I posted this post apparently nine days ago and the way my mind works is it brews ideas below the surface and then they pop up fully formed.
Countries need families. Countries need stable family units. Countries need babies. People aren't doing this enough because whippersnappers on their iBooks etc. The problem is real.
What if the state has a registry of single people, and invites about 100 of them – matched for age and other basic compatibility factors – to the same event on one night. They do speed-dating, get through 50 people in a night, 2-3 minutes per person. Then they give the thumbs-up or thumbs-down to each person.
At the end of the night, people will have an average of at least a few (maybe 2-3, pessimistically) potential matches. But do it every Saturday of the summer, and you have 40+
And then they follow up with a long-form date. Not sure if that's also state-run, I'll need to check the budget.
Can this be hosted in a purpose-built facility shaped liked Stalin's spoon, and the event opening speech be something equating people to corn or wheat or rice and make it that all of us are mixed in the spoon and hail to the power of planned agriculture and whatnot?