# Why take over the world?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-take-over-the-world/172040>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 30, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-take-over-the-world/172040 "2003-04-30T00:23:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-take-over-the-world/172040/21 "2003-04-30T22:18:55Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Aslan2 \*  
> \*\*Ok.  
> My point is though, even if you were a great leader and knew how to properly implement such ideas, how could you do it on such a grand scale as the earth? Not one human could do it. And with one leader ruling and one government ruling, theres bound to be plenty of corruption among the lower downs.  
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Just make sure you have enough trusted “lieutenants” to be your subgovernors/government ministers/whatever. And there’s always going to be Collaborators in whatever society you take over. Heck, and if I’m able to start implementing some of my more “benevolent” policies (Such as bringing peace-and food, and medicine-to Africa), there might even be large numbers of “the people” who would gleefully SUPPORT my reign over them. Especially the people in the, how shall I say, “Crappy, Destitute, Famine Ridden” sections of the world.

And as for corruption? Some is to be expected, if not condoned. And how to deal with it? A series of internal checks and balances. And purges. Violent, bloody, purges.

Massively unequal retaliation would be a way of keeping rebellion down, too. IRA splinter group attacks one of my government offices? Drop a 50 megaton nuke on Belfast. And Dublin. And Cork. Impose a 10 year blockade on Ireland, napalm the crop fields, and Anthrax the livestock. “Anyone ELSE want a piece of me?”  
Lord Regent Ranchoth  
(“A head for an eye, a hand for a tooth.”)

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**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-take-over-the-world/172040/22 "2003-05-01T00:46:10Z")

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> \*Originally posted by sturmhauke \*  
> \*\*Because it’s more fun to level the cities of the Green Menace than to beat them to Alpha Centauri. \*\*

You mean the Zulu?

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**Author:** ![sturmhauke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@sturmhauke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sturmhauke)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-take-over-the-world/172040/23 "2003-05-01T01:01:44Z")

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Yup.

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