If you ruled a whole country...

[SquallKicksAss]

This thread was inspired by Strider's Life Would Be More Interesting If... thread.

If you ruled an entire country, how would you rule it? And what laws would you have? Would you try to conquer more countries? Stuff like that, just use your imagination...

Here's my answer:
If I ruled a whole country, I'd outlaw any new technology and make everyone go back to the "Steriotypical RPG Period" styled living. Swords, adventuring, farming for your own food, travelling by horse, etc. I'd rule as fairly as I could, whilst also living a second life as a mysterious stranger who helps the poor! I'd make ducks the official currency, and if anyone pissed me off, I'd have them exiled immediately.

[Red Skull]

This topic is just made for me.

I would rule by the totalitarian ways. Deathcamps for those who oppose me and workcamps for those who oppose the the law. I would 'take over' every country I could and put in the same laws there as in the first one.

I would divide people by class and put the politician class on top and army class second. For the individual that is born in the politican class awaits a future of a politician and so on.

There would be a curfew, all who violate it will be shot unless they can explain in 5 minutes why they were outside in the first place. Armed guards would replace the police completely, such impotent terms should never be used again.

The population would be cut down to 1,5 billion( Somehow ). All through the death- and workcamps. Only during the first period of my rule shall so many people be killed. That would include they who cannot help my country in any way. Like mentally AND physically disordered for instance. Not to mention, the homosexuals.

Mass propaganda about my nation bein good will be spread, my flag will hang everywhere for the population to see.

Oh I get goosebumps everytime I think of this.

[Martyr]

If I ruled my own country, I would perform massive agricultural experiments to try and find the best way to feed my people in the most communistic way possible.

I would put restraints on the amount of children women could have. I'd make them get their tubes tied after about 5, if at all possible.

I would, initially, control all of the land and give crappy government slim-like apartments to every person who wanted to live in my country.

I would also intitute a massive public education deal. Anybody who lives in government housing gets educated in reading, writing (Not creative writing), law, business, and math. The kind of things which prepare a person for the world. If they excel, they will proceed to classes about entrepeneurship and the businesses of their choice!
Everybody will have the means, and, hopefully, the desire to go out, start a business, and make something of themselves!
(If people want to start private art schools or theoretical schools on political science and whatnot not taught by me, that's fine. Private schools would, of course, be too pricy for the unsiccessful citizen. Hopefully, they'd be another goal for the poor to strive for.)

My plan is to eliminate all mercy for the poor, the unsuccessful, and the !? uneducated ?! There will be no uneducated. There will be no starvation! There will be no homelessness. If I have to, I'll start enforcing that women without jobs or husbands cannot have children at all. (And if the husband doesn't have a job, then his wife can't have a kid)

After that, I would allow capitalism to run rampant. Like Shadow Nexus was talking about in another thread. NeoLiberalism! Or Anarco-Capitalism! Government free corporations!
All I'd ask for in return are the taxes to run my country.

If people want to build houses and sell them or live in them, then the lost govenrment housing space turns into a farm!

My plan is to eliminate hunger and homelessness straight off the bat.

Anyway, I'd try to create the most economically stable country while still allowing the helpless people to survive in their own way. Once businesses spring up, maybe I'll give the poor families just enough food to survive. And only vegetables. Like 2 avocadoes a day. HAHA! (Apparently, Castro does this)
The lower class would either leave my countr and call it barbaric and wicked or else they'll use their newfound intelligence and learned skill to help me make my country rich enough to support the little bastards who they once were.


Of course, who knows if anything like that would work. Chances are, people would let communism run it's course, not take advantage of their education and business resources, and live on vegetables with clogged toilets and leaky rooves and 10 minutes of electricity each day until my country ran broke. But that's what I would try to do.

Maybe I'd force anybody who profusely refuses to make something of themselves to be farmers...

[Denmark]

Socialist Monarchy.

[War Angel]

I'd make everyone my bitches.

[Red Skull]

Pretty much the same as me then.

[Peegee]

Let's just say a civil revolt would come very soon

[Rainecloud]

If I ruled the country, I'd hand the leadership over to someone else and retire in a blaze of apathy at the age of 21. I would then choose a nice, quiet place to reside in for the rest of my life, marry a nice-looking girl, have lots of kids and generally laze about in the mornings.

I don't think I'd be a very good leader.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

Free hookers and booze for all. Lots of them.

[Crazy the Clown]

Fridays would be Screw With the Pizza Guy day! Got it from Drawn Together.

I don't remember ordering a pizza....with sausage!

[Jojee]

Fluffy... bunnies?

[Meat Puppet]

Everyone would hate me, but they'd all be my slaves so I wouldn't care.

[Psychotic]

Fluffy... bunnies?

Yeah, we all know what you like to do to bunnies...

Anyway:
- No shoes for people named Martin on public transport
- Shakespeare in schools to be replaced with the Kama Sutra
- I forgot the rest.
- Let's all hug!

[Spritz]

Oooooh, i'd love my own country! xD

- Nudity would be encouraged.
- No smoking in public, go kill people who want to live in your house. =D
- Cats would be dressed up in traditional top cat clothing and taught to walk on two feet, as opposed to four.
- Schools will be encouraged to have more interactive lessons!
- ooo! Big arena thingy for Hobbies conventions and fun days organised by the government (Top Cat Governing Body)