Chapter 187
However, setting up a constitution was more complicated than saying it out loud .
The constitution was the groundwork for the country in which it will be implemented . When its government violates its constitution, it means that the government has started to rot from its core . Therefore, the constitution is going to decide the path the country is going to take for as long as the country is alive . How to draft a good constitution and ensure that it is paired with a reliable executive power is something that has to be discussed over a long period of time . For the Hope, that period would be as long as 10 years .
To be frank, Yao Yuan had no intention of retiring; he wanted to continue governing for the next 100 years . After all, according to the doctors, with the genetic mesomeric technology, he could live well into his 200s . He was the perfect candidate for presidency, and moreover, he was not one to do things half way . Since the responsibility to lead mankind fell onto his shoulders, he felt it was only responsible for him to continue on doing it to the best of his ability .
Under his leadership, he promised that mankind would have a strong, powerful, and most importantly, united government . The government would not allow the things that transpired on Earth to repeat itself . A small planet with over 100 countries . Each keeping technological secrets and resources from one another, causing international frictions that eventually led to wars . Yao Yuan’s government would not allow that to happen .
Of course, a unified government came with its own downfalls too, the most conspicuous being the lack of individual autonomy…
The political sphere of 21st century Earth might have had its own slew of problem, but there is one good thing that is worth admiring: the freedom of choice . With the exception of the few isolated countries, residents of most countries had the choice to migrate to another country if the ideals of their original country’s government couldn’t fit their worldview .
However, if there is only one government, even though there won’t be the complicated issue of diplomacy, once the government starts to rot and become autocratic, the leaders of such a government usually have control over the military, so the citizens will have no choice but to suffer silently and indefinitely as slaves!
It is thanks to the freedom of choice that free market became a possibility . Politically speaking, it also encourages healthy competition between governments . The possibility of having a closed-off autocratic country is greatly lowered because other countries would step in to intervene . It might not even be an active intervention because the country will eventually fall into starvation when it is isolated by the international community . One of the most important assets of a country is its citizens . This is because they are the sole force that will bring the government’s vision into fruition . Suppressing them is never a good idea when one wishes for a vibrant and powerful country .
In other words, Yao Yuan still had a lot of things to be done .
First, with the arrival of the home planet, mankind could no longer survive under the same governing system as they had on the Hope . To hold a spaceship full of people from different backgrounds together, Yao Yuan had to rely on an autocratic system, to pull the Hope’s citizens together with one voice .
However, with the home planet, it was expected that mankind would not unnecessarily risk migration through the wide cosmos in the next hundred or even thousands of years . This was due to the uncertainty of the warp system . They could warp out of the planet, but it would be impossible for them to return . Furthermore, their 4th revolution stage meant that they still hadn’t mastered curvature navigation, which meant that their range of travel was limited to the star system within the next hundreds to thousands of years .
Then again, that was already a big enough space to explore . The star system they were in had 8 planets, of which 5 were terrestrial and 3 were gas giants . There were 2 meteorite clusters and about 19 moons . Other than the ruined Moon 2, all of the other celestial entities represented important resources . The 4th revolution allowed mankind to terraform planets, but it was limited by the distance from the sun . Temperature was a verifiable worry . Luckily, they had another technology: construction of underground space stations . In other words, other than the gas giants, any other terrestrial planets in the system could be colonized by mankind .
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