Create a Country - Part 7 - Government of Country

When clearly defined procedures have been established regarding who decides, how they decide, and how decisions are carried out, it is possible to classify the specific form of government a culture uses.

First, we should try to understand more about why we need government. (Class Activity)

Over the centuries many forms of government have been used. Among the more common are the following:

• Participatory democracy: All important decisions are made by a majority vote of all persons affected by the decision.
• Representative democracy: All people who wish to, vote for persons to represent them when decisions are to be made. When a majority of the representatives vote the same way, their opinion prevails.
• Constitutional monarchy: A king or queen and a group of representatives elected by the people share the responsibility for ruling together.
• Monarchy: A king or queen makes the decisions alone.
• Dictatorship: A person NOT elected by the people is responsible for all decisions of importance. It is usual for a dictator to come from the military.
• Check out this site for help understanding these and different types of governments or this one for a more extensive (and fun) list.
  

Before determining the type of Government that will run your Created Country, consider:

• What form of government can make decisions rapidly and be assured the decision will be followed? Why would this be good? bad?
• What form of government is most interested in direct involvement of the people? What is its advantage? disadvantage?
• What form of government is used in America?

Task #1: Choose the type of government your Create-A-Country will have.

Task #2: One of a government's chief concerns is the "happiness" of its citizens. Consider the following:

• Read this article about Bhutan's ( a real country!) Happiness Index goals!
  
• Create your own Happiness Index: Include 10 years of your country’s Happiness Index.

*What leads to Happiness? (good crops, weather, surplus, economy, etc...)

*Roll: The number you roll indicates the % of people that are happy in your country (8 = 80%). If you roll an 11 or 12, you have had a natural disaster (you choose based on researching your real country). The next 3 years, you can only roll one dice because it takes a while to recover from natural disasters! Create a line graph using these numbers.

Happiness Index Graph:

*Has a title with name of country & student & which region

*Is neat & easy to read- accurate labels.

*Includes 10 years

*Creates a line or a bar graph

*Used color to differentiate the lines/bars

*X axis is correctly labeled

*Y axis is correctly labeled

3-5 Sentence Caption:Describes the causes for the different levels of happiness. Describes the effects of the different levels. Makes predictions for the future.COPS! Completed on time.

Task #3: Consider making a timeline of your country's history....