Due to a lack of any discussion regarding the constitution, I have decided to use my power as the great prince of the kingdom of prosperia to ratify the constitution. You can find the latest/only version of the constitution here. You can also find the “development” here. Furthermore, I officially endorse the election of Maya to the royal family (why hasn’t this already been done already?) The rest of this post will focus on my reflections of the kingdom and the Imperial Federation.
First lets discuss prosperia. I have worked with the king to develop a political system that closely resembles how I believe that a nation should be run in civ. Of course it is not my system, it is Halos’, but I have managed to cram so many ideas into prosperia. If I could, I would allow every individual the right to secede. Unfortunately, that is not possible.
What about the future of the kingdom? There are 3 problems that I see that we need to address
- lack of housing/purchasable land to develop
- lack of farms and total nonutalization of the farms developed by hydris
- lack of any community/events
We used to have sectioned off plots of land in prosperia city, however, once we teared down the castle, the plots went with it. we need to plan and section off plots to sell to people. We got New Haven and Perris though. I know that halo likes New Haven and wants to develop it. I don’t care for it though. Perris on the other hand, is the type of town that I want to live it. I still need to discuss with halo what exactly we are allowed to do with perris but I want to contact the original property owners and either get them to move into their houses or take over their property. Either situation is good. perris just has the problem that it was attacked by raiders a bunch before it was designated as a national park so a lot of the property looks run down.
What can be done regarding the farms? We have an advantage which is that we can grow dark oak. We need to utilize that. We also can grow spruce quicker than Florabis can. I believe that we should utilize both, however, we need to focus more on dark oak as nobody is really selling it. I need saplings and I need a dark oak farm. I will probably terraform the south of prosperia city into one large dark oak farm. I am willing to fund a shop for people to collect logs for money and then sell them around the server. We also have the farms that hydris developed. We should use them, however, I don’t know the best way to use them.
Lastly, the issue of community. The kingdom suffers because all of us are citizens of florabis. Why hang out in prosperia when you could hang out in florabis? I don’t think that we need to replace florabis, but rather offer something that florabis cannot. I like era but she is strict so to speak regarding how you can behave. Prosperia has the opportunity to be the chaotic region where you can go and get drunk at Captain Chip’s bar and then go to the arena and fight to the death all the while making offensive jokes. Furthermore, I want to do things in other games besides civmc.
That is all for prosperia for now, lets talk about the Imperial Federation. If we are being real, the IF is a collection of nations that call themselves states and definitely not nations that are all very loosly connected. The IF really has to choose between two different options. Are we a defence pact between lots of different states like how the United states was originally supposed to be or is the federal government a massive beurocracy doing lots of things like how the united states is today? The IF loves to tout federalism when it comes to any reforms that might make the federal government work but they also want to have the federal government be responsible for various different things. As someone who doesn’t like beurocracy/roleplay, I would perfer that we go down the defence pact route though, I would perfer a functional beurocracy to the current system.
The main problem that I see if the absence of any activity requirements. You shouldn’t be able to have political power when you don’t even play the game or are at all active in the IF. The current system has two poison pills.
- senate seats are based on registered population
- senators don’t have any requirements to go into IF territory.
This creates a weird situation where the best way to get political power in the IF is to get as many people to register as a primary citizen under your state and then to appoint senators that you know will vote how you want them to. So you could just convince a bunch of people from another state that you are in to register and to get puppets from that state to be senators. This is in practice not different from senators who don’t play the game even thought there is the technical requirement that you have to “primary” the IF. What does that even mean when people can “primary” the IF without playing the game?
In short, fix the government one way or another.