Which of these are correct:
A "number can't go up indefinitely" report
This one, mostly. Or, to be exact, "the current rate of number going up cannot be sustained indefinitely". It's not exactly a super make-or-break crisis, but it's an important point where we have to manage the transition between a developing nation and a developed one. Raising a significant political stink now is unlikely to benefit, however.
Any drawback for this outcome, sound too good to be true?
Well, it's not that good. Now, instead of forcing people to work for less than minimum wage actively and physically, our prisons simply double the time of anyone that refuses to work. Which is an improvement, but not a miraclous one. It also makes our infrastructure projects a bit more costly, as we now have less super cheap labour.
For the choices, I'll go with something like this:
[]Reword the Report
[]Send it to a Committee
[]Vladimir Akimovich Demchenko
The reworded report can be out there and serve as a basis for Balakriev's campaign when he is in the big chair, and then he can address the possible issues of alternative means of growth underdelivering. Publishing it right now as it is will just waste his career and our political capital without much of a gain, because it's not like any faction is going to pick the banner of "the economy will not grow" instead of promising that with their politics the economy is sure to continue growing.
Mars mission rolled low enough that I don't really want to tie the nuclear program to it - it strikes me as almost literally putting the cart before the horse and quite possibly leading to a big snarl that sinks both programs come SupSov auditions. We send it to the committee and either they get us a better design or a politically cheap way to cancel the mission, and in any case it will be experience for our space program to work collectively. There can be an argument for just cutting it now to immediately free up money for space stations or something, though, and I am not against it.
Going with Demchenko because I don't think we will have the money or the dice to significantly invest into the consumer sector and light industry during the next plan the way Solovyov wants to do. Koykolainen is kind of a waste of the position, because I don't think Demchenko's ideas are so bad we need to place someone without much experience in the sector - or other significantly positive characteristics other than loyalty - only to prevent them. He'll still be only a deputy, and can even beneficently balance out Shulyakov's politics.
