Ocian Election for Chancellor Forever

[bogdanjelacic]

Hey everyone,

I happen to be working on adapting Ocia to this company's games: www.theoryspark.com/index.htm

Here is what I have so far. I could use suggestions, and if you guys think i should change something, feel free to speak up.



Demographics
Ethnic groups:
Slavic 55%
Italian 20%
Greek 10%
Albanian 5%
German 5%
Other 5%

Religion
Roman Catholic 50%
Eastern Orthodox 30%
Other Religion 5%
None 15%

Regions
Directrus
November City
Dalmanatia
Slaventija
Reshmir
Valance
Cobant
Kiristonia
Luthorian Islands
Iridian Islands
Alentejo
Lombardia
Istria

@issues
Alexandria Relations
Consumer Protectino
Defense Forces
Drugs
Economy
Education
Environment
Fishing
Grandica Crisis
Health Service
Islamic World
Labor Unions
Moral Issues
Nuclear Power
Prostitution
Space Exploration
Tax and Budget
Terrorism
Welfare
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@issue position descriptions
// left, cenre-left, center, center-right= 1 - 5

//Alexandria Relations
We should ally with the Communist states against Alexandria. Support military action to reclaim Anglien.
We should stand up to Alexandrian imperialism more often. Keep our claims to the Duchy of Anglien.
Preserve our relationship with Alexandria but keep our distance. Support mediation on Anglien claims.
Support a treaty of friendship and alliance with Alexandria. We must move forward by withdrawing our Anglien claims.
All Hail Emperor Edgard II! Forge a customs union with our Alexandrian brothers! Consider political union.
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// Consumer Protection
Consumers are cheated by profit-hungry manufacturers and dealers. We need citizen activism coupled with government regulation.
Detailed regulations protect consumers from unsafe products marketed by profit-hungry corporations.
The government can help consumers get reliable information and more ways to claim legal damages.
Government should not interfere with trustful relationships between business and consumers.
Government should prevent abuse of liabilities and damage claims. Whats good for business is good for consumers.
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//Defense Forces
Abolish the military. Create a Ministry of Peace. Pacifism is our best defensive option.
Reduce military spending. Disband most ground forces. We must adhere to the neutrality policy.
Leave military spending at current levels. Focus on peace-keeping and special forces operations.
Increase military budget, be more efficient. Increase troop numbers and allow training with allied troops.
Increase defense budget to 10% of GDP. Bring back conscription. Reclaim our past glory!
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//Drugs
Legalise and regulate all drugs.
Focus on rehabilitation, legalize "soft drugs".
Provide rehabilitation for addicts, crack down on dealers.
Toughen laws for illegal drugs, increase enforcement.
Ocia needs a war on drugs. Death penalty for dealers.
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//Economy
The government should run a fully planned economy to ensure both social equality and economic productivity.
Heavy regulation of businesses. Increase public spending to promote economic growth and protect jobs.
The economy should be free and competitive, but with a considerable regulatory system to prevent abuses.
It is necessary to liberalise the economy in order to ensure growth and prosperity. Support deregulation.
Government regulation kills economic growth. A fully free market is the only road to prosperity.
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//Education
Large increase in federal funding. Make free public education at all levels a national priority.
Increase federal funding for public schools and universities. Free tuition for undergraduate university study.
Targeted increases in school funding, more national standards. Moderate university tuition, merit-based scholarships.
National quality standards and competition. Greater accountability for schools. Make university fees tax-deductible.
Full privatization of education from kindgergarten to university. Reduce federal funding of education.
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//Environment
The environment always comes first. Raise taxes on pollution, especially carbon emissions.
Environment is a priority. Increase environmental standards and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
We must protect the environment. Support more recycling and tax incentives for being eco-friendly.
Support market-based environmental incentives, and reduce environmental regulation.
The environment is fine, global warming is a hoax. Stop eco-bureaucracy.
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//Fishing
Lower fishing quotas to protect the environment.
Support quotas for fisheries to promote sustainable use.
Encourage EU to raise quotas, compensate fishing industry.
Quotas hurt our fishing industry. Relax quotas in Scotland.
Ignore the EU quotas. Subsidize the development of fishing industry.
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//Grandica Crisis
Support the Grandican Communists. Death to the capitalist pigs!
We should stay neutral in Grandica Crisis and act as a peace broker.
Quarantine Communist Grandica, economically and diplomatically.
Actively support those trying to overthrow the Communist regime.
We must invade Grandica and bomb the Reds to hell!
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//Health Service
Dramatically increase funding, abolish private sector, and provide free dental and home health care.
Increase funding for health service, reduce private involvement, and expand coverage to include perscription drugs.
Increase funding to reduce waiting, make health service more efficient, and reduce perscription drug costs.
Establish maximum acceptable wait times, and more private delivery of health care services.
Fully privatize the Health Service. Promote private insurance companies along free market model.
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//Islamic World
The Islamic world is our friend. Islam is a religion of peace and deserves promotion by the state.
Promote peaceful outreach to the Islamic world and improve ties. Greater tolerance for Islam.
We should be skeptical of Islam given its history. Support connections to moderate Islam.
Support military action against Islamic countries connected to terrorism. Ban islamic immigration.
Launch a new crusade to destroy the Islamic infidels. Round up and expel this scum!
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//Labor Relations
Mandate closed shop agreements for every worker. Limit manager pay.
Unions are good for our economy. Protect and strengthen union rights.
Try to legislate a balance between unions and management.
Unions have far too much power. Relax dismissal protections.
Unions should be outlawed. Severely curtail the right to strike.
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//Moral Issues
We must fully legalise gay marriage and abortion. Promote secularism.
Keep status quo on abortion and civil unions. Tolerance takes priority.
No formal position on abortion and gay rights. Hold free votes.
Protect the traditional family. Tighten abortion laws and repeal civil unions act.
Ban gay adoption, repeal abortion laws, and promote Christianity.
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//Nuclear Power
Nuclear plants will destroy our environment. Switch off nuclear power immediately.
We need to gradually phase out nuclear power step. Pursue other energy alternatives.
Support enhanced regulation of nuclear energy to promote safety.
Nuclear power is safe and sound. Promote construction of new nuclear plants.
We should use our nuclear power program to develop nuclear weapons.
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//Prostitution
Support complete legalisation of prostitution. Establish state brothels and prostitute's unions.
Decriminalise prostution and reform current laws. Regulate brothels to ensure "harm reduction."
Work to reduce prostitution through rehabiliation and step up efforts to halt sex trafficking.
Criminalise the purchase of sex. Crack down on prostitution, brothels, and the sex trade.
Support a nationwide roundup of all prostitutes. Put all these sexual deviants behind bars!
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//Space Exploration
We have more important priorities than space; end all public spending.
We need to increase public investment in space exploration.
Allow companies to sponsor public space exploration.
Support public-private partnerships for space missions.
Space exploration should be fully privatized!
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//Tax and Budget
Increase taxes for the top 10%, establish a windfall profits tax to pay for massive social investment.
Increase taxes for the top 5% and large corporations. Increase public spending on social programs.
Reduce taxes for lower and middle income and for small business. Limit public spending.
Reduce taxes across the board for everyone, especially business. Steep cuts in spending and debt.
Implement a flat income tax and simplify the corporate tax code. Drastically cut social programs.
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//Terrorism
The "Terrorists" are only defending against our imperialist policies. End military intervention.
Combat the root causes of terrorism by eliminating poverty. Reduce military operations.
Work with allies to fight terrorism, cut off terrorist financing, and limit military force.
Increase military and intelligence operations against terrorists. Use targeted assassination.
Terrorism must be stopped at all costs and by any means necessary. War is the only option!
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//Welfare
Support a univeral basic income coupled with guaranteed housing and a War on Poverty.
Increase welfare payments and greater support for the disabled. More funding for public housing.
Support retraining initiatives to help workers find jobs. Improve access to disability and unemployment insurance.
Enact "welfare-to-work" programs to make unemployed work for the dole. Promote home ownership.
Abolish all social welfare programs. Don't waste money on the lazy. Let charity handle the problem.
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PARTY LEADERS

Social Democratic
Branko Vujanoviæ- experienced economist and academic, supporter of "third way" tendencies
Dragan Petrovitch- former lawyer and General Secretary of the party, views himself as a "social democrat"
Radmila Crvenkovski- leader of the youth wing of the Socialists, considers herself a "democratic socialist

Progressive Conservative
Bogdan Jelaèiæ- Prominent aristocrat, nationalist conservative
Stella Bianchi- young "modernizer" in the party, and economic conservative
Goran Krišto- Former Orthodox priest, older cultural conservative

Green Party
Matt Kovac- Current President of Ocia and former Prime Minster, Founder of the Party
Zlata Tankoviæ- veteran environmental activist and former pop singer

Liberal Democracy
Michael Dervin- former President, highly respected internationalist
Aleksander Belushi- prominent journalist with strong appeal to the youth and professional classes

Communists
Miljec Vlasimov- former head of the Communist Red Guard terrorist organisation, now turned politician.

[bogdanjelacic]

Kolya is actually going to be the head of another nation called Rocentia that is basically a cross between Canada, the USA, and Russia.

[hamlandgov]

That's the old quiz that used to have Hamland as the communist country. I always thought that was rather amusing. I kind of liked it.

[bogdanjelacic]

Mar 16, 2009 17:26:07 GMT -4 hamlandgov said:

That's the old quiz that used to have Hamland as the communist country. I always thought that was rather amusing. I kind of liked it.

In the context of the time, I did the Stormark scenario- I was told that there was a crisis in Hamland and/or the country had "gone Communist."

It's good to see that it hasn't IRL.

[Matt Kovac]

Ocia has always had a pro Socialist/Democracy policy. We had a problem with Katyusha because their policy was reminiscent to a fake communism with imperialism and fascism.

[bogdanjelacic]

Mar 17, 2009 19:38:00 GMT -4 Matt Kovac said:

Ocia has always had a pro Socialist/Democracy policy. We had a problem with Katyusha because their policy was reminiscent to a fake communism with imperialism and fascism.

Ah most excellent! I have also decided to replace the Islamic world issue with Consumer Protection.

[bogdanjelacic]

Do any of you know of any good sites where I can find yugoslav names (Slovene, Montenegrin, Croatian, Sebian, Macedonian)?

[Matt Kovac]

Here is a site I found for surnames
gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Europe-Eastern/Former-Yugoslavia/Yugoslavia/Surnames.htm

and this is for first names

gaminggeeks.org/Resources/KateMonk/Europe-Eastern/Former-Yugoslavia/Yugoslavia/First-names.htm

[bogdanjelacic]

Cool! thanks I actually managed to finish the candidate lists after exhaustive research and typing! I just have to work on the leaders and the scenario will be ready for beta-testing.

[Matt Kovac]

Sounds Awesome