the Midwest was a multi-year dictatorship run by ILV.
I do most humbly beg pardon! You forgot the words "democratically-elected". It was a democratically-elected dictatorship. Including a democratic proclamation of my position as Governor-for-Life.
The Midwest was also one of the most active regions for the first couple years of my tenure of office, so I think these sorts of issues are independent of whether regional politics are "personality-based", as I generally agree the Pacific and Midwest have been, or "politics-based". I actually don't know what the latter is, because (as I've argued in the past when trying to put forward the abolition of regions) no one ever pays any attention whatsoever to what's happening outside their region. I mean, that much is immediately obvious. The Midwest has quietly done exactly what everyone has been telling us to do for years (e.g., created an elected legislature), has a thriving and healthy political class in power, and still no one moves here. What's that about?!
