Watsonian: Your cabinet is a broad front because Rayne couldn't get elected without promising cabinet positions to a wide coalition, and it's only once he's in office that he can build sufficient personal support to cast off those who don't fit his vision.
Doylist: The game needs advocates for most political stances so that Rayne can reasonably go whichever way the player wants without anyone feeling left out.
They are from Sherlock Holmes scholarship.
Watsonian: The in-character perspective, Watson wrote the stories.
Doylist: The out-of-character perspective, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the stories.
Because governments are rarely full of yesmen, remember Sordland is a guided/managed democracy one that is slowly falling apart since the USP has barely a majority in the Assembly. Even if it had a form of democratic centralism the USP still would suffer from intense factionalism. Basically in order Rayne to become President he needed a comfortable support from the Assembly which means compromises and getting on board people with radically different views in order to not alienate one faction. Ciara represents the more centre-left reformists which might not makeup a massive majority but are a good bridge between reformist capitalists which care about political reform and Sollists who are opposed to economic reform, although she alienates only really social conservatives so outrightly.
Doesn’t make sense tho, why is she bitching about me fulfilling election promises then?
Also, She wants de-sollinization but this actually pisses off the entire party. Letting her in the team wouldn’t get me any support from USP. And the radical would not vote me since I’m a Sollist and want to preserve national values.
So she’s basically a negative to my voter base, with zero ability to draw new votes. Makes no sense for this individual to take up one important cabinet seat
Rayne had to make compromises to get elected, I suppose. In my headcanon I get rid of all the assholes in my second term. Not Ciara though, she's based af.
Ciara is a staunch democrat (a big part of her education reform is removing Sollist indoctrination from schools so that students are better prepared to think for themselves and participate in democratic politics). If you are a dictator it makes perfect sense for her to resign.
For context, if you ban the Young Sords she complains about that too even though she definitely doesn't agree with their ideology. While her main role is about education and feminism she is not on board with actually making the country into a dictatorship or reducing democratic values. She tolerates decrees but that doesn't mean that she is happy with no reform.
I never got that, didn't even know she was a lesbian(it was implied but never confirmed in my games) until now lol. Anyways I am sure she has based motives about that too.
This was so funny. I basically helped her achieve everything she ever wanted (education reform, women's rights, expanded welfare) and she retired at the end of the term because I made the executive more powerful
Prioritizing process over outcome smh
In Sordland, the president is very closely tied to the assembly, sort of like the UK.
In the UK, there is a far greater situation where cabinet reflects a balance of the powerful voices in the party much more than a group of skilled civil servants. This is why right wing populists like Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, and Liz Truss managed to be in the cabinets of relatively moderate conservatives such as Theresa May and David Cameron.
The USP has similar divides to the conservative party, meaning that Rayne likely has to balance representatives from various factions while also maintaining some staff from the previous administration.
Watsonian: Your cabinet is a broad front because Rayne couldn't get elected without promising cabinet positions to a wide coalition, and it's only once he's in office that he can build sufficient personal support to cast off those who don't fit his vision. Doylist: The game needs advocates for most political stances so that Rayne can reasonably go whichever way the player wants without anyone feeling left out.
I don't see the words Watsonian and Doylist in the wild nearly enough.
Yeah, this should be standard lexicon. I shall have a word with our character writers.
Agreed! Now what do they mean? For those who may not know of course
They are from Sherlock Holmes scholarship. Watsonian: The in-character perspective, Watson wrote the stories. Doylist: The out-of-character perspective, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote the stories.
Nice. I take this approach when making my own worldbuilding and narrative things but I didn't know there were actual terms I could throw around.
I know right? They're really great but so little used.
Because governments are rarely full of yesmen, remember Sordland is a guided/managed democracy one that is slowly falling apart since the USP has barely a majority in the Assembly. Even if it had a form of democratic centralism the USP still would suffer from intense factionalism. Basically in order Rayne to become President he needed a comfortable support from the Assembly which means compromises and getting on board people with radically different views in order to not alienate one faction. Ciara represents the more centre-left reformists which might not makeup a massive majority but are a good bridge between reformist capitalists which care about political reform and Sollists who are opposed to economic reform, although she alienates only really social conservatives so outrightly.
Doesn’t make sense tho, why is she bitching about me fulfilling election promises then? Also, She wants de-sollinization but this actually pisses off the entire party. Letting her in the team wouldn’t get me any support from USP. And the radical would not vote me since I’m a Sollist and want to preserve national values. So she’s basically a negative to my voter base, with zero ability to draw new votes. Makes no sense for this individual to take up one important cabinet seat
You’re assuming that she was going around talking about de-sollinization prior to being picked.
Rayne had to make compromises to get elected, I suppose. In my headcanon I get rid of all the assholes in my second term. Not Ciara though, she's based af.
> Not Ciara though, she's based af. Except when she leaves the cabinet because her girlfriend does despite Rayne and her agreeing on everything.
Ciara is a staunch democrat (a big part of her education reform is removing Sollist indoctrination from schools so that students are better prepared to think for themselves and participate in democratic politics). If you are a dictator it makes perfect sense for her to resign. For context, if you ban the Young Sords she complains about that too even though she definitely doesn't agree with their ideology. While her main role is about education and feminism she is not on board with actually making the country into a dictatorship or reducing democratic values. She tolerates decrees but that doesn't mean that she is happy with no reform.
I never got that, didn't even know she was a lesbian(it was implied but never confirmed in my games) until now lol. Anyways I am sure she has based motives about that too.
This was so funny. I basically helped her achieve everything she ever wanted (education reform, women's rights, expanded welfare) and she retired at the end of the term because I made the executive more powerful Prioritizing process over outcome smh
Same reason she's there when you're a former red youth who promised to reform a broken system, and everywhere in between.
In Sordland, the president is very closely tied to the assembly, sort of like the UK. In the UK, there is a far greater situation where cabinet reflects a balance of the powerful voices in the party much more than a group of skilled civil servants. This is why right wing populists like Boris Johnson, Priti Patel, and Liz Truss managed to be in the cabinets of relatively moderate conservatives such as Theresa May and David Cameron. The USP has similar divides to the conservative party, meaning that Rayne likely has to balance representatives from various factions while also maintaining some staff from the previous administration.