Foreign political intervention & donations

What if, if you hold a major executive position in a country (such as president / prime minister / chancellor / monarch, etc), you could donate to parties in another country that could benefit you?

In the pictures I attached above, you can see how I imagine the feature could look. Next to the ‘send message’ button, if you are in a major executive position, you could see a button to donate to political parties. If you clicked it, you’d see the dialog above. First, you’d pick how much money to send. Then, you could optionally pick a message to send with the donation. This shouldn’t have to be mandatory, but it could be optional. Then, you could pick between donating publicly and privately.

If you receive a donation, you should first have to accept or reject the donation, and if you reject it, the donator gets their money back. If you accept it, the donator should be notified.

Let’s talk about the distinction between private and public donations. If you donate publicly, that would immediately add to your authoritarian score (maybe +10, or it could be based on how much you donated) and possibly negatively affect how voters see you. If you publicly receive a donation, it could add a bit to your authoritarian score, but not too much (maybe half or a third of the authoritarian score added to the donating party). If you donate privately, this won’t immediately harm either party’s reputation. However, journalists are always on the lookout for these corrupt private donations. There’s a pretty good chance you’ll get away with it, but there’s also a chance that soon after you donated, you could get caught and since this was private, both parties will have a much higher authoritarian score (maybe 2 or 3x that of a public donation).

If you rejected a public donation request, you could probably lose some authoritarian points from that since that proves you don’t take dark money.
I also have another idea that could make this feature more dynamic: If you received a private donation request, you could not just have the options ‘accept’ and ‘reject’, but also ‘reject and expose’: If you pick the third option, not only do you reject the donation, but you immediately expose the donator, so the donator gets as many authoritarian points as they would usually get from getting caught, but you actually lose authoritarian points.

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