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Your system of government seems rather Napoleonic in terms of its mock decentralisation centred around a monarch who appoints regional governors. Napoleon claimed that his system of government was a constitutional monarchy, yet in practice it was an absolute monarchy ruled by an Imperial bureaucracy. He would appoint kings and dukes, normally from the ranks of his family and friends; who would in turn appoint subservient governors as provincial heads, and so on, so power was essentially dictatorial and run by either Napoleon himself or by his nepotistically appointed governors. Your recall system offers a little protection, but would likely result in the governor disregarding large swathes of the population, while hanging onto power through devoting resources to enough people to block the action. This would result in a dictatorial system of government, in which the bodies controlling society have no accountability to that society - a very dangerous condition indeed. Your system of crime and punishment is somewhat archaic. Is it due to the national religion being Christianity? The idea of harsh punishment as a deterrent is based on disproved philosophy. It does not prevent crime. In 19th century Britain, stealing anything worth more than eight pence (about ten dollars in today's money) was punishable by death, and that punishment was regularly administered. Anything lower than that amount would result in transportation to Australia for a minimum of five years plus the number of pence it was worth. Both of these punishments were regularly administered, and we would both agree they are unduly harsh, but 19th century Britain was still rife with crime, especially theft. There are modern examples too. In many countries such as China, Singapore, Afghanistan, Cuba and even the USA and India, drug trafficking is punishable by death. If the principle of deterrent is accurate, there should be either no or very little drug trafficking in those countries. Afghanistan has since then become the drug trafficking capital of the world, and drugs are rife on the streets of Mumbai, Singapore, Hong Kong and in several US cities. Harsh punishments are a way of mopping the floor rather than fixing the pipe. The socio-economic factors in peoples' lives have much more of an impact on criminal justice than legislation. Your laws on shooting people that come onto property are also rather silly. It seems to be making excuses for violent people to murder people at the slightest of provocation. Also, I find your rules about not shooting people on the floor to be rather quaint and connoting pistols at dawn and insults to honour. It is a much better policy to disarm the population rather than arm them, which is why there are lower crime rates in Europe than there are in the USA. Your foreign policy, especially the part about paid intervention sounds a lot like this, just replace Stephen Fry with the Dixie ambassador and Hugh Laurie with the foreign despot. 'Would you like the gold premium package, which comes with fifteen infantry divisions complete with three armoured divisions and a detachment of helicopters.' http://www.youtube.com... I don't want to get into a capitalism vs socialism or a universal healthcare vs private healthcare debate, so we'll stick to pheasability for now.