Train-of-Thought Cloverleaf Worldbuilding considerations

[aldersprig]

went like this:

- Cya starts trade routes relatively early on, as soon as she has trade goods in the city
- because of the climate control, Cloverleaf can produce crops not otherwise available that far north.
- Ooh, flour sacks. They have cotton... https://blog.etsy.com/en/2011/feed-sacks-a-sustainable-fabric-history/, http://www.buchanancountyhistory.com/feedsack.php
- (From that thinking about IRL examples skipped to)
- Baby Boxes: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maternity_package
- Cya does a lot of basic-standard-of-life stuff, I bet they do this
- there are probably unwanted children. State-run creche/adoption center? Probably
- what about abortion? Oh, bog, abortion.
- "Government cheese" and basic rations? Still thinking about details here
- Free hostel-style housing, free xx months in actual housing - not designed to eliminate poverty but to eliminate some of the horrors of poverty
- booming fabrics market as well as the custom-made fashion set by people like our printing-press guy
- And BOOKS! Entertainment! !!
- Spices, spices are very important
- how much of the means of production does our dictator control? How much does she allow to be controlled by the elected government? (how much of a fascism is she okay with and does she slowly relinquish control?)

Side note: I figured out why she runs it as a dictatorship!

Comments

[inventrix]

I always assumed because she doesn't trust other people to get it set up and running properly. >.>

Free sex ed and contraception would probably eliminate most if not all the need for abortion.

[aldersprig]

Good call on the sex ed-contraception. *adds it to the schools*

That's like 50% of it. The other 50% - the reason she HAS elected officials - is she's preparing them for when she's gone. Setting up a body of case law & precedent.

[inventrix]

Ah! That other 50% is more why she isn't an absolute dictatorship, I see. 8)

[aldersprig]

Yep!

[clare_dragonfly]

That's what I was thinking, too! She's just afraid no one besides her is competent ;)

[aldersprig]

That's definitely part of it in the beginning. Both competent and moral by her standards.

[inventrix]

Rather than a "basic rations" idea, I think a cross between a food kitchen/...I forget the word, the thing where you buy a "subscription" to a farm and get fresh in-season produce every X period of time would be a nice baseline food provision. It gives it more variety and more fresh foods, which is healthier and gives a better baseline quality of life.

[aldersprig]

CSA?

I like it. *nods*

[inventrix]

Yes! That.

[thnidu]

And recipes. What to do with the food and how to do it. Lord knows that doesn't come easy to me.

[inventrix]

There is one thing you haven't touched on yet!

Employyyyment.