I took this from Wormtail_\'s post in the cultures topic. I think it was getting a little off-topic in cultures, but it had some realy good ideas.
             
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Well, it would be interesting to have player mayors in-game, but there are some problems. For one, if the game has this idea implemented into it, then when it starts, who will serve as the mayor? I would say NPC mayors would run for a time until a player wants to take over, but there are some problems with that. Namely, abuse of power and unworthiness. Also, I don\'t think that administrators should reward mayors. I think that the better mayors can have more abilities than \'bad\' ones as the people of the place like the mayor. As for really bad mayors, we can overthrow them. Rebellion! Oh yeah, and another problem would be how long a mayor is a mayor.
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I think it would be real cool to start the game with the NPC mayors, and when the game is runing for let\'s say 2 months, we could have elections.

Then every 2 months a new mayor would be elected. And would there have to be a restriction on how many times you could become a mayor ?

It would be great. Like in real life, huge boards would be build, showing slogans of the persons who are running for mayor. There could be some real propaganda.

This would mean that in every town where there is an election there has to be someone that checks the propaganda slogans before they can be put on those boards, so that no unwanted messages or texts get on things the entire PS world can see.

Well, that\'s it for now. PS promised real-life economics and politics. Well i think we should make that come true, because it\'s a very interesting thin to deal with in a game.

Oh, I don\'t know if this has been discussed already, if anyone has any comments, or ideas, post here ^_^