Reminder that the ONLY difference between the government classes "Left-wing utopia" and "Civil rights lovefest" (in NationStates, that is) is that the former has more economic regulations/interference (or less "economic freedom" as the game suggests). They're both high civil rights and high political freedom and one doesn't have more civil rights than the other. Yeah, pretty weird.
using rep isn’t the greatest of ideas either. endotarting is efficient for large amounts of endorsements in a (somewhat) small amount of time, but it takes a lot of reps and eventually you’re fighting to survive amidst the sea of those who wish to return favours, so you stop, and think, ‘what the hell was that, i’m never using ink cloud again’. cue two months later, when you think, ‘wow, my endorsement count has fallen a lot. i should rep to get it back up’ (hint: don’t do that)
this is based on my personal experience and your experience may differ