Kusarian Republic Parliament Concept

[WesternPeregrine]

3 weeks total for a vote is a LONG time. Even 2 weeks is a long time. I doubt that upper house would need more than 3 days and that lower house 4 days. Like you have in modern parliaments, sometimes representatives don't vote since they aren't around when the voting is done (for various reasons).

Right, I see that these limits might be too long for the usual development of activities in the community, barring some holiday period or something similar.
Perhaps we can say something like this: a 1 week max for the lower house, and 3 days for upper house deliberations, 10 days max.
We could also insert some clause that might end the one week phase earlier, a kind of minimum threshold that we could consider satisfactory. I'm at a loss on what factor it could be related to however. Maybe a proposal reaching a favorable count or a total participation count of x votes.

Example: proposal A has received 20 votes (more than we could expect for something not affecting all Sirius/server), and the approval rate is bigger than, say, 65%. Reaching this participation threshold would make the debate end 24h after, rather than the end of the usual week.
Could use other variants: overwhelming support, not reaching participation value by the 3rd day, etc.

As for the higher house, I am not too sure that it should have anyone from the unlawful factions.

Unlawfuls COULD have sympathizers in the lower house and other types of puppets.

Its true that this is a lawful institution, and that unlawful group are obviously marginalized inrp. Even if not included in this final group, I hope they can share their expertise on Kusari affairs with us on the lower house level, through groups and characters "sympathetic" to their causes, but that make efforts to remain in the system.

I can't see how could I justify having unlawful factions representatives deciding on the workings of the state they're against. Perhaps they could participate in a advisory role, with no voting power. This would allow them to give a reasonable contribution, and suggest reactions that those faction would make when they found the results of each decision.

As for representatives selections I do have an idea - voting can be done in a public pool which also shows the names of the voters (to prevent alt votings).

Beforehand anyone who is playing actively in Kusari (again, to prevent random people who never played, and never will play to simply stomp in) can offer themselves as candidates. If someone gets above (just an example) 1000 votes he gets in the lower house.

In the original concept I had devised, there would not be any persistent or appointed characters in the lower house. Using the political parties that will eventually get elected to the lower house (probably equally reflected in the upper one) as a background, any member of our community would be able to formulate a member of the parliament character to transmit his/her suggestion or message.
I intended that the lower house be open to all the members of the community, even those not playing actively as pilots in Kusari.

However, by acting as a kusarian member of the parliament, the writer is obliged to have the minimum knowledge of the affairs he's talking about, and how that can affect Kusari and it's inhabitants. IT would be highly unlikely... nay, impossible for something like a rheinlander come him and propose war on GMG because of past grievances with Rheinland companies and state. Nor it is reasonable for a Kusarian to demand action regarding incidents and conflicts between Zoners and Order somewhere in the omegas and omicrons.

Apologies for the long posts, but it's quite an interesting subject.

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