Good News: You've Been Chosen to the the World's Monarch!

[Solly]

Emnptied

[Provost Harrison]

That's easy for you to say

[Sirotnikov]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Alas no, I'm going to be enigmatic

stop then.

[Solly]

That because I don't have a lisp.

[Provost Harrison]

What are you on about, fool?

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Odin
Nationalize all vital industries.

Turn the remaining corporations into co-ops.

Have every important neoconservative shot.

Require every new automobile to be electric, hydrogen, or biofuel powered within 10 years.

Invest in fusion power, mass transit infrastructure, nanotechnology, biotechnology, space exploration, climate control, and developing the 3rd World.

Legalize same-sex marriage.

Find the 100 most beautiful women for my harem.

I'd do much the same:

1) Concentrate on developing fusion power. With it, I not only cut down on the creation of greenhouse gasses but I can start producing mass amounts of desalinated fresh water. This would permit me to:

2) Turn the Australian Outback, the American southwest, the Kalahari, the Gobi and much of the Sahara into farmland. This will not only feed the world but increased vegetation will also act like little factories, turning carbon monoxide back into oxygen, retarding the effect of global warming.

3) I'll tweek some stuff in the industrial world, but mainly I'd concentrate on the developing world.

4) ...where I'd fight local corruption. I remember Lancer and MZO having a discussion on how corruption is crippling the economies of the Philippines and Mexico. My city has a lot of both Philippinos and Mexicans, and they do alright. This tells me the problem isn't in the people but in their respective systems back home. We have to clean up the corruption, so that the citizens can keep the fruits of their labors.

5) Develope the developing world. Awhile back, I was thinking about vacation via a road trip in Africa. As far as I can learn, there's no highway around the coast of the continent. So I said, maybe from Capetown to Cairo. My research shows you can make the trip, you just need an offroad vehicle which tells me, there is no road. Similarly, there is a TransAmazonian Highway in South America, but because large stretches of it are dirt, it's impassable during the Rainy Season. These areas can develope without infrastructure.

6) And fight piracy. It's coming back big time in the Mallacan Straits, off the coast of East African and in the Carribean. Pirates are bad.

7) Oh yeah, and the harem thingie sounds good I'm getting old but I will need to produce an heir. This means I'll need to concentrate my efforts. So I will make mad, passionate love to all these women--not for my own enjoyment--but to protect the stability of the Throne.

[DinoDoc]

Pirates are bad.

Captain Jack Sparrow would like a word with you.

[mrmitchell]

Haven't you people ever read the history books? Harems and royal families always degenerate into houses of power-mad backstabbing murderers who move their way up until they can bump off you.

As World King, the first thing I will do is establish a cult around myself that I am God's guy on Earth, and anyone who questions my power will burn in the fiery lakes of Hell. That should get most potential threats. I'll make sure to always carry a gun and wield my absolute power to the extreme, shooting everyone who makes a fast move on me. The harem will consist of one woman per night drawn from a lottery of the most attractive 25% of the female population. That prevents the harem politics business from ever starting.

If, for some stupid reason, it is absolutely essential that I keep one person alive or have to put them in my circle of trust, I will keep them so out there on drugs that they never think of anything else.

And that's about the only way you can stay King of the World for very long. The rest of the problems will sort themselves out with time, and after you die/retire you can take credit for fixing all of them.

[Blake]

I would invest in a biological weapon - a new virus custom-tailored to spread quickly with a week long-ish incubation period before being generally fatal. It would be designed to have 95%+ fatality rate. There would be no antidote developed and I would take the 5% chance like everyone else.

Releasing the virus would cure the biosphere of the human infestation without entirely curing humanity of existence.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
WAY TOO MANY SMILIES

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by BeBro
I would:

1. Force Asher and KH into a three-year philosophy course
2. Sponsor a team of experts to explore the origins of the Hindu civilization
3. Make LS the owner of a giant banana plantage with lots of hot female.... errrm workers
4. Make Heresson world minister for frog issues
5. Ban moustaches

I'm sure I get more of those great ideas later.....

BeBro for Monarch

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker WAY TOO MANY SMILIES

[Vesayen]

I thought about the original post for 10 minutes.... establishing the entire world under one goverment causes HUGE problems, as say for example I was the king of America... I only need to worry about AMERICAS problems, but if I am king of the world, I need to worry about everyones problems... and that means i'll have to deal with India, china and Africa... which are collosal headaches-and while trying to "fix" them, the first world will feel neglected.

So my first action will be to boot Africa and China from my world goverment.... I'll figure out where to go from there.


There are simply NOT enough rescources to go around and the rest of the world wants to live a western european/american life style..... can't happen. Not enough rescources to go around.

While barbaric, we need less people. Restrict the right to procreate, permission only given via a lottery which anyone can enter, or for public service. Allow more people to breed in the first world, then the third.

[Provost Harrison]

You could just gas loads of people?

[Vesayen]

Genocide is not an option. Trying to be a HUMANE ruler.

The world is a mess. We can't just kill off all the problematic areas but at the same time, we can not try to boost the standard of living in the worst areas of the world significantly as the drain in rescources would cause a world wide economic collapse as first world nations dissent.