Hi folks, I'm 72Volt, and I've recently joined the FSR; previous projects of mine include Holeville, the initiative to start a Civcraft UN, and the Ace Rehabilitation Centre.

My thoughts are as follows.

• Our political priorities must be to reach out to other leftist states in Civcraft. We can only succeed with maximum unity. I am aware that our Premier, comrade ZombieLenin, and our Governors are most likely working on this. I'd suggest convening an International Leftist Union, an international organisation designed to bring together leftist states from all across Civcraft of all shapes and sizes, plus a few other major states as observers to support them. We can then make it a stated objective to use the ILU as a fair platform to work for leftist unification. Those states that don't want to become member states of the FSR could be brought into a military or economic alliance, possibly.

• Government reform. Looking at the sidebar on the sub, I feel that government activities could be organised a bit better, just my opinion. I suggest keeping the Premier, but having the following ministries:

1. Ministry of the Treasury (as before)

2. Ministry of Foreign and International Comrade Affairs ('international comrades' is a term I coined to describe those in other leftist nations, which I don't believe should be considered 'foreign'. This ministry should also provide international development and aid as well as administering relations)

3. Ministry of Defense & Policing (this may already exist in the form of a non-ministerial 'head of militia' post, but I don't see it on the sidebar.)

4. Ministry of Mining & Gathering (for any non-renewable resources)

5. Ministry of Agriculture & the Environment (for renewable resources and the protection/improvement of the natural environment, e.g. through forestry)

6. Ministry of Factories (to maintain factories and request the appropriate resources required to repair them from the Mining)

7. Ministry of Infrastructure

8. Ministry of Ideology, Media and Sport (with responsibility for the subreddit)

If our main issue is that we don't have people to fill the ministries and ensure they are all active, that's fine, we could have people hold multiple portfolios until we have enough people to have a one-ministry-per-person policy. I believe the government could operate a lot more like a functioning machine if these changes were implemented; the quotas enforced by ministries 4 and 5 would be determined by the demands of ministries 2, 3, 6, 7 and 8, and all demands would be coordinated by the Treasury.

• A point system. Every time someone donates something to the Treasury, helps meet a quota, or provides labour of some sort, they will earn points, at a certain rate, e.g. 1 iron ingot of value = 1 point. To avoid competition threatening cooperation among comrades, the point balances of each worker and the point values of each item and task would be kept a state secret and only accessible to ministers. This creates a reputation system, so if a ministry is hiring or appointing, they can see the points someone has accumulated as a means of deciding whether or not they should have a job or position.

Thoughts?