Empire-like Stateform.

a empire is close to a perfect stateform, imho.

No President, no nothing on the top. Only the Imperator, and even he is only their when something goes fucking wrong in the country.

Basicly it's like this/should be like this:

No fucking Partys(forbidden).
People-->Directly elect Senat.
If their is a crisis-->Senat votes if their should be a election for a Imperator or not. If Yes-->People elect Imperator(Can be anybody except a Senator). Imperator stays on top of the state till he dies(NOT till the crisis is solved because this would cause trouble[Why? Well, because nobody can say when the crisis is over!].). Then the Senat has to revote if a new Imperator has to be elected.

When their is a Imperator election, people can chose to "Anti"-Vote. If their is a majority of Anti-Votes, their is no Imperator elected. This Anti-Vote should be available at every election.

oh, and i forgot:

murder has to be legal, but only when it happens durring a duell. for a duell to be legitim, someone from the state has to watch the duell, and both sides in have to agree to the duell. also, the imperator HAS to accept every duell.

also, everybody HAS to vote. everyone who won't vote would have to go into jail till the next election. then he can vote... or stay in prison.

>> yes... thats the point of that. if everybody can nominate himself, there is a big likelyness that many will just say to their friends "hey, vote for me!!!11one". With that, a canditate must be realy brilliant to even get people to listen.

It'll be hard, though. Could be interesting to watch.

Duel still seems kind of pointless, but that works better.

>> -Hmmm... I see your point now. *bangheadagainstwall**takesouthiscalculator* The Senate sets the goverment time at the time they vote for a election for a emperor with a maximum of 21 years goverment time. The senate would have to be re-elected every year and if a the govern time of a emperor is over, also.

That works. It would be easier if the given time of the emperor always ends on the day of that year's Senate election. (if the Senate election and the emperor's resignation were two seperate events in one year, some Senators wouldn't be there long, see :P)

>> Possible fix, instead of jail, domiciliary arrest(Now i hope that's what its called in english. *smashesdictionary*).

House arrest, yeah. It works better, at least.

>> Near to absolute power for the emperor, not absolut. The basement of the law shouldn't be able to be changed(Every officer, soldier,, judge, official etc. is trained to that. If the emperor trys to change something in the baselaw, he'll have to leave. If he doesn't want to, well, thats why everbody must be trained for it.). There is of course the problem that you would have to have a more then rock solid basement. Corruption is also cut down by the duelling fact.

Oooh. So if the emperor can't make drastic changes. What if it's an important change but possibly acceptable (I don't know, maybe like adding an extra Senator or something). Is there a vote?


>> i think democracy is failing...at least in U.S.  Hey,  George W. Bush got re-elected!  You CANNOT say that, he was the best candidate.

Depends on point of view. Personally I think Bush is a complete incompetent. Then again, people can come up with convincing arguments against the other politicians, and I respect that. The problem with democracy in the US seems to be that most of your politicians are... what's the word.... douchebags. Then again, could be wrong.