CivcraftImport:Cities/mercer

Mercer is a democratic society in the +,+ quadrant located at 3600, 4800.

It's government is made up of an elected executive, The Grand Consul, who ensures the government runs smoothly, and a senate which is comprised of four secretaries, who make decisions and propose laws for the city requiring the Grand Consul's approval for drastic decisions.

The current Grand Consul of Mercer is kevin4460, and the senate is in the process of holding elections for Secretary seats.

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Prior to the current Government, Mercer was run by a similar senate. There was disagreement among the senate as to how the city should be run, and kevin4460, at that time Secretary of Defence, left the senate citing differences of opinion and his distaste for the system's percieved flaws.

Shortly after kevin's resignation DragonBucket, the Doctor, left Civcraft(Or at least claimed to!) and the government began to fall apart with the two remaining secretaries ceasing to govern the city.

Around a month passed, the city fell prey to inactivity. Along with a group of citizens, kevin4460 started a campaign to repair all the public roads and offer relief to those who'd been effected by the mass griefs. Following the city cleanup, kevin conducted a plebiscite asking the citizens to give him the right to create a new senatorial government. The vote passed in a landslide, and kevin created the new senate and consitution with assistance from a constitutional convention made up of Mercer's citizens. Some, however, still claimed that Mercer's new government would be illegally formed, as the old constitution didn't allow for national votes to change the constitution.

In an effort to legalize the new Government, elections were held for the office of Grand Consul. Reading into the old government's constitution, a loophole was found; there was no clause forbidding one person from occupying all four of the senate seats. The citizens of Mercer decided to elect the new Grand Consul and all four of the old government's senators in one vote; with one person to be chosen.

kevin4460 won the election for Grand Consul in yet another landslide victory, he promptly dissolved the former government and transfered all rights, land, and responsibilities to the new Government before resigning permanently from the old senate.

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When a scandal came out involving Kevin4460 and a PVP group, the city turned on him. Soon after, DragonBucket was elected as El Presidente and restarted Senate Elections.