Pony Lands

People Request Not So Much Dictatorship, If That's All Right

While effusively praising Magical Equestria's leadership and bowing repeatedly, a delegation has humbly requested that the government take a more "modernistic" view in the future.

1. The High Minister for Finance, who also happens to be your brother, dismisses the claim. "What these people fail to realize is that you know what's best for them. The alternative is anarchy! I say stick to your course. And execute these wackos for treason."

2. "Perhaps the people could be given some more political freedoms," muses your Chief of Staff, who is your sister. "Is there really such harm in allowing public discussion of ideas? We could even have a real Opposition Party. One that isn't just full of your puppets, I mean."

Well, since Luna asked nicely, we guess we'll have to reinstate Parliament for the umpteen-hundredth time. :/
That and, I'm not sure who this joker of a Finance Minister is. :(

I'd say Option 1. Ponies need a firm hoof to reassure them. The ones who get unruly should be executed.

@The Sunken City of Neighlyeh: What would you do if not enough people tried to oppose the government? Start executing people for non-treason?

I guess a head of state who is always sleeping can't exert much control.

Sorta like our scientists. Who just love to perform questionable experiments in the lab after a hard days work of being a politician. Or the engineers who instead relax at government own skyscrapers. Like our mathematicians who love to torture prisoners.

Except we have laws only the elected intellectuals decide what's moral or not etc.