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Vancouvian Success: A Propagandic Look into a Prosperous Nation
Vancouvia pursues success through the following methods and advantages:
1. Attacks against unemployment across all fronts
A very high retirement age. A focus on the elderly and handicapped working in occupations that suit them.
Matching and guiding youth towards their most compatible careers, and incentivizing them to do them. Dis-incentivizing frivolous or sparse career choices. A low emphasis on the arts.
Government advocacy in matching employers with employees through the VOICE site.
Suitable placement in government jobs for those who are chronically unemployed.
A predominantly service based economy which allows a wide variety of telecommuting opportunities.
2. Attacks against waste and inefficiencies
An educational system that emphasizes internships and apprenticeships over college education. A culture that values skill and character over a degree.
A relatively small difference in social classes, and accessible upward mobility.
A highly progressive personal income tax rate and a high inheritance tax. A social stigma against lavish purchases.
Encouragement of sports and entertainment that have positive effects or develop usable skills. The illegalization of sports deemed wasteful such as golf. An emphasis on teamwork and collaboration.
Required arbitration, and a small legal industry.
A culture that rejects aestheticism for functionality. Emphasizing comfort and thus efficient output over formality.
A culture that widely rejects racism and sexism.
3. A government system that works
Active refreshment of a centralized group. Achieving office through merit and losing office through a lack thereof.
Permanently and constantly in session, Senators work regular hours just like an average citizen.
Transparency and accessibility.
An aggressive collection of information, enabling the best possible choices to be made.
A strict separation of church and state.
Actively rooting out corruption, bribery, and lobbyism.
4. Prudent financial sense
The achievement of little or no national debt, allowing negligible interest payments.
Wide-scale investments into infrastructure, especially transportation.
An urban and highly densely populated country, reducing travel and shipping costs.
Minimizing information asymmetry, adverse selection, and moral hazard whenever possible.
An immigration policy that recruits the best and brightest throughout the region.
Encouraging local and foreign investment with a low corporate tax and a highly trained workforce.
The gradual scaling down of the military: a shift from a formal army into small highly trained squads, and the usage of robotic weaponry and equipment.
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