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05 Oct 2018, 1:52 pm

It'd be a safe haven for animals.


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05 Oct 2018, 5:29 pm

Fnord wrote:
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Democratic Meritocracy, where the welfare of the people would be the highest secular law.
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In what context?

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05 Oct 2018, 5:47 pm

I think everybody who has ever started off creating their own country had good intentions for their people but like that old saying goes "Absolute Power corrupts absolutely".



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07 Oct 2018, 7:42 am

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I would be totally fine with having my own island or place to myself.

I have zero interest in ruling over others, controlling them or forcing them to believe they way I believe. I want to live my life free from fear of being harmed by anyone while respecting other's freedom to have the same.


This is how I feel too.


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07 Oct 2018, 6:20 pm

I'd have a country not massively different than the "european socialist utopia" I'm living in - except there'd be high taxes on the finance sector, - high taxes in general - , and any sort of school teacher may only teach part-time and must have some life outside having gone to school, university, and back to school again. macroeconomy, programming and arts/aesthetics education would be emphasized.

alas, a country with teachers who have seen something besides school may be too utopian, even for the european socialist utopia I live in.


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07 Oct 2018, 8:32 pm

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I'd have a country not massively different than the "european socialist utopia" I'm living in - except there'd be high taxes on the finance sector, - high taxes in general - , and any sort of school teacher may only teach part-time and must have some life outside having gone to school, university, and back to school again. macroeconomy, programming and arts/aesthetics education would be emphasized.

alas, a country with teachers who have seen something besides school may be too utopian, even for the european socialist utopia I live in.

Why high taxes?



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07 Oct 2018, 8:36 pm

I would have an island country that is an empire with colonies. It would basically be if France or Scandinavia were island nations. It would just be another Atlantic Empire.



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08 Oct 2018, 7:38 pm

Dylanperr wrote:
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I'd have a country not massively different than the "european socialist utopia" I'm living in - except there'd be high taxes on the finance sector, - high taxes in general - , and any sort of school teacher may only teach part-time and must have some life outside having gone to school, university, and back to school again. macroeconomy, programming and arts/aesthetics education would be emphasized.

alas, a country with teachers who have seen something besides school may be too utopian, even for the european socialist utopia I live in.

Why high taxes?



To get people to be politically interested and incolved, and to foster the sentiment that the state is theirs to use - After all, that's what they're paying for.


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09 Oct 2018, 9:47 pm

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And I think I would want my country to be an island. I think it is easier to protect and control an island than it is a country that shares borders with other countries.
Also easier to blockade. If you go to war they'll try to starve you out like what they did to Japan.


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09 Oct 2018, 9:54 pm

I'd ban junkfood. I don't want my royal hospitals filled up with people who filled up their arteries with grease.


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09 Oct 2018, 10:06 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:
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And I think I would want my country to be an island. I think it is easier to protect and control an island than it is a country that shares borders with other countries.
Also easier to blockade. If you go to war they'll try to starve you out like what they did to Japan.

Yeah true. The Union also did the same thing to The South during the American Civil War.

I guess if you want to win a war the best tactic is always starving the innocent women and children to death and dropping an atomic bomb on civilians. Maybe even releasing a few chemical weapons and deadly diseases into towns and villages. :wtg:



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14 Oct 2018, 6:40 pm

TW1ZTY wrote:
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TW1ZTY wrote:
And I think I would want my country to be an island. I think it is easier to protect and control an island than it is a country that shares borders with other countries.
Also easier to blockade. If you go to war they'll try to starve you out like what they did to Japan.

Yeah true. The Union also did the same thing to The South during the American Civil War.

I guess if you want to win a war the best tactic is always starving the innocent women and children to death and dropping an atomic bomb on civilians. Maybe even releasing a few chemical weapons and deadly diseases into towns and villages. :wtg:

Good idea. That could increase civilian war-weariness. They would become demoralised.


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14 Oct 2018, 6:55 pm


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15 Oct 2018, 12:48 am

I would be having meltdowns and shutdowns all the time. Way too much multitasking for me.


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05 Mar 2019, 12:34 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:
I'd ban junkfood. I don't want my royal hospitals filled up with people who filled up their arteries with grease.

Why? Junk food is good. Chicken Nuggets mmm how good.