If you ruled the world

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Well written scene about the most important trait for a ruler to have.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE7ZPSrm2rU[/youtube]

If you're gonna become a dictator and take over the entire planet, you need not only the muscle to back up your orders, you need to be able to manipulate politics.

I can guarantee you, if I had that kind of power, I'd use force if I have to, an iron fist in a velvet glove, as my understanding of politics is elementary at best.

When other countries try to get someone else involved in their own pissing contests, that's when I'd bring the proverbial hammer down and slap them with an ultimatum: Either get your own country in line or nobody gets it. Why? I'll make a country-shattering atom bomb and turn it into f***ing Pripyat if they try to get other countries involved in their crap.

The way I see it, a country needs to get its own problems sorted out before it starts meddling in the affairs of others. Otherwise, it's like a heroin addict telling you not to do drugs as they prepare to shoot up: it's hypocritical and pointless.

Isolationism is a bad thing. What I'm saying is a country, especially places with serious problems like areas in the Middle East or here in America, needs to pull back as much as possible in order to get its own affairs under control. Total withdrawal is impossible, especially when you consider the fact that the American military pretty much ruined Iraq and/or Iran. Pulling out now means we're leaving them with the mess we made. Give the people a swift kick in the rear and have them get their government under control while the foreign military forces keep out external threats. Then, once the mess has been cleaned up enough that it'll fix itself, withdrawal is possible.

You need to be a Ciel Phantomhive and have a handful, if not more, Sebastian Michaelises backing you up if you're gonna go into politics.

- A World Government to be located in any major city with a population of over 2.5 million (I haven't decided which yet, probably not Singapore City as there would barely be any room to fling a cockroach let alone build a World Parliament). This would have the President (if there is one), monarch (if there is one) and from every country in the world (the king or queen ONLY is invited in the case of an absolute monarchy like Swaziland, the Pope will be invited when he has some spare time and we have a meeting, and people like the President of the EU and the Secretary-General of the UN are invited too).
- EVERYTHING (yes, that includes your oven-ready chips you're having for lunch today) would be state-owned. Essentials such as healthcare, education (higher and lower) and tickets to village cricket matches would be free (although there would be a small charge (£5?) for club cricket, a mediumish charge (£20?) for county or state cricket and a medium-large (£40?) charge for international cricket).
- Pounds sterling would be the universal currency, but nation states will remain and countries will be free to be independent if they want to (via referendums, civil wars or anything else).
- Strict regulations on preventing ebola that have been taken by a few countries, like forcing everyone to remain in their homes (as Sierra Leone will do) or preventing anyone from exiting or entering the country, or closing the border to other potentially and non ebola-affected countries, would be implemented everywhere necessary and not just in one or two countries.
- No VAT on items over £250! Yay! (For items under and including £249.99, VAT will be 17.5%.) All prices under £249.99 would be VAT inclusive (so an item that is £249.99 would be £249.99 INCLUDING VAT). Items that would normally be under £249.99 that would be over £250 including VAT are exempt from VAT.
- Unless absolutely necessary (eg wars, tests, etc.), atomic weapons should not be used. Any atomic weapons no longer needed should be replaced by nuclear power stations. To avoid a repeat of Chernobyl, these nuclear power stations will be strictly monitored at all times and should avoid any explosions etc.
- Wars would still be allowed, with express permission from me and at least four other members of the World Government. Wars carrying on at the time of the election of me on 19 October (see the end of this post), such as the Syrian Civil War, will be allowed to pan out to a finish.
- Capital punishment will be introduced for serious offences. For less serious offences, going to jail will still be needed.
- Every man, woman and child would get the same amount of money (how much money in £ / number of people and rounded) on 1 January 2015, should I get elected. This would (at least temporarily) end rich lists. Banks and corporations must also have the same amount of money, so banks with more money give money to banks with less money, richer burger bars give money to poorer and lesser-known (even only really locally-known) burger bars, richer loan sharks give money to poorer loan sharks (and loan sharks both rich and poor will lend to people while charging an extortionate APR %) and richer people give money to poorer people (and even those with no money and those in poverty People can steal money from other people, borrow money from banks or loaners, buy and sell things, etc. etc. This will run into too much detail now, so let's move to the next point.
- Do you know about those "free trials" that almost everyone does that will start charging when the trial ends unless cancelled? Well, those should preferably be outlawed or changed, in consulation with most if not all companies who still do them. Anyone who says "no" will be able to keep their free trials that will start charging your credit card unless cancelled.
- And more which I haven't thought of yet!

If you want change, vote for me in the President of the World elections on 19 October. (The next day, the other people to go into the World Government for the next five years will be chosen by the necessary people... but then again, only I will promise you a World Government.)

I will use my imperial prerogative and pass some more decrees.

Welfare for the unemployed but not too much. I don't want to make unemployment too attractive. I'll keep unemployment down through memetic control. Free education? Why not. I want people to move up but not have to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

I will run a mixed economy because I believe competition can lead to better products (except in Apple's case, I'll blow up Apple). Salaries will be capped (except mine). Churches will pay tax. I will end discrimination against men. I will make the schools run more efficiently. My environmental policies will be strictly science based. Conservation will limited so as to allow room for new species to evolve (because keeping the environment the same is unnatural).

I will not rule over the nations of the world. Instead will rule over a single world state. Regions that get too unruly will have Valium pumped into their water supply. Large islands will be used for social experiments. If they get positive results the principles can be applied to the world state (an idea I got from Brave New World). There will be universal freedom of speech, unless someone says something I don't like, in which case they will be fed to lions on live television.

I will encourage the development of advanced technology, however some forms of technology will be banned. Virtual reality will be banned in case virtual reality turns out to be better than life. Time travel will be banned in case it causes a time paradox. Apple will be banned because I just don't like them. As Emperor I need not be fair or consistent. It will be illegal for robots to join labour unions. Research into space travel will be encouraged in case the people rebel and I need to escape from Earth in a hurry.

The electric grid will be socialized so I can cut the rebels power supply. The water works will be socialized so I drug it (possibly with soma). All armies will be disbanded because under a single world state there'll be no one to go to war with (and I don't want the rebels to have training or weapons). Religion will be permitted. People may worship any god they choose but that god must in turn worship me.

In the future, people will live in futuristic chinese-style cities with anthropomorphic androids everywhere. People will have augmented physical and cognitive abilities and disease, aging and death won't exist. We will be able to travel through cybernetic channels as our mind will be transferred to machines. All humans will form a hive mind and we will be able to communicate through telepathic means. There will be no private property, no state and no class divisions. Transgenic food will satisfy the needs of all bodies and meat will be synthetic, thus ending animal suffering. Cloning will become available to all and we'll create civilizations made of our own clones, as the universe will be colonized.