EVE Online's fledgling "democracy" emerged from a scandal last year involving one of the game's developers, who used his status to inappropriately aid some of his in-game pals. Players understandably revolted. How to know other scandals weren't looming? Or that something like it wouldn't happen again?

Easy: Lock down the system, then make the players themselves (or representatives for the player base) responsible for analyzing and vetting the game's rules.

Too bad there's no way to export EVE Online's results to that other persistent-universe game everyone's talking about. You know, the one called "Wall Street."