The game is designed to be whimsical, was my impression (I played it a couple of years ago). While you could shape the nation in a general political direction, there was often an unintended consequence to any decision you made. Some of them did not seem to have an effect on the direction you were taking your nation in, so they were probably just included for a laugh.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
