I was thinking today that it might be fun if, in keeping with the theme of the upcoming American Presidential election, we did some kind of similar event in Particracy. Perhaps an election for an informal/unofficial "President of Terra" figure, or something like that.
We have had discussions before about having a United Nations-style organisation. That's obviously something that would take quite a bit of work, but hopefully it will develop at some point in the future.
A much simpler option I've considered would be to set up an organisation representing all of the legislatures, much like the real-life Inter-Parliamentary Union (see here for the wikipedia entry).
Players could role-play candidates for the General Secretaryship of this organisation. Maybe it would be best if we whittled it down to just 2 candidates, representing "Global Left" and "Global Right" or something like that. Or we could have more, if people preferred that. Then we could add a law option to the game, allowing national parliaments to choose to express a preference for one candidate or the other. We could presume the candidate with the biggest presence on the relevant Nation Comparison page (ie. the page for for the in-game law set that looks something like this) is the winner and the holder of the position.
The General Secretary would not have any formal powers; it would be more of a prestige position, a political pulpit from which the person could make their views known and try to influence opinion and events.
Any thoughts, anyone?
Of course, please feel free to say its rubbish . And it might be, I dunno. But it could be interesting to try something a bit different.