Vancouvian Success: A Propagandic Look into a Prosperous Nation

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Vancouvia pursues success through the following methods and advantages:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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