I'm designing an RPG, and a major part in the story will be to assassinate (I might be able to think of a non-violent way to do it also...) your country's president (or king, or council or... etc..)
Setting: Planet similiar to earth, and a little more technically advanced than our world.
This is a very basic sketch I've drawn (in MS Paint!!)
![The map of the country and bordering countries](http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/~srekel/real/map.gif)
What I want is: Country 1 and 2 are very different, politically, which means that they are hardly communicating at all.
Your Country has managed to be somewhat neutral, and therefore is very rich and quite advanced (because of trade with both countries). This has worked fine for 50 years (or so), but now one of the other countries' ruler(s) has decided that your country is far too valuable to be let alone....
I have discussed different ways to rule with friends, and this is what we've come up with:
(also important: no country should be "evil" in any way... they just see and run things very differently)
Communism VS Capitalism - Old and classic, but not necessarily boring and there's still a lot to be said.
Emotional VS "Cold Logic" (ie. one country is ruled based on the people's emotions, while the other country does exactly what is the rational thing to do (like Vulcans in Star Trek)
Complete democracy VS Dictatorship (ie. in one country, everybody has a vote in every law change, tax change etc, while the other country is ruled by one single person (with the help of a council I guess... but I'm reluctant to use this because I don't believe in democracy to that degree, but I believe that dictatorships can be a "better" way to rule a country, so I don't know if I could create such a world)
Computer-controlled VS ? (One computer calculates the best way to run a country. Of course it would have to use one of the above as a guideline I guess..)
Monarchy VS ? (which is basically inherited dictatorship, with both benifits and... bad things
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Any more ideas?
I also toyed with the idea to use different races instead, like a catrace VS dograce (both standing on two legs).. But I'm not sure about that yet. Of course, having more races can be used even though one of the other, political ways are chosen.
I hope I've explained what I'm looking for...
"Kaka e gott" - Me
[edited by - Srekel on January 13, 2003 5:12:36 PM]