Author: The Redaction
It is almost a forgotten part of our history, but a Cyberian politician once called Virtua “Cyberia II”. A big diplomatic crisis between the two nations was the result of it. It gave sign to the strong feeling of independence Virtua had and still has. But there are more and more similarities between the two parts of the Federation today.
The most visible of course is the standstill our political system has reached. Barely no law proposals, barely any new ideas, barely any activity at all I have to say. A week has passed since the last volcano eruption, and there is still no state school while there are no private schools at all, no court, nothing. And the worst part of it all seems to be that no one cares. The consuls aren’t criticized by the Virtuan people anymore for their lack of activity. It seems like nobody misses the dying body of the Board of Consuls.
Now where is the parallel with Cyberia? Quite some time ago the Cyberian politics were almost in the same circumstances with their parliamentary system. The political parties failed to activate enough people to become member of parliament, there was a lack of activity and so on. So far we can see a similar development between the older nation of Cyberia and Virtua. Not enough interested citizens for the politics and inactive politicians.
Then, at the initiative of a certain Thira Fellod a new system was introduced, the so called “Volksraad” (People’s Council). This to end the suffering of the dying parliamentary system. It’s main principle was that the President would be elected and selected the Ministers, while everyone who wanted to get involved in politics only had to put their name into a box placed at the entrance of the room where the People’s Council would discuss matters.
To make a long story short, this system was abolished after a couple of rounds after a successful coup d’état by the very same Thira Fellod who invented the system. The Digitalians had to shoot her to restore democracy to Cyberia and later the parliamentary system again.
What can Virtua possibly learn out of this history? First, we don’t want to keep going along the track we are currently following. Second, a new political system generates activity, especially if it becomes more open then the current system is. Third, prevent holes in the law book that allows unforeseen things to happen, like the dictatorship of Thira.