Taijitu has been comparatively inactive lately. I wanted to bring this up to see what you guys' opinions are, and perhaps to spark some new life permanently into Taijitu itself.
I think Taijitu needs to look at itself in the mirror since the Glorious Revolution and see what it's become. We need to compare our current ideals from what we intented to be one year ago. And after I studied the mirror, these are my findings. Taijitu needs to change.
Glorious Revolution 2.0? No, I don't think something to that scale is necessary, but I do think we need some major reforms here.
For one, we need to become much more direct of a democracy. Our current system pretty much involves 4 (or perhaps 5 or 6, depending on what you count) elected officials that in theory were strictly public servants signing and executing bills passed by the Ecclesia, but this is simply not how it's been working. Our officials are now almost the only legislators, and I know (from experience, mind you) that this can lead to some major misconceptions and errors. We really need to look at our principles of what it means to be a Taijituan democracy, and we need to act on them; because as of now, we have a system that almost begs of inactivity. I am a liberal (Taijituan liberal, not American liberal), and being so, I think we need to noticeably strengthen our Ecclesia, and weaken our executive branch to strictly executing laws. This doesn't mean that officers cannot propose bills, it just means that they cannot make them and enact them on their own.
Two, we simply need more members. Right now, we are a region that survives through life support, through irregular incidents such as the big NS Reddit jump about one month ago. We can no longer survive on this method, and I have a few ideas I'd like to spitball that may help.
One - social media presence. Perhaps this is non-explanatory, but we need to get ourselves out more. NS is a game that only a select niche play, a very time-consuming one at that. Allowing people to see us through other sources like Twitter, Google, Reddit, and YouTube gives us a self-sustaining support system of new citizens. YT is especially attractive to me as a videographer, and perhaps I could take care of that aspect.
Two - NS nationship is no longer required. Yea, I said it. I can already sense the conservatives (Taijituan conservatives) scoffing at this idea, but I think it makes sense. I think Taijitu has been heading down a path from a simple NS region to a social forum where people can hang out, chat, and interact in a simulated political environment. While NS will remain a niche game, a website that simulates a government for those who don't actually want to engage in their RL government will never be; there will always be politically curious people out there. And as such, we shouldn't require an active NS nation for citizenship. A simple request should do it. And remember, if we do want to make our social media presence bigger, we couldn't require people to join another game along with Taijitu.
We could get membership in the thousands if this goes correctly. We could have an always-active, online government system where people come in to discuss and vote on laws that actually affect them (in Taijitu only, of course). And perhaps other websites could spring up to simulate representative democracies, or oligarchies, or dictatorships, or any other style of government. But if this goes according to plan, we could create an entirely new category of simulation and gaming: online political simulation, where you can become a citizen of an online world, that acts almost independently of the real world. We could be big.
