Co-Emperor Jimmy gave his keynote to end the Dino Elders meeting where he addressed some of the themes Ronald made at the start of the meeting on wednesday. Jimmy said it was time to introduce more democracy to the Empire. "We made the SS elect their leader and some might say, if the SS can do it then the Empire itself should do it." he told the Elders.
Currently there is very little democracy above a local level in the Empire, the Elders are largely appointed, just 80 out of 300 are elected. The Emperors are elected by those Elders, other top posts are appointed by the Emperors. Jimmy said he would like to see a wholly elected Elders. "We have to be careful not to run before we can walk, there is no history of political parties in the Empire thus to rush into full democracy immediately would be dangerous."
SS Commander Lakes, at a fringe meeting of the Elders later disagreed with his leader however. "I set up the Veritas party for my election and it is ready to become one of the parties vying for power in this Empire. Its not exactly rocket science, we can travel between the stars and create our own wormholes. I hardly think creating a political culture is beyond us!"
