I take their stuff and make it mine. And by stuff I mean property, cash and people. Because you can't be an evil dictator without at least a little bit of punitive slavery. Just a tad. A drop. Nobody is going to even notice that.

Also there has to be room for a throne made of skulls somewhere in there but I couldn't fit it in with the narrative.

I think that about covers it.

/ In case it wasn't clear, parts of the above post are in jest.

Are you Russian?
 
Sounds like it. the thing which convinces me the most is the nepotism, there never was equal, there was equal and "more equal" than the other , suonds about right :P
 
My country is going to war with ppq purple
 
My country is going to war with ppq purple

Can I be grand high poobah of the beer army.

Adam and myself could navigate a beer cruise from Berlin to St Petersburg to find a secret weapon to drop on his country.

We could use Australian beer as a WMD it's god awful and I thought our beer was bad.
 
My country is going to war with ppq purple
]We stand right behind You mein Leader !! You point the sticks, we push them and the little people are gonna do the heavy lifting as always ;) Any further orders mein Leader ? I do so humbly remind is is the Munich putsch anniversary .... :lol:

With Herr Van Zardner striking out from the north and my forces tightening the noose from the south we have got the Bolsheviks in a tight noose ! Von Meinstein providing support in the south we should have no trouble paving the way to take Moscow no further than 17 of July Mein Leader :lol:

and than suddenly ... Zhukov divisons go !!!!! ...... (They really won the WW2, there's no doubt about it ! Once more the Slavs save the world :) )

 
What? No. Step aside losers. I'm in charge of this military.
My country is going to war with ppq purple
I've drafted a plan for the destruction of PPQ's empire, codenamed EQUINOX.

First, we'll need Tim temporarily relieved of his song-writing duties to take command of the submarine fleet. It'll provide a protective screen for the invasion force as it steams into position. En route, we'll hit the enemy hard with a fusillade of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Now this is where things get tricky. We're not invading PPQ's country. We're invading Egypt. Once at the Nile Delta, the invasion force will unload a wave of Comanche horse archers, who'll speedily convey science minister Berzerker to the Great Pyramid. Using rituals divined by our nation's immense science budget, Berzerker will summon the ancient aliens to annihilate PPQ and his brainwashed purple populace.

The tricky part: the plan can only succeed on March 19th, the spring equinox.
 
which is why I like the Baltika beer ... well... if it interests anybody ;) It is my homage to all the brave man and women who died for what they believed in !
 
First of all the PM’s residence is moving to Osaka. Communicating with the Diet will be done by teleconferencing until that corona thing blows over.

Second, a wide variety of snazzy uniforms will be picked out for public appearances. Business, military, and traditional.

Third, that naval war flag is now the regular flag.

Fourth, baseball minor league teams. Ishikawa, Wakayama, Mie, Okayama, Kagawa, Ehime, Akita, Kagoshima, Nagasaki, and Kumamoto all get a team to start. Maybe a few more prefectures if I think of them. Kyoto has no pro or minor team and they’re not getting one!

Fifth, punitive fines for companies or company management if employees come to work sick and spread their colds. Civil servants will be sacked if they don’t follow the same policy.

Sixth, any bill that comes across my desk and says “because, Olympics” or the like gets an immediate and permanent veto.

Seventh, subsidies for using real insulation in new construction or renovation. It’s 55 degrees outside and I have to crank the heater on high?

Eighth, more game shows on TV like they used to have. Now there’s only one and I always forget to watch it.

I wanted to think of at least ten changes but I’m feeling lazy!
 
What? No. Step aside losers. I'm in charge of this military.

I've drafted a plan for the destruction of PPQ's empire, codenamed EQUINOX.

First, we'll need Tim temporarily relieved of his song-writing duties to take command of the submarine fleet. It'll provide a protective screen for the invasion force as it steams into position. En route, we'll hit the enemy hard with a fusillade of submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Now this is where things get tricky. We're not invading PPQ's country. We're invading Egypt. Once at the Nile Delta, the invasion force will unload a wave of Comanche horse archers, who'll speedily convey science minister Berzerker to the Great Pyramid. Using rituals divined by our nation's immense science budget, Berzerker will summon the ancient aliens to annihilate PPQ and his brainwashed purple populace.

The tricky part: the plan can only succeed on March 19th, the spring equinox.

Oh come now silly .... the British forces already had invaded and build a great canal over it already , there is nothing we can do about it, the merchant ships will always pass through there ! ;) AFAIK The Cairo officials greatly appreciate the canal route and would scorn ships not passing through their territory to India :lol: In the age of aeroplanes what does it means ? Well ..... it means a great deal, because still a lot of cargo is passing through the canal.

PS. I am in favor of "amphibious" promoted war elephants !!! ;)
 
Oh come now silly .... the British forces already had invaded and build a great canal over it already , there is nothing we can do about it, the merchant ships will always pass through there ! ;) AFAIK The Cairo officials greatly appreciate the canal route and would scorn ships not passing through their territory to India :lol: In the age of aeroplanes what does it means ? Well ..... it means a great deal, because still a lot of cargo is passing through the canal.

PS. I am in favor of "amphibious" promoted war elephants !!! ;)
Who cares about the canal? We just need the pyramids. For like 10 minutes.

We don't need the elephants. We're advantaged by our savage minds.
 
which is why I like the Baltika beer ... well... if it interests anybody ;) It is my homage to all the brave man and women who died for what they believed in !

We can transfer to the secret service. We need to investigate every bar between Berlin and Moscow for the traitors.

They might hide secret messages in the bottom of Baltika bottles and cans. I have aquired some supplies, 3.6 litres of Zatecky Gus.

No Intel found in the first half of the can but just had it with dinner. I can't see the bottom yet but will continue investigating. Following up a lead on the name Warka.

Nothing to report yet General Truthy Sir.
 
Well, there is Plato's book on how a state should be run. Basically he says that - a similar quote is in Aristotle - those running the state should be doing it out of sense of duty, not ambition. Aristotle iirc says that those who want power the least, are fit to have it.
+1 this is basically me saying all the government should earn lowest common salary ! Hear ! Hear ! Otherwise they're douchebags only in for the money ! Hear ! Hear ! Or else I should throw an ostrakon ! (Ostrakon is a piece of Greek pottery aimed at the people You do not like - it's where the ostracism term derived from)
 
We can transfer to the secret service. We need to investigate every bar between Berlin and Moscow for the traitors.

They might hide secret messages in the bottom of Baltika bottles and cans. I have aquired some supplies, 3.6 litres of Zatecky Gus.

No Intel found in the first half of the can but just had it with dinner. I can't see the bottom yet but will continue investigating. Following up a lead on the name Warka.

Nothing to report yet General Truthy Sir.

My friend if it is Zatecky Gus we need to be more thourough ! After all we need to get "to the bottom of this" and we will !!!! :D There will be no bottle of Zatecky hidden from us !
 
Who cares about the canal? We just need the pyramids. For like 10 minutes.

We don't need the elephants. We're advantaged by our savage minds.

Aha !!! I have seen Your western spy propaganda ! :lol: You need The Pyramids world wonder to change Your government from "Democracy" to "Total Control" without the turns of Anarchy !! Gotcha ! :lol:
 
Aha !!! I have seen Your western spy propaganda ! :lol: You need The Pyramids world wonder to change Your government from "Democracy" to "Total Control" without the turns of Anarchy !! Gotcha ! :lol:

Lies they function as Granaries.
 
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