OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?
 

As the title implies, the question is, What would you do if you, and solely you, controlled the direction the world took. What would your policies be, what would you focus a united humanity on?

Personally, once the world was lead by me, I'd focus everything beyond the essentials (basic health care, etc.) on spaceflight. I would put all the worlds resources towards developing practical and cheap sources of propulsion, searching for better methods of spaceflight and moving out into the galaxy. I bet that if the entire world was focussed on that goal and solely on that goal rather than on petty economics and ethnic feuds, we'd be in other solar systems within a century. Throughout our solar system within a couple decades. Expand, or die.

That's what I'd do, how about you?

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I would prove that absolute power currupts absolutely.

1. I would disarm the entire civilan population of the world.
2. I would form a secret police force answerable only to myself.
3. I would obolish all civil rights and impose military rule throughout the world.
4. I would have all of those that I hate gathered up and burned alive in a pit filled with gasoline. I would charge admittion and make it a pay per view event. I would make it a law that all must watch or suffor the same fate.
5. I would have all those that have ever opposed me, rumored to oppose me, suspected of opposing me, or that I fear might oppose me arrested and executed.
6. I would conduct "purges" of the military to ensure that only those who are loyal to me are around me.
7. I would form labor camps and fill them with ex-bankers, lawyers, politicians, and insurance administratiors.
8. I would crush any rebellion by any means at my disposol up to and including the use of nukes.
9. I would begin the brain washing of young minds in order to develop an entire generation of loyal followers.
10. I would change my name to Atrocities.
11. I would proclaim myself a GOD and make it a law that all must worship me, Lord Atrocities.
12. I would have any who speak ill, or are suspected of speaking ill of me hung from poles in every city. Hanging around their necks would be signs that read "Loyalty Is Life. Disloyalty is death!"
13. I would have all of you sent to prison as you are my friends, but as history has shown, friends are the first to turn on you when you obtain power.
14. I would enslave entire populations to work as laborers in the farms, factories, and business that of the world. Those who do not work, would become food for those who do work.
15. I would have the infirm, the weak, the old, and the sickly ground up into the meat that will then be served to the masses as fast food.

Re: OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?
 

I'd probably be too busy 'entertaining' various actresses, models, pop stars etc to actually get anything useful done...

Re: OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?
 

Promptly disolve the world government and set up a true, vote-based democracy, most likely.

Re: OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?
 

Drop nukes on the entire planet before the plague that is the human race spreads and destroys other worlds!

Re: OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?
 

Well, after assassinating the evil dictator Atrocities and removing his despotic regime, I'd energetically pursue the policies he had already set in motion. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/evil.gif

Re: OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?
 

Get me a few billion dollars, and recreate the goverments before me, except with the fact than I'm absolute ruler, and what I say goes. Other than that, pretty much nothing.

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Hmm, Atrocities forgot the part where he devirgintizes all of the World's Virgin Woman And his publishing of his "exploits". Sorta like Mao.

How would I rule, Well I would start by making myself the "Grand Nagus". Then outlawing all Female Cloth's. Except during winter. Followed by the "barefoot and pregnant" law.

Re: OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?
 

I'd focus on restoring Earth's ecological health before it's too late, and making life on the planet self-sustaining and maintainable.

Ecological policy (generally priority 1):

* Halt most conversion of land to human use.
* Restore natural environments and prevent extinctions, restoring plant and animal habitats and ecosystems.
* Increase research into ecosystem health.
* Put fishing under control of scientists with the goal of restoring oceanic health, preventing extinctions and achieving eternally maintainable fishing levels.
* Research and develop fusion, solar, wind and tidal power.
* Phase out coal, petroleum, and fission power.
* Research and develop very low-emission vehicles.

Social/political policy:

* For-profit corporations will be re-chartered so that their mission statement is to do things that benefit humanity in some way other than making investors richer.
* Acceptance of the right of communities to define their own rules which may conflict with other communities. The United States, for example, will evolve to states (and in some cases, counties and cities) which each have different laws to fit different communities - people will be encouraged to move to states which have communities and laws that match their belief systems. Some other parts of the world where people are caught in genocidal conflicts, may need to be segregated into their own communities.

Urban design:

* Redesign modern urban and suburban areas to be pedestrian-focused and connected by public mass transportation, rather than automobile-based communities. Most American suburban communities will be re-forested, etc.
* Urban renewal will preserve historical and interesting architecture and destruction of old buildings will tend to be done first (or only) to structures with no redeeming aesthetic value.

Information technology:

* People will have the right to anonymous free data access, anonymous encrypted private communication, and free uncensored expression as long as it doesn't hurt others (e.g. child porn), and to ignore whole categories of content.
* Copyright and intellectual property laws phased out through a schedule of increasingly shortenned expiry, and eventually replaced by new systems which reward individual content creators but quickly open up content to free access to published works by all.

And other stuff... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: OT: If you lead the world, what would you do?
 

PvK, your policies scare me.