What would you do if you ruled the world

I would wipe out all the bad people in the world and build my palace out of their bones!

edited 21st Feb '15 9:19:59 AM by Bootlebat

Define bad people

You know people like murderers, child molesters, Corrupt Politicians, ISIS that sort of thing.

I would probably do a shitton of paperwork. Because honestly ruling the world is probably one of the most tedious, awful jobs one could have.

Either that or I'd make everybody give me all their nukes, move a mountain to appease a group of people, and get everybody to convert to the new, singular world religion that I arbitrarily syncreticized out of every other religion and set myself up as the object of worship. ...And do tons of paperwork.

I hope nobody gets that reference.

I suppose the first thing 'd do would be to make sure no one else knows I'm ruling it. People tend to get touchy about that sort of thing.

Superman IV?

Not even close.

Make education of ALL female children mandatory, punishable by jail for the parents and the adults of the extended family for non compliance in the short term. If they don't want their daughters educated in the long term, they would lose all parental and familial rights to them.

Phase out any and all religious instruction, education and indoctrination at primary and secondary schools. Phase out all attendance of children at religious institutions outside of school hours. Make this compulsory and enforce it with teeth.

Ban practices like female genital mutilation and selection of sex in utero in favor of males. Come down like the fist of an actual angry god on someone who kills their child because they are female, in utero or ex utero, or removes the female's right to a happy and fulfilled sex life as an adult because of outdated and stupid customs.

Make membership of police forces pay well enough to discourage the need for bribery and insist on regular refreshment training for all members from the head cop all the way down. Make public prosecution and defence lawyers wages worthwhile enough to ensure all the top lawyers don't go into private practice.

Legalize drug use but also bring in effective harm reduction policies and make selling of drugs like cocaine, crack, pcp and heroin to children seriously contra-indicated to street level dealers.

If I ruled the world, every day would be the first day of Spring. Every heart would have a new voice to sing. And we'd sing of the joy every morning would bring. If I ruled the world, every man would say that the world was his friend. There'd be happiness that no man could end: NO, MY FRIEND. Not if I ruled the world. Every head would be held up high. There'd be sunshine in everyone's sky. If the day ever dawned when I RULED THE WORLD!!!!

I would probably say a few things, no one would do them, and then I would get bored about trying to do shit no one listens to and go to sleep.

First, I'd give myself an appropriate title. Such as: daughter of Freyja, sister of the sun and moon; daughter and viceroy of Odin; ruler of the kingdoms of Macedonia, Babylon, Jerusalem, Upper and Lower Egypt; empress of empresses; sovereign of sovereigns; extraordinary warlady, never defeated; steadfast leader of the Varangians; trustee chosen by Odin Himself; the hope and comfort of Norsemen; confounder and great defender of Yggdrasil.

Then I'd politely ask the Ukrainians to stop raiding me for vodka from my own private brewery in the Hagia Sophia.

Then I'd probably see to the Great Schism, and make a few select divisions in the system that exists and remake the Theme systems, and appoint a fair few Strategos.

Probably get bored with it once I realize that actually ruling the world is probably not as fun as playing Risk would lead one to believe.

That or I'd say "what the hell" and run it anyway, appointing some kind of figurehead to take the flack (and assassination attempts) when I ultimately fail to please everyone.

And I'd definitely have minions, once I've found ones who can prove their loyalty.

I'd control the lives of everyone with an iron fist, down to the very meals they eat. After a decade or so, I'd relinquish all control just to see what will happen due to the resulting power vacuum. Then I'd retire to a small island.

Or I'd just let someone else run the day to day operations while I travel around the world.

I can't believe no one's referenced this yet.

edited 24th Feb '15 9:42:14 AM by BaconManiac5000

When babies were born, no one would arbitrarily gender them based off their genitals and the child would be allowed to decide who they are instead of being shoved into a mold. Any doctor or nurse who said "it's a boy" or "it's a girl" upon birth would be fired

And churches would be taxed (no idea why they arent already), religion would be allowed because i don't want to violate human rights despite how much i think it's harmful. I'd just make it so that parents legally can't indoctrinate their children into it

I'd demobilise all of the world's armies too

And make

edited 24th Feb '15 12:51:14 PM by ElectricNova

edited 24th Feb '15 12:45:52 PM by BaconManiac5000

From birth, I would force everyone to wear specially designed shock collars that would shock them everytime they did, or thought about doing, something illegal. This includes murder, theft, any sort of abuse, or thoughts of rebellion.

These collars would be unremovable and unbreakable, and on literally everyone except myself. The shocks will get more severe in order to get the person to stop committing whatever crime they are attempting. This goes as far as death.

This will create a society that cannot commit crime, and is utterly under my control, as well as a dystopia that would reign even if I die to sickness or other health problems down the road.