The two biggest issues he’ll face is the newly renewed conflicts with the outer system and the economy. Both are very tricky to deal with and he’ll need to surround himself with a top notch staff to get the job done.

I do hope he decides to spend more on education of course, it is my chosen profession and the topic I most care about. More and more money is going towards education clinics and less towards traditional learning. We have got to turn these kids back to traditional learning. They are going to live a very very long time, they can choose to spend eight lousy years in a university.

As for the economy, that’s even more of a complicated topic. Sure energy is free but that’s it. Food, services, etc etc still cost a pretty penny. And in the ever complex economies of the system things just get very complicated. Every month it seems a new group is petitioning for sentient status and another new colony is trying to declare independence. It’s getting a bit crazy out there.

On a historical note, Alfons won 300 years after Barack Obama won the election as the first black president of the United States of America, back when there was only one. Lets hope Alfons does even a fraction as well as Barack did all those years ago.