How I'd Lead a Country

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If I was leader of a country I would --

Encourage equality by banning tobacco, making illegal any alcohol but wine (to be drank only in moderate quantities) and making legal lysergic acid (LSD). The unique lysergic acid while not addictive like most drugs, gifts its takers a more introspective and other-than-human perspective of everything. Performing a necessary bypass of the human ego and suspending the animalistic survival instincit to offer a full glimpse of eternity it helps to put humanity in perspective.*

Offer my countrymen a decent wage and working conditions and mass employment by embarking upon a programme of the construction of monolithic, shimmering, transparent glass skyscrapers for all my residents to dwell in.

Create cities in which public transport was efficient, timely and aesthetically beautiful. Buses, trains and metros every 5 minutes to everywhere in the country.

Bill my country as "The Vision of the World". Encourage tourists to make pilgramages to my beautiful country by lavishing extravagant, phantasmagorical gardens all over the cities. By constructing giant geometrical public monuments out of gems, jewels, rubies, ambers, crystals, glass, gold, silver and bronze. By building theme parks full of awesome rollercoasters, spectacular log chutes, dizzying waltzers, multi-coloured hotels with a smorgasboard of different themes (space station, desert, ice palace, lava lamp, what you will...), ascending monorails gliding over the sky.

To further encourage tourism taxes on traditional sports like football, rugby, American football, basketball, ice hockey, hockey, netball, tennis, golf and ping pong would be taxed prohibitively.

The new national sport of comedy would be subsidised with excitement. The props of comedy panel shows (in which contestants and hosts sit around and make fun) would be scattered in various locales around cities, allowing ordinary citizens to engage in comical hijinx. For a price of course, with tourists being charged more than indigenous residents.

Interactive musuems would be erected specialising in comedy. Visitors could watch any comedy television episode or film from history with their friends, lovers and others.

Vast libraries would be erected with every book, every bit of knowledge, history, science, art one could ever aspire to come into contact with. Universities and colleges aiming to be world-renowned would be built. All citizens would get free education to a high standard, yet foreigners would be eligible to enroll in the nation's educational system too -- at prohibitive prices.

My nation would have from its outset territorial ambitions beyond its own borders. Yet militarism would not play a part - the military budget would be purely defensive. However, my nation, so great, so wondrous would happily allow others to join us in our utopia if and only if they would agree to adapt our compassionate approach to a society. As such, we would slowly and surely conquer the world painlessly, with the carrot, not the stick. Offering salvation, spiritual freedom and awareness.

Until its expansion via the amalgamation of other territories, my country would have relatively low taxes on business to encourage manufacturing and IT services to operate in the nation. These businesses would be located a few miles outside of the cities, reached by train, so as not to pollute either environmentally or socially the atmosphere of residents. Citizens wouldn't receive high wages, yet property prices would be very low as an abundance of glorious apartments would be subsidised by profits from corporation tax and tourists.

Thieves, burglarers, vandals, murderers, alcoholics, drug addicts, violent people, sexual assaulters, paedophiles and mentally ill people would be given intensive state-funded therapy. Hypnotherapy and psychedelic therapy would be the primary therapeutic methods (being as they are the most efficient methods of altering people's minds and offering enlightenment).

Investment would also be put into effective community outreach - where individuals would offer support in learning new living skills and coping methods and acceptable behaviour patterns in the community. Those who could not reform their anti-social ways and considered a menace to society would be contained in transparent glass prisons, each containing no more than 30 prisoners, each within the view of the general public.

Prisons would also contain mentally ill people but would not be cruel - they would allow prisoners to choose their own food, to have access to LSD and red wine, to television and film and books. Teachers would be employed to enter prisons to offer education to any prisoners interested in it.

My nation would be built in Kent. Wealthy interested persons such as Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Warren Buffet and Likshmi Mittal would be called upon to negotiate a deal. They would provide the initial investment to buy the county from Britain and turn it into a high-rise country on the agreement they could live there with low taxes and base their companies there among the low tax environment.

A law would be drawn out making me the unelected and constant leader for a period of 15 years, enough to get the country on its feet. After that period a democracy of proportional representation would be introduced. Before democracy the parliament building would be occupied by elected representatives of the people's wishes to advise me but for the initial period of 15 years have no other influence on the country's direction.

People around the world could apply to be one of the nation's 10 million citizens. What would attract them? Beauty and vision. The right to free education, healthcare and social services. Freedom from the shackles of mindless tradition, greed, poverty and selfishness. The duty to help others achieve a utopia of heightened existence, of getting as close as we can to the meaning of life.

The favourable position of Kent on the south east coast of Britain would cement its position as a tourist haven - allowing train- and boat-loads of continental European tourists to make an easy trip. Many on their way to Britain would stop by on their way through. In a way we would be the world's best roadside services.

Of course my country would be almost perfect for its citizens. It would also without doubt be a pain to other countries - prompting a brain drain and inviting millions of the world's greatest into one small area. Yet eventually I'm confident other nations would see the vision and join in union with us and agree to also live by our ways. Thus, little by little, as and when the people of the world were ready for it the judgment day on our humanity, the death of our blind ignorance, the destiny of our dreams would arrive. Not hell, no. Heaven -- Heaven on earth.

LSD is a very dangerous drug, however, taken extremely moderately it can have damn near revolutionary effects in overcoming the human ego, and developing the mind, attaining more awareness. I used to do LSD years ago, and it definately helped me to expand my horizons. It's definately not for everyone, and anyone who does try it, I suggest only do it once or twice and then walk away.

The entire deal would probably fall apart eventually. Your reforms require so many controls and so much money that the economy would probably go south. Especially since supporting an economy tends to demand a lot more than tourism, which even for the US, which currently has the highest level of tourism, only amounts to about 85.7 billion dollars.

I would not rule a country in such a fashion- I would rule in such a limited scope that my citizens would scarcely realize there even was a government.

I wouldn't want to run any country either, people as a rule are just to unruly, I would like to see any country's leaders fight out their differences with socks filled horse manure, the loser being forced to eat the sock.
Now Perambulator, the idea of taking LSD because you think it expands your mind, well go right ahead, but keep it to yourself, LSD never expanded anything, recommending this drug to people who already have chemical imbalances is extremely foolish and dangerous.