You are one of six members of Julian's elite Greek class at the expensive yet isolated Hampden College in the mid-1980s.

You have been in intense pursuit of recreating a historically accurate bacchanal, a wild and ecstatic ancient Greek ritual involving intense dancing, music and wine drinking, designed to release participants from social constraints, often evolving into chaotic or orgiastic celebrations. Despite finally achieving your goal, you are alas under the impression that you brutally killed a farmer whilst frenzied, although you do not remember any events during the bacchanal itself.

One of your classmates, Edmund 'Bunny' Corcoran, was excluded from the bacchanal due to his lack of dedication to the cause; he has since found out what transpired, and is now blackmailing you with the information of your killing by threatening to reveal it to the police.

Whilst maintaining the illusion of friendship, his blackmailing includes monetary extortion to large degrees, constant cutting insults preying on your weakest insecurities, and a dictatorial control over your lives.

You have just died.

As you ascend from your physical form, you are greeted by an angel. Before your own fate is decided, the angel informs you of a choice. You are called to argue for your former friend's path in the afterlife.

This person was the strongest friend you held in your mortal life. However, at the lowest moment of your life, after a series of bitter disputes, unresolvable differences in values emerged and, despite your best interests, the former friend ended the friendship.

You will be the sole voice for your former friend's fate before God.

For the purposes of this debate, purgatory is a place of suffering where people try to make amends for their wrongdoings with the potential to access heaven upon uncertain redemption and absolution.

The stakeholder value model states directors must manage the company in the interests of all stakeholders (employees, consumers, local communities, the environment, creditors etc).

In contrast, the shareholder value maximisation model, states that the main purpose of any company is to generate maximum wealth for its shareholders, and directors should promote that aim above everything else.

The SACU (South African Customs Union) is a customs union among five countries in Southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa (BLNS).

The SACU manages and distributes trade-related funds through a revenue sharing formula with expansion of other schemes (e.g., tarrif board) still not agreed. 

As of February 2026, South Africa has been engaged in negotiating new trade deals with China aiming to boost trade in agriculture, mining, automative and renewable energy sectors. China has committed to a zero-tariff policy on African goods without requiring reciprocal lowering of tariffs towards Chinese goods, as well as pledging to extend all terms of this deal to the SACU as a whole.

BLNS countries are, however, doubtful; SACU revenue constitutes a substantial share of the state revenue of the BLNS countries through a revenue sharing formula. Eswatini is presently the only African country to maintain strong diplomatic relations with Taiwan.

You are a gay man living in Malaysia.

Malaysia is a relatively conservative developing country where homosexuality is criminalised by both federal law and the Islamic Syariah court. Queer spaces and underground communities exist, but are prone to being raided by the police.

Sanae Takaichi is the current PM of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). As a protegee of Abe, she failed in two prior leadership elections before winning, leading a coalition, calling a snap election, and securing a large majority.

Takaichi is a conservative politician popularly modelled as Japan's Margaret Thatcher. Since being elected, Takaichi has vocally declared Japanese protection of Taiwan against Chinese threats, opposition to same-sex marriage, supports revising Article 9 of Japan's constitution to enable remilitarisation, is persuing an economic strategy of government spending combined with widescale tax cuts, and is described as a 'revisionist' of Japan's conduct during WW2.