This article is focused on New Zealand.
Mastering Democracy:
1. Direct democracy must be installed, using the politics app [linked at the bottom].
The public must have the power to override the decision on any bill proposed by parliament, given enough public interest being demonstrated through petition (this is the Swiss system).
2. Restrict voting rights based on basic merit.
All can vote, but not without first completing a basic online course on politics and economics, to ensure their vote is essentially competent. This improves the quality of the vote, which in turns resists the power of crude propaganda.
3. Introduce Demeny voting.
This is where parents can vote on behalf of their children. This is to avoid exaggerating electoral power being given to the retired population, who are naturally incentivised to resist means-testing for pensions and healthcare, for even when the younger generations cannot afford the cost.
4. Decentralisation:
Small government is more democratically accountable than big government. The focus will be to decentralise the tax base.
Central government should only perform functions for where there is a good argument or specific need for centralisation.
Note, decentralisation facilitates foot-voting, which is a powerful mechanism to enhance political accountability. Tax-payers are respected more when they can easily leave for an alternative low-tax district.
Police and Military:
1. Police and military must operate to a constitution which can only be ratified and modified through direct democracy (the vote). Any order from parliament given to the police or military, that contradicts the constitution, must be ignored by the police or military.
2. No war can be initiated, financially supported, or participated in without a public referendum. The exception is a domestic surprise-attack scenario, where there is literally no time for even an online referendum.
Military conscription should be illegal and considered a gross human rights violation.
Finance and privacy:
Banks and governments will be able to collect records on transactions, including who/where/when, but they will not be able to restrict any individuals access to their own finances or interfere with any lawful transaction, unless there is a serious and legitimate reason to do so.
If a bank unlawfully withholds an individuals access to their finances, then this should be regarded as theft.
Access to financial records will only apply to the police, and the police will need a search warrant to do as such.
Fertility:
Nearly everyone will be allowed to have children, but not without first obtaining a license. The purpose of the license is to allow the government to identify those who are dangerous or seriously mentally ill, and in turn stop them from having children.
As this is obviously a very sensitive policy position, the parameters of the test for achieving a fertility license should only be created and modified by direct public consent, via a referendum. It should never be the place of parliament to set the final rules on who is and is not fit enough to have children. The public veto is essential.
It will be compulsory for parents-to-be to complete a course on childcare, that shows they understand the basics. Most importantly, they must understand the basics on what traumatic abuse and neglect is, and what this does to the developing child.
The fertile family will be prioritised for welfare, for where government welfare may be applied.
Fertility can be directly restricted in the distant future, for when and if population pressures arise. Not problematic 1 child limits (China was too much, too late) but more like 2 to 4 child caps as required.
Parents will be funded directly to have their children educated. The state monopoly on education will be completely removed. Education will be shaped by the market - not government ideology.
Race and political correctness:
There will be no race-based politics. Government will be race blind. A white or yellow person in need is just as important as a brown or black person in need.
The government will create no law dictating preferential treatment based on race, sexuality, gender, age, or any other superficial biological variance.
The Maori seats in parliament will be removed. Only 'everybody' seats will remain.
Housing and the cost of living:
A piece of earth to live on is a basic human right. People should not be forced to pay $500k for a small piece of farmland that is really only worth $50k.
Housing costs should never be allowed to artificially inflate.
Regulations alround must be systematically reviewed. Regulations will be removed or modified when the cost of their impact is seen to exceed their benefit.
Health emergencies:
Governments can initiate a Covid-like health response, with lockdowns and closed borders, etc, if they believe it is necessary and there is no time for public consultation. However, a referendum must be held within a week, so to allow the public to veto (and reform) any major decision parliament may choose to make.
All censorship of contrarian medical opinions must be constitutionally illegal.
Note: If a government contradicts the law, willfully, there must be serious consequences. This means incarceration and possibly capital punishment.
Under no circumstance can bodily autonomy be violated with medications, through direct forcing or coercion. There will be no compulsory vaccination and no forced water fluoridation. Medication must be strictly the individuals own autonomous decision. The government cannot operate as though it owns other people's bodies.
Genetically modified foods will be explicitly labelled. People must know what they are eating.
Government Finance:
Government budgets cannot be increased without public referendum. Periodic referendums will be held by law, giving the public the opportunity to actively reduce government budgets over time.
Without this constraint, poor government spending becomes inevitable - as it has, and is.
