How to run the game...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Straightforward, simple, workable. And if something needs changing, it can be changed with minimum fuss. Excellent.

I might post a lot of background stuff when I stop working later. Hopefully enough that we can then get things moving...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Given that we play characters here, we have an issue that Atlasia does not. Death, disgrace and retirement. I don't think we need firm rules on this, but it's something that needs at least some vague discussion.

What I would propose is that individual players handle most of that side of things, but that deaths are reported in an official newspaper of some kind (who runs it is irrelevant) along with a mini obituary. Retirements would be announced somewhere as well. The player would then be free to start a new character.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Shouldn't you have a government before you worry about chairs?

Discussions on the matter are ongoing.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Things do seem to have ground to a sudden halt. A shame because we're almost there... Perhaps it is time to poke people with sticks.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

To quickly establish a few ground rules:

1. Antillia will have developed its own deranged parliamentary and political traditions. In particular there is even less division between the executive and the legislature than in most countries; this even extends to the fact that cabinet ministers are allowed (and frequently do) chair parliamentary committees.

(OOC: we don't have enough players to do else, somewhat regrettably)

2. But following several high-profile bribery scandals in the 1970s and 1980s, there are now a few rules regarding conflicts of interest. For our purposes, the main one is that a cabinet minister cannot chair a committee that he/she has any responsibility for in government.

3. This is not America, so Chairs are given to all parties with a significant amount of seats.

Etc.