The nation of United IB Empire, made up of students from Mr Justin Ambrose’s 10th Grade Civics class at Turner Fenton Secondary School in Brampton, Ontario, is in the middle of a major crisis. After the Open Marketsession last week many students find themselves lacking the necessities to survive. As Hazel describes:
Things (in the open market) went awfully horrible. Many people did not get residence and food units because only the three apartment complexes, one house and one farm were powered. Now, not only are we getting less wellbeing points, one person in our family is sure to die plus three other random deaths. Well done citizens. Of course the country is in jeopardy.
Information from Jaskiran paints an even bleaker picture:
The condition of our country is probably the worst. The gap between the rich and the poor is great – the poorest citizen is me with only $14 but the richest is Sadiya with approximately $15000. The gap is ridiculous. Many people are homeless, have no food and many do not have education.
Citizens are homeless, with no money, no education, no food and family members about to die!!! What is happening in United IB Empire? What can citizens do about their circumstances? Shefali has an idea:
The most important issue of the all, is the E/I unit crisis. Many necessary hexes are unpowered such as security. Many people spent a fortune on their hexes and since there is a shortage of E/I units the money spent will all go to waste! Due to the shortage, U IB E is in jeopardy! Something must be done about the unpowered hexes or our country’s condition will worsen!
How did this happen? Who is in control of E/I units? And why are all the necessary hexes unpowered? Richa shares her opinion:
Like in real life, financial planning and money management are very important in The Civic Mirror, and I found that everyone put themselves first before meeting the needs of others, which is expected and normal. However, some are suffering and many blame it on those who used the E/I units for development. I believe that the people with the E/I didn’t anticipate the effect that their actions would have on others, but this has definitely led to our country being in jeopardy. This relates to real life since one person’s decisions will affect many, especially when that person is in a position of power.
Are the people who own the E/I units to blame? Has urban development and bad judgement calls brought about the death of citizens? Could citizens have anticipated the effect their choices would have on the nation? These are tough questions, and sadly, I can’t answer them. In The Civic Mirror, as in real life, the decisions of one person can greatly affect many. How can we tell what effect our decisions will have?
The citizens of United IB Empire have a major crisis on their hand, but can they work through it? Will they be able to work out a way to power their country and provide food and housing for the people? Or will the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. As we wait to see how the nation deals with crisis, we want the citizens of United IB Empire to know that The Civic Mirror community hopes that you can turn everything around.
Perhaps that you guys could consider following Virtus’s examples. We are a stronger nation and we are also an Grade 10 IB class at Turner Fenton.
I would advise toughing it out for one year, while you immediately convert a hex into another E/I hex.
Personally, I think the situation of not having enough power to supply all vital spaces doesn’t reflect the real world; a society doesn’t reach a point where it requires power to function until it has power.
Lol…in my country it is much the same, however I almost became the dictator, but they (other people) tried to destroy me, so I was forced to er retaliate and destroy the E/I hex…So in the future our country will never have any E/I units :). The only way to fix your problems is prioritize, what is more important? Food and shelter right? Then first power those by enacting strict laws on the power as a national resource, i.e. no wasting by developing-need gov’t permission to use and develop hexes. Mandate selling of E/I units to farms and residential hexes. Another way is for the government to take away the hex from the owner on grounds of bad ownership/buy it from them and gov’t control energy. My final suggestion is to turn the country to a fascist/totalitarian state, destroy those who you don’t like (make into low class citizens who cannot buy anything, can’t do anything etc on the constitution） and use the energy for those whom you like. xD
At least you didn’t turn the E/I hex into a tree.
Uhm, I’m president in my country and so far everyone has what they need so no one is at risk here, XD