A couple of points:

- I am absolutely for everyone meeting at Diet sessions in person. As previously mentioned, it's more fun when you actually argue with a major character instead of his clerk.

- econ and FLYdude make a good point when it comes to pace. However, I don't think we should be blazing through two to three turns a day unless nothing happens, only movement.

- I suppose the only real way to get activity up in the Diet is, as already mentioned, to have a crisis. Preferably public. Speaking from experience, events you engineer are the most fun when the Diet's reaction is loud. I think we should work to always have us in some sort of trouble, then. That way we'll always have something to complain about.