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One problematic case is what happens when somebody supports the party because they are insanely committed to one minor issue somewhere buried in the platform, don't care about anything else, and whoever is administering the quiz hasn't read page that one sentence on page 164. Quote:
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03-16-2021, 01:18 PM | #692 |
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You purchase a vote by donating blood; for every pint donated, you get one vote to spend on any election you please. Yes, you can save up votes. The blood probably has to be your own, unless you can find a corrupt blood bank/polling station. ("Shocking" twist: The government is secretly run by vampires.)
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03-16-2021, 01:37 PM | #693 | |
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These seem workable enough, though there are gaming the system problems in how you change the virtues with time (obviously there are times it's more useful to society than others for people to sign up for the army or have extra babies) and an issue of capacity (big healthy people can donate more blood than sickly midgets, do you actually want them to have more votes?).
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03-16-2021, 02:27 PM | #694 | |
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Granted, the qualitative options aren't without problems. If you think your parents are bad about nagging you for grandchildren, just imagine them if they got more political power from you having kids. And, of course, you can end up with promising soldiers getting themselves killed trying for a "distinguished service" commendation.
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03-16-2021, 04:59 PM | #695 | |
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Can still see a good rallying cry for a revolution though. And a source of further corruption if you can then sell on the vote you earned through bleeding.
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03-16-2021, 08:46 PM | #696 | |
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In addition to the problems mentioned above, there is the problem you get with any "only worthy people get to vote" schemes is that this means that whoever controls the organization that decides what does and doesn't count as worthy gets a lot of political power. (But this thread explicitly allows weird systems that will have long term problems.)
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03-17-2021, 09:15 AM | #697 | |
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03-17-2021, 09:43 PM | #698 |
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Re: Exotic Governmental/Legal Systems
In the new Horror Magic Styles books, there is a secret spell Invest. Casting it is a long ritual and gives the subject a level of radically unstable Magery. And you gain a Character Point everytime the subject rolls a critical failure on a casting roll from then on.
I was wondering if you could make a hierarchy/Ponzi scheme out of this spell; you "recruit" new "wizards" so you may harvest a slow drip of power from them. At the top of the org chart is an Unaging archmage who has been Investing for who knows how long.
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03-18-2021, 06:10 AM | #699 | |
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Either of them causes problems with maintaining the story that it's a fair method of assigning the franchise. If you take the blood that can't be used anyway then some curious person is going to look into what happens to it. If you refuse to take the blood (and as you say there are people who shouldn't donate for their own health) you get protests about the unfairness of it all and the same if you just require those people to turn up but not donate there are going to be more protests. No, I think the way vampires should go is rule from behind the scenes of a nominally democratic society and offer the chance to earn a tax discount if you donate blood. Then skim the good quality stuff off the take.
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03-18-2021, 09:31 AM | #700 | |
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but you can only have one vote in each category, so being a doctor and a solicitor doesn't get you more.
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