The Issue
Liberatos Kingdom's TV soaps--famous around the region--have come under fire for their lack of ethnic diversity.

The Debate
"Every night my family and I sit down to watch 'The Brash and the Backstabbing'," says Falala Falopian. "But where are the Liliputians like myself? Where are the Bigtopians? The Marche Noirians? People from those cultures can be just as brash and backstabbing, but we never see them on the screen. The government must act to remove this silent apartheid from our TV screens."
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"Those Liliputians don't know how good they have it," says Violet Silk, spokesperson for the Tasmanians Against Ethnic Stereotyping. "Tasmanians are on television all the time, but always in crude, stereotypical roles. The answer is not to enforce ethnic quotas, but to award government prizes for the positive portrayal of minorities. That'll work better, and be cheaper, too."
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"The government should do what now?" says TV studio executive Billy Mombota. "You've got to be kidding. We make soaps here, not documentaries. I should be able to put whichever characters I want into my shows. Quotas! Government prizes! God save me! Hasn't the government got anything better to do? Why don't they just back off and let society work out these things on its own?"
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HA!!

let me think about it...

Edit: I choose option 3. Goverment taking position in TV? in talk shows? No way. The good taste of my people must made that shows go away by hilself and not because I forbide to watch that show.

is good in case you change your mind in any point. looks like it is something really important.

there is a seach button somewere? My friend just sign up and I want to keep his Nation on watch just in case.

I guess I'll be dismissing this one. I definitely don't want to do 1 and 3, but just because somebody has an affair doesn't mean he's bad at his job. It's never a good thing to have an affair, but I've never understood why people went after Bill Clinton so hard. Does having an affair affect your job that much that you need to be impeached?

it depends if she is in your job or not.

I'll probably choose option one.

I want my country to be as oppressive as possible. Hell, I'm using North Korea's flag! My goal is to reach a level of an Orwellian nightmare.

What do you mean by "in your job" Carlos?

Edit edit. nevermind.

I read what you posted before you edited it. I am utterly shocked and appalled at your depravity. How could Carlos? How could you?

Public BDSM in the workplace? You are such a disgusting pervert. Unbelievable.

ey. it was my friend. not me. and I self edited because I thout the same!

Sometimes I need a few secons to see if my post is PG 13.

what?! I did not put anything like that!


bad joke bad joke. because people will believe that is true coming from me! But is not!

You know it's true.

I'd be tempted to go with #1. I hate tabloids.

New issue: very important this time. In blue is what my Kingdom Decide.

Cash for Colons?

The Issue
Hospitals have requested that they be allowed to pay people for donating blood and other bodily organs, such as kidneys.

The Debate
"We remain critically short of blood plasma and various organs," says Liberatos Kingdom One hospital administrator Konrad Spirit. "Especially hearts. A good heart is hard to find. But if we were allowed to pay for donations, we'd get more of them and could save more lives. Plus the donor takes home a few hundred Esperandos in compensation. Unless it's a post-mortem donation, of course. In that case we'd pay the family."
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"Great idea," says social commentator Jazz Hanover. "Except for one thing. You know who's going to be selling their organs? Poor people! They'll be so desperate for money that they'll sell their own kidneys. Well, a kidney. This is just another way for the rich to buy themselves a better life at the expense of the poor. It must be outlawed."[Accept]

Bah. I got the child gambling and spiritual advisor questions today. Can't say either one impresses me.