In 2017, then-Workers' Party leader and de-facto leader of the Opposition in Singapore, Low Thia Khiang, declared that his party was "maybe 20 years away" from being able to form an alternative government. For the purposes of this debate, a "strong opposition" is an opposition party or coalition that can realistically form a functioning government if elected to do so.

Ecoterrorism is the use or threatened use of violence by environmentally-oriented groups carried out to further the agenda of pushing for environmental awareness and policy change. Common tactics include sabotaging environmentally damaging equipments/activities e.g. the Sea Shepherd movement destroying fishnets and ramming illegal whaling vessels, saving animal testing subjects through invasion of property, arson etc.

Sortition democracy, or the random selection of government officials, is the use of random selection from the populace at large to form voting bodies or fill political positions. In this system, the selection can be modified to match the socioeconomic and demographic profile of the country in question (e.g. 50% of those selected may be women if half of the population of the country is women).