Office of GM Foucaulf - POLICY AGENDA POSTED

[Talleyrand]

With Flo's map, why not just leave the 12 countries and French Guiana as separate seats? A solid 13 isn't a bad idea at all.

[Talleyrand]

Do we have to do South America? I'd really rather not.

I'm in favor of it, simply because it'd be far more interesting than the following.

[Talleyrand]

If we're going to go with South America, I'll take the Amazon-based seat...

[Talleyrand]

Wouldn't it be a better idea to have Hash's constituency map, so we can have seats for all twenty members of the first parliament? Or do you want some pure party-list seats...

[Talleyrand]

Here are some provisional ideas for a ministry, loosely based on the Peruvian government.

• Prime Minister
• Minister for Foreign Relations and Defence
• Minister for Agriculture, Labor, and Employment
• Minister for Economy and Finance
• Minister for Commerce and Culture
• Minister for Transportation, Communication, and Housing
• Minister for Interior and Justice
• Minister for Energy and Environment
• Minister for Health and Education

One the opposition benches, you'd obviously have a Leader of the Opposition and a number of shadow ministers. Thoughts, ideas, comments?

[Talleyrand]

I'm open to it, but those positions seem way too Atlasian... if that makes sense. I remember there was even a proposal to rename the SoIA, SoEA, and AG back in the day to those positions.

I think TNF's idea so far is the best because I think it makes more sense in a South American context. It also only has 8 ministers, so you'd see some members of the government left out in a majority situation. Even more interesting, in a weak minority situation, you could have some members pulling double duty. If we want, I think we could find a way to pull it down to 7 ministers like oakvale's proposal.

[Talleyrand]

An easy way to keep 20 members is to make the Speaker a non-voting member of parliament except in case of ties, sort of like in the UK and Australia. So you'd effectively only have 19 members.

I agree totally about Shadow ministers- seems like it'd be far better not to have them at all.

[Talleyrand]

I think we should just permanently do the method described in Section 4. We can't support 10 FPTP constituencies with the sort of population we have and want in this game, I think.