Domination of Equestria - T+101 days.
“How many did you say?”
“Twenty four Ma'am, all told. Ten colts, fourteen fillies.”
“How are we supposed to support that many!? Where did they even come from?”
“The streets Ma'am. Some of them have been out there for years.”
“The streets? You expect this institution to take in street urchins?”
“It’s an Orphanage Ma'am. I think society at large expects you take them in.”
“Well I refuse. We have no room.”
“The whole reason they’ve been brought here is because your facility has over thirty places currently unfilled according to the census carried out last week.”
“O-of course they aren’t! We haven’t got the resources for them! Feeding and clothing them isn’t cheap you know!”
“I do Ma'am. That is why each and every child comes with a government stipend. Your funding increases per child. In fact, according to the figures here, your establishment was one of the first to move to the per child subsidy, and as a result you now receive 34% more than you did under the old block grant. Care to explain where the extra funds have gone?”
“What!? What are you insinuating!? How dare you!”
“Ma'am, I am an inspector appointed by the government. I have the legal right, and indeed responsibility to check you are using your finances appropriately.”
“You can’t do that! You have to give a month’s notice!”
“Actually, under the new rules from the Overlord we can make unannounced visits as frequently as we like. On top of that, the directors of all publicly funded institutions are now personally liable for any failings of that institution. I trust you’re aware of what happens to those found abusing public funds under the new government?”
“Ah-ha…..ha...Twenty four more little souls you said? Why don’t we stop talking here at the door and bring them in, humm?”
“That sounds like an excellent idea. While they settle though, I will be wanting to see those accounts.”
“Errr…”
Overlord Rule No:69 All midwives will be banned from the realm. All babies will be delivered at state-approved hospitals. Orphans will be placed in foster-homes, not abandoned in the woods to be raised by creatures of the wild.
I also like how the regime, even while evil, puts personal responsibility to everyone who should be indeed responsible.
Oh how I wish at least that would be applied everywhere in the real world.
Alright,
Overlord's checklist for making sure no infants will go of the grid and overthrow you.
First you want all babies to be delivered at approved hospitals so that they are accounted for. (You don't want another Moses do you?)
Secondly, you want to make sure orphans remain accounted for and grow to be proper citizens of your society rather than growing into rebels and wild creatures capable of overthrowing you.
Lastly, just like in Moses you don't want the midwives to supervise the pregnancies as they could potentially find a way to hide a baby, specifically because not all babies get to the hospital in time for delivery, sometimes delivery starts earlier than expected.
Well at least that is what I got from this rule. I think the rest of the rules written throughout this chapter are self explanatory.
~Leonzilla
6505050 Its making it more effecient...
That was fun, may I have another? Looking forward to more.
Keep up the good work. Deus tecum.
Makes sense. Nothing foments rebellion like a bad childhood.
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That's the best part. When suitable channelled, it means that an Evil state is quite prepared to enforce that responsibility on people with as much force as necessary to ensure that they can't actually wiggle out of it; since, y'know, they have no recourse to legal wrangling (et al) to pass the buck on and have no qualms about bringing the heavy hammer down.
Sometimes quite literally...
Ultimately, just because you're Evil, it doesn't mean you can't be both reasonable and civilised. Hearts and minds, too, is stil a thing, and you can be damn sure the trains will all run on time...!
A happy childhood turns into a content adulthood.
They still need a stable future.
6505328 Yeah, that's the thing about the list that always makes me laugh. If you actually follow it to the letter, you will probably be a better choice for actually running the country than the "good guys" and wind up in a moral grey area with any harsh punishments having a clear, logical reason and positive effects so there is a good argument for keeping them.
He want the youth under his care so he can raise them for his army in the future
Prevents prophecies of wild-raised saviors. Good plan. Not to mention it makes your recently-conquered nation respect you more.
Rule 69... I don't see how that can be considered an evil overlord rule. It actually looks like the exact opposite of evil.
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No wild born saviors, or empire creating twins raised by a mother wolf as stated before. But also no orphans found by the kind wizard or lone rebel survivor that went into hiding. Also its all about making sure you can keep track of births. Mid wives don't keep records of births. Hospitals do. So you have access to birth certificates. Family records and who the parents are.
Also it is a PR project to get the people to like you more. Its not an EVIL overlord rule, but it is A OVERLORD rule.
6540236 more like lawful evil the empire does the same in star wars comics
Y'know, I like this overlord. Even though he is into militarism.
I like militarism.He actually is making Equestria a better place.7096776 Well, it's important to remember that canon Equestria isn't shown to have much of any of the following: starving orphans, serious diseases, wars (changelings excepted), oppression, unemployment...
This dictator is doing better than this (doubly) fictional Equestria, where there are starving orphans and inefficiency is rampant. He probably wouldn't do better than the paradise we are shown in the show.
7119089 well we are only shown Ponyvile (small town where family live near each other and can take in any orphans), the upper sections of Canterlot (Orphans don't huddle on streets in rich area's) Manehatton (the business centers generally keep orphans away)
I could be completely wrong but orphans could have just not been shown or have been seen just not known as orphans.
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The bad guys often turn out to actually be better rulers. Because they get shit done and don't dick around. If you're a habitual criminal, you're locked up for life and put into forced labor at factories while your pay goes to the government to build schools and homeless shelters. And to pay the secret police, of course. A dictator who actually cares about his nation and people's well-being for the sake of using their wealth and power for his own purposes would be a magnificent ruler. A power-hungry conqueror, yes, but someone you might want to be conquered by. Like Rome under Caesar after he was declared dictator (a real position back then). Some nations joined his empire willingly because he did such a good job. Although, he was planning to restore the Roman Republic after he finished fixing the nation and purging corruption. Which was not found out until after he had been assassinated and his journals were found and read...
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This is why Putin is still around. Russia without a dictator becomes the world's biggest mess, as seen in the 1990s.
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Nah, instead of a country which cares for people's well being and well being of future generations he built a classic cleptocraty and carefully weeds out every possible leader. Add there propaganda of being always surrounded by enemies from all sides and of his own 'achievements' (in some cases completely imaginary and in some horrifying) and you have people living in more or less literal shit (yes, including literal) ready to vote for him and his party again and again to beat that imaginary enemy and ready to live in even worse conditions for that purpose.
So, when he finally go down there will be even bigger mess than in '90s.
On the opposite side of a spectrum we have China. It's a horrible place to live in, but they actually do realize that their children will live there after them, so they building strong country and at least acceptable living conditions for their people even if controlled to horrifying degrees.
this reminds me of the movie "Willow":
the villain learns about a prophecy that a baby born with a particular mark will be her downfall, so she makes a law requiring all mothers to give birth at her castle.
this ALMOST foils the prophecy, but the lackey who finds the right baby makes the mistake of leaving it alone while going to report she's found it, and by the time she gets back someone has smuggled it out of the castle.
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Dudes...
Never speak ill of Great Russia and those ruling it. That's an unwise thing to do.