It's the end of the world(but I feel fine)

Anarchy Rules!

A virus has emerged and devastated the world. Government has collapsed, the leaders wiped out. Populations have been decimated.

You have survived. After ruing your fate you construct a bonfire that draws other survivors to your location. Survivors are numerous, and you are assumed leader. What happens next is your decision....


How do you lead? A direct democracy maybe? A cabinet of advisers? Or as a despot?

Would you attempt to contact other survivor groups? Would you make them join your burgeoning civilisation by force, diplomacy, or just leave them be.

Someone has committed a crime. Would you reinstate corporal punishment and capital punishment as a necessity, or attempt to keep the old rules and laws in place?

No-one wants to go down the coal mine. Would you be willing to enslave a nearby group, enslave your own citizens for a necessity?

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I thought the scenario would be an interesting matter of debate, as you have control of a blank slate to impose your own ideas of how the world should run, or at least the most sensible ideas in such a situation.

Dram

I'd get everybody to work on building a settlement, and then fortifying it. Perhaps starting out with pallisade orvallum type defenses, and eventually creating a more permanent rampart or defensive wall . The governmental system would likely be a senate, with the head of each household representing the needs of their family. Although as our settlement grows, the senate will likely change from elder representatives to elected representatives.

As long as other survivors were willing to put in the hard yards to help build and improve the settlement, they'd be welcome. Crime would be punished depending on the severity of the crime. Allotments of time working in coal mines, or any other kind of mine we dig, in relevance to the severity of the crime committed. Steal someone's cow? A month or two in the mine. Murder someone? It'll be a fucking long time before you see daylight again, and you'll be doing the shittiest job down there.

ElJeffe

I would establish a small settlement in some rural farm state. Maybe Kansas. I'd probably opt for a matriarchy, maybe put a 100 year old black lady in charge.

Zombiemambo

ElJeffe wrote: »

I would establish a small settlement in some rural farm state. Maybe Kansas. I'd probably opt for a matriarchy, maybe put a 100 year old black lady in charge.

Hmm. I think I'd go to Vegas...

Dram

Also; all grown men should have beards. It's just not a post apocalyptic world if there's an abundance of shaving supplies.

JustinSane07

Zombiemambo wrote: »

ElJeffe wrote: »

I would establish a small settlement in some rural farm state. Maybe Kansas. I'd probably opt for a matriarchy, maybe put a 100 year old black lady in charge.

Hmm. I think I'd go to Vegas...

I'll start my own Vegas! With Blackjack! And Hookers!

In fact, forget the Vegas and the Blackjack!

Alfred J. Kwak

Given the chance, I'd try to create my own Utopia - with me as the undisputed ruler.

and is it weird that sometimes I kind of want to live in a post-apocalyptic world?

Feral

ElJeffe wrote: »

I would establish a small settlement in some rural farm state. Maybe Kansas. I'd probably opt for a matriarchy, maybe put a 100 year old black lady in charge.

Me too.

Probably me and like three or four other people.