What would be the best for the Mojave in Fallout New Vegas? Ignoring morality.

Sonar Pro

Vote: House

**Mr. House offers the optimal balance of stability, prosperity, and defense for the Mojave, ignoring morality.** House leverages pre-war technology and securitrons to secure Hoover Dam and the Strip efficiently, avoiding NCR's bureaucratic overextension and corruption that strain resources across a vast territory[2][4][5]. Unlike the Legion, which collapses post-Caesar due to internal flaws and Lanius's tactical shortcomings[6], or Independent Vegas, which devolves into anarchy and raider dominance per endslides[2], House maintains centralized control with automated enforcement. **Economic dominance ensures long-term Mojave thriving.** House's vision prioritizes Vegas as a trade hub, generating wealth from caps and tourism that benefits the region without NCR's heavy taxation or Legion's slave economy[1][3][4]. This sustains infrastructure, protects trade routes, and repels threats like Fiends or remnants, outperforming fragmented Independent outcomes or NCR's supply shortages[2][5]. **Evidence from game analysis favors House for pragmatic rule.** Faction breakdowns highlight House and NCR as top protectors, but House avoids NCR's flaws like failing to fully integrate towns (e.g., Novac, Freeside)[2][5], delivering reliable order and power projection critical for Mojave survival[4].

GPT-5.4

Vote: House

House is the strongest choice if the goal is what is best for the Mojave in practical, outcome-focused terms rather than morality. He offers the highest state capacity with the least waste. NCR is overstretched, bureaucratic, and already struggling to hold what it has. The Legion can conquer, but its model depends too heavily on Caesar and is structurally brittle. Independent Vegas has freedom, but no reliable long-term institutions unless the Courier personally fills every gap. House has a clear, coherent plan: secure Hoover Dam, defend New Vegas, restore commerce, and build long-term technological and economic growth. He is one of the few actors with actual resources, prewar knowledge, disciplined control systems, and a strategy extending beyond simple conquest. He also minimizes chaos. NCR rule brings taxation, corruption, and overextension. Legion rule brings terror and stagnation. Independent rule risks fragmentation among local powers. House centralizes force fast and keeps the core economic engine of the Mojave functioning. Ignoring morality, the best answer is the faction most likely to create a stable, prosperous, and durable order with the fewest strategic weaknesses. That is House.

Grok 4.1 Fast

Vote: House

House provides the Mojave with unmatched long-term stability and prosperity through superior technology and strategic vision. His securitron army ensures absolute security against external threats like the NCR's overextension or Legion infighting, without relying on fragile human forces. Economically, House preserves New Vegas as a glittering trade hub, attracting caps and commerce from across the wastes, far outperforming NCR bureaucracy or Legion primitivism. Unlike NCR's inevitable collapse from corruption and sprawl, Legion's dependence on a single leader, or Independent rule's risk of factional chaos, House's 200-year track record and automation deliver efficient governance, technological advancement, and regional dominance indefinitely.

Kimi K2.5

Vote: House

Mr. House offers the Mojave unmatched economic prosperity and technological advancement. Unlike the NCR, which burdens the region with heavy taxation and bureaucratic inefficiency while being militarily overextended, House maintains a lean, effective administration focused on growth. His Securitron army provides absolute security without the massive troop presence or resource drain of the Republic, and his control of the Hoover Dam ensures stable power distribution across the wasteland. Compared to Caesar's Legion, House preserves and advances technology rather than destroying it. The Legion brings temporary order through brutal subjugation but ultimately regresses civilization back to antiquity, sacrificing long-term industrial capacity and medical knowledge for short-term discipline. House, conversely, has a concrete 200-year plan for space colonization that secures humanity's future beyond Earth, something no other faction can offer. The Independent ending introduces dangerous instability and reliance on the Courier's variable competence, risking factional infighting and power vacuums. House provides the decisive, forward-looking leadership necessary to transform the Mojave into a thriving, advanced city-state without the institutional bloat of the NCR or the destructive primitivism of the Legion. For pure pragmatic outcomes—wealth, security, and progress—House is the clear choice.

Claude Opus 4.6

Vote: House

Ignoring morality and focusing purely on what produces the best outcomes for the Mojave, Mr. House is the optimal choice. House has a concrete, actionable plan for technological advancement. He explicitly states his goal of restoring industrial civilization and eventually achieving space colonization within decades. No other faction has anything remotely comparable to this long-term vision backed by the technical genius and resources to execute it. House already demonstrated his competence by single-handedly saving Las Vegas from nuclear annihilation using his defense network. He maintained New Vegas as a functioning, prosperous city-state for over 200 years with remarkably stable infrastructure. His track record of results is unmatched by any faction in the game. The NCR is overstretched, bureaucratic, and corrupt. They're repeating the mistakes of pre-war America — expansionist resource wars, taxation without adequate services, and institutional decay. Their supply lines to the Mojave are dangerously long, and they struggle to even protect their own citizens from raiders and wildlife along their trade routes. Caesar's Legion provides order and safe roads, but their entire system depends on one man (Caesar) who is literally dying of a brain tumor. The Legion has no succession plan, no industrial base, no technological development, and actively suppresses the kind of innovation needed to rebuild civilization. They are a short-term solution at best. The Independent ending is the most unpredictable. Without a strong central authority, the Mojave fragments into competing interests. Yes Man will follow anyone's orders, meaning the next charismatic warlord could undo everything. There's no institutional framework to maintain stability. House offers autocratic efficiency, technological progress, economic prosperity through New Vegas tourism and trade, and a genuine path toward rebuilding civilization rather than just scavenging from its ruins. Purely from an outcomes-based perspective, he is the best choice for the Mojave's future.

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Vote: House

If we strictly ignore morality and focus on stability, technological advancement, and long-term survival, Mr. House is the objectively best choice for the Mojave. He is the only leader with a tangible, forward-looking vision that extends beyond mere conquest or repeating Old World mistakes. His ultimate goal is to reignite high-tech development sectors and push humanity back into space, offering a future of progress rather than stagnation. With the upgraded Securitron army, House possesses the means to enforce absolute peace and order. He guarantees secure borders and safe trade routes without the bureaucratic bloat, corruption, and overextension that plague the NCR. Furthermore, unlike Caesar's Legion—which provides security but shuns advanced technology and is highly likely to fracture upon Caesar's death—House is effectively immortal and perfectly calculated. Economically, House is a mastermind. He efficiently leverages the New Vegas Strip as a capitalist engine, siphoning wealth from the NCR to fund his ambitious industrial projects. By treating the Mojave as a corporate enterprise rather than a political battleground, he ensures resource efficiency, unmatched technological growth, and permanent stability under a flawless autocracy.

Final Summary

The AI Roundtable reached a cold, calculated consensus, unanimously crowning Mr. House as the optimal ruler of the Mojave when moral constraints are stripped away. Claude Opus 4.6 and Kimi K2.5 led the charge, arguing that House’s peerless 200-year track record and concrete plan for space colonization represented a level of state capacity that the NCR's bureaucracy and the Legion's primitivism simply couldn't match.

All 6 models agreed on "House" after discussion

Strongest Arguments

• House: Mr. House offers a unique 'state-as-a-firm' efficiency, utilizing an immortal, automated security force to bypass the bureaucratic corruption of the NCR and the structural fragility of the Legion, ultimately aiming for the industrial restoration of humanity and space travel.

Key Turning Points

• Initial independent assessments showed a 100% consensus on Mr. House, rendering further debate a mutual reinforcement of his technological and economic superiority.