"Welcome, President [Insert Name Here]! Have a seat at the UN Space High Command Desk. As you may know, your predecessor left us an unfortunate budget deficit, and also an unpopular war with the Glorbax Empire, and hopefully you can do something about the synth civil rights crisis..."
This is a succession game where each player plays the democratically-elected leader of the future human government. Since Stellaris supports Grover Cleavelanding (serving non-consecutive terms), this might mean that play will not always be linear. This is fine. As a rule of thumb, please do not use influence to support your own leader, but feel free to spend it how you like to support new ones.
There's a lot of edge cases in all of this, so rather than do all the details right now, we'll just do this ad-hoc. In general, we want to ensure that people don't spend too long in the waiting list, and that no player has to play like half the turns. I'll keep records here in the OP according to which leaders are which players.
As for the poll, it's actually several micropolls. Select your favorite combination of entries or leave some entries blank if you don't care (I discovered after creating the poll that I could not increase the number of votes per person, so you'll have to pick your four favorite options). Non-players who intend to lurk may vote for something they'd like to see, but please don't vote for the DLC and Mods things since those are a player-side decision for the most part. If you have specific mods or DLC in mind, post them in the thread. And add your name for a seat at the table!
By default, I'm thinking we'll play stock UNSC, but I'm open to a custom Human Republic if anyone has special ideas. If we play Utopia, we would certainly want to discuss the special traits.
Oh, as for LP posts, it's up to you how much you want to write. A quick summary is OK, but you're also welcome to write a lengthy in-character memoir if you want.
Waiting List:1.) Ashsaber
2.) Draignean
3.) Xub313
4.) Forsaken1111
5.) IcyTea
6.) Cicero
7.) Cruxador
8.) PTTG
Former Presidents:2200 - 2210 David J. Johnson (PTTG)
2210 - 2220 Dr. Mambretti (Draignean)
2220 - 2230 Joan Lloyd (Xub313)
2230 - 2234 (forsaken111)
2234 - 2245 Umberto Saletta (Icytea31)
2245 -- Wei Ouyang (Cicero)
Presidential Library:President DraigneanPresident Forsaken111