If Marina ruled the US

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-04-11 11:37pm

As I have said in the past, when Marina runs for Dictator of America, I will vote for her even without a gun in my ear.

BTW, if a king has a kingdom and an emperor has an empire, what does a duchess have? A Duchovny?

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2003-04-12 12:08am

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:As I have said in the past, when Marina runs for Dictator of America, I will vote for her even without a gun in my ear.

BTW, if a king has a kingdom and an emperor has an empire, what does a duchess have? A Duchovny?

The word you want is Duchy. A duchy, however, is a relitivly small territory, like Luxemborg or Monaco. for a nation like the US, you need a monarch, either a King/Queen or a Empeor/Empress depending on how you wish to be seen. In the fudal ranks, a Duchess is inferior to a Monarch as, typicaly, a Monarch is head of state, to whom all others owe allegience

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-04-12 12:37am

Stuart Mackey wrote:
GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:As I have said in the past, when Marina runs for Dictator of America, I will vote for her even without a gun in my ear.

BTW, if a king has a kingdom and an emperor has an empire, what does a duchess have? A Duchovny?
The word you want is Duchy. A duchy, however, is a relitivly small territory, like Luxemborg or Monaco. for a nation like the US, you need a monarch, either a King/Queen or a Empeor/Empress depending on how you wish to be seen. In the fudal ranks, a Duchess is inferior to a Monarch as, typicaly, a Monarch is head of state, to whom all others owe allegience

There are some pretty big Duchies - Silesia, for instance, or Milan - the later of which was usually independent and wielded notable influence. The USA would not need an Emperor or a King. The position of President will simply become hereditary, and by virtue of our great power, imitated. "President" will eventually be the equivlant of "Uber-Emperor"! Muwahahaha! *grins* After all, "Imperator" is just a Roman Republican military title, and "Prince" is just a corruption of the latin for "First Citizen"....

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-04-12 02:21am

"Won't you be my Imperatrix"?

Remember, I'm Minister of Defense, 'kay?

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-04-12 10:50am

Listen Marina, you can't go calling yourself something as vanilla as President. Neither can you deliver your proclamations wearing simple business attire. You need to call yourself Grand High Imperatrix, and stomp around in a uniform that makes the Nazis look like sloppy dressers!

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-04-12 10:50am

PS - I call dibs on the Navy! Shep can have his tanks, we all know the world is ruled by sea power.

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2003-04-12 02:35pm

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Listen Marina, you can't go calling yourself something as vanilla as President. Neither can you deliver your proclamations wearing simple business attire. You need to call yourself Grand High Imperatrix, and stomp around in a uniform that makes the Nazis look like sloppy dressers!

Why not? After all, Augustus Caesar was offically the Tribune of the People, a title which had existed almost since Rome was a republic. He just made the term limit perpetual.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-04-12 06:13pm

Coyote wrote:"Won't you be my Imperatrix"?

Remember, I'm Minister of Defense, 'kay?

I think you must have forgotten about that castration thing she likes to do to men. Under her rule, it would be best to keep both heads down.

Andrew J. · Post by **Andrew J.** » 2003-04-12 08:06pm

Miniser of Defense? Army? Navy?

*waves hand derisively* Bah! I need not these things. Just let me run the secret police...

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-04-12 08:56pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Coyote wrote:"Won't you be my Imperatrix"?

Remember, I'm Minister of Defense, 'kay?
I think you must have forgotten about that castration thing she likes to do to men. Under her rule, it would be best to keep both heads down.

When did she say she liked castration? If so, then someone else can be Postmaster General.

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-04-12 09:11pm

I think you must have forgotten about that castration thing she likes to do to men. Under her rule, it would be best to keep both heads down.

I hereby rebel!

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2003-04-12 09:52pm

Darth Wong wrote:
Coyote wrote:"Won't you be my Imperatrix"?

Remember, I'm Minister of Defense, 'kay?
I think you must have forgotten about that castration thing she likes to do to men. Under her rule, it would be best to keep both heads down.

Oh, come now. That's just the domestic servant staff.

P.S. Am I the only person who noticed that phrasing?

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-04-12 11:58pm

I tenatively unrebel. You'll have to sink your own entire navy before you can snip my family jewels anyway.

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2003-04-13 12:08am

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
Coyote wrote:"Won't you be my Imperatrix"?

Remember, I'm Minister of Defense, 'kay?
I think you must have forgotten about that castration thing she likes to do to men. Under her rule, it would be best to keep both heads down.
Oh, come now. That's just the domestic servant staff.

P.S. Am I the only person who noticed that phrasing?

Obviously not.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-04-13 12:14am

Well her First Lady would instantly become the most popular person in the country.

Personally I'd approve of a lesbian commander in chief, then she could subjugate the southern baptists using extreme military force.

Even with a female leader we'd still have more balls than the French.....

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-04-13 12:14am

I'm all for enlightened despotism, so I say hell yeah.

But, as long as I get a high position in her government.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2003-04-13 12:35am

As commander of Her Majesty's Navy, I propose the following:

#1A - Build some enormous uberwank warships that have the aircraft capacity of a carrier and the firepower of a battleship.

#1B - Conquer and plunder the entire Middle East to pay for them!

#2 - Designate these ships as Imperial Sea Destroyers.

#3 - Put me in command of the very first one.

#4 - Let me hunt down the Charles de Gaulle and send her and her stinky crew to the bottom!

#5 - Think of a new name for our old destroyers.

#6 - Have a beer.

Rubberanvil · Post by **Rubberanvil** » 2003-04-13 01:02am

GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote: #4 - Let me hunt down the Charles de Gaulle and send her and her stinky crew to the bottom!

IIRC the English already have dibs on sinking Charles de Gaulle.

#6 - Have a beer.

English or Canadian?

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-04-13 02:51am

GUINESS RULES

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-13 03:17am

You're going to need a Minister of Foreign Affairs, my Imperatrix, at least while there's still foreign countries.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-04-13 03:50am

RedImperator wrote:You're going to need a Minister of Foreign Affairs, my Imperatrix, at least while there's still foreign countries.

No, don't choose him to deal with other countries. Choose a foreigner who's actually lived outside of US and understands the anti-US sentiment, as well as other things about international politics.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-04-13 04:00am

fgalkin wrote:
RedImperator wrote:You're going to need a Minister of Foreign Affairs, my Imperatrix, at least while there's still foreign countries.
No, don't choose him to deal with other countries. Choose a foreigner who's actually lived outside of US and understands the anti-US sentiment, as well as other things about international politics.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Who cares about anti-US sentiment? They get pissy, we send them plutonium care packages to brighten (get it? BRIGHTEN? Ah-hahahahah...I slay me) their day.

And if I don't know anything about international politics, then I've wasted $80,000--shit, I had a full year of Russian politics all by itself.

Post by **fgalkin** » 2003-04-13 04:15am

RedImperator wrote:
fgalkin wrote:
RedImperator wrote:You're going to need a Minister of Foreign Affairs, my Imperatrix, at least while there's still foreign countries.
No, don't choose him to deal with other countries. Choose a foreigner who's actually lived outside of US and understands the anti-US sentiment, as well as other things about international politics.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin
Who cares about anti-US sentiment? They get pissy, we send them plutonium care packages to brighten (get it? BRIGHTEN? Ah-hahahahah...I slay me) their day.

And if I don't know anything about international politics, then I've wasted $80,000--shit, I had a full year of Russian politics all by itself.

I've got 18 years of experience of Russian politics, 15 of them coming from me living there.

Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-04-13 09:48am

You need a semi-mad person in your government.

I'll take Minister for WAR.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2003-04-13 10:14am

She'll eventually have to make a TV appearance and we'll all finally know what she looks like.

RedImperator wrote:Who cares about anti-US sentiment? They get pissy, we send them plutonium care packages to brighten (get it? BRIGHTEN? Ah-hahahahah...I slay me) their day.

Excellent, a foreign relations policy that consists of demonstration nuclear strikes, I like that. Of course this means we'll have to start building up our arsenal again, we wouldn't want to run out of nukes now would we?