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1. Cast your primary party-preferred vote for the next President of the United Australasian Republic:
a) Sharon Nicholson, National Party, Australia
b) Kade Suharto, Muhammadiyah, Indonesia
c) Gavin Pollard, Labour Party, New Zealand
d) Ghera Wanganeen, Indigenous Forum, Australia

2. Do you support the proposed amendment to the Lunar Settlement Act?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Amendment to be re-read in the Senate

3. What is your most frequent online purchase?
a) Medicine
b) Weapons
c) Sex/Cybersex
d) Regulated Criminal Services

4. Do you support the joint invasion of Antarctica?
a) Declaration of War by UAR
b) Cessation of Hostilities
c) Await final reports from U.N. Xenotech Inspectors

5. How do you find the defendant in State vs Becker?
a) Guilty – Death
b) Guilty – Custodial sentence (please specify)
c) Not Guilty
d) Mistrial
e) Trial by combat

6. What is your preferred datacom?
a) Telstra
b) GapComm
c) Jakarta Kreatif
d) None of the above (Neo-Luddites Only)

7. How happy are you? (please indicate %)

8. Who do you want to vote out of “Starvation Cage!”
a) Jerry the plumber
b) Brenda the model
c) Bradley and Trevor, the platonic life-mates
d) Hank the sensitive trucker

9. How much money should be allocated to Education this financial year?
a) $UAR 5 billion
b) $UAR 7.5 billion
c) $UAR 1.3 billion (user-pays model)

10. Should aid be continued to the Pederast colony on Titan?
a) Yes.
b) No – Bring the sex offenders back to Earth for custodial resettlement.
c) No – Grant the Pederast colony unconditional autonomy.
d) No – Detonate the embedded warhead.

11. Do you support Defence-UAR’s proposal to cleanse all Class 5 suburbs? (lower socio-economic, high crime, high fertility)
a) Yes (complete destruction of life).
b) No (continue aid and relief work).
c) Yes – Senator Walker’s proposed selective cull.

12. Nominate a suspicious character, as defined by the Good Neighbours Act. (Note: a failure to complete this section will result in your automatic nomination, under the above Act)
 

Jason Fischer is based in Adelaide, South Australia. He is a graduate of the 2007 Clarion South workshop, and a recent finalist in the Writers of the Future contest. He has a story in Jack Dann’s new anthology Dreaming Again, and stories in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Aurealis Magazine (forthcoming). Jason likes zombies and post-apocalyptic settings, and when he’s not writing he wishes he was. He can be found lurking online at http://jasonfischer.livejournal.com/, and is a contributing member of the Daily Cabal.