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Five years ago, on this very night, New Years night, you were in the vanguard. The soldiers broke into the government palace. The heads of government were executed, publicly, on the front steps. The wine cellars were empties and the loot distributed among the masses, and voices sang in solidarity as fires burned in the background and the sky filled with a dark smoke. Similar uprising were happening across the world, heralding a new age for more than just your backwater little country. A lot can change in five years. The leader of the revolution, a man named Richard Cooper, became the head of the new "transitional" government. But politics is a messy business, and the revolution faced challenge after challenge. His grip tightened, his directives more severe, and the people once celebrating in the streets may be enjoying things they never had access to before, but even those who aren't living in fear are beginning to get the sense that things are spiraling out of control behind the scenes. Elections were delayed due to threats of violence. Reactionary holdouts were hunted down and stamped out, but never seemed to dwindle in number. Food was growing scarce, and the government was racking up massive debt. The elections eventually happened, and Cooper, barely, won another term as Revolutionary Leader. He cleared house, replacing many of his advisors and appointed positions. There was some hope that this would be the wakeup call needed to right the ship. A month later, he was dead. Some say it was suicide. Others that it was murder. The agency that investigated it claim it was simple an accident - he'd been drinking, heavily, for days, and while shouting profanities off his balcony had slipped over the railing and fallen to his death. Whatever the reason, he had apparently seen fit to declare you his heir, and now you have taken his seat. A lot can change in five years. It's quite a jump from line cook to revolutionary to national leader, but here you are. There's a lot of work ahead of you as the city celebrates (and worries about) the coming of both the new year, and the new regime. You have advisors to appoint. Policies to adopt. Departments to manage. But first, what is your name?
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The rules of play: To submit a command, write it in bold. To support a command, quote it. I will usually pick the first proposal of those proposals with with the most support. I won't be particularly fastidious about this, and updates will come intermittently and unexpectedly, so keep that in mind.
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You are known simply as Comrade Jeb! Now that you have risen to power, it's worth discussing a bit about what brought you here. It's certainly not widespread support among among his advisors, or the populace at large. Ultimately, it's simply that Cooper trusted you, and the work you did after the revolution. You find yourself standing on the same balcony where he did not too long ago, looking down the city, reflecting on how you first grabbed his attention... When you were in the vanguard, you... - Killed a man that was about to assassinate Cooper in a restaurant - Delivered a powerful speech to the masses on the eve of the revolution, convincing many of those on the fence to rise up and take up arms - Made a name for yourself assisting with the logistics of supplying, arming, and feeding the revolutionaries - Lead the group of soldier's that broke into the palace, and personally executed the previous head of government - Organized a great number of workers in a smaller regional upheaval, taking several factories and forming a workers cooperative to supply the revolutionaries After the revolution, during Cooper's first term in office, the two of you became close, due to... - your position as Cooper's personal driver, listening to his most secret problems and serving as his confidante - working directly with the masses, organizing cooperatives, setting up hospitals and schools, and helping people rebuild, making you the most popular public figure in the party - serving as a public face of the regime to the public, attending parties, delivering speeches, conducting meetings, and issuing directives on Cooper's orders - your position as Cooper's Internal Affairs advisor, rooting out dissidents and traitors - your position as Cooper's Agriculture advisor, helping to keep the country fed and handling distribution of land - your work abroad to help those regions that still fought, becoming a heroic revolutionary figure to many of your neighbors as well as your own people (Please submit one suggestion for each of the two above, from the options listed) About Advisors: Advisors do more than offer advice - they serve as the executors of your will, managing their respective parts of the government. Treasury - Handles the movement of money and makes sure the other branches are funded. Also manages setting and collecting taxes. Defense - Handles military matters and foreign diplomacy Agriculture - Handles food and farming policy Labor and Production - Handles nationalization of industry, organization of the workers, logistics and production Internal Affairs - Handles investigations, policing, and various internal threats GlyphGryph has issued a correction as of 18:26 on Jan 1, 2018 |
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Jan 1, 2018 16:47
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That was how this got started... Even as a line cook, you'd always had a head for numbers, for efficient processes, for making sure things got to the right place at the right time. You were often the only reliable volunteer to handle this sort of thing when the revolution was young - it wasn't glamorous work. You made some useful connections, there. You were willing to do the hard, boring work, and you had a mind sharp enough to excel at it. You even pulled off a few impressive, attention grabbing stunts, like the time you imported some strange foreign fruits and had the cooks whip up something called "guac" for all the men in the vanguard on the final evening before the assault on the palace. Things like that kept the leadership aware of your importance, reminded them you existed, even if it was largely unimportant to the bulk of the work you did - work based around moving weapons and basic foodstuffs to where they needed to be. You were surprised when Cooper picked you to head internal affairs - but the organization was tightly run under your leadership. They were known for a brutal efficiency, relentlessness, and effectiveness. You quickly developed a reputation for having ears everywhere in the country, and you put down many would be saboteurs before they were able to cause any damage. You held your recruits to high standards, and it showed. While claims of corruption and incompetence were levied against much of the government, it did not generally extend to your own department, which was feared but respected... at least for the first few years. That reputation made your attempts to follow several clear leads into extreme corruption within certain branches of Cooper's administration all the more frustrating. He once paid a personal visit to your office, demanding you drop a certain investigation or you would be replaced. Cooper demanded loyalty from his advisors, and you suspected he would follow through on it - and that the man who would most likely replace you, Vincent Valentine, would not hesitate to use his new position to eliminate you for good. The investigation had already targeted several friends and family of the Agricultural Advisor, Marie Sawyer, who had been using their connections to accumulate personal wealth from the public coffers. With that in mind, you... - Acquiesced, and ended the investigation. You closed the books, torched the evidence, and committed yourself to other more important matters. Cooper knew what had to be done, and had a better grasp of the political situation than you did - he could be trusted to know the right course of action. And you couldn't afford to give him any reason to doubt your loyalty. - Did as he demanded... as far as he knew. You actually continued the investigation, out of the public eye. You did not include the results in your reports, did not publish or pursue any of what you found, and did not pursue consequences for those involved - but you made sure you knew every move they made. - Pursued the investigation regardless of consequences. Your own reputation, the reputation of your department, the revolution itself would not be jeapordized by petty criminals. This was your job - you would route out and destroy domestic threats, and this sort of high ranking corruption could not stand.
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