Stuck on an island with 5 others

[Rakdos Defiler]

In government we spent a whole period on the discussion of basically creating your own Country, with government, resources, economy, basicly everything you would do with your own country, but it starts off of 5 people. Yourself and 4 others landing ship wreck on an island. Then we had a series of questions that we sepnt 15-30 minutes on than conversed on the subject the rest of the class.

Explaing your reasoning for all questions

1. What type of Government would you set up?

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)

3. What would all 5 persons jobs be?

4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found?

5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?

Don't think I forgot any questions. Well this was a topic I really enjoyed and heres how I answered.

Explaing your reasoning for all questions

1. What type of Government would you set up? Anarchy, because I think ecspecially in a small community, the people would have a hard time adapting to a leader who has, more than likely, no credibility, and no honors. So everyone should have the right to do what they like, people may suggest what they should do, but they should have the right not to follow. Most people would say "well then wouldn't everyone fight?" Fights will happen with or without government, or enforcers. I mean theres like 5 fights a week in school and there is many forms of government contorlling school, federal, state, county, school.

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities) I would gather food, fresh water, supplies to make a shelter, or find one (e.g. cave) and make a fire.

3. What would all 5 persons jobs be? If they all agreed; A person to construct the shelters, A person to gather wood for shelters, and edible plants/ fruits. Someone to keep watch for storms, boats, planes, and keep aconstant fire burning. Then a person to collect fresh water, and help gather firewood. Finally a hunter, which i would play, also i'd create the weapons also.

4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found? After a year probly have more permenant, and resistant shelters, from trial and error. Have a surplus of food and water, free time I would spend gathering them. Maybe a few more pleasures like learn to make a primitive hammock, tree forts, and possibly swings.

5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue? More than likely have more members cause the women and men would get bored, and even if they didn't like each other, after a few years they would be all over each other. Larger structures, structures made not for just shelter but like a mess hall, infirmary. Island maped out more. Definelty be building some large, durable rafts.

I'd like to see others answers, possibly debate, or just ideas to be shared.

Next day we actually had groups and had different questions for the group to use and they chose a democracy, so of course it ended up badly because I created a 1 man, 50 parrot, 30 chimp, 20 jaguar, 17 anaconda, and 2 turtle mutiny. Also 3 hot chicks in my group I wouldn't mind being stuck with for a year or so.

 

[GST_Nemisis]

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)

i would make sure we try to snort every type of plant we find on the island, to see if one has any trippy drug effect. that way we can all get high off our faces and make the final truth that we are all going to die on this damn island all little less painful.

 

[Denu]

Kill everyone and become supreme lord of the island.

 

[Instant Ramen]

Kill everyone and become supreme lord of the island.

Haha. Lol. Just what I would do. Kill those who resist.

 

[Sansui]

government lol, the biggest baddest dude will be in charge or be the leaders muscle thats what happens in small groups people need leaders and the alpha usually does it

 

[Mecheon]

You did not think this through well enough. Also, anarchy would result in one of them going crazy and killing you all one by one

1. Obviously a dictatorship. Its inevitable. The most charismatic will lead, and you'd better hope to hell you're on their side. Also, they'd have an "enforcer", someone who would basically be their shadow, and other people who they don't care about

2. Fart around, probably make fire, and hopefully find a source of water and fire

3. Leader, person-who-sucks-up-to-Leader, leader's muscle, and the two others who have to do all the work

4. We'd maybe have a shelter, and one of the people might be dead. More than one if you're unlucky

5. We'd all be dead

 

[The_wand_mirror]

1. What type of Government would you set up?
None.. if they would i wouldn't join it =/
2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)
Create a home?
3. What would all 5 persons jobs be?
Whatever they would like ..
4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found?
I would try to escape..
5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?
I would've tried to escape just like that guy with that soccerball named willson XD

 

[annoying]

1. I would try to get everyone to listen to me, and run of with the ones that listen to me if not all did. That way I would be sure of that I would be in charge.
2. Gather food, build a shelter. Maybe a fire, it might come in handy.
3. Well, if everybody were on my side I would make myself in charge of the food. Two would build a shelter, one would look for water and one watches the fire.
4. First scenario: I would be dead, after some kind of revolution or something.
Second scenario: I am the superiour lord of my new country.
Third scenario: We are all dead, from starvation or something.
5. One would definatly be dead, at least. We would have built a lot, and there might be "children".

 

[Genjis]

What an interesting topic, indeed. Well, I think it would happen like this if I'm among the 5 people on the island:

1. I agree with Mecheon, the best way to keep things working is that one person is the boss. Of course, this doesn't mean that I don't listen to the other 4 people, they still can say what they want. I'd be more an organizer rather then a leader - I just suggest what we should do for our survival. Since I'm not a madman, I could figure out which decisions fits my and the other interrests. Maybe it works for some time.

2. First off, checking how to provide water and food for everyone. Second, build a hut or something for rain days and such. And of course: checking out the best places on the island for looking after a ship.

3. One must provide food, one must provide water, the rest must build some huts. After the huts are finished, everyone change with the water and food providing jod daily. The other 3 people can do whatever they want (of course, they have to looks after a ship sometimes).

4. Nah c'mon, I'm sure we can survive a year or two if noone will getting crazy

5. Who knows, maybe we survive for so long. Maybe we build us a float, maybe we're all already dead.....I really can't say how it'll be in 30 years without being on the island for real....But I thing at least I'll survive for a rescue, to make the best performancve ever: Singinge "Still Alive" XD.

 

[mato]

if the population grows from five ppl then the 3rd generation, and all that shall follow, would be retarded, and at some point they would lose the ability to reproduce sooooo, i'd make a raft and name a football(soccer) wilson, and bail

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

Hmm just because it's an anarchy doesn't mean someone would go crazy and kill everyone, everyone else didn't choose anarachy and said more than likely another member would kill everyone.

Sorry forgot to mention, the last 2 questions was ment to be "if no one found you and everyone was still alive" the teacher mentioned second part out loud.

Dictatorship would be worse than anarchy, the 4 ppl would probly beat up the leader, not kill, just torture. Atleast I would. Fast and painful, screw slow, just yank off strips of flesh and piss in the wounds.

well no it wouldn't be incest untill atleast the 4th, and if done correctly the 5th generation, where the change of mutation is very slim, because your DNA is already altered alot from the rest.

 

[Sansui]

Rak you think you would revolt against a dictator but you wouldnt.
First of all he would have people on his side, his goons thats atleast 2 peole now him and a goon means 3 left.
People avoid confrontation and will follow someone easily, its human nature. (now its just you.)
Who says the dictator would be an asshole, he could be a very good leader?
(you wouldn't really do shit, you would work with them to survive. its what people do.)

1. it would end up much like a society of apes. the alpha male/female would take charge. closest form of gov would be a socialism.
2. FIRE, water, shelter, food. in that order.
3.1 person in charge of fire and firewood. 2 people in charge of water, 2 people getting food. everyone helps building shelter. everyone rotates jobs so as to not create niche control and so everyone is capable of doing the work incase of a death.
4.over a year I would imagine several rafts would have been built a large shelter, a firepit ect. since its an island with no obvious signs of escape no planes or boats in sight you DONT want to make a raft to escape. probably would have constructed a very large HELP US sign on the island.
5.if everyone is alive and sane the situation would probably completely change from socialism to straight dictatorship with the leader of the group in charge. females would be in danger of rape ect. the social bonds would break down fights would probably break out in tha time. securing the leaders position as leader.
as it settled to thirty years its safe to say everyone would have their role in the small society.

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

Lol, and how do you know what i'd do lmao. If there is a couple people stuck on an island, i'll be willing to help, as long as all of them help too, don't care about age(unless its like under 5) or sex. I'm not going to do anything else other than that. I don't seem necessary for a leader to be needed when everyone can just help each other out. If someone doesn't want to help, then they can provide, fresh water, food, shelter, and communication for themselves. Eventually they will help do a small part than having to do it all. There would be no "police" but i'm sure if one member rapes or fights another, no doubt the 3 others and more than likely, person who was in the right and got into the conflict would all be against that person, and then could deal judgement to him/her.

 

[Sansui]

You dont know people very well do you.

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

If thats what you want to believe, go right ahead

 

[F4talWr4th]

1. We make the best Warcraft RPG map in the universe!!!

2. Build a Computer out of a coconut tree with an Internet connection with scrap we find, download Warcraft III from a site that gives download to pirated rips (i'm not saying the link and don't neg rep me just because I say that)

3. 1 would be very intelligent with building computers out of natural things, 1 would be able to "use" computer programs very well (2 professions would be Hacking and World Editing) The other 3 Have No Life, but they are excellent masters with scripting JASS and GUI, making triggers work 100%....

4. We will make accounts to many sites and host our 5 man map project at the cost of saving our lives......

5. We will create viruses called "Stranded Tasukete!" and explode all of the Computers of the world!

I would've tried to escape just like that guy with that soccerball named willson XD

I remember that one!!!

The End "Evil Laugh"

 

[Voidwalker]

If I were trapped with 4 other people, what I'd do is kill'em all, cook'em all and eat'em all.

 

[F4talWr4th]

LOL! Are they useless?

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

internet, then you could have ppl come and save you -.-

 

[Technomancer]

1. What type of Government would you set up?
Despotism.

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)
Find me food.
Build my house.
Build pyramids.
Build other houses.
Build Colosseum.

3. What would all 5 persons jobs be?
Lord of the Domain, Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.

4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found?
Lord of the Domain, Slave, Slave, Slave. I'd have my house by now.

5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?
Lord of the Domain, Slave, my House, Half a pyramid.

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

no sex slaves?

 

[madcat2]

1. What type of Government would you set up?
A none power mad one.

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?
First week. Well you would have to set up a shelter of some kind and you would need to boil water and build hunting weopons.

3. What would all 5 persons jobs be?
You never said how old they where or what gender so i can't decide

4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found?

If i lasted a year i could last a few more don't you think?


5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?

Well probably not too well with all the cross breeding the 5 people would do after 30 years.

 

[Firelord213]

Nr1. We would have democracy but I rule everything....
Nr2. I would order pizza and soda with it each day.
Nr3. They will come up with suggestions that I will say no too..Because its democracy
Nr4. I would just enjoy...And order materials too build a house so I dont have to spend money on the hotel.
Nr5. I would let them decide when they want to go to sleep etc because it is democracy right?

 

[Lucianus]

1. What type of Government would you set up?
Err.. Well we don't plan that much.

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)
First food & water
Second Shelther
Third Clothes
Fourth Planning for future
Fifth Still planning for future
Sixth Despair
Seventh Suicide

3. What would all 5 persons jobs be?
Anything... just anything.

4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found?
It ends within seven days? So?

5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?
Ashes... o ashes...

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

Madcat: I shouldn't have to say everything...

Lucianus: ... just ... wt.... uh.... emo...

 

[Lucianus]

Meh... I couldn't think of what I could do with 4 other people. May be they lives but I die. Heh.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

1. What type of Government would you set up?

The fact that you have the ability to set a government up implies that you have control over the group, so it wouldn't really matter, as it's probably close to dictatorship anyways. But let's just say it's an anarchy.

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)

A variety of interesting endeavors, all ending with us landing in the same old situation by the end of each day.

3. What would all 5 persons jobs be?

An average joe voice of reason character, a guy with a mysterious past (usually very adaptive to the environment), a comic relief character that always screws things up, a spoiled person unaccustomed to the harshness of island life, and perhaps a staff member of the ship/plane that had the accident causing the people to be stranded in the first place. The last person or the second is usually the gateway to conspiracy unfolding as the days progress.

4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found?

A new season would start, usually with some mysterious entity after the group.

5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?

There would be a new adaptation of the series, perhaps in the form of a movie.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

I concur with the above, but submit my own anyways:

1. True democracy, because that's what things generally default to among a group of random people. It wouldn't be established, it would be the status quo right from the start. It would probably degrade into either a dictatorship being lead by the alpha male (if there was two or three males), or anarchy.

2. Priorities would be: food, fresh water, fire, getting laid, shelter, in that order with the possible exception of getting laid moving around depending on the number of males versus the number of females, and also on the attitudes of everyone. If it's something like four males and one female, getting laid would either be first or last on the list. There would definitely eventually be fighting over the female either way. If it was one male and four females, I'd imagine that getting laid might move up on the list. It would definitely be #1 for the male.

3. Whatever we're good at. I'm generally good at nothing except for conceptualization. Oh, and I can tell which way is north with the stars at night, and with a watch and clear sky during the day. Probably everyone would do a little of everything.

4. The other people would have probably killed me because I'm good at only thinking. I am unable to foresee anything past my own demise, so I'm not quite sure. They'd probably be only slightly worse off without me than if they hadn't killed me. If they didn't kill me, we'd probably still all just do whatever we're good at, and if someone was bad at something the other people would just default to not include them in the activity out of habit.

5. Again, I am unable to foresee anything past my own demise, so I'm not quite sure. And, undoubtedly, unless it were a bigass island, almost no one would have survived. If we were all still alive, getting laid would have definitely moved up on the priority list, because everything else would be taken care of.

 

[TheDivineBoss]

1. What type of Government would you set up?
I'll claim my 3/4th of the island and the rest may have the rest.
2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)
Screw the women, make babies to survive.
3. What would all 5 persons jobs be?
The women: My babycreators. The men: Food.
4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found?
I make more babies to eat!
5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?
I already get rescued and become a internation celebrity to survive on myself on a small island while my friends mysteriously died, unfortunatly.

 

[Lucianus]

... LMAO it would takes you 9 months+ for each babies!

 

[TheDivineBoss]

Yeah and? I'm so easily adapted to my situation that I hibernate.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Yours is neither funny nor realistic, and therefore fails.

 

[Hakeem]

What type of Government would you set up?
From the question, I assume that I am the leader, and the island is big enough to support an actual government.
It would be a dictatorship, since I'm the leader.

What would be the things you would do within the first week?

• Raid boat.
• Thank God that I always carry the entire first season of Man vs. Wild and a portable solar powered DVD player.
• Ensure health, get shelter, etc., survival things.
• Stockpile nutrition.
• Explore.

What would all 5 persons jobs be?
Miscellaneous.

How would the situation change after a year, if never found?
If there is a female, maybe there would be a fifth person by now.
We would have many board games.
We would have a rudimentary boat.
The island would be explored in depth.

Now I would consider making an actual government. We would get the boat ready for long distance travel, and, if necessary, I would bribe people with positions of power in the new country. We would calculate our location, find the closest land, travel to aforementioned land, get technology, return to island, and begin developing the first town. We would then start getting people to join the new government.

How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?
N/A.

EDIT:
If you choose the 4 people, who would they be?

 

[brad.dude03]

1) A communal government (communist). You'd have one person leading, thr strongest, most intelligent and charismatic person. Anyone who challenged them for leadership would have to be voted in by the others. You'd need someone to establish order, quell panic, and get a basic living center arranged.

2) The very first thing I would do would be to establish sources of food and water. Next I would search out areas that could be used or adapted for shelter, and then I would try to find the necessities required for fire.

3) There would be one person in charge of maintaining the shelter. This would be the leader. Their job would be to construct and maintain the shelter. the second person would be in charge of trying to get us off the island. If a boat or plane crashed, it would be salvaging whatever we could from the wreckage. If no wreckage could be found, they would be in charge of creating distress signals, and messages. The third person would be in charge of resources, water, food, fire. It would be their job to gather whatever they could to distribute equally amongst everyone. The fourth person would be the hunter, gathering food via fishing, or if the island was big enough, animals. This differentiates from the third person who would gather natural sources like fruits and berries. The fifth person would be a medic. If anyone was hurt, they would be treated as best as possible and the medic would fill in for their job while they healed.

4) I would continue. We would begin stockpiling things in case of emergency and we would preserve them through any means possible. The shelter would become thicker, stronger, and more resistant, possibly adding more room if needed. We would continue as we had originally, gathering the basics for what we need, and saving the rest for later.

5) After 30 years, if we hadn't gone insane then we would have made an attempt at rescue. Ifd you had thirty years, you could, through trial and error, make something capable of floating and holding five people in as relative-comfort as is possible on a boat. Using our previously stockpiled supplies, we could make an attempt at escape and either make it back to civilization or die in the process.

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

Wow brad dude was only other who was actually serious I believe lmao.

Hakeem... I love that show..... it's aweeeesome

Yeah and? I'm so easily adapted to my situation that I hibernate.

and I'm so wasily adapted to my situation that I can masturbate.

 

[Belgarath]

1) Well, an anarchy obviously.
2) Materials for my crown, food & water for me, fire and shelter for me, food & water for me, fire and shelter for my slaves. In that order.
3) King, slave, slave, slave, slave (and the slaves make baby slaves => slaves)
4) I'd be King Belgarath with my population of 25, including me (4x fivelings, all mine)
5) After the crossbreeding has finished, we'd have a large population of around 25,000 people, always fivelings or sixlings, and I'm the Big Daddy and then there's little Daddies. Of course, we're in an island in the middle of the world's ass, so it's around 15 miles (around 45km) in diameter, and we live peacefully (or not) while the rest of the world hacks and eats each other - we eat each other too.

The End!

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

thats an Dictatorship, not an anarchy.

 

[hellclown]

1. What type of Government would you set up?Oligarchy

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)find native peoples and gain controll of them throught the whole I AM A GOD BOW TO ME DAMNIT!!!system then rule them with our combined iron fists.

3. What would all 5 persons jobs be? one would be in change of the military one would be in charge of school one would be religion one would be external affairs one would be internal affairs

4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found? IT DAMN WELL WOULDN'T

5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue? WE WOULD HAVE USED ALL OF THE RESOURCES AND KILLED OFF THE NATIVE POPULATION FROM OVER WORKING THEM IN TYPICAL (*insert radical political party name here*) STYLE!!! We would then die from over working one another.

 

[The_wand_mirror]

Why do most people here that react think they are the immediate strongest of the group? You may be the youngest and weakest one of the party.. what then? they will rule you?...

 

[brad.dude03]

There are two kinds of people: Leaders and Followers. Leaders rule over the Followers, who in turn serve dutifully. Apparently, we are in vast majority of leaders, rather than followers.

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

could be a relation to that, map makers want to control their own world, leaders more than likely in rl, well just sorta similair. But I think some are just acting tougher than they really are. Why do you think I say Anarchy? I'm not the toughest, but I can take care of myself and i'm not going to take orders so I can either run or fight, weaker or stronger.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)find native peoples and gain controll of them throught the whole I AM A GOD BOW TO ME DAMNIT!!!system then rule them with our combined iron fists.
...

5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue? WE WOULD HAVE USED ALL OF THE RESOURCES AND KILLED OFF THE NATIVE POPULATION FROM OVER WORKING THEM IN TYPICAL (*insert radical political party name here*) STYLE!!! We would then die from over working one another.

Nice one, I'm seriously |——————| this close to repping for the grievous misunderstanding. You and only four other people, as in no natives.

 

[Cheeder]

Rakdos, i agree with your answer that everybody should have the right to do as they like. The problem is, first, the lack of definition of the island. Is it small or big? Are there plentiful edible plants or must we be spending most of our time on the island fishing off of it? Secondly, if it is a small island then someone might eat your "share" of the divided territory. What i mean by divided territory is, at the least you all are going to have a private area for yourself, to sleep and keep your own stuff, including gathered food!



1) I would setup a Republic. Since the personalities are going to be the problem and not anything else, what they can agree on they should define it. That way there is no favor over one from the other, no leader, no prioritizing, no conflicts of power.

2) Setting up the Republic would be the first thing. Not that there needs to be a physical building in order for there to be a school, i'd have it understood by the other 4 that at this meeting held every day at a certain time that they are in school and need to be respectful. Again, only they can accept it to be a school-type environment in order to establish the Republic! So all parties need to agree that they need to agree.. on certain things. They'd then have to agree to a time and place to be able to agree with one another, and thus we have our first school, or court (which is just some logs placed in a circle).

Since we are not assumed to be related, it's not as if we can mother each other. So, in regards to setting up shelter and finding food that is left to each individual as their OWN priority. Such a thing is called "self preservation" and there cannot be any control over another on how they might go about that. However, this doesn't mean one learned person can't help or teach the others how to make a mud hut, etc. or that it wouldn't be discussed in school. Mind you, if one person knows how to survive and doesn't want the others taking the coconuts from the few trees, that person may not share their survival skills to the others in hopes that they may die sooner.
In that regard, in regard to finding food and building a shelter, that is not anarchy but anarchy could ensue as a means for self-preservation during the first few day or weeks.

So the school is a necessary priority to get each party to agree on some principles, not laws. The first principle, if you take or damage property or hurt another person, you may end up wishing you had killed them because each person has the right to defend them self. Another principle we may all agree on is if there is a quarrel between two people that no other person will take a side on the matter, no matter what it may be. This spawns an awareness for defense, not offense, and thus keeps everyone in check.

Now keep in mind this is only for the first few days or month, not that each person is going to or should have to keep alert and worry about the other persons for the rest of their life. Once they have shelter and find a source of food they will most likely exchange ideas on gathering food and building better shelter, etc.

3) As a Republic there would be no assigned jobs, no leader, no director, only principles. Since there would be no jail, no form of money, defining consequences is useless. To apply a consequence to an offense is a law, and being that there would be no way to enforce a law in this situation, only universal principles can be understood and applied.

The principle that each person better respect the others' property and being or there will be trouble would make any hardknock straighten out over time because each of them would know that the others have the right to defend them self and their property by any means possible, and who knows how that could be.

It would be presented that if ever one falsely accused another or any wrong-doing that the others have already agreed not to take sides. They may involve themself in the matter only to stop the quarrel, if they so choose, but they may not act as an investigator into the matter to mediate the situation beyond splitting the two up.
And if one of the persons in question should confide in another as to tell them what happened, the person in question is to be sent away as to prevent the other from forming judgement and taking a side.

4) What a shitty question.

5) This one needs a diaper change, too.

 

[robot-dude]

1. What type of Government would you set up?
Sand lovers
2. What would be the things you would do within the first week?(Check priorities)
Build a hut
3. What would all 5 persons jobs be?
Fisher/Cooker/Chopper/Waitress/stripper
4. How would the situation change after a year, if never found?
Death
5. How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?
Dead.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Cheeder, your scenario is full of holes. The largest one being that you expect everybody to remain completely neutral in every single fight that does not involve themselves. Alliances will form whether they're spoken or merely understood.

Another rather noteworthy one is that you expect "hardknock"s to be wary of the fact that people will fight back. If they're "hardknock" and the other people aren't, that person is going to win fights and nobody will do anything about it. As a matter of fact, nobody is supposed to do anything about it. Well, maybe they'll go and gang up on said hardknock... except they're not supposed to.

It's a good attempt at realism, but there are several oversights. Let's see a joke one next.

 

[MySpaceBarBroke]

Why do most people here that react think they are the immediate strongest of the group? You may be the youngest and weakest one of the party.. what then? they will rule you?...

Considering the question is telling us what government I would set up, it is assuming I have the power to set up a government amongst the 5 individuals. That is why I react think I am the immediate strongest of the group.

 

[Rakdos Defiler]

well it more along the lines means that they are looking for a government to follow, and yours is chosen amongst the group. I didn't design questions. Teacher did.

 

[Cheeder]

Cheeder, your scenario is full of holes. The largest one being that you expect everybody to remain completely neutral in every single fight that does not involve themselves. Alliances will form whether they're spoken or merely understood.

Another rather noteworthy one is that you expect "hardknock"s to be wary of the fact that people will fight back. If they're "hardknock" and the other people aren't, that person is going to win fights and nobody will do anything about it. As a matter of fact, nobody is supposed to do anything about it. Well, maybe they'll go and gang up on said hardknock... except they're not supposed to.

It's a good attempt at realism, but there are several oversights. Let's see a joke one next.

The idea is to have everyone understand that one cannot control what another does, but not to expect there to be policing of activity. If people gang up on each other then everybody lives in fear and that's not what people want. If they agree to be neutral in every situation than 9 times out of 10 those who were not initially involved will stay neutral. Now, if one chooses to take a side, because as stated before, neutral doesn't mean not getting involved as a means to separate the two either by words alone or physical contact (hopefully not aggressive toward one over another, equal aggressiveness), then that person now has to worry about the other. Most people want to stay out of other people's business as long as they can live happily and comfortable, so the likelihood of anyone else getting involved is slim. That basically covers your other, second point. A hardknock may be a hardknock but their aggressiveness and physical strength may not be a match for another's wit and survival skill. Who knows what kind of protection the other is going to have; booby traps, projectile weapons, etc.

Let me reiterate that these common principles would be agreed on right away. The reason for this is that none of the 5 know what's on the island, specifically the sources of food. So if one is traveling for hours or days on end looking for food and water and someone else already found some within the first hour, the starving one may be desperate enough to endanger the other's well-being. I'm not going to assume that the well-off one isn't going to share, but even at the starving person's lowest he or she is going to have to remember to be respectful or they MAY get their ass handed to them. So these are common principles they will need to live by until they all get settled. One they all get settled and learn how to get their water and food and have their shelter then the worry and fear of one another will go away. Then what they do from there is anyone's guess.
The point is to establish the commonalities between all 5 personalities. When that is established each person will know what they can and cannot do and know THE consequence if they cross that boundary. Since it would be understood that this agreement will only need to last until they each get settled it would most likely not be disrespected.

They may even help each other find food or build a hut, who knows.

 

[Teh_Ephy]

Ah, okay, I see. I was assuming that the "understandings" would stay in place, but they're rather adequate if they're only temporary.

 

[Karouk]

What type of Government would you set up?

Parliamentary. I'd choose this over all because A) With Anarchy, you really don't have laws, so people could just get hurt very easily. B) You get too choose the representatives, and C) I like the name.

What would be the things you would do within the first week?

I would send out about two or three reconnaissance squads to take a look around the island. This way I'd be able to know where to go fishing for food, where the ground is fertile for crops, where danger looks, etc. I would begin to work on my capital city on my island (city named Hive, isle called Grunk).

What would all 5 persons jobs be?

One person in charge on my army, two in charge of the recon mission(s), one incharge of the economy, and the last incharge of construction.

How would the situation change after a year, if never found?

Well, I for one would not care much if never found. Soon the isle of Grunk will improve in technology and be able to create large boats and planes to set up trade routes with other countries, so I would have no need to be rescued.

How would the community be after 30 years and no rescue?

Hopefully within that time, my population will reach over 10,000. The isle should soon be able to have electricity, oil, planes, etc. Within those thirty years I just hope global warming won't take over and drown us all. Hopefully though we will have underwater cities.