Census Bureau of Atlasia: Homelycooking, Registrar General

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Love it. Very well done indeed.

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I suppose this would be the right place to report such information:

The Non-Partisan League, an RPP affiliated Caucus, has now reached the requisite amount of members to be considered "established."

Currently our members are:

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Cincinnatus
Afleitch
Junkie
Franzl

And if you like, consider our color "Silver" until further notice.

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I really don't see the harm.

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I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that reducing the threshold for being considered a major political party has resulted on more people trying to create political parties.

Just say you want a two party system guys.

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I find it amusing, the things you, Griffin, and Napoleon are all of the same mind on.

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The point is not having three person political parties (although, again, my position there is "what the hell does it matter to you/who is it hurting") but having more people more likely to start political parties and therefore having a greater chance of taking off and gaining traction. Going even further in the opposite direction would only entrench existing political lines (which works great for Griffin and Napoleon) and effectively demolish hopes of creating new political parties because it would take an enormous effort to get ten people together before creating a political party, since any political party that can't make it to major party status in the first couple of days? Effectively dead on arrival.

Maybe, probably, most of these smaller parties will get nowhere. But what the hell does it hurt? Homely has to take a few more seconds of formatting in each update and the census figures are a little longer, and in return we get more people willing to split from political loyalties and create parties when they feel like they have a compelling message. I consider that a good trade.

And I am so over this talk of dissolution being a mistake. This game is much better today than it was two years ago. The grass is always greener, I suppose.

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That seems like a reasonable middle ground.