NationStates Jolt Archive

Name: Gladiatorial Glory

Description: A group of Roman-age re-enacters have been protesting outside the capital for the construction of colosseums and to allow gladiatorial combat to replace death row.

Validity: Does not apply to nations with low to non-existant crime/nations who have banned the death penalty

Options:

[option]"You can't possibly be going along with this... can you?" inquires civil rights activist Alexis Steward "This is outrageous! The people of @@NAME@@ deserve better than this! Killing those who kill is no way to solve the problem! The real answer lies in larger and more luxurious... I mean palatial prisons! Of course this has nothing to do with the fact that my mother Martha Steward is in prison herself... Think of the people, and ban the death penalty too!"
[effect]Government funds are now being used to construct mansion like prisons after the ban of the death penalty.
[stats]Taxes increase moderately, civil rights increase dramatically, death penalty is banned, crime increases dramatically*

[option]"Ave, friend of Rome!" Salutes Roman re-enactor Pvblivs Novivs Romanvs, who notes the lack of the letter "u" in the Latin alphabet. "Let us build these grand colosseums! However, fighting shall take place not only against ravenous @@ANIMAL@@s but also against fellow death-row inmates! Invite the people of @@NAME@@ to witness the carnage, for a price of course, even play it on Pay-per-View! Then, use the proceeds to off-set the cost of the colosseums and then to compensate the victims of the criminals... or to fill the government coffers! It shall be a glorious solution to death-row! GLORY TO THE GODS!"
[effect]Criminals fight for their lives in many of the nation's colosseums simply to entertain the public.
[stats]Economy increases, public apathy decreases, cynicism increases, devoutness decreases

[option]"These two loonies deserve to be shot." Exclaims @@NAME@@ police chief, devout Family Dude fan, and paraplegic @@RANDOMNAME@@. "The true, the best, and the only answer lies in the police force. If you give us jurisdiction to shoot first and ask questions later then you'll see the crime rate drop like a rock and with a policy like this we can utilize a smaller police force which means a little weight off of the taxpayers' backs. Of course, you know, you'll get the pinko-commies complaining about civil rights and what not. But you know what? I say we shoot them too! Yeah! BRING IT ONNNNNNNN!"
[effect]An SS-like police force roams the streets mowing down any vagabonds who dare break the law.
[stats]Taxes decrease moderately, crime decreases dramatically, civil rights decrease dramatically

Notes:

*Crime increases because people know that prison life is better than life in the hood, or the slums, or on the streets.

***I didn't put a civil rights decrease because the people fighting in the colosseums are going to die anyway even if there are none.

I am aware I cannot submit this until I have 500 million people, but I figured I might as well write it now when I have time to edit and whatnot.

You might want to be careful with option one. The randomname could have something really bizarre come up, like Fred Bush. And Stewart doesn't go with Bush. You'd get a clash of surnames.

Also, I doubt there'd be a change in tax rate for option 2. It'd be funded by the pay-per-view.

And for the option 2 effect line, may I suggest "novelty stores have seen a dramatic increase of sales of tridents and togas"?

Thank you, though now option two will have to have some bad stat in it or else it will be the "best" option. Maybe a "cynicism" increase?

As for the option two effect, as I have plenty of time to wait, I'll get a few more ideas in. Thank you for the suggestion though.

I'd say the effects for Option 2 would be an increase in economy from the pay-per-view features, along with an increase in the amount of prisoners that die on "death row" a year from the gladiator-like battles occuring more often than lethal injection.

Yes, I was thinking about that, but wouldn't that make it the right choice to pick?

It ups the economy, decreases crime, gets people more attentive...

Or were you saying that it would JUST up the economy and increase the amount of people killed?

I'm saying it would do just what it says, no other effects, no decrease in crime... because think of this twist... people might want to be on death row, because winning a gladiator battle makes them the "man" or the "woman," y'know what I'm saying?

Yes... Yes... I like that. I shall change it idmediately! I kept the decrease of public apathy because who WOULDN'T want to watch simultaneous dismemberment in the government colosseums?!

Exactly.

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Publivs Novivs Romanvs.... wouldn't his name be Pvblivs Novivs Romanvs?

Other than that, this issue is awesome! I only wish I had thought of it first. *jealousness...*

AHH!! How did I not catch that? Many thanks.

EDIT: Took out "...and to crime itself!" from last line of option two. Changed Publivs to Pvblivs. Added effect to option two.

#2 seems to need a downside. I mean, you are basically executing these prisoners in an utterly terrible and painful way... That's got to reduce civil rights, or devoutness, or morals, or somthing... I know you said that they are going to die anyways... but at least then one would assume that it would be humane (gas, fatal injection...) SO, by its simple brutality, you would get some decrease.

If you choose not to do anything about that, you should at least consider to make some sort of downside...

Added cynicism increase to option two.

Added cynicism increase to option two.
Maybe a decrease in devoutness as well? That is the closest variable to public morals that exsists... And to many people, having a society that watches convicts kill each other for sport kinda low in morals...

Added decrease in devoutness.

Looks like I can submit this now, just a quick ::BUMP:: so I can get in any other edits you guys might want before I submit it.

that sounds like a great issue! I would love to get it!

Submitted.

tell us if its accepted.

Ooh! I like this one...
*starts drawing up arena plans...*