The US ITTL was already in deep economic crap. The economy was stagnating and politics were radicalizing. THEN, the great depression hits, making it even worse.
People are still signing up and already there is talk of which side to support in the inevitable civil war. This doesn't bode well for the 'country', or for the AAR, as conflict/dispute brought RP to its knees. I guess that's what happens when a country is deeply sectionalist from the moment of its creation.
Maybe there should be a penalty of taking sides/leaving the Union?
Parties that leave the union or support revolutionary factions AND LOSE the revolution will be banned for one congressional election
Hmm...we need a GLORIOUS party, and I don't see any that are completely so...yourworstnightm has the closest, though.
So, I was thinking quite a bit yesterday about the rules and I have some suggestions.
First of all - elections. Since we are playing the USA I would suggest Presidential elections every 4, and Congressional elections every 2 years. I would also do them in November, so that gives us a lot of time to campaign and you a whole year to set up the world situation however you want it to be before we take over.
I would have the President appoint a cabinet corresponding to the HOI2 one, and then have cabinet ministers prepare policy and laws. All policies and laws would have to be approved by congress. I would have the Congress have 10 or 20 seats, with each member of the party holding a seat, and any seats that are unfilled by forum members automatically voting the same way the leader of the party votes.
Now, I would require everything to be IC. Parties, speeches, etc. I'm sorry to say, but I feel like the GLORY stuff from Realpolitik, while it was very fun, did not get us much love from the mods. So IC policies, IC parties, IC speeches and debates.
I would also require people to have at least 3 people to form a party. That forces people to band together and discuss rather than everyone just having their own thing. We had way too many parties early on in Realpolitik and it was a mess.
Finally, in elections, I would give everyone 2 votes in congressional elections and 1 in the Presidential ones. No runoffs for Presidents, whoever has the most votes wins. This makes people think ahead of time and form coalitions rather than everyone running and then having to figure things out in the second round.
I am just afraid this will be closed down. There will undoubtly be some hot debates since we are doing politics.
hot debates do not mean name calling, i know from experience that you can have a good debate without some of the sillyness that went on with RP