That's quitter talk! How many men could have created great things but were afraid of what others thought was "practical" or "sane"? Too many that's how!
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That's quitter talk! How many men could have created great things but were afraid of what others thought was "practical" or "sane"? Too many that's how!
I do have a little vacation coming up so I could work on it then
My eyes hurt just thinking of it
The Manchurian Candidate Mega-Post
First, you had the nomination which shocked a nation.
Then, you had the dirtiest re-election in American political history.
Now, find out how we got into this mess in the first place.
"Why don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?"
Last one for now, I promise.
You're a madman. Utterly bonkers.
Can you do Seven Days in May or Doctor Strangelove?
Ephraim Ben Raphael
Banned
So are we going to get a bit on Asa Rey and Ajami helping to facilitate Lodge's assassination?
I assure you, the Jack Lodge assassination goes much deeper than that
Sabot Cat
Banned
ROMESIA
The Republic of Romesia is a sovereign state and regional power, with a population of 48,006,054 across its 26 provinces.
Political Parties of Romesia
Socialist Party
The Socialist Party is a social-democratic political party in Romesia. It is one of the largest parties in the nation, rivaled only by the National People’s Alliance. It began as a Marxist party which advocated working class control of the means of production, but today it defines itself as a centre-left voice for social democracy, with a robust welfare state and a well-regulated market. They are supportive of environmentalism, immigration and free trade, as well as higher taxes and regulations on the wealthy, big businesses, and the fiscal sector. The party is ferociously divided on the issue of austerity measures to reduce budget deficits, although a thin majority of its membership in government is in favor of them. They are consistently left-wing on social issues and favor greater minority rights. The Socialists are also credited with pioneering the largest and most depended upon social programs in Romesia.
National People's Alliance
The National People’s Alliance is a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Romesia. It was originally an electoral alliance between the People’s Democratic Party and the National Party that served as a catch-all for those who were right of centre. They favor privatization, reduced government intervention, lower tax burdens, an educational system with school vouchers, and equality of opportunity. In domestic policy they typically campaign on law and order issues, and have long been advocates against abortion as well as euthanasia. Although they have been socially conservative for most of their history, the Alliance has warmed to the legalization of civil unions for same-sex couples. The National People’s Alliance was historically in favor of free trade, but an ascendant, mildly protectionist and anti-immigration faction has gained control of the party recently.
Union for Democracy
The Union for Democracy is a centrist political party in Romesia. It was founded as an electoral alliance between the Christian Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party to act as a countervailing force against the other major parties. The Union for Democracy is a big tent coalition with a non-ideological electoral strategy, focusing on constitutional reform and protecting civil liberties. Their fiscal program favors economic liberalization and reducing the debt while maintaining progressive taxation and a social safety net for the vulnerable. There is a strong emphasis on individual rights and personal freedoms, and despite the social conservatives gradually waning in numbers as time has gone on, they remain divided on social issues. The party is also united by their strong pro-free trade and pro-immigration stances.
The Progressives
The Progressives are a liberal political party in Romesia. They became known for their liberal positions on social issues and their fiscally conservative outlook. Specifically, they favored civil-unions for same-sex couples and improved access to contraceptives while advocating for greater privatization, fewer fiscal regulations, lower taxation (especially for businesses), and welfare reform. They also favor free trade, although they have advocated for expedited deportation of failed asylum seekers and are generally in favor of stronger borders. They are the preferred coalition partners for the National People’s Alliance.
Left Coalition
The Left Coalition is a left-wing political party in Romesia. It was founded as a coalition between the the Romesian Communist Party and The Greens, joined later by the Democratic Socialist Party, along with various Eurocommunist, Trotskyist and feminist groups. They are united by their anti-capitalist, protectionist, and anti-austerity left-wing fiscal policies. They also favor a secular state and educational system, a reduction in military spending and greater environmental regulations as well as increased investment in alternative energy sources. The Coalition is to the left on all social issues.
Nationalist Democratic Union
The National Democratic Union is a centre-right political party in Romesia. The party primarily appeals to disaffected National People’s Alliance voters and the upper class with its support for free trade as well as a guest worker program. They are to the right on most social issues, including abortion and same-sex marriage. They believe in introducing a school voucher system, and have traditionally maintained a secularist stance.
Romesian Nationalist Party
The Romesian Nationalist Party is a right-wing political party in Romesia. The party is protectionist and fiscally conservative. They denounce the welfare state as socialist and seek to privatize its various social programs. The party advocates for greater military spending and reduced immigration. They also campaign for a more robust police force and harsher penalties for criminal behavior. Although they do not typically focus on social issues, they are to the right on all of them, ranging from abortion to same-sex marriage.
Alliance for Unity
The Alliance for Unity is a far-right political party in Romesia. It is the most religiously conservative and nationalist party in the entire political system, and has been criticized for its ties to violent extremists and radical Christian sects. They wish to enshrine the Ten Commandments as basic law and oppose religious pluralism, believing that minorities and immigrants undermine the unity of the country. The Alliance explicitly advocates cultural nationalism based on the Christian faith.
Agrarian Centre Party
The Agrarian Centre Party is a centrist political party in Romesia. It is founded on its advocacy for rural issues, and its voting base has traditionally been farmers. The party is in favor of agricultural subsidies, environmentalism, and decentralization. They are not opposed to immigration, but are generally skeptical of free trade. The party’s stances on social issues are not prominent, although they are opposed to same-sex marriage. It generally supports the separation of church and state.
Revolutionary Solidarity Party
The Revolutionary Solidarity Party is a far-left political party in Romesia. The party characterizes itself as socialist libertarian, but it remains ideologically heterogeneous. This has lent itself to divisions on the issue of free trade, although it is united in its calls to overthrow capitalism and abolish the class system. It also favors a vast reduction in military spending and eco-socialist answers to environmental problems.
Medina Action Union
The Medina Action Union is a regionalist right-wing political party in the Medina Province of Romesia. The party advocates for the recognition of Medinans as possessing a unique culture and that consequently the province should be afforded greater autonomy over its own affairs.
Green Party of Romesia
The Green Party of Romesia is a left-wing political party in Romesia. They support environmentalism, pacifism, and immigration, while standing to the left on social issues. They existed as an extraparliamentary environmentalist organization before contesting elections, and they struggle to compete as a non-socialist environmentalist party that remains centre-left on economic issues and in favor of free trade.
Autonomous Social Movement
The Autonomous Social Movement is a centre-left to left-wing political party in Romesia. They split from the Left Coalition at a party congress in which its planks were rejected. They are distinguished by their desire to add animal rights to the constitution, including the right to live, as well as promote veganism at a national level and end animal research, the production of furs, genetic engineering, hunting, circus animals, and animal husbandry. However, they are also democratic socialists with a full party platform calling for socialist solutions to economic and social problems.
Workers' Socialist Forum
The Workers’ Socialist Forum is a Trotskyist political party in Romesia. It specifically belongs to the Morenist tendency, and is distinguished from other leftist parties through its calls to ignore foreign debt. They have opposed every recent war waged by Western powers as imperialist, and are most known for their newspaper and protest activities.
Hanguese National Party
The Hanguese National Party is a regionalist political party in the Hangu Province in Romesia. It is a coalition of centre-left and centre-right Hanguese parties that are united by the common cause of greater autonomy for the province. Their short-term aims are for Hangu to have greater control over taxation and fiscal matters. The party is also an adherent to Hanguese nationalism, which is the recognition of the Hanguese as a distinct people. Although some of its officials and members advocate for Hangu to become an independent nation, such an aim is not in the current program of the party.
Medinan Greens
The Medinan Greens are a regionalist political party in the Medina Province of Romesia. The Medina Greens are affiliated with the national Greens, but are distinguished through becoming the nucleus of a joint electoral list with various communist and socialist groups that advocate for the independence of Medina. Their fiscal policies range from advocacy for workers self-management to Marxism-Leninism depending on the faction in question.
Issues
President of Romesia
The President of Romesia is directly elected every five years via a two-round system, wherein a candidate must secure an absolute majority of the valid votes cast. The President selects the Prime Minister and their Cabinet, often giving the leader of the largest party the chance to form a government or governing coalition in the National Assembly. The President is not able to remove the Prime Minister or their Ministers once appointed unless they tender a resignation or such an action is recommended by a majority of their colleagues. The President is also responsible for calling the Parliament into session, and they can veto legislation or send it back for another reading. Finally, the President appoints the justices of the Supreme Court and other national courts whenever vacancies occur.
Results by Province
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Sabot Cat
Banned
Parliament of Romesia
The Parliament of Romesia is divided into two chambers: the National Assembly and the Senate. There are 566 Members of Parliament, with 450 MPs in the National Assembly and 116 MPs in the Senate. The 450 MPs for the National Assembly are elected by party-list proportional representation from 94 multi-member constituencies to serve five year terms. 104 Senators are indirectly elected by the twenty-six provincial Legislative Assemblies via Single Transferable Vote to serve six year-terms. Each of the provinces elect four Senators regardless of population, while twelve Senators are appointed by the President.
Overall Results
National Assembly
Results by Constituency
Senate
Results by Province
The Parliament of Romesia is divided into two chambers: the National Assembly and the Senate. There are 566 Members of Parliament, with 450 MPs in the National Assembly and 116 MPs in the Senate. The 450 MPs for the National Assembly are elected by party-list proportional representation from 94 multi-member constituencies to serve five year terms. 104 Senators are indirectly elected by the twenty-six provincial Legislative Assemblies via Single Transferable Vote to serve six year-terms. Each of the provinces elect four Senators regardless of population, while twelve Senators are appointed by the President.
Overall Results
National Assembly
Results by Constituency
Senate
Results by Province
Sabot Cat
Banned
Thanks so much to both of you! I have no idea who the audience or purpose of this project was, but it involved some effort in creating a continent-neutral fictional nation with a simulation of a standard election with proportional representation with a district magnitude of 4-6. If anyone is curious, the averages for the National Assembly vote shares are derived from all of the elections with that district magnitude noted in the paper "The Electoral Sweet Spot: Low-Magnitude Proportional Electoral Systems" that I could find the data for, although it veered somewhat off the targets a bit because the constituency-by-constituency vote shares are semi-randomized, with the maximum and minimum ranges for each of the sixteen parties derived from the average of the maximum and minimum party vote shares (e.g. Party 1 had a maximum vote share of 131.83% of its average and a minimum of 58.41% of its average, and so on) that I could find for low-magnitude proportional systems with constituency-by-constituency results such as recent elections in Greece, Portugal, and Spain. Finally, the names for the constituencies and provinces are derived from pretty extensive lists of place names that reoccurred in multiple countries, with special emphasis on those that occurred on multiple continents with differing cultures. I think I spent the most time on that.
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Oh, it's a fascinating group of wikiboxes. Great effort, Sabot
In fact, it reminds me that I wanted to some wikiboxes for a political setting reminiscent of India in terms of sheer pluralism. Finding your own stuff inspiring, I may do a little bit of work on a super-regionalist, parliamentary North America.
The Fall of Apple
Today, Apple Computer Inc., despite having been a giant in its heyday. and a pioneer in the field of computing, is largely forgotten. Why? Because, in short, of a series of bad business decisions, most notably company founder Steve Jobs being sidelined (which led to his resignation and him forming modern-day electronics giant NeXT) led to it losing its once-loyal computer techie fanbase[1] which further hurt Apple. Experimenting with tablet computers before they were feasible for consumers didn't exactly help their case either, and their brand of expensive computers didn't help them break into the "cheap computer" market dominated by Microsoft. Rather, their response was to sue Microsoft for copying its Apple Lisa interface in a battle that wasted Apple's resources before ultimately being dismissed from court[2]. Apple would ultimately change its CEO from Michael Spindler to Gil Amelio. As it turned out, he would prove disastrous as well, engaging in a series of very public layoffs that further plunged the value of Apple stocks into the ground, and investors fled Apple in a jiffy. Amelio would ultimately ask Steve Jobs to rejoin Apple and would offer to buy NeXT in a desperate move, but Jobs declined for obvious reasons[3]. This was a nail in the coffin for Apple. They needed fresh blood, but they wasted their resources in a variety of ways, such as making a wholly new functional programming language[4]. Though this would find popularity among many programmers, it did not actually help Apple get more money. Just limping along, and a mere shadow of itself, the dot-com crash was the final nail in the coffin for the once great company, and it would file for bankruptcy like so many other companies.
[1] Indeed, before the iPod Classic, Apple was seen as a nerdy company IOTL.
[2] As OTL.
[3] IOTL, Jobs accepted, and he reinvigorated Apple.
[4] This is what Tim Cook is doing right now IOTL.
Today, Apple Computer Inc., despite having been a giant in its heyday. and a pioneer in the field of computing, is largely forgotten. Why? Because, in short, of a series of bad business decisions, most notably company founder Steve Jobs being sidelined (which led to his resignation and him forming modern-day electronics giant NeXT) led to it losing its once-loyal computer techie fanbase[1] which further hurt Apple. Experimenting with tablet computers before they were feasible for consumers didn't exactly help their case either, and their brand of expensive computers didn't help them break into the "cheap computer" market dominated by Microsoft. Rather, their response was to sue Microsoft for copying its Apple Lisa interface in a battle that wasted Apple's resources before ultimately being dismissed from court[2]. Apple would ultimately change its CEO from Michael Spindler to Gil Amelio. As it turned out, he would prove disastrous as well, engaging in a series of very public layoffs that further plunged the value of Apple stocks into the ground, and investors fled Apple in a jiffy. Amelio would ultimately ask Steve Jobs to rejoin Apple and would offer to buy NeXT in a desperate move, but Jobs declined for obvious reasons[3]. This was a nail in the coffin for Apple. They needed fresh blood, but they wasted their resources in a variety of ways, such as making a wholly new functional programming language[4]. Though this would find popularity among many programmers, it did not actually help Apple get more money. Just limping along, and a mere shadow of itself, the dot-com crash was the final nail in the coffin for the once great company, and it would file for bankruptcy like so many other companies.
[1] Indeed, before the iPod Classic, Apple was seen as a nerdy company IOTL.
[2] As OTL.
[3] IOTL, Jobs accepted, and he reinvigorated Apple.
[4] This is what Tim Cook is doing right now IOTL.
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