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Originally Posted by Sumeragi
Nope, the problem is that you're taking the wrong approach to this (never mind the superficiality of your reasons). Here's the mindset of the Bureaucrat as applied to the situation:
1. We seem to be short of bit of money. What's the easiest way to cut costs or raise money without making much of a political mess?
2. It's easiest if we drop one of the largest projects. However, we need to avoid touching the pork barrels.
3. The Ooarai ship is certainly something we can take care of. It's as plain as can be, with no real political capital being wasted if we write it off. Who will defend that ship, when it just exists for the sake of existing?
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You seem to be working very hard to denigrate Oarai's value and trying to raise KMM's value by designating it a pork barrel.
1) Thus, if they are really just "short of a bit of money", they'll just tell all schools to tighten their belts an inch rather than make the politically messy decision to close a 30,000 man city.
3) Yes, of course, if Oarai actually has only the value a regular high school has, its keeping or disbanding won't affect any other schools. But it is still a city of 30,000 people, and is one of as few as 16 school ships. The political backblast from closing would be
smaller, but not small.
Thus IMHO 1&3 just don't apply to this situation, and the second half of #2 is just your speculation to raise KMM's value. Which leaves #2, dropping a large project (read: KMM)
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Originally Posted by Ithekro
A bureaucrat would see a school that is getting less and less attendance and no real draw to it as a waste of money. Regardless if the governement is even short on money. Running a city-ship is expensive, so if one isn't going so well, might as well cut it altogether. The remaining Japanese students will filter to the other schools. Ooarai doesn't need to be closed, just it will save money if closed because it isn't a popular school anyway.
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Well, it Oarai is an ordinarily sized school, one of thousands in the country, I'll agree with what you say. But Oarai isn't only a school, it is also a city. Do you see the bureaucracy being able to easily shut down an entire city even if it is not very profitable and its population is declining?
Heck, there are some little island settlements like Yonakuni in Japan who suffers from continuously declining population and a population which is less than 1/15th of Oarai's. By your logic, Yonakuni would have been evacuated by some bureaucrat a long time ago. And there is no comparison between RL Yonaguni and GuP Oarai's relative importance.