Announcement: House Governments

[Karst]

Regarding workload: The most prolific house government account, the Empire of Kusari, has averaged around 2 posts a week over the last three months. Honestly, that seems manageable to me, especially since most posts are mundane bureaucracy that we won't have to look at too closely before approving. The intention here is not to insert ourselves unnecessarily into every minor decision, but just to follow the processes along. If, for example, someone who is friendly to a house requests a POB license at a reasonable location, but the house does not want to grant it because they don't like the player, that is the type of thing we'd want to prevent.
In general, I would hope that we would hardly ever have to question the governments' decisions.

Regarding unlawful participation: Aside from the obvious "unlawfuls don't care about laws" part, the reason why they aren't included is due to ID rules: House Corporations, Police, Military, and Intelligence factions have ID lines against "considered hostile by [house]", and of course the latter three also have "enforce laws" lines.
So they are directly affected by House decisions in a way unlawful IDs are not.
Players of those factions can still talk to each other about house stuff, and I imagine most if not all governments or house player groups will probably continue working "in the background" on their own terms, possibly with unlawful participation. It just wouldn't make much sense to grant them voting rights on matters that don't directly affect them.

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