Why not to try something crazy?

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Yes. With so many fruitless talks about game reform, why not to try something crazy?

Nauruan Model

An interesting hybrid between a presidential and parliamentary government.

Atlasia under Nauruan model: President is both head of state and head of government, but is responsible, just as a Prime Minister in usual parliamentary Democracy, before Senate. The Senate elects President and is free to dismiss him at any moment.

Swiss Model

Under Swiss model, the Federal Council shall serve as a Government, as well as joint head of state. Federal Council (under Atlasia it should be elected directly), shall compose an equal members, and each one shall head a certain branch of the executive power (for example, Department of External Affairs, Department of Internal Affairs, etc.)

The President shall be a presiding officer of the Council, elected among their members for one month term, on some kind of rotation basis (Council term shall be four months). The President is basically a primus inter pares.

Sammarinese Model

A role of head of state and head of Government shall be vested into a two Captain-Regents, elected for a period of four months and serving jointly. Cooperation between the two co-leaders in making decisions would be very refreshing for the game, IMO.

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Interesting suggestions. The Swiss model would additionally work well with some elements of direct democracy, i.e. the possibility of constitutional initiatives and referenda for all Atlasian citizens. That would be a big reform, though.

I'm a big fan of direct Democracy

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How about a Westminster style government?  A prime Minister, shadow president and the like.  And then instead of a monarch, we can elect nationally a president with little real power in government (but can act as the head of their party).  Opposition can appoint shadow PM's and much fun could be had.

That would be excellent.

In RL, I'm a strong supporter of such parliamentary Government with President having mostly a symbolic role, like in Germany.

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I'm all for a French model, with the President and the Senate/Assembly/whateveryoucallit elected seperately and with the President assigning a PM who needs to find a majority for his government in the Parliamentary Assembly. This way we wouldn't have to change our election dates significantly, get rid of the pointless VP and introduce a lot of new excitement into the game, with some real power for the Senators.

Actually, the Senate is already more powerful than the Presidency.