New Chicago Government {PU-NE}

Instructions

Economy: Authority Federalism’s economic policy is relatively simple in relation to many. Companies are mostly unregulated except for their involvement in government. Authority Federalism believes that companies should just about never be paid by the government. They are taxed like everyone else (explained soon), but are not given government contracts or subsidies. Government employees are given money to buy their own equipment, and there is a government bureau dedicated to giving ratings to equipment that might be used by employees to help guide them. Taxes function in a very unique way. In a traditional sense, there are no taxes. Instead, residents are required to buy government bonds. Each government Public Authority (like a department) has its own bonds you can buy, similar to the stock market. If the Authority does well, (as graded by another department, which functions outside of the rest of the government, and is funded, like a few other departments, by a percentage taken off the top before funds are given to the Authorities.) You are given your full money back. But if the Authority does badly, some of your money is instead kept by the High Authority, to be used for large purchases like things between nations. This encourages 1. Authorities to do well and be ambitious, in order to attract investment, and 2. residents to be aware about the government. Finally, you can of course invest extra capital into the government, but only some agencies that have revenue (like tolls on bridges and things). The specific bond used here is a Revenue-Anticipation Bond. The Authorities: The authorities are small government-like structures themselves. While their purposes are very much similar to departments, their structure is very different. They are headed by a single Executive Director, who is the top of the organization. They are appointed by the Prime Director, who is in charge of the entire government and is elected, serving just 2 year terms. The Executive Directors then appoint the other Directors, and the other employees of the Authorities generally stay the same. The inside of the department resembles more of a business than of a traditional government, featuring lower accountability in things like courts, (but more in elections) faster decision-making, more ambition, and more flexibility in resource allocation and how their budget functions. The Executive Directors are usually almost linked with the Prime Director, and their goal is to do as many positive/exciting things as possible to help them with reelection. This, combined with the term sizes, produces extremely large change and new things like large subway systems, parks, and cheap housing. The entire goal of the system is to make sure the government is producing as much for the people as possible. The downside is that occasionally lots of people get displaced in big building projects, but that’s beside the point. Everyone else loves it. The departments only hire from the ivy-league-college-educated, which usually means the upper class, as those with scholarships are looked down upon. But within those that are hired, wages and promotions are almost completely based on talent, not who has the richer parents. This strange combination was actually essentially what Robert Moses believed in during the early days of his career. The different Departments are as follows (in no particular order): Department of Treasury, Department of Transportation, Department of Labor, Department of Health, Department of Energy, Department of Education, Department of Defense, Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Recreation, Department of Intelligence, and the Department of Manufacturing.