I think I would definitely not be the ruler of a country, but if I were, it requires hard work.
I thought... only three rules that I should impose on my population, they should be ones that would shape the future of the country and make it productive and prosperous, where people would be happy to be there.
This topic reminded me of so many famous books from my law school days about what a ruler should be like. Good but strict. What a fine line. Some even said that he should not be good.
On the other hand, I believe that things in life are action and reaction, cause and effect. So one important thing is that things are achieved with effort, quality and dedication or at least they should be. And those people get their reward that way. The more effort, the more reward.
Thinking about it, the first rule or norm would be about work.
Of course I imagine that there would be enough sources of work, then depending on the action of the people, the task they perform, the quality, the effort, the discipline they put into it, they would be rewarded with more reward. Directly proportional.
This issue goes hand in hand with justice, fairness. I have seen and I see many people who receive salaries without working, or doing practically nothing. Just because the government gives it to them. Everyone has to earn it. Of course there are special cases of disabled people, but that's another issue.
It also relates to a lot of other things like, whoever commits crimes, well, there will be a consequence. And everything would be in the right measure and the sanction would be applied.
Now I think about the second rule, government workers are also population, right? Ministers, secretaries and so on ad infinitum. Yes, there are often needlessly infinite public employees.
All of them, strictly speaking, are employees of the people, aren't they? They work or should work for the people. Yes, I know, most of the time this is not the case. But I have heard that in some country these are really employees, they get a normal salary without so much pomp and above all... they work.
That would be great, wouldn't it? They are our employees and therefore things as they are.
So I would set the standard or rule on this subject, a work system like any other... they are not gods.
Third rule...I have done a lot of thinking and the issues of freedom and education come to mind. There is no country that progresses without education and freedom, so I think this last rule should refer to those issues.
Compulsory education, with the necessary resources but a different education with what the person really uses later in life, what is really necessary, for example, a financial education. Traditional education is important, but maybe education should be introduced that teaches thinking and critical thinking, a complete development of the human being that gives him/her the tools to perform in life.
This type of education would give them freedom, freedom of opinion, freedom of decision, freedom to act. An education in freedom is where man can learn, because he will make mistakes and learn from them, or at least that is how it should be. Without freedom there is dictatorship, control and imposition.
That education would generate respect for others, therefore, that freedom would not infringe on someone else's freedom. It is all like a big circle.
I don't really know if I have put it as a rules, but that's what came up in my mind. Of course this would have to be surrounded by a coherent system and the possibility of materialisation, resources and so on. And there would be many more rules, I guess.
I never imagined myself a ruler and this was a good opportunity to think about an alternative universe, thanks to the weekend themes that 
I wish you all a very good weekend, best regards and see you soon.
Amonet.
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