The Interview - A democratic North Korea political sim

[Battle bunny]

A variant of the flag of the NKNK Party, with Roman characters. It may be a hack job, but it's my hack job! Note, I don't know Korean, and the translation is the result of my rudimentary knowledge of North Korean culture and Google Translate.

A brief history of the NKNK​

The North Korean New Korea Party (as it is translated; at home, it's known as the Saeloun Joseondang, or SJD) is one of the new parties that sprang up from the wake of the fall of the Kim dynasty. It is a strongly social democratic, progressive, and protectionistic party whose program encourages a careful approach to globalization and reunification, warning about the dangers of overly quick integration on the world market. They often cite the example of East Germany as a cautionary tale and a justification to their policies. Economically, the party advocates protectionism, welfare measures, nationalization of key industries and regulation of the free market; some of its more radical members encourage the formation of farmers' and workers' cooperatives, but the current party leadership is more of an 'orthodox social democratic' current. Socially, they take up many progressive causes - LGBT rights, anti-racism, women's rights - but do not focus on them that much for the time being. Though they do use some patriotic slogans, and continue to refer to Korea as Joseon (unlike their southern brothers and sisters, who use the name 'Hanguk'), they are not very nationalistic and only concentrate on the "positive" aspects of patriotism (insofar as there are any at all - establishing a sense of community and all that). Several times, it has warned about the devastating consequences of selling the country out to the superpowers; they also want reunification to occur only once the country has recovered from the regime change, and not unconditionally - for example, they demand South Korea take measures to restore democracy, which they feel has been strongly compromised by the 2014 banning of the Unified Progressive Party.

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The Saeloun Joseondang finds no issue with the administrative reorganization proposed and agrees to it.

 

[GreatUberGeek]

The Chongryon find no reason not to agree with this proposed reorganization and believes that all it's members will follow this policy.
The leadership would also like to note, that though previous members of the CICC served in the DPRK's government, we have forsworn all involvement on the tyrannical government of the Kim dynasty.

 

[Pellaken]

Yes, lets start rolling.

FLRA

The Freedom and Liberty Rights Association has announced today the free election of a new elected leader. Kim Jong-chul, brother of the late Kim Jong Un, will freely serve as the newly elected leader of the Freedom and Liberty Rights Association. In a vote held of elected delegate members, Kim Jong-chul won by a margin of 2,928 to 1. Kim Jong-nam, eldest brother if the late Kim Jong un received the opposition vote. In a statement he said "free and democratic parties often have an opposition, as you can clearly see, we are a free party, with free choice, as an opposition member received a voting. I say this of my own free will."

The Freedom and Liberty Rights Association and it's newly elected leader, in defence of liberty, will accept the proposals for provincial reform.

In addition, the party calls for the reinstatement of many of the military leaders and officers let go in the past few months. "As leaders of our free defence of liberty, they are the true champions of our rights and justice" Kim Jong-chul, our new great free leader, announced today. "All 10 million people in our armed forces are important" he announced.

Great and Free leader also announced a plan for re-unification. "Given the standing of our great military justice defenders and their protection of our rights, it seems only just and free that they should have a key role in re-unification" Kim then announced a brilliant plan for the ages "We propose that the first election after re-unification be only of the military members, all 10 million from our side, and all 3 million from the other side; and whomever they elect should be the new government"

 

[Pellaken]

First, an announcement from the GM.

I will be away on the 27th and 28th, but will be active for parts of those days.

Also, given that this is set in the world of The Interview, I wanted to make a few things clear:

1 - While I hope the game itself can remain serious enough to function properly, I will allow and encourage humour.

2 - All events seen in the movie have happened in this world; including Eminem coming out as gay, and Dave Skylark being the "liberator" of NK.

3 - News however, will almost always be comedic in tone, but will still reflect serious impacts.

4 - Kim Il-sung Square is now known as Skylark Square.

5 - Sook is the interim President of the country.

6 - I'm moving the in-game start date ahead some months to November 2016.

Now on to the news...

WORLD NEWS

The US Presidential Election is over, and Betty White has been elected President by a wide margin. George Takei will take the Vice Presidency. The two Independent candidates managed to defeat more well known candidates to win. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, admitted defeat, as did Mitt Romney-Again, who was forced to change his name after a strong petition campaign.



In Canada, the man known only as Teddy continues his rise to fame. Teddy, also known as Nickjbor in some circles, has now had sex with over three dozen attractive female celebrities. Experts are unsure why they all want to make love to him, but for some reason, they do. Teddy also has come into free money for some reason.



In Japan, Shinzo Abe continues his grip on power, and was seen laughing in an "evil manner" earlier today, while shifting his eyes to the right and left slowly.

 

[Ab Ovo]

In Canada, the man known only as Teddy continues his rise to fame. Teddy, also known as Nickjbor in some circles, has now had sex with over three dozen attractive female celebrities. Experts are unsure why they all want to make love to him, but for some reason, they do. Teddy also has come into free money for some reason.

>tfw you were about to join a game, and then the GM reveals himself to be twelve

 

[LatinKaiser]

I'm resigning. Someone else can take my spot if they want it.

 

[Pellaken]

Domestic news


Food aid from the US, China, Russia, and Japan has now reached even the smallest villages, starvation has been all but stamped out. In addition, economic aid continues to pour in. There has been some limited reports of conflicts between the aid groups, nothing of a violent nature, but competition as to who can provide the fastest or best aid.

Discontent continues within the military as purges of the most corrupt and pro-kim members continue. From a peak of over 10,000,000 members, the military now has only 1,000,000 members; only 250,000 active, this reduction has contributed to a spoke in unemployment and continues to be a drag on the national economy.

The provisional government, made up of 98 members of each of the 7 major political parties, has set a final date for the first free elections. Using the existing system, but with unlimited candidates, the elections will be held early in the new year (prior to Jan 1 2015 real tine)

 

[Pellaken]

A few things to note:


1 - You will be dealing with the entire foreign diplo-bureaucratic nation, and not with individuals. "President Betty White" will approach your country in a very similar manner as "President Hillary Clinton" would, or "President Mitt Romney" You do not deal with the President, you deal with "The United States"

2 - I encourage people to add a bit of levity while trying to be serious.

3 - Domestic stories will remain serious while foreign stories will remain silly; keep note 1 in mind.

4 - I'll be out of town for about 36 hours or so.

5 - I'm hoping to see at least one post from each party before I get back.

6 - I'm going to allow people to just off and sign up for any vacant parties. Given that Battle Bunny has put in the most work so far, I appoint him to settle any (very unlikely to arise) disputes about issues that may arise from this.

7 - Spoiler alert, but Teddy will continue his silly rise to greatness.

 

[LordTempest]

Humour: 0/10

 

[Freebot]

In an ironic twist, Team America assassinates the President and Vice-President after learning they were leading a Film Actors Guild plot to sell out the US to the Norks. Go Team America!
Meanwhile, "Teddy" decides to experiment with older women and has an orgy with Abe's wife and a midget. Having insulted Abe's honor, Abe challenges "Teddy" to a samurai duel refereed by ninjas.

A wild TEDDY appears!
ABE used KATANA on TEDDY!
It is super effective!

With his last rival eliminated, Abe goes on to conquer the Koreas, Taiwan, the Philippines and Manchuria.

The End?