Critisism would be important indeed I think. If I would be ruler, I would try to make a kind of socialist society:
There would still (ofcourse) be money and intependent companies, but the social security would be very important. All hospitals and schools would be public and also atleast part of trasportation (the society would also support mass-transit, escpecially in large cities).
The common problem of many socialist governments was that they made many services public, and then they didn´t notice the flaws in the society because the lack of critisism.
In my society critisism would be put in wery high value, because the government cannot see everything, somethings can be in terrible state, and yet the government has no time to see this flaw. That´s why there should be a intependent ministry which would take critisism from people and also look flaws from soceity.
After that, they would analyse the data, make a report (for example there could be quater year report, and then one big report in the end of every year). But this wouldn´t be enough, they should also recommend that how the flaws should be fixed. And if the government wouldn´t take the necessary action, they could demand action from the government or the leader (ME
).
Preserving nature would also be important, and at the first, the production of certain luxury products (which would require rare materials) would be stopped and the production should be tried to adapt to the needs of the people.
Also the ruler should not have any power to punish people, that only creates an athmosphere of fear and so people would be afraid to critisize the society.
The public companies should also be observed wery closely to see how they develope. Sometimes the public companies don´t develope enough because they don´t feel the need for it, and so they decline and become wery inefficent.
The religion and the government should be seperated, I think, but the practice of religion and organized religions should be possible. But the government should not take any opinion on the religions and the society should be lead with humans laws.
Education and sciene should be put on high value and the ruler should be required a certain type of character: Open mind towards all religions and cultures, high education, determination, will to serve the people, empathy, sense of moderation, willingness to take critisism, imagination and creativity and willingness to learn and not to be too concervative and many many other abilities. Also one which would be important, would be to be able to see flaws in self.
Quite opposite to the nationalistic ideology (which wants to preserve national identity and culture), I would try to mix the cultures. So that in one city there could be many religions, races, ideologies etc. and people would be encouraged to talk, even argue (as long as it wouldn´t get physical), so that peoples opinions etc. would evolve, as they could discuss with peoples from with wery different point of view.
One thing that I would try to make common, would be humanism, and the thought that no matter the religion or race or ideology, we are all still humans.
The government and the ruler (ME again
) should also be closely observed to keep the corruption away. If the ruler would be corrupted, the government should have the authority to elect new ruler if so would be decided and if there would be clear evidence that the government is corrupted, the ruler should be able to disband the government and elect a new one.
Well, there would be a lot more but that´s what came to my mind.