Beheading the Heads

Just so the subject won't be too passe once I finally have the time to write properly about it when I update my blog again: Read up on this Calvino story (off Numbers in the Dark) and tell me: Do you think, if the story premise was applied to this country, there would be all the senseless elections-related bloodshed and carnage? For that matter, would anyone even gun for a seat in the government?

I think I know the answer, but I was kind of hoping someone will prove to me that Mencius was right and there's no need to defect to the dreadful--but slowly becoming believable--Hsun Tzu school.