Civic Mirror Country Ze Empire! citizens, a grade 11 Civics class lead by instructor Paul Chafee at Heritage Woods Secondary School in Port Moody, BC, are facing what some see as an Economic Crisis and others understand as good management. The discussion began with Citizen Jason.K’s posting:
“This is outragous situation where every unit is free. History is repeating citizens, we have gone into dictatorship where it is exactly same as when Hitler ruled. We have Hitelr on our hands people, it’s time to act out! Take Down the Government! This event continues on and i can not watch and sit back, i am acting out as a citizen that this is ridiculous. When dictatorship came in act, people stayed strong. Now, people are falling under a influence that the government will solve everything. The corrupted government munipulated everyone and changed everyone. i am refusing to knee down to government’s corrupted and ridiculous laws.
Ladies and gentlemen, who are in need to speak. Act now”
Free Units! NathanR. responded to the Hitler comment,
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Hitler was a facist, he beleived in economic freedom which is exactly the opposite of what type of government we have now. Units are free for the sake of preventing starvation and homelessness in Ze Empire and if you cant comprehend that, then so be it. Ignorance is the root of all evils in my opinion, knowledge yourself on the situation before making rash accusation that can ruin and slow the political process down.”
Citizens who seem to be prospering under this system responded in kind,
KimB.:
“Last year I had a family member die. Thats not going to happen this year because the government made it so I could get everything I needed. Personally I think their doing a great job!”
Ze Empire Administrator Mark.P took offense to comments that his government was corrupt,
“How are we forceful? We made you an offer to buy your power plant at a very reasonable price, you denied. So we explained the situation, which was that we needed that power plant built for next year so less people would die. You then started ignoring us and playing the “I CAN’T HEAR YOU GAME” like a two year old would. So out only other option was to basically tell you to give it to us. And you then refused to accept our authority.
I think this was a logical line of action for us to take. And that you’re exaggerating the situation. A corrupt government would be taking all the gain for itself and ignoring the citizens. This year less citizens have died, and most of the one’s who did are part of this government… aka. We put the country before ourselves, which I think you’ll find is the exact opposite of corrupt”
Citizen Ayrton.S responded in agreement with the orginal post,
“With our current Government this Country is no longer ours its theirs to run however they want to. NOT the way the people want to once again even with them bringing back what they claim is “THE OLD HOUSE OF COMMONS” it doesn’t matter because we AS CITIZENS STILL DON’T HAVE ANY RIGHT TO VOTE IN MATTERS WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT. our new house of commons is nothing but a trick to make you ALL think that this is a fair government! its not like the last one were we can decide which party is the majority and which party is the MINORITY!!!!!!!!!
ONCE AGAIN YOU ALL SHOULD BE OUTRAGED!!!!!!”
A few back and forth arguments later (including calling one another terrorists) and it became clear that Jason.K felt the government refused to pay a fair price for his power plant hex leaving him destitute. In response, the government claimed his price of $5000 was not a fair price for the underdeveloped hex but that they would have given Jason.K food units but other citizens used too many of them. A trade embargo is threatened which would cut off units from many citizens. Will the citizens be able to work things out or will a trade embargo cause further death within the country?
