Elections (December 2019) Campaign Thread

[Imaginary]

Next, some questions for Imaginary.

1. Being the first Prime Minister would put quite a burden on your shoulders, are you up to being the first to have a go?

2. If you could change or reform any Ministries, what would you focus on doing?

3. You mentioned you think the Regional Guard can be a fun part of Lazarus, what role do you think the Guard should play in Lazarus?

4. Europeia and some other major UCRs have run a mentorship program, and some have argued these have not been successful, so what would be involved with this mentorship program, and what would you say to those shareholders that have doubts in such a program?

5. You have done a lot to shape the LazENDO program and encourage tarting in Lazarus, though how would you suggest to rejuvenate it?

6. And, for the last, and most difficult question, who in particular would you consider appointing to Ministries? Or, if you can't think of folks for now, what sort of qualities would you look for in a potential Minister?

Wow, great questions! :) Thanks for taking the time to ask them.

1. I spend a fair amount of my time working to improve Lazarus already, and I don't think my ability or will to do so will change in the next four months, so I do feel like I am prepared for the "workload" of the job.

2. I'd like for the Public Relations team to be more invigorated; the other two departments function quite well (altho always room for improvement)! PR is a much more subtle art than either Internal Management or the Guard, so I think it would be best to have older, more experienced folks present there to direct it. The structure Ryccia created for the department is quite good, but in order to make it effective I would spend much more of my own time thinking about what possible PR opportunities we could take advantage of, as well as nudge more progressed players towards the PR direction.

3. Primarily I view the Guard as a training device with which to teach those in Lazarus

• how update and basic r/d work
  
• how to trigger and direct others effectively during update
  

with opportunities to also teach

• how to recruit, engage and maintain the attention and loyalty of players
  
• how to use r/d to further PR goals
  

in order to create a sector of Lazarus containing masters of the r/d game that will use their skills to further the region's goals.

4. I'll have to discuss it with some others before I give you particulars on how it will work. But what I want from it is interaction with new players, who might otherwise glance at the message board full of other people talking, or hear vague ideas about an Assembly full of other folks voting on stuff, and not feel like it's something they're ready for. Mentors will be offered to those who would like someone to show them the ropes, and from their mentor they'll receive information about opportunities and advice of what they're involved with should they feel out of their depth with something.

My main concern is that mentors will not want to engage with their assigned mentee (they're boring, I hate randomly talking to people, I'm busy), so I think an important aspect of this will be spotting, not only knowledgeable, but dedicated, mature and responsible players to take on this role. We have a lot of those around though, so I'm not worried this will be a breaking point of the program.

5. I spent all my free time for a week a few months ago plugging nation names and numbers into a program to get nation lists that wouldn't lead to people going over the endo cap. I'm never doing that again. >_> Either a coder helps me or I need to figure out how to make a better program myself.

6. If I'm elected and they accept my offer and the respective Directors are amiable with my thoughts on VDs, this will be my cabinet.

Director of Internal Management: Leonism - experience in the work and department, maturity, can self-direct
Vice-Director of IM: Debussy - some experience in the department, enthusiasm

Director of Public Relations: Custadia/McChimp - knows how words work
Vice-Director of PR: Chanku - ran in this election, might do something cool and PR needs that

Director of the Regional Guard: Whatermelons - very experienced, a bit immature but that will change

I'll probably change this up like a month into the term though to account for differing performance/interests of people from what I'd expected of them. My main change is getting rid of Lord Denominator as VD of PR; that's cuz he barely does anything here. I'll probably talk to him and other WA-y folks around about what a good way to do things in that area would be though.

Thanks again for the questions!
 

Imaginary, I have few questions. However: what do you believe should be our main objective in foreign policy? How will you achieve this?

Keep our friends close. Talk to them. Work with them. Stare at other people and give them cookies if they wander by.