Letters to the Editor
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I know I've seen this before....
So...
let's make it a requirement that you have to have served in the military to run for public office. Enlistments would go up since all the ambitious types would need service to get to the top.
-- tiberius
Also positions tied into age requirements, with ascending levels of public responsibility, and increasing numbers of mercenary paid troops, and power transfer with families...ah yes, tiberius, from your own family's turns as emperor, and later times, as Rome began its change from Republic to Empire, and then began its decline that made history.

