And those thirteen are the ones who compete in the Hunger Games?
Now there’s an idea: A republic-in-exile, ala the Free French in WWII or John VI of Portugal/Brazil. Palmyra Island comes to mind
Oh, I think a $5,000 ticket would be more appropriate. But who gets the money?
No no.
You form a committee. An “independent” committee, that vets each city as worthy of being the capital. They must have the proper facilities, and if they don’t they’ll have to build them. At their own expense, of course. And the city gets to be capital for four years.
Call it the Independent Opinions (on the) Capital committee.
No, the entry level needs to be accessible to anyone. Make the tickets expensive and you end up right back with the same money-controls-the-system problem we have now.
I disagree. Wealth shouldn’t be a bar.
OTOH, in my imagined pentacameral legislative structure, one house is a plutocracy, where the seats are bidded on.
Goes into the general fund.
Candidates can raise money the way un-wealthy candidates do now: rallies, bake sales, online appeals, car washes, marrying wealthy spouses, offering sexual favors to corporate executives-- you know-- the American way!
I always liked one suggestion from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Have a system in which one legislature passes laws like normal, and a second one, with the job of deciding which laws to repeal.
Why charge money at all? Everyone gets a number assigned automatically and a huge cage of numbered balls is used. One ball per digit, and enough of each digit to make up a complete number. So, for example, the number are 15 digits long you’d need 150 balls in sets of 0-9.
The premise behind buying a ticket is to filter out the people who have minimal interest in politics – which is a non-small number of people.
If a thing is real, money has to be involved. Everything’s always about money. Otherwise, what’s the point? It makes the world go round. (Money, not love.)
What’s love got to do with it? (Got to do with it)
How about the inverse: paying not to be included in the government pool? I’d certainly pony up.
(This is inspired by a comment from a British MP who said something to the effect that it’s a thankless, soul-destroying job and he wondered why he ever wanted it.)
It’s just a second-hand emotion.
I’m thinking of Valinor
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How many people can Devil’s Island accommodate?
I clearly wasted a lot of money on science textbooks.
Too good for 'em. How about Númenor, just before it was shoved under?
I was thinking Valinor on the theory that only the worthy few would be allowed in. This would certainly not create an overpopulation problem.
Obviously a godless secular heathen liberal plot, to put it in the least-holy spot in the country.
This would be ridiculously unfair, and would result in some people having much higher odds than others.