A new Mock Parliament

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I would like to assist.

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May I interject with some advice (ignore at will!)

Part of the reason why we tried to set this up, but were left wanting, was because we were looking for an alternative to Atlasia when it was still strong. That is no longer the case. We were also looking for an alternative to America. Looking at the platform for the Pioneers for example, we have ‘marriage and abortion’ which aren’t really politicised matters outside of the USA. You risk covering the same ground.

If you want to start things up ‘the British way’ you can’t really talk about ‘rights’ in a US constitutional sense if you don’t have a constitution to refer to. You simply have to start the game in a ‘status quo’ either the USA is it is now (in which marriage is now a settled issue), or perhaps the US as it was in any given year. That makes it historic and a little different.

The only way to operate a game like this is for the person moderating it to make ‘assumptions’. So for example, you don’t know what the medical system is. There’s no constitution, there’s no history of parliamentary precedent to fall back on. The moderator has to assume it’s say ‘single payer’ so you therefore have a jumping off point for discussion.

Or you build a world and then have the parliament start up. Which can be time consuming. The only reason this didn’t work in the past is that we have a tenth of the activity of Atlasia, while it was still functioning. That wouldn’t be the case now.