Doesn't China work like this starting from some point in it's history, up to the present?
That whole heavenly bureaucracy thing?
Sorry for double post.
China went through something you'd find quite familiar:
1) Set up an effective bureaucracy to administrate a large country.
2) Discovered a lack of sufficiently skilled bureaucrats to administer things.
3) Established complex tests to filter for competency.
4) Tests turned out to be so difficult that most of the people who qualified for a significant post were born to high ranking bureaucrats.
5) To increase the chance of their children inheriting, the tests were modified, changing from a general test of someone's intelligence and educational background to increasingly esoteric tests which strongly favored the children of bureaucrats, who were the only ones who had the time to learn enough poetry and obscure literature to pass.
6) Go to 4, repeat until you have bureaucrats specialized in the memorization of obscure poetry and novels..
I.e. exactly what happened here.
Yeah, and iirc we had an option to take that on a while back, but we had other things going on
Naw, wouldn't have worked.
We lacked the social technology to do it. Still do even now. AN confirmed it some time afterwards, we couldn't possibly have educated enough people to make it feasible.
If a system is not robust enough to stand up to people trying to maliciously exploit it it is fundamentally unworkable.
Actually, exploits would have happened down every route and would have needed patches. Districts could have done the same exploit by moving people around during elections for instance, so one person could be moved around the districts as they voted.
As the update itself noted, the problems revealed were swiftly outlawed and countermeasures put in. We won't be seeing the pump and dump happen anymore, just as we would have seen a brief period of people changing jobs or moving multiple times in rapid succession and then limits put in under the job or regional split. As it is, we bit a relatively minor 1 Stability hit, taking us to a relatively easily fixed Stability -1.
A 'robust' system as you put it does not exist, people don't devise laws against vote tampering until people tampered with votes.
I mean, otherwise the very software itself we're using to post this is fundamentally unworkable.
That said, it could have been worse if we went for a full reform of the clan laws. That, I think most people could predict the outcome of.
