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Originally Posted by Anthony
The obvious response is to try and elect a sacrificial figurehead.
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Pretty much the way it worked out in Vault 11, yeah. When the lockdown came, the residents were told that after one year they had to execute the current Overseer and elect a new one, or the computer would release toxins into the air and kill them all. They formed voting blocs, and started nominating people for office who they believed deserved to die. It all fell apart in the end, and when the last five survivors decided not to elect one of them to die, the computer rewarded them for their selfless sacrifice by opening the door. (Unfortunately, as they were certain they were going to die anyway, four of them had committed suicide by then.)
Vault-Tec was composed almost exclusively of heartless bastards, you see, who regarded imminent nuclear war as an excellent opportunity to conduct horrific experiments on human subjects. Only a few Vaults were kept free of such experiments, as controls.