Topic: The Great Persons "Cabinet" Draft - Discussion Thread

[KingLuis10]

Ever wondered what the UK would’ve been like with Bill Shankly as Prime Minister? Or Peter Ridsdale as Minister of Finance? Well now’s your chance…

Each drafter will be tasked with creating a state/country/nation, call it what you will, and then selecting a cabinet of 8 Ministers to lead it to greatness…or destruction! The goal is a simple one: to create the greatest state the world has ever seen. You may select any person ever to have existed, living or dead. Be creative and bring together greats from the worlds of politics, science, finance, philosophy, sports & the arts in order to create the ultimate super-team.

At the end, each drafter will get the chance to present their newly formed administration, explaining how they’d come together to create the greatest state this world has ever seen. Then we all vote on which drafter has created the state in which we’d most like to live.

Rules:

-   1 Prime Minister
-   1 Foreign Minister
-   1 Minister of War/Defence
-   1 Minister of Finance/Economy
-   1 Minister of Science/Health
-   1 Minister of Culture/Education
-   2 Wildcards (Create your own Ministries)

At least one of your Ministers must be female.

Only real people who have actually existed are eligible, so no fictional characters, alter egos or characters from myths/legends. Religious figures are eligible, but without relying on religious scriptures as evidence (i.e. if you pick Jesus, you get the Jesus of Nazareth who gave teachings on Christianity rather than Jesus as he appears in the Bible).

There are no restrictions on who you can pick in each category, so you can pick a footballers as your Minister of Science if you really want to, although it probably wouldn’t be advisable!

Selection Order:
Lastrador
Betty Blue
Rysoph76
Samie
noname
Harold Barton
Buck Pete
Anywhichwayucan
sms1986
KingLuis
Titi Camara
Crimson_Tank
tubby
Klippity Klopp
Vishwa Atma
Eel Lobo
Sheer Magnetism
McrRed

[Klippity Klopp]

I quite liked the idea of the Food Minister being added.

We can all have Chefs, Gemma Collins etc as the Minister!

But it looks good KL, should be a fun draft and not too serious.  Actually the stranger and more bizarre & unlikely the picks the better I'd say. 

[KingLuis10]

I quite liked the idea of the Food Minister being added.

We can all have Chefs, Gemma Collins etc as the Minister!

But it looks good KL, should be a fun draft and not too serious.  Actually the stranger and more bizarre & unlikely the picks the better I'd say. 

I pretty much pulled the 8 Ministers/Ministries out my arse while typing up the opening post So I'm open to suggestions for amending the list, or adding more Ministries to it.

We could even expand the draft & make it so you're picking a whole load of other stuff and essentially building a country rather than just the administration. Geographical region, monuments, stuff like that. Just a bit wary of expanding it too far and having way too many picks.

[Titi Camara]

Personally I think you've got it almost spot on. The only amend I would make is dropping the sports minister in favour of a second wild card.

That way it's a bit more free form and gives people options. Drafters could elect for a minister for social reform and a minister for food, or whatever the hell they like.

I think a sports minister is about as interesting an appointment as one to have your piles poked back in!

I wouldn't make it any more complicated than that. Also, as Betty will tell you, write ups are about as useful as a moustache on a mule.

[El Lobo]

Haha this sounds ace, I’ll have a go

[KingLuis10]

Personally I think you've got it almost spot on. The only amend I would make is dropping the sports minister in favour of a second wild card.

That way it's a bit more free form and gives people options. Drafters could elect for a minister for social reform and a minister for food, or whatever the hell they like.

I think a sports minister is about as interesting an appointment as one to have your piles poked back in!

I wouldn't make it any more complicated than that. Also, as Betty will tell you, write ups are about as useful as a moustache on a mule.

That's a really good idea actually. Wasn't too fussed about the Sports Minister myself, especially if we're gonna be doing an Ultimate Sportsperson draft at some point. And if we're replacing it with a second wildcard then people can still pick a Sports Minister if they want to.

Write-ups will be optional if we do them, just think it would be cool to let people explain their picks, how their country would work and whatnot. Doubt they'll affect the vote much either way.

[Titi Camara]

Ha ha I've literally picked all mine already...and 13 alternates

[Hazell]

No category for The Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship?

[tubby]

Bearing in mind I know absolutely nothing about politics, is this option a choice of two?

-   1 Minister of Science/Health

So I either pick a minister of science or health?  Or is it the same thing?

[KingLuis10]

Bearing in mind I know absolutely nothing about politics, is this option a choice of two?

-   1 Minister of Science/Health

So I either pick a minister of science or health?  Or is it the same thing?

Yeah one or the other, same with Culture/Education. That was me trying to cram as many Ministries in there as possible

[Rysoph76]

I'll have a go at this one, haven't done a draft in a while and this seems like it might be a laugh 

[Harold Barton]

I'll have a go.

[KingLuis10]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/krithika-varagur/mother-teresa-was-no-saint_b_9470988.html

Thought twice about using the pic in the opening post for this reason. But given that my alternative was the pic below, it's safe to say my hands were tied

[Titi Camara]

No category for The Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship?

What about the Department of Records at the Ministry of Information?

[Titi Camara]

If you take exception to something, the report button is there for a reason, snippy comments derailing the thread just aren't on.

Cheers

[El Lobo]

If you take exception to something, the report button is there for a reason, snippy comments derailing the thread just aren't on.

Cheers

Didn’t see much wrong with your piles comment, but as long as you've learned your lesson.

[Titi Camara]

Are we hoping for 16 drafters? Could defo do with a few more! The more the merrier and all that!

[Samie]

Call upon the Mongoose, Pete  and the rest of new batch of drafters.

[Chakan]

I'm out.

[Harold Barton]

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

[Samie]

Mate i need your expertise on a thread i created in the Boozer. 

[KingLuis10]

Are we hoping for 16 drafters? Could defo do with a few more! The more the merrier and all that!

16 would be ideal but we can go ahead with fewer drafters if needed. We've got 10 already so we're not doing too badly, let's give it until tomorrow.

Think a few are put off because it sounds political when in reality it'll be nothing of the sort... there's bound to be some great pisstaking in this thread, much more so than in the music/movie drafts

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

-   1 Minister of War

 

What is that about?

[Crosby Nick]

This and the selection thread are the only threads I'm posting in. I'm sure the merry band of know-alls will help you out.

I'm going to enjoy this draft and then I'm off again.

That exile lasted long.

Good to see you have a change of heart though.

[KingLuis10]

What is that about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence

Gone with the Ministry of War alternative so that people have the option of picking wartime leaders/generals from the past who might've been well suited to a Ministry of War, and less so to a Ministry of Defence!

Changed it to "Minister of War/Defence" though so that people have the option 

[El Lobo]

This and the selection thread are the only threads I'm posting in. I'm sure the merry band of know-alls will help you out.

I'm going to enjoy this draft and then I'm off again.

[Buck Pete]

Think a few are put off because it sounds political when in reality it'll be nothing of the sort... there's bound to be some great pisstaking in this thread, much more so than in the music/movie drafts

Ahhh fuck it go on then

There will be no seriousness whatsoever in my picks and none of the choices would actually stand a cat in hells chance of getting a real job in any Parliament (well UK Parliament anyway)

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

Alright I'm in.

[KingLuis10]

Ahhh fuck it go on then

There will be no seriousness whatsoever in my picks and none of the choices would actually stand a cat in hells chance of getting a real job in any Parliament (well UK Parliament anyway)

Good stuff!

I might.....might! pick a politician as Prime Minister. The rest won't even be close, just aiming to pick some of my favourite people from history.

[sms1986]

I'll have a go. No idea who I'll pick, though!

[Hazell]

Are we hoping for 16 drafters? Could defo do with a few more! The more the merrier and all that!

You know one of the guys who played the Tony Robinson's guards in that (Gary or Graeme I think) is a pretty successful novelist?

[Betty Blue]

I'll play. Just don't expect me to take it seriously 

[Crimson_Tank]

Ill Play

[El Lobo]

I'll play. Just don't expect me to take it seriously 

I’m hoping no-one will cos at the minute I’m just trying to think of the daftest picks

[Sheer Magnetism]

Don't know why but not up for this for whatever reason, though I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's picks. Would definitely be up for a fictional characters version if anyone fancies a sequel.

[Crimson_Tank]

I'd do a fictional characters too.

[KingLuis10]

Don't know why but not up for this for whatever reason, though I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's picks. Would definitely be up for a fictional characters version if anyone fancies a sequel.

Ha, that’s a great idea for a follow-up draft if this one goes well!

We’re at 15 drafters now so we can get this bad boy started if people are up for it. 3 groups of 5 for voting, or 5 groups of 3. Someone’s bound to turn up once we’ve started picking anyway, they can join at the bottom of the selection order to make it a nice, round 16.

[Vishwa Atma]

I am interested if there's a spot

[KingLuis10]

I am interested if there's a spot

There is indeed!

Here's the picking order, I'll set up the selection thread in a sec:


List Randomizer

There were 16 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

Lastrador
Betty Blue
Rysoph76
Samie
noname
Harold Barton
Buck Pete
Anywhichwayucan
sms1986
KingLuis
Titi Camara
Crimson_Tank
tubby
Klippity Klopp
Vishwa Atma
Eel Lobo

Timestamp: 2017-10-10 08:48:49 UTC

[El Lobo]

Hmmm, dunno if that's good or bad