Atlasians For Parliamentary Democracy

[Oakvale]

I've flirted with this idea but came to the conclusion that it would be quite literally unworkable. We don't have anywhere near the active membership that a parliamentary government - a government party, an opposition, backbenchers... - would require in order to function.

[Oakvale]

15 members is nowhere near enough to create sufficient drama for a parliamentary politics simulation. The reason the parliamentary idea is unworkable is because there'd have to be (at the very least) upwards of 40-50 members (i.e. the entire office-holding population of Atlasia plus) in order to have an actual dynamic simulation.

With fifteen you'd have what, a party of eight people in government, five in the opposition, and maybe a couple of single member minor parties. Sounds a bit dull.

There's also the major issue that most people on the forum are Americans and don't care about parliamentary politics.