NationStates Jolt Archive


Scandal Rocks my Government

Spoffin
30-12-2003, 17:24
------Decides:
Scandal Rocks ------Government!

The Issue
A tabloid magazine, The National Incriminator, has revealed the sordid details of an affair between one of your top advisors, Robert Lotsalovin, and his secretary.

The Debate
"They found out I did WHAT!?" Advisor Lotsalovin says in his morning meeting in your office. "This just can't happen! How can government officials do their jobs properly if we have to work under the constant scrutiny of these idiotic supermarket tabloids? I say tabloid newspapers must be banned, and we must not allow newspapers to speak ill of our government officials... for the good of ------, of course.."
[Accept]


"Unbelievable!" says Reverend Falala Longbottom of the local Catholic church. "Our government officials must be held to a higher standard than this! Mr. Lotsalovin must be removed from office and jailed. We cannot allow such disgusting corruption within the halls of justice!"
[Accept]


"Whoa, whoa, hey, now..." argues Senator Peggy Fellow. "What happened to Mr. Lotsalovin is no different than affairs that happen all over -----every day! Before you know it, they'll be after YOUR sexual history! I think what we need to do is take the public attention off of it somehow, perhaps by... oh, I don't know... giving them a tax cut! That'll divert their attention from this momentary distraction just long enough for Mr. Lotsalovin's divorce process to end!"
[Accept]


So, erm, 1 reduces free speech (civil rights), 2 reduces civil rights and 3... does what?

Are there any good effects of this issue?
Rejistania
30-12-2003, 17:41
Option 3 lowers taxes. I guess it does many things in the background like increasing apathy, but I only noted a 1% tax drop.
Spoffin
30-12-2003, 18:07
Ok, thats good to know.

Can anyone tell me if there are other effects from 1 and 2?
The Zoogie People
05-01-2004, 23:06
Option 2's effect - Government officials are held to the highest standards of morality. Did nothing to me, but then my PF's were already at superb. Meanwhile, in the previous paragraph, my government size went down I think from enormous to large, but was still "corrupt" interesting :)