There's something really... telling about the exact way you get a reward token, here. I think the expectation would be (at least to my mind) that you'd be rewarded for somehow appearing "normal," or "overcoming" your flaw, but that's not exactly the case. You (the player and the character) are rewarded for performing your flaw to the exact level of detail the game demands. Which is very interesting.

If we were to ask the question of what lesson there is to be learned here (a question I don't particularly like, but let's try it on for a moment), we might think it's that what succeeds in the strange and artificial world of a political debate is knowing yourself and your flaws and working with those flaws to make your point, rather than against them. The next question, of course, has to be: How does this align with our material world, and what can we learn by the comparison?

Look at all the thinking I've done just getting inside this game! Much more than watching a debate, rest assured.

Thank you so much for the game! It's such a ride!

Thank you for your comments, Trib. Hill, but I don't think secret flaws have any place in politics. Politicians are quite remarkably the only people who can — AND HAVE — dealt with problems of the Republic. Secret flaws are something mythological and quite likely tragic. Do you see anything tragic going on around you? Okay...yes, I'll grant it. If there wasn't any tragedy going on, then WHY THE HELL WOULD I BE UP HERE TALKING AND TRYING TO WIN THEIR VOTE?! *Motions toward audience* 

I can't tell you why we've got these tragedies going on, but that whole "secret flaw"  — *waves animatedly* — idea is simply placing the blame in the wrong place. The Trib. from TX — *points at Travis* — is simply trying to make us all look bad. But we're the few, the perfect, the leaders of this fine Republic.

And let's be honest, I'm the most perfect of them all.

Just check out my tie.

It's perfect too.