Triangle Of Power In Badlandia

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In Badlandia, a Civil War was about to erupt due to The Wiggles, The Dancers, and The Couch Potatoes fighting over the control of the power. In last attempts to restore peace to humanity and get rid of ethnic and religious conflicts, the former leaders (Wiggles, due to the tyranny of the majority) of the Royal system set out to find a solution, and they assigned the task of solving all the problems of the country with 10 million people to one man, a first-year law student to construct a new government for them instead of just copying a working model from other societies which seem to live prosperously. The Law student accepted the enormous task with gratitude, and also with high hopes of passing his Basics of Politics and Government-class. …show more content…
Formerly, the Wiggles, the Dancers and the Couch Potatoes had their own schools, with semi-propagandistic teaching of the young ones to believe that the own ethnic group is indeed the superior one. How did the triangle of power solve this? Now, every school was given equal amount of teachers from the three ethnic groups, to teach the students. Schoolteachers were given free housing and tax-reliefs by the government, since their job had been changed in such a harsh way. Once in a year, on the first day of the first month in the calendar, a lottery pick was made to change the location where the teacher worked, and this is also why they had free housing by the government – they had to move once in a year, but they were at the same time making a good profit from their teaching. By this method, the students got a compelling and diverse teacher body, and the propaganda teaching was limited to close to zero, thanks to the rotation. And, every single student is provided with 14 free years of education, which ends in University-level studies. The money to pay for this is later taken from their taxes. Every single student also has to study the culture of the Wiggles, the culture of the Dancers, and the culture of the Couch Potatoes, and they have to use the common language, English, and also must be competent enough to speak and comprehend all the three other languages. In the government, English is the main language used.
The next use of the Once in a year-changing Lottery Triangle of Power was applying it to the governmental system, which used to be a royal one. Now the powers were separated between the legislative, the judicial and the executive branch, like in most societies since it seems to work. What’s the difference in the Badlandia? Lottery. Every single seat is picked with

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