NationStates Jolt Archive

Should I read the 3rd option as allowing everyone to decide for themselves what's best (i.e. lawlessness) or as those in charge deciding what's best and doing it?

3. "This raises an interesting issue," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, your brother. "And that is: why do we need elections, anyway? Seems to me it would be much simpler if you just decided what was right, and did it. Wouldn't that save everyone a lot of time?"

The people in charge decide what is right, not the people. The effect is that elections are outlawed and your country becomes a dictatorship.

3. "This raises an interesting issue," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, your brother. "And that is: why do we need elections, anyway? Seems to me it would be much simpler if you just decided what was right, and did it. Wouldn't that save everyone a lot of time?"

The people in charge decide what is right, not the people. The effect is that elections are outlawed and your country becomes a dictatorship.Yet for some odd reason some people get this issue again.

Anyway to become a democracy once you out-law elections? Some how I've been classified as a democracy though even though I outlawed elections awhile ago!

I guess it probably depends how you start out. I was a Civil Rights Lovefest until I (unwittingly - oops!) outlawed elections. Now I'm a Left-Leaning College State.

Anyway to become a democracy once you out-law elections? Some how I've been classified as a democracy though even though I outlawed elections awhile ago!
Yes, after persistence and patience any stat can be changed. Outlaw elections, the issue will come back, you can answer other issues democratically, and you'll get your nation a democracy again... eventually.

If you are a dictatorship, you can also get the "Not so much dictatorship" issue, which can restore democracy.