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I guess I'll be the minority and vote for 1.

I guess I'll be the minority and vote for 1.

Your no fun 

It'll be a vote for 3 from me though admittedly I am just answering the same as I did in my own nation

I pick number 2!

Previous Issue

Zaphyr Yui is preparing to adopt Option 2.

The Issue

The National Poetry Society of Zaphyr Yui is demanding government-funded programs to promote the arts, especially poetry.

The Debate

• "We need government help to promote culture," says Roxanne O, chairperson of the National Poetry Society of Zaphyr Yui. "Poetry is the soul of our nation, the very pulse of humanity! We will ultimately be judged according to our contribution to artistic enlightenment. In other words, please provide funding for our humble mission to bring the beauty of poetry to the masses!"
• "Artists and poets should support themselves, like everyone else," replies Samuel Schultz, spokesperson for the Capitalism Now Party. "The suffering taxpayers should be given a break. In fact, we should abolish all government subsidies for special interest groups."
• "Poets--who needs them?!" scoffs Heather Summers, Chairperson Emeritus of the Troglodyte Coalition. "These long-haired troublemakers should all be lined up against the wall and shot! That would be far more entertaining than reading some dumb poems!"

What should Zaphyr choose?

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Previous Issue

Zaphyr Yui is preparing to adopt Option 2.

The Issue

The National Poetry Society of Zaphyr Yui is demanding government-funded programs to promote the arts, especially poetry.

The Debate

• "We need government help to promote culture," says Roxanne O, chairperson of the National Poetry Society of Zaphyr Yui. "Poetry is the soul of our nation, the very pulse of humanity! We will ultimately be judged according to our contribution to artistic enlightenment. In other words, please provide funding for our humble mission to bring the beauty of poetry to the masses!"
• "Artists and poets should support themselves, like everyone else," replies Samuel Schultz, spokesperson for the Capitalism Now Party. "The suffering taxpayers should be given a break. In fact, we should abolish all government subsidies for special interest groups."
• "Poets--who needs them?!" scoffs Heather Summers, Chairperson Emeritus of the Troglodyte Coalition. "These long-haired troublemakers should all be lined up against the wall and shot! That would be far more entertaining than reading some dumb poems!"

What should Zaphyr choose?

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Option 2

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Option three... Mostly because I've never picked that one and am curious as to what that'll do!!

Option 1

Option 1

Option 1. What would life be without poetry?

Option 2. Don't make 'em spoiled brats

* Wintermoot is legit surprised that Zaphyr's nation hasn't ceased to exist.

It's been awhile since we had a new issue...

Yeah, it's just I keep getting distracted with other things! I'll sort this today

Previous Issue

Zaphyr Yui has adopted Option 1. People reciting Shakespeare have become a common sight.

Spoiler

Business Subsidization
Gilded Widget Scale 1,282%
 
Economy
Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index 100%
 
Industry: Book Publishing
Bella Potter Productivity e-Index 100%
 
Public Education
Edu-tellignce® Test Score 71.0%
 
Sector: Manufacturing
Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index 47.0%
 
Average Income
Phyrs 45.6%
 
Economic Output
Phyrs 45.6%
 
Scientific Advancement
Kurzweil Singularity Index 6.1%
 
Intelligence
Quips Per Hour 5.0%
 
Pacifism
Cheeks Turned Per Day 4.3%
 
Tourism
Tourists Per Hour 3.3%
 
Culture
Snufflebottom-Wiggendum Pentatonic Scale 3.1%
 
Human Development Index
Human Development Index 2.7%
 
Niceness
Average Smiles Per Day 2.5%
 
Lifespan
Years 1.8%
 
Government Size
Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index 1.5%
 
Cheerfulness
Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full 0.93%
 
Ideological Radicality
Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index 0.47%
 
Safety
Bubble-Rapp Safety Rating 0.24%
 
Taxation
Effective Tax Rate 0.19%
 
Death Rate
Bus Surprisal Index 0.64%
 
Weather
Meters Of Sunlight 0.96%
 
Crime
Crimes Per Hour 1.1%
 
Charmlessness
Kardashian Reflex Score 6.2%

The Issue

Infighting between major religious groups over which faith should represent Zaphyr Yui in an international exhibition of holy relics escalated to a new high, today. After the latest incident, in which one official received a concussion from a sacred healing stone, all of the religious leaders are at last united - in demanding you choose a national religion.

The Debate

• "If you would grant us this one small mercy we would all be free from the iniquitous sin of envy," says Lucas Serving, nervously rubbing a small religious symbol. "One's faith is one's guiding light after all, and I believe if you choose a national religion, well, MINE anyway, that God will smile upon this nation full of heathens a little more kindly."
• "I don't believe choosing one faith from the thousands out there is very fair," says Randy Wu, author of the critically acclaimed 'Agnosticism and You'. "Which god do we pick? How do we pick? It's impossible! We don't even know if higher beings exist and it's sheer arrogance to postulate otherwise! The government should officially declare that Zaphyr Yui has no official religion, because the alternative would be self-damning. Not that we know that for sure, of course."
• "Oh for chaos' sake! 'I don't know this, I don't know that' - well of course you don't!" shouts Stephanie Usman, president of The Secular, Humanist, and Atheist Society. "But some of us have the guts to look at the available evidence and try to make something out of it! If the government has any brains or guts of its own it will reach the same conclusion that I and millions of other forward-looking people have reached: there is no God, there is no afterlife, and this is all there is. THAT, Leader, is what the government's official stance should be."
• "The only god this nation needs is the vengeful and unforgiving Violet!" screams Konrad Strange, Grand High Poobah of the Order of Violet. "May her tentacles forever secrete slime. Embrace Violetism and we will usher in a new age of darkness across the land! Human sacrifice and death to all heretics and unbelievers! Violet is the only way!"
• "The only deity this country needs is the one it already has, master," says Emmanuel Syme, one of your creepier advisers while obsequiously bowing on the floor. "I of course refer to you, Leader, the finest ruler any humble subject could hope to have! We long to worship you and do your bidding! Some call that a cult of personality, but I prefer to call it... love."

What should Zaphyr choose?

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Option 2