Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)
Drive My Car
While parking your car for a short press conference to pander to families in CAPITAL, you are besieged by citizens and cops fighting over parking tickets, of all things. All sides seem unusually passionate about the topic, and you are doing your best to calm down the angry crowd.
I’ve encountered with many choices
1. “These deadbeats think that if they neglect to pay their tickets for a few months, we’ll just forget all about them,” rants Police Chief Mia Cruise while pushing aside some irritated motorists. “Well they’re wrong. The government needs more severe penalties to make an example of these criminals. After all, mis-parked cars obstruct the normal flow of traffic and annoy everybody. Hike up the fines, even take cars away from people that refuse to pay for their crimes. Then punks will know to respect my authori-tay!”
2. “You know the real reason we have so many unpaid tickets? They are already too damn expensive!” fumes Tim Zhu, one of the city’s poorest citizens. “How can someone who barely makes enough to eat possibly pay for a parking ticket? One ticket sets me back half a month and a rich guy only a minute. Tickets have to be proportional to people’s income. Then the punishment would actually fit the crime.”
3. “How about we, the citizens of CAPITAL, finally get a break for once?” complains Marina Delauter while parking in a public fountain and splashing everyone nearby, yourself included. “It’s not fair to make my kids wait five minutes just to find an ‘acceptable’ place to park. Let’s just get rid of all of these silly tickets once and for all. After all, who’s to say where is or isn’t a logical place to park?”
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Option 2. sounds cool so I choose it.
The result saids ‘Traffic cops spend most of their work-hours calculating citizens’ monthly income.’
In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.
Compassion
Kitten Softness Rating 18.9%
Niceness
Average Smiles Per Day 2.1%
Income Equality
Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale 1.9%
Law Enforcement
Orwell Orderliness Index 1.5%
Ideological Radicality
Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index 0.36%
Pacifism
Cheeks Turned Per Day 0.36%
Safety
Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating 0.16%
Tourism
Tourists Per Hour 0.12%
Government Size
Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index 0.07%
Taxation
Effective Tax Rate 0.07%
And decline in this qualities
Economic Freedom
Rand Index 0.22%
Crime
Crimes Per Hour 0.49%
Wealth Gaps
Rich To Poor Income Ratio 1.9%
This choice is nice.
