REPRESENTING: coppro, southpointingchariot, ais523, Bucky, Spitemaster

In today’s economy, business leaders should be more powerful than other Players, so it’s important to give lobbyists a large amount of leverage on politics.  Amend the rule “The Government” by replacing the first paragraph with:

The Government is a non-Player entity that has the same types of GNDT-tracked information a Player does.  For the purposes of the rules “Proposals” and “Votable Matters” and their subrules, the Government is treated as the Emperor and a Player, and may take any action those rules allow the Emperor or Players to take, but does not affect Quorum.

The Government may not directly veto a Proposal, but it may Object to any Proposal by posting a comment to the corresponding post containing the text “OBJECTION!”  If a Proposal has been Objected to twice, the Government is considered to have Voted to VETO it.

Any Player may transfer 2 SPs to the Government to cause it to take an action the rules allow the Government to take, specifying any required parameters; this is known as Lobbying.  If the action would normally be taken by making a comment or blog post, the Player must make a corresponding comment or post, noting that it was submitted on the Government’s behalf.