A new millennium - Constitutional Dictatorship
Guagature
Well where shall we start?
Possibly to warn all that this will turn into a wall of text \o/
After Ilene’s article to give the country a push into making a decision and quickly, I thought it best to start the ball rolling and have the discussions that we need to move forward.
It is no secret that I am pro Democracy, but if we need someone sitting at the helm then having a Dictator that is not tied to a government role and is unbiased, my only option is to choose Option 3.
Option 3. Constitutional dictatorship.
A "neutral" eAustralian of long and good reputation will hold dictatorship in perpetuity. They will press buttons at the direction of CP and congress.
Now this by no means will be set in stone as there is always some form of teething issues, along with you will never make every person happy. The goal out of this is for the majority to be happy and the balance will just have to voice their opinions on changes that will benefit the community at large.
We have also seen in the past that the “neutral” CP/Dic has not always been neutral, so keeping that in mind voting down the track should not turn ugly but you should vote based upon your preferred choice.
Now before we get into where you will possibly get bored
So let’s move on, shall we
The function of the Constitutional Dictator is to be an unbiased Governor General.
Dictator MU/Commander:
The Constitutional Dictator will reside in the government run ADF MU. They will stay in the Commander position until their voted time passes or they are required to stand down, in turn they will pass the Commander position to the next voted in Constitutional Dictator.
Voting Process:
Process for voting in a Constitutional Dictator will be raised by MoI newspaper with a 48 hr nomination period. All nominations must be seconded and must be accepted by the nominee.
After the nomination period and where-as there are more than one nominated party the MoI will release the running parties and votes will be cast by the eAustralian public. A majority of votes must be in-favor to see the nominated Constitutional Dictator take their position in the Government run ADF MU (in case of a tie, a new vote will take place). The Dictator will take their position within a 2 day period of being voted in.
The voted time that a Constitutional Dictator will remain in the position is 2 months. The length of time that a Constitutional Dictator can remain in the position is 2 terms consecutively.
At the end of a 2 month period a new Constitutional Dictator will be voted upon via open article nominations initiated by MoI. In the event of no new accepted nominations the previous Dictator if fit for work can resume the position based upon being nominated again.
Requirements of Dictator:
* Dictator will be an Australian citizen
* Dictator will have had a minimum 2 terms in Australian senate
* Dictator will not hold a CP position during their term
* Dictator will not hold a cabinet position apart from advisor if current CP sees applicable
* Dictator will not hold a senate position during their term
* Dictator will be a part of the current senate thread but will not be required to be cabinet unless current CP sees applicable(Dictator does not have a vote in senate)
Any position above that a nominated Dictator has must be renounced prior to accepting Dictatorship position
Role of Dictator:
To be the seat of Erepublik game mechanics to propose laws and vote based upon the outcome of senate/cabinet discussions. The Dictator will not have any voting rights in senate discussions but can be used by the CP to guide out of control discussions.
Dictator Removal:
A Dictator may be removed from their position for Illegal actions or behaviour or through RL restrictions.
Removal through Vote of No confidence by the Senate: a Motion needs to be moved by a Senator and seconded by 2 others. Discussion shall occur for a period of no more than 24 hours and a vote of the Senate taken which shall last for not more than 24 hours. The Dictator shall be removed should the Yes vote be at least 50% + 1 of voting Senators.
A newly appointed Dictator will be signed in through standard voting process.
In the event of an urgent removal the CP is to be used as a stand-in Dictator until the voting process has been undertaken.
Government Orgs:
* All government orgs remain the property of the government.
* All passwords will be controlled by the current voted CP and their nominated cabinet members
* All lost/misplaced passwords will be recovered by Dictator as per game mechanics and then passed to current voted CP.
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* Any Dictatorship gold received through game mechanics will be donated no greater than 2 days after gold is received to the Reserve Bank of Australia
* ie; Dictator Trainee – 5 GOLD Awarded to a dictator lasting 10 consecutive days in office, received day 3000 to be donated to Reserve Bank of Australia by day 3002,
* True Dictator – 50 GOLD Awarded to a dictator lasting 30 consecutive days in office received day 3030 to be donated to Reserve Bank of Australia by day 3032
All law proposals will follow current senate discussion periods and game mechanics. In event of urgent laws required to be passed, if the voted CP or cabinet member asks the voted in Dictator to start the law as early as possible (but not before discussions) and the Dictators vote to be cast when a 50%+1 outcome has been reached at the 24hr discussion time.
These urgent laws will be restricted to
* Country Donations (in event of CO’s required for war)
* Natural Enemy
* Trade Embargo
* Declare War
* Peace Proposal
Change Taxes:
Note: Can not be lower than 1% and higher than 99% for Import Tax or 25% for VAT or 50% for Income Tax. Raw materials have no VAT.
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated tax laws.
Minimum Wage:
Change the minimum employee salary given by companies. Can not be lower than 0.10 units of local currency.
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated minimum wage laws.
Country Donations:
Transfer currency from the country's treasury to an organization. During the twenty-four hour voting period the proposed currency due for donation is "frozen" and rendered unusable.
* All money transfers from treasury to RBA Organisation will be voted on in senate discussions, with a 50% + 1 vote of yes
Issue Money:
Take gold from the treasury and replace it as money. Includes paying a transaction tax of which is deducted at a rate of 0.005 gold per 1 unit of money.
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated issue money law.
Natural Enemy:
Members of congress or president can propose neighboring country as their natural enemy. If agreed, a free war will be started with the natural enemy. The prosing country citizens will get +10% bonus while fighting against their natural enemy.
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated Natural enemy laws.
Trade Embargo:
Stops the trade between two nations for 30 days.
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated Trade embargo laws.
Airstrike:
Proposes a non-neighbourhood country as a target for an Airstrike.
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated Airstrike laws.
Mutual Protection Pact:
Signs a Mutual Protection Pact with another country. Both countries must accept the law and pay 10000 local currency. The money will be taken from their treasury. Alliance will last for 30 days. If there already is an alliance, the current Mutual Protection Pact will be extended with 30 days.
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated MPP laws.
Declare War:
Declares war to another country. Declaration costs 200g + 10% * number of citizens able to fight in attackers country (has at least 10 EP)
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated Declare war laws.
Peace Proposal:
Ends war between two countries. A sum of gold can be demanded from another country upon signing peace.
* After a 50% + 1 vote of yes in the current senate discussion the Dictator can propose and vote yes with the nominated Peace proposal laws.
Citizenship Passes:
* All citizenship passes are accepted by Dictator
* All discussions of passes are held in senate thread, with acceptance of citizen on a 50% + 1 vote process
New citizen welcome message:
Changes the message that new citizens receive when they register. Message can't be longer than 2000 characters.
President Impeachment:
Remove the President and replace them with whichever previous presidential candidate received the second-highest vote score. Requires 66% of Congress votes to be passed.
So now we have that out of the road, a small break perhaps?
This is just a first pass, I am sure there are some things that would be required to be modified/added/left out but it is a starting point on the road to our success \o/
Comments
I believe Option 3 is the choice if I had to pick one. I believe we cannot afford to get a take over by a foreign country and I also feel Democracy at this stage which I am all for is unrealistic due to the threat. However I always felt neutrality in a person is something that does not exist who is into politics in this game, but it will work if it's the right person.
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To be honest though, I don't believe you are a neutral.
You know, after thinking it over. I do support this option but I cannot accept you as the candidate for it. You are obviously NOT a neutral and your leadership will only further divide eAus.
Oh please, you call him out for no neutral position then I can name a whole list of your current political party and other political parties that are not going to be neutral.
I am not claiming to be neutral nor am I proposing a candidate that would be a neutral
You call him out for pulling apart eAus, if you realized what you are even doing you are also dividing Australia further with such comments.
Also love how you deleted your support for Option 3, and your only argument is that it will divide Australia because you believe Guagature is actually going to be the only one and choice of Australia to lead. If you noticed the article and actually bothered reading you would see that there will be a vote of who will be chosen. You clearly made a quick assumption in fear of divisions in this country. Clearly you forget that we are a democracy and that we are going to vote for this.
I still support option 3, but a different candidate needs to come forward
Who are you and where did you come from? You're new to Australia.
Still sounds like you are dividing Australia to me.
Everything must be taking place in the other senate thread because I haven't seen any names being tossed about for dic.
That's sad but true Lany. I'm going to mix up the parties when the threads get some over today. 😕
Please re-read entire article then come back with constructive critisism. I have only followed on from what the current CP has asked.
Also note the position in question is not a leadership role, purely a button pusher.
I understand that but It also asks for a neutral. One that does not favor one party OR faction over another so that disqualifies you and me.
One that is not biased against a group of people.
Again you may be missing the point, this role is independent from a senate role or party role.
They have no vote in either senate or cabinet (cabinet based upon CP as advisor only, valid reason behind this) they also have no voice that they can use to manipulate the direction of conversations..
I feel you are attacking the person and not the idea on what we can do to move forward as a community, I have stated before and will state it again. Let's work together to resolve the issue at hand, CP/Dic did not work, the above may not work but instead I am putting forward an option for others to mull over and see what we can achieve together.
If you are the only candidate I guess I have no choice but to support you as long as you stay within the guidelines that you have said.
red back for Constitutional Dictator !!!
(vote my comment if you are agreed)
I agree. I would support Red Back if Option 3 is selected.
I've spoken to red back previously on this issue. He is unavailable due to RL demands.
Henry for King Dick \o/
Thanks Guag. If nothing else, it's a conversation starter. 🙂
Some unresolved issues:
Citizenship passes. What sort of a procedure would you suggest? Leaving it all to the dictator seems unfair. Currently congress reps can let one a month in without approval..
What if there are no majority candidates? Or no candidates?
Just quickly as I have to get kids,
Citizenship passes - All discussions of passes are held in senate thread, with acceptance of citizen on a 50% + 1 vote process
All passes accepted by Dictator as per game mechanics
Might be worded incorrectly but Dic can only accept after senate discussions, no different than ASIO times - small background check then Senate says yes or no.
There should always be majority candidates, as in whilst we have regions we have senators.
In-case of wipe we would possibly have to look at a ghost senate rolled over from the previous month or since the CP is still an elected body during a wipe, the CP would put it to the top 5 parties to nominate 2,3 or 4 members to act as a senate body.
😁😁 This has been done in the past before most peoples time here, possibly Henry or Ranger can elaborate if they beat me to it.
I am not sure I agree with 50%+1 for citizenship. Still, it's an idea. 🙂
A clarification on your proposal:
Does 50%+1 mean half the total senators elected? Or half the senators who voted?
Does the CP get a vote?
Currently in senate when a pass is being discussed what is the majority %?
I am sure it is done under theruling of as long as it is more than half it is accepted. We can try 66% but I am sure we would n9t give out many passes. % is always based on votes cast, we cannot include senators who never talk or nothing will get acheived.
CP? This month no, next month yes if you don't run again 😛
Can include CP's vote in the structure but will double check game mechs and add so it can be discussed again.
Keep going as I might do an update tonight or tomorrow with Rusty's suggest and some others
For the record, a CP has a vote under a democracy.
I disagree.
Only because it came from me.
Better suggestion Dad?
If it's just a button pusher then why restrict it to eAus citizenship? If you were looking for a true impartial dictator then maybe a trusted non-citizen is the way to go.
When are you coming back to fill the position?
There is plenty of Australian citizens who can be impartial, we just need them to stand up. It is not to say that we cannot open it up to others if there is no Australians willing to take the position.
To get it up and running the role has been partially based upon the previous GG role which required an Australian cit
didnt you clowns stuff up the dictator system we had last time
Be that as it may, I haven't seen anyone clamouring for the previous system to come back.
Want to take up the challenge? 🙂
Either name you call constitutional democracy or democratic dictatorship, I claim rights to the true name of the operation.
Henceforth it shall be calle😛 Operation Dic-Shield (or Operation Condom for short).
One can NEVER have enough protection.
(You could counter with democracy being called "the withdrawal method")
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