If you were 'King for a Day'...

[Bahamut - Envoy of the End]

If this in the wrong section, feel free to move it.

Baiscially, if you were king / queen / president / prime minister / ruler of your country and all you survey, what would be the first thing(s) you'd change? Be it change of laws, social order, whatever the hell you want, you're in charge here... Be as serious or silly as you like.

Let's keep this within some realm of reason when posting please.

If I was in charge, I'd rule with an iron fist:
- Celebrity gossip magazines to be outlawed. In fact, just a blanket ban on Z-list celebrities ought to do.
- Liposuction to be compulsory for the medically overweight (in fairness I'd make it free as well).
- Law stating that paedophiles, burglars, armed robbers, thugs, etc, automatically forfeit all human rights. Prisons to be toughened up.
- Anyone who is out for a duck in cricket made to walk/waddle off in a giant duck suit.
- Blow up all caravans, in any and every imaginable way. Yes this is the Top Gear school of setting the world to rights.

Can't believe I can't think of any more right now, usually I'm always going 'When I come to power...' . Oh well it is past midnight here, maybe I'm just tired. I'll go to sleep and let you lot play with this and come back with more suggestions. Have fun

[Zimiri of the Muse]

dictator so i cant be stopped.
id come to power and launch nukes every where but the us.
let the us suffer because of its dependancy on foreign countries
commit suicide

[Darth Duelist]

[quote name='Zimiri of the Muse' timestamp='1289782669' post='4785707']
dictator so i cant be stopped.
id come to power and launch nukes every where but the us.
let the us suffer because of its dependancy on foreign countries
commit suicide
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Yeah, I'd be a dictator too. Just like Julius Caesar, except for the part he got assassinated when people stabbed him with knives. He got stabbed 30x. I'd:
- immediately hang all prisoners/thieves/convicts/murderers
- kill all mean people, because they are wasting oxygen
- make everything free (for me)
- make everyone give me tons of taxes so I'd have billions of dollars.
- buy Microsoft
- buy any other big industry
- get a ton of houses all around the world
- get a huge mansion by the ocean in a hot place like California, Bahamas, Florida, etc.
- get a private plane
- get a new PC (brand new, like thousands of bucks)
- get a ton of new stuff that's all in fashion (large tvs, ps3s, 360s, blu ray, new audi cars, etc

[.Requiem]

BITCHEZ FOR ME AND NO ONE ELSE!

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

Heavily increase taxes upon the top .5% of the country holding 90% of the nation's wealth while possibly lowering them for middle and lower class citizens, limit the power and influence of large businesses, sponsor the production of facilities wherein technologically relevant goods were produced to be sold across countries, remove backwards laws like Affirmative Action and Don't Ask Don't Tell, and do whatever else I could to try and fix everything.


If only.

[Yasu]

NEW WORLD ORDER
WOP WOP WOP

[Ikatsui]

If I was dictator of the U.S. (somehow), I would...
- Reopen Alcatraz
- Draft prisoners jailed for 5+ yrs into the military
- Make tobacco illegal
- Increase reasearch in space weapondry
- Nuke North Korea

[Catterjune]

Everything outlined in Machiavelli's The Prince.

[CrabHelmet]

Step 1 would be to drop this silly "for a Day" business... which brings me to Pika's post.

[Tentacruel]

Manipulate the system to become king for life like Crab said.

After that... I guess I'd do whatever the heck I felt like.

[DARKPLANT RISING]

I would become dictator and do everything I want, most of it connected with making North Korea a good place and saving the people who don't have jobs.

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

You are all awful people.

[JG.]

Let's see...

1) Make sure my friends and family are at least financially secured for the rest of their lives.
2) Remove death penalty. Short version: because if you execute someone, you aren't a s*** better than the person your executing.
3) Outlaw tobacco and all non-medicinal drugs. And actually enforce those laws.
4) Walk around with a lightweight pistol at all times, because being the top won't exactly help my paranoia.

...Yeah. In no particular order.

[Catterjune]

[quote name='Vuvuzela of Triumph' timestamp='1289825135' post='4786665']
You are all awful people.
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I disagree. With me at the head, the world would become a better place. Or, at the very least get more stuff done rather then needing to commission a full committee to etc etc etc, just to vote down new propositions 12 weeks from now.

[Mehmani]

1. Get myself elected into power for 4 years, as normal.
2. Legalize brothels (to bring an end to pimps).
3. Legalize drugs and have them sold in government-based outlets to bring an end to illegal drug-dealing.
4. Destroy private health and the private education system by heavily taxing them and funnelling money into the National Health Service.
5. Remove the charity status of religions and tax them.
6. Heavily tax the top 5% of the country and lower taxes for working and middle class people.
7. Punish racism and homophobia more severely.
8. New "relocate for work" system for skilled immigrants - give them living accommodation in the areas where people of their profession are needed most.
9. Crack down on broadcasters - stop "selective editing" and use of auto-tune and the like for manipulation of the public.
10. Make the music industry print "The vocals on this record have been auto-tuned approximately XX% of the time" on publications in which auto-tune has been used.

[Rasta Bolt]

Ignoring all the idiotic posts above me; I would probably make things the way I feel would benefit the world most. I would be a dictator and get rid of the entire concept of guns, they are literally killing machines. As for military defences I would resort to the Chinese clan era, hardly any wars except between clans and all hand to hand combat, hardly anyone is killed. That's as far as I would go military wise.

I would let the rest seemingly develop and see how things take there course from thereon out.

[CrabHelmet]

[quote name='Vuvuzela of Triumph' timestamp='1289825135' post='4786665']
You are all awful people.
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The most efficient system of government is unquestionably a benevolent dictatorship. The problem is finding a dictator who can be trusted to be benevolent. Fortunately, I trust myself, so I see no problem with installing myself as the eternal queen of the world.

[Bahamut - Envoy of the End]

[quote name='Älfred-Kün' timestamp='1289836914' post='4786818']
3. Legalize drugs and have them sold in government-based outlets to bring an end to illegal drug-dealing.
8. New "relocate for work" system for skilled immigrants - give them living accommodation in the areas where people of their profession are needed most.
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3. I agree with, this would also bring an end to burglary/robbery for people trying to fund their habit. 8. I thought that was how immigration was originally 'supposed' to work anyway.

[quote name='-Kamehameha' timestamp='1289838322' post='4786850']
Ignoring all the idiotic posts above me; I would probably make things the way I feel would benefit the world most. I would be a dictator and get rid of the entire concept of guns, they are literally killing machines. As for military defences I would resort to the Chinese clan era, hardly any wars except between clans and all hand to hand combat, hardly anyone is killed. That's as far as I would go military wise.

I would let the rest seemingly develop and see how things take there course from thereon out.
[/quote]

You're only ruling one country here, so as noble as getting rid of all weaponary is you'd just be making yourself a sitting duck for invasion. And none of the suggestions here are idiotic, some are quite serious, and some are fun, which is a good balance to have I think.

[quote name='Crab Helmet' timestamp='1289840241' post='4786899']
The most efficient system of government is unquestionably a benevolent dictatorship. The problem is finding a dictator who can be trusted to be benevolent. Fortunately, I trust myself, so I see no problem with installing myself as the eternal queen of the world.
[/quote]

Agree with that pretty much. I know I'd abuse the power. Mwahahahaha...

[Rasta Bolt]

[quote name='Matt Bahamut' timestamp='1289842938' post='4786962']
3. I agree with, this would also bring an end to burglary/robbery for people trying to fund their habit. 8. I thought that was how immigration was originally 'supposed' to work anyway.



You're only ruling one country here, so as noble as getting rid of all weaponary is you'd just be making yourself a sitting duck for invasion. And none of the suggestions here are idiotic, some are quite serious, and some are fun, which is a good balance to have I think.



Agree with that pretty much. I know I'd abuse the power. Mwahahahaha...
[/quote]
"- Celebrity gossip magazines to be outlawed. In fact, just a blanket ban on Z-list celebrities ought to do."

In my opinion; idiotic.

Dictator: "a ruler who is unconstrained by law", I can control and do whatever the hell I like.

[~/Coolio Prime\~]

[quote name='Crab Helmet' timestamp='1289840241' post='4786899']
The most efficient system of government is unquestionably a benevolent dictatorship. The problem is finding a dictator who can be trusted to be benevolent. Fortunately, I trust myself, so I see no problem with installing myself as the eternal queen of the world.
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I was referring to people talking about how they would seize ultimate power that then went on to list some ridiculous actions they would take(a large majority in this thread); I agree that a benevolent dictatorship has some positives. I actually made a villain dubbed Pathos who holds the belief in a benevolent dictatorship. He notes that kings, in their time of power, truly could alter the lands themselves given the vast power they had. The more democratic you become the less influence the leader has.

His philosophical folly, however, was that we are ignorant of a good deal of our flaws. Your grand ideas are sure to take effect, but what you are incapable of monitoring will surely suffer. You may believe yourself to have the makings of a good Queen and I would probably agree with that. But if not adequately monitored such radical power could cause a radical flaw.

Then, assuming you were able to do that, you would eventually die. And with the God-like power you displayed, the old concept of dependance upon the Gods would arise. How would the succession of a proper leader be determined? Could you choose correctly; would your same calculative thought process be used?

If there were a perfect being that lived eternally a singular leader would be fine, but as long as there is subjectivity there simply cannot be perfection and so long as there is infinite time there cannot be infinite existence. There are definitely counterpoints to , but I thought I'd throw this out for discussion, mainly because I want to further sculpt Pathos' ideologies.

[Yankee]

I'd attack Canada.
Why?
Who cares?

[Mr Dr Professor Spaz]

Justin Bieber will be shaved bald, then let live for 3 years. THEN he is executed.

[Darth Duelist]

[quote name='Vuvuzela of Triumph' timestamp='1289787654' post='4785976']
Heavily increase taxes upon the top .5% of the country holding 90% of the nation's wealth while possibly lowering them for middle and lower class citizens, limit the power and influence of large businesses, sponsor the production of facilities wherein technologically relevant goods were produced to be sold across countries, remove backwards laws like Affirmative Action and Don't Ask Don't Tell, and do whatever else I could to try and fix everything.


If only.
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Eh.... WHAT??? Sorry, You used waaay to complicated words for me. Can you like dumb it down, lol, it sounds so official and all that hahahahaha!!!

[Headmaster Monokuma]

I would have the moon pulled out of orbit so that it could crash into the Earth in three days.

Then I would have a child run around with a sword and shield.

Then I would laugh at the chaos.

[Ikatsui]

[quote name='Professor Layton' timestamp='1289868378' post='4788033']
I would have the moon pulled out of orbit so that it could crash into the Earth in three days.

Then I would have a child run around with a sword and shield.

Then I would laugh at the chaos.
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Why not make a statue of that kid follow the kid around?