(Sorry about posting this here, but I couldn't find any active nomic forum.)
I'm going to a gaming con in Sweden later this summer, and the theme
of the con is that it's going to declare itself a republic. There will
be some kind of LARP going on throughout the weekend about supporting
one of three candidates in the presidential election, which will take
place on the last day of the con. However, a fresh-starting nation
would need some laws, wouldn't it? So I'm planning on running a game
of nomic with the explicit purpose of ending up with the laws of the
republic that's about to form. However, there are a few things that
I'm not sure on how to do:
How long should the game be? It's a four-day con, so either one
evening, one day, two days or the entire con? If it's a long game, one
could have a number of sessions each day and a mailbox outside the
room where people put the proposals, which are then discussed and
voted on during session.
Since it's a republic, I toyed with the idea of making every vote open
to all the people - the entire con - and let the players ('Senators'
or 'Politicians') gather supporters who just come and vote (only works
if it's a fairly long game). Upside is that we could encourage making
rules that in some manner affect the actual con, or at least the
election LARP, since everyone that wants can have a say. Downside is
that someone might do a boring "end the game, I win" proposal and just
bring a lot of friends to get it voted through.
Thoughts?
--
-Tiger
