Talk:Nova Rome/@comment-30869624-20170215182818/@comment-30841298-20170215185553

People in the top ranks of the government assign people to lower posts like president or premier, the election candidates are set in stone. If an independent candidate runs for office or the puppets start being independent from the higher ups, they get assassinated or executed. The state then brainwashes the population into believing those people are traitors against the state, with propaganda of course. This is to give off the illusion the government values freedom by having elections and that they care about the people by eliminating any threats to the state. Kind of like Indonesias thing with "Guided Democracy", however far more authoritarian.