*The girls get to learn a little about the government structure of the human world and visit Cani's parents who get to hear two big announcements.
Last chapter of the first volume (every 10 chapters is a volume to make reading and writing it more bite sized)
At the time of writing this I'm writing chapter 19 and do about one chapter a day, so with any luck I'll have another volume of ten chapters ready for submission. If I can keep the tempo up I'll do Meeting the New Enemy or Sheep and Wolf next and see if I can write to the end.
*Literotica rules apply
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'Where do I start?' Guy said to himself looking at the blank whiteboard he had set up in the living room.
The girls had to cover the topic of government today so Guy proposed to give them a brief history and structure of the current government.
'It has taken a long time before we are where we're today but I'll describe the major steps.' he said and started drawing a crude map of the continent.
'I'll start with the time when we were divided in separate countries with separate governments. The time before that just meant more smaller states which combined through wars into the later countries.' he said drawing dotted lines through the continent.
'With improved relationships between the countries, a ruling body was formed to unite common interests. Formalities were simplified, border crossing became easier, trade went up, some laws were consolidated and eventually the different currencies were replaced by one single currency.'
He scratched the back of his head. 'I think it took about 40 years for this first part. You'd have to look up the exact dates.'
The girls nodded.
'Wasn't there resistance to uniting that far?' Feli asked.
Guy nodded. 'Of course. There were plenty of people with nationalist pride, but the majority wasn't afraid they'd lose their identity by this.'
He drew a line under the keywords. 'With that as a start this body got transformed into a top government to all the states. The people chose their own government and through that their representatives to the united government. In time it facilitated more unified ways in governing each country. But there was still one flaw and it slowly created more civic unrest.'
'Abuse of power by large corporations and certain people?' Avia asked.
Guy tapped his nose and pointed at her. 'Exactly. Because there were too many incidents of self-enrichments and corporate abuses in changes in laws, people got tired of bearing the brunt. The voices of interest groups for science, environment and economists for instance became louder and got more support from especially the younger generations. Eventually a sort of revolution started after some major protests by the combined efforts of these groups. They forced the creation of new ministries, each one formed by experts in their area of expertise.'
He tapped on the map with his marker. 'Now, by this time, a 40 to 50 years later, these borders were becoming obsolete. Since there were no more border controls in ages, most laws and regulations were the same, and people just mingled with everyone, the proposal was made to unite into one big country and divide it into new provinces based on the size of the population.'
'Quite a change.' Ara said.
'True. It took a long time for the idea to settle in but by now the great majority of people didn't feel a difference based on country. So, eventually the old borders disappeared.' Guy said and wiped the dotted lines and drew new ones. 'Thus now we have a new layout of the continent.' he said when he got interrupted by a knock on the door.
Cani opened and let miss Tesha in with Anna and Michelle.
'Good morning. What brings you in today?' Guy asked.
'I ran into these girls on the street. They were on their way here as well.' miss Tesha said.
'We wanted to invite you for lunch today in the park.' Michelle said.
'Good idea. I'd love to go.' Cani said while she poured tea for them.
'For sure.' Mami said. 'Shall we?'
The other girls agreed.
'Well, let's finish this first quickly then, unless you have urgent business, miss Tesha?' Guy asked.
She shook her head. 'It can wait.'
'Well then,' Guy continued, 'and, girls,' he said looking at Anna and Michelle. 'correct me if I'm wrong, this change was the first step of a major change. The people knew there would be some difficulties at first with changing the structure of all governmental organisations. Luckily there were no major incidents in this and a couple of years later things were running smoother than before. This brought enough confidence for the new government to transform itself into the current one by changing completely into specialised ministries with the focus on applied knowledge instead of bureaucracy. So now we had for instance environment, economy, foreign affairs, internal security, infrastructure, health and others comprised of a team of experts chosen by their peers.'
Guy drew a chart of the new structure. 'Each head would form the core and they would debate any change in regulation with the help of a chosen chairman. They started with dividing any necessary responsibilities and created the current structure of ministries. To know what's in the mind of the people they set up an online petition site where anyone could post suggestions and upvote issues they feel are important.'
'Wouldn't that just invite spamming?' Feli asked.
'Good point.' Guy said, gesturing at her with his marker. 'But posting can only be done with authentication. You have to sign in to make a suggestion or upvote, but the suggestion itself will be anonymous to other people. They want people to take it seriously, and even if they suggest something horrible they won't get punished for it. Unless they're really overdoing it, then they get banned.'
Guy drew a square for the site and arrows to the ministries. 'Suggestions with most votes get priority most of the time but suggestions with less votes get their own slice of time so they will not stay buried forever. These suggestions are then discussed by the responsible ministry or ministries if it has impact on the others and a proposal is sent and discussed by the core. Then the proposal is open to public vote in each province for three months. If it's accepted by majority it will be made official.'
Guy turned to Anna and Michelle. 'And what other change made the government more open?'
'More up-to-date numbers on each province.' Anna said. 'We can see current statistics on financial status, health and well-being and more, including history.'
'Exactly. With this the public is made more aware of the consequences of accepting or rejecting proposals. If it's a bad decision it can be repealed not sooner than half a year later, just in case it still works out.'
'It does sound like this government can't pull a fast one for their own benefit.' Cani said.
'Yep. It's worked out very well so far.' Guy said, stretched and yawned.
'Is the topic so boring, or is there a reason you're so tired?' miss Tesha asked.
He grinned a little. 'I'm just a little tired today.'
She sipped her tea. 'So you finally did it with them.'
Guy chocked and coughed, Feli and Cani looked away, Mami dropped her notes and Avia and Ara almost spilled their drinks.
