[kranfid]

1) Institution of an elaborate and specialised penal colony, for dissenters and opponents.
2) Amalgamation of leadership over the armed forces, to include 'governors' subject to my orders.
3) Orientation of economy towards mass armament; replacement of managerial strata, intensive employment training geared towards weapons manafacture, and abolition of unionisation.
4) Suppression and restructuring of the media.
5) Consolidation of first-strike capability.
6) Amendments of legality geared towards aggressive foreign policy.
7) Welfare reform, to include utilisation of unemployed towards community projects.
8) Fundamental restructuring of geographic lines of demarcation, for the purposes of efficiency and administration.
9) Absolute revocation of bureaucracy at every level.
10) Utter annihilation of special interest groups.
11) Confiscation of all wealth, in tandem with new economic focus.
12) Longer-term organisation of continental involvement, towards usurping leadership there.

I could rattle off a shitload more, but these spring immediately to mind.

13) You'll need a pariah group, an enemy of the people lurking within. Possibly, but not neccesarily in agency with the obligatory enemy lurking without.

[NodePark]

13) You'll need a pariah group, an enemy of the people lurking within. Possibly, but not neccesarily in agency with the obligatory enemy lurking without.

Wouldn't I be the enemy of the people already?

I wouldn't stand for it. They'd be history.

[ArrichMer]

I guess most of that shit would look draconian and out of line to the majority, but in my heart, I know I could do a lot of good.

The benevolent dictator...

There's a paradox in there somewhere.

[johnsonjunior]

The benevolent dictator...

There's a paradox in there somewhere.

I don't think a dictator would care.

[plalleste]

Wouldn't I be the enemy of the people already?

I wouldn't stand for it. They'd be history.

Right. Why get fancy? Just be brutal. Gotcha.

[grattperret]

Right. Why get fancy? Just be brutal. Gotcha.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

[Cyncceply]

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

...but as we've seen recently and in the past, popular uprising will always remain a risk. Distracting the people with threats from other agencies and becoming their protector is a safeguard against such messes.

[GeraldCortis]

...but as we've seen recently and in the past, popular uprising will always remain a risk. Distracting the people with threats from other agencies and becoming their protector is a safeguard against such messes.

Could work. Then again, people are so fucking apathetic, you generally have to starve them before they react. I'd feed them like kings.

Hitler never suffered a revolution, and that guy was about as repressive as it gets.

[Logaleta]

Could work. Then again, people are so fucking apathetic, you generally have to starve them before they react. I'd feed them like kings.

Hitler never suffered a revolution, and that guy was about as repressive as it gets.

Just wait until you see the "reaction" in Syria and Egypt. Those people are about to get really hungry.

[triardwonvada]

Just wait until you see the "reaction" in Syria and Egypt. Those people are about to get really hungry.

Yeah, I'm watching out for that, like everyone else.

Exciting times.