[EXTRA] Diet Affairs/Election Rule Explanation 8/13
ahava3233
Hi, this is ahava3233 reporting to you from occupied Kanto. In any event, I wanted to write in brief about the matters that were brought up to the Diet this month. Congress activity was minimal this month, so along with that information, I'd like to explain a special election rules relevant to today's elections in this article as well.
1. The Board of Directors
The current regime brought up a plan to give the top MUs access to the organizations as a money-making tool. Basically, funds from these MUs would be placed up in orgs managed by a representative from their respective political parties and all fiscal decisions for the profits would be made by due process by the board, which also includes representatives from the government. However, there has been little publically visible activity on this matter since the nominations. No Diet vote has been held. Nominations to the board have been made public from all parties save the Shinsengumi, who have elected to boycott the board.
2. Self-employment Tax Reaction
In response to the introduction of Work Tax, which taxes Work as Manager by the average salary times our regular income tax rate, the government moved to lower the VAT on food to 5% from 10% due to the shifted tax burden. The measure passed successfully.
So yeah, that's that, anyway, along with that information, I'd like to explain something about the congress elections this month.
Congress Elections: A Smaller Diet
Usually, Japan's congress would consist of 40 representatives from the top 5 political parties. This month however, there will be a smaller amount of representation in the Diet, only 10 representatives will be elected. This is due to a rule from Plato which dictates that a country's congress will only have up to 10 representatives per region it controls, with a maximum of 40 unless a country owns more than 40 regions (in which case, the size of the congress will be determined by the number of regions the country possesses).
Furthermore, if you were wondering, the number of citizenship passes is determined by the following expression.
Voting population * .10 / Number of Congress Members
Where the voting population is the number of citizens in the country over level 14. As we lack census data with such information, each congress member will likely have 2-7 citizenship passes each this month (as generally, with a full congress of 40 people, each congress member has had only 1 CS pass for a while now).
EDIT: Post-election, it has been found that each Congress member has 6 citizenship passes.
That's all for now folks. Tune in for more articles and feel free to subscribe or comment...or not. Do vote this article up so the populace can see it.
~ahava3233
Speaker of the Diet: July-August 2013
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Voted~
It's gonna be fun to see a more condensed tribe.
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Voted o>
thanks for the explanation
PS:yay, an english article with more words then pictures. put a big mark on the calendar!
Vote for Shana.
Good avatar. I like it xD
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You copied my avatar ;_;
My shana is better lookin..
Go cry in a corner trayker 😛.
Your shana is evil,
mine is fabulous u.u
Evil is too 2000's u.u
Lol
Well my shana isn't unwilling to fight for what she believes in and take action as the Flame-Haired Blazing-Eyed hunter. Your shana is half- hiding behind an avatar frame.
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Both Shanas are Jew.
Lol not surprising, Shana is actually a Jewish name, a shortened version of Shoshana (שושנה), meaning lily/rose. Furthermore, just Shana (שנה) means year 😛.
Shana would be a nice new name for me to go by in-game if I were to change it from ahava as an eJapanese citizen and an RL person of Jewish descent 😃.