The people deliberated, and at sundown cast their votes. I realize you're probably anxious to see the results, so let's just skip ahead to when the results were tallied, alright?
<Alright,
said Pudding. The results have been tallied. Toaster-Man: 4...>
“WHAT??”
said Toaster-Man incredulously.
<Yeah,
I know, I was surprised you got that many too. Zandria, 5.>
“Tho
it is not today, anarchy shall one day rule in Danada.”
“Isn't
that kind of an oxymoron?” asked Kyle.
<And
it was a close race between the top two, but in the end it, the votes
are in, and Danada has spoken. Jeffery 8, and Nathan 9. Nathan is the
first prime minister of Danada! Congratulations!>
Silverfish,
who happened to be onstage, played an uplifting, semi-improvised
fanfare.
“I
knew we should have done a song,” said Jonathan.
“Nathan
didn't have a song,” said Jeffery.
“Yeah
but it might have put us over the edge.”
“I
voted for Toaster-Man because of his song,” said 7ollion.
“See!”
said Jonathan
Nathan
came up to the stage. “Thank you, people of Danada! I would like to
take this opportunity to pass a few laws. First law: I'm going to
call for a majority vote for each of the further laws, considering
this is still a democracy. Besides, if I just started unilaterally
issuing decrees you could all just ignore the ones you didn't like
anyway. Umm... I guess by that same law it needs a vote to pass
itself. Although I really don't know what would happen if it failed.
All those in favour?”
There
was a very clear majority, although there were some naysayers, who
apparently just wanted to see the logical paradox that would happen
if they voted against democracy.
“Good,
now, for the first real law, I'm going to call for a vote for the
everyone gets one floor policy. As for the rest of the zoning, we can
vote on those individually. But for now, we'll assign everyone a
floor, the rest of the quantum stories are off-limits to everyone,
including myself, until we decide what to do with them. I think it's
a good compromise between the other proposals anyway. Well, except
Toaster-Man's; his was kind of way out in right authoritarian field.”
Again
there was a fairly clear majority.
“Next,
I'm appointing Jeffery as vice-president. We'll figure out what
exactly the vice-president does later. Probably like president, but
more vicely. Anyway, I'm also calling this office president, since we
sort of wavered between prime minister and president for a while
there. Everyone cool with that?”
They
were.
“Cool.
Being president is easy! And finally one more thing: Dan, I believe
there was the matter of magic?”
“It
exists now,” I replied. “But you guys have to figure it out for
yourselves. More interesting that way.”
“Fair
enough,” said Nathan. “Now I don't know about you guys, but I'm
going to go to sleep soon. It's been a long day. We'll assign floor
numbers first in case you want to define it tonight, but I think I'm
sleeping in the hotel tonight. It's probably best to think about it
for a while. Remember, once you collapse your floor's wave-function,
you can't re-quantum-ize it.”
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