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Ever thought about running a government but just hate some of the rules? Do you want to be loved and in the same time have overwhelming power and want be remembered for all of eternity? Do words like accountability, human rights, elections, annoy you? Do you like to think your hand as the “iron first”? Well look no further to this guide on how to perfectly run a totalitarian government. With this, you can learn the simple steps of running a nation where you will have total control of your people and be loved in the same time. Best of all, you will absolutely not need to answer to ANYBODY but yourself, so go right ahead and follow this guide on your path to being supreme chancellor, the leader, emperor or whatever you and your people want to call you.
 * Introduction**

Okay if you're going to be the undisputed ruler, this first thing is a must. You must consolidate power so that absolute power belongs to you Remember the saying, absolute power NEVER corrupts, ultimate power to you is for the greater good.. Start by slowing eliminating ANYBODY, and I mean ANYBODY that poses as a threat to you. Deem those people or groups the "undesirables" and wipe them out immediately. Also keep in mind at this point you want to keep a low profile, hire some secret assassins, police, hit men or whatever to take out key "undesirables". Okay so you took out the opposition or "undesirables", now you need a reason to justify your rule. What better way to justify it by proclaiming your rule as a divine intervention and you yourself has descended from the heavens itself to save your people, thus your will is GOD's will. Remember by deriving your right to rule as a will of god, you will be subjected to no authority on earth as any act against you is an act against god himself. Now Mr. Emperor, you have gained the legitimacy of ruling, so what now? Remember you want to be in control for all of eternity, four year terms are for sissy and losers. Now remember the true victory here is controlling and stirring the hearts of your people and thus you need to control every aspect of media. The media is the key to controlling your people, its where you can spread your messages to your people. Remember the key here is lying effectively, every single government in the world lies, the only difference is there are those who are good at it and those who are bad at it. This is why you need to have absolute control of every TV station, newspaper publishers, telecommunication providers and any other media outlets out there. Now with the media you can freely go out and spread the propaganda.. I mean news and facts. Now if you already at this point, I'm assuming you have absolute full control of your military? If not better go back to step 1 ASAP. Now if you do have full control, remember this is where usually your legitimacy as the "divine intervention" stays divine so it would be very wise to invest a heavy amount of your national treasury on your military and since you can now lie effectively, you can just tell the people the money is going toward the orphanage or hospital. Now you have to pay your top generals well so they stay loyal to you and you can always ask them to take out any "undesirables" you missed in step 1, remember the army is loyal to YOU, not the nation. P.S also make sure your military has the coolest gadgets, they always make your divine rule more legitimate when you showcase them in the annual military parade. Now we established the media and the military there are some other key points to address. Its pretty inevitable that new "undesirables" are going to pop up during the course of your divine ruling. How to address this issue? Well for one, public execution of undesirables works out great for other potential undesirables. Since you have control of the media, EVERYBODY in your glorious nation can see the undesirables 's head fall off and blood splattering across the camera. Remember their crime is not only treason but a crime against GOD himself. Also, your well financed military must be big and scary in case undesirable protests arises. Remember the guy at Tiananmen square blocking the column of tanks? It is pretty obvious he wasn't afraid of those miniature tanks, the Chinese government should've known better to use those old crappy type 59 tanks like they did cause they bloody look like toys. With your well financed military, a bigger more intimidating tank with a giant laser beam cannon will sure make potential protesters crap their pants. This is where your "iron fist" will come down. Now from time and time your nation will succumb to certain problems that is unpreventable even with your divine powers. Pollution, unemployment, ethnic tensions, corruption all will probably annoy you to death to some extend and alas your population could blame you for it. How to resolve this? Simple, blame it on some scapegoat, you have control of the media (if you don't, better go back to step 3). Who to blame? Ethnic minorities, foreign devils, political dissents are popular choices. Remember the key here is to drive the focus of your population away from YOU and on to something else. Now Mr leader/emperor/shah/king/son of heaven/. Even with all your divine powers and control, there is always the SMALL chance that your rule will come to an end when certain..umm situation arises, but GOD forbid if that happens....but wait you're suppose to be god..um anyways the point is always have a Plan x in case things really go bad. Usually it is a good idea to buy a secret hidden island somewhere in the globe to make a escape to, I'm pretty sure at this time with all the fiances you stole.. i mean rightfully took from the national treasury that you can more than enough to afford it. So if your population rebels to a point where you have to leave ( which I'm 99.9999% sure wont if you follow this guide correctly), you can always hop on your private plane to your little hidden island and live the rest of your life there.
 * Step 1: Crush all opposition**
 * Step 2: Be Divine**
 * Step 3: Control the media**
 * Step 4: Military 101**
 * Step 5: Keep your people in line**
 * Step 6:** **Blame you****r problems on something else**
 * Step 7: Keep a secret island**

P.S if an island doesn't work, its never a bad idea to make friends with another foreign leader who'll welcome you to their nation in exile, this is also a prime opportunity to back stab that SOB and start from scratch (back to Step 1)