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If I were to suddenly become a king:

There would be no government elections; rather, the citizens would be called to serve as president, congressman, advisor etc. from a draft pool, much in the same fashion as jury duty.

Anyone convicted of driving while using a mobile device would have their car modified to replace the automatic transmission with manual, driver's side airbags disabled, and the steering and braking sensitivities reduced by half for the period of 1 calendar year. On second offense, the car gets painted dayglo pink and the time gets doubled. If it happens again the car gets crushed. Penalties would be waived if the offender opts for any open-carriage 2 or 3-wheeled powered transport.

Any person who purchases cinder block for building or wall construction would be required to pay an additional surcharge of which proceeds would go to graffiti removal and public works matters.

Banks, retail establishments and government offices would be required to have all points of transaction staffed according to the number of stations there are, or a minimum of 3 windows/counters attended by live staff with the remainder of unstaffed stations converted to self-checkout.

That would be ridiculous.

Why should a small bank have to have a minimum of 3 windows attended when they rarely have two customers at a time? It is rare at my local bank to have even one customer at the counter.

How about certain very high end banks that have no counter or windows at all -- all transactions are done in a private office? I know of one bank that will send a limo to pick you up if you need a ride to the bank if your balance is above a certain minimum. Should they be required to have three limos for that purpose?

How about a small grocery store? The nearest grocery store to me just has two checkout lines and you rarely see both open at the same time. In spite of that, the longest line I have ever seen there was four people.

One size does not fit all.

I'm voting for you.

How about if we remove all the windows if it is wintertime?

I live in a temperate climate and see no problem with windowless cars in winter.

As an alternative, they could fill the car with kangaroos in Australia.

But then what would the children ride to school on?

Most kings have no real power. You would become a puppet of ministers. Unless you were an absolute monarch but there's only a few of those left in the world these days.

In a more serious vein - remove all bunkers off golf courses.

As to governments of the opinion that the best is a benign dictatorship modified by assassination. That way things get done, and if you don't like it kill the bugger off if you can.

I would ban music, smoking, tattoo, alcohol and drugs (punishable by death). I (the king) would still be allowed to drink wine. Wine would be produced only for me. Trash people would be euthanized. And some more rules.

I detest tattoos. Good idea.

As a musician I would make sure your reign was cut short.

There should always be peace. I wouldn't make any other rules.

Rule 1: Don't violate Rule 1.

I would start the human interstellar empire. Humanity would work almost exclusively towards that.