This is false.
The government and the investors were always on the lookout for people who wanted to start businesses and start employing people, whether on farms or factories or anything similar. Land was given for free or owners had major tax cuts or things like that
It (at least it's supposed to) applies for everyone, but the only thing that the officials can do to people who break it is denounce them, so it doesn't work on terrorists.
They vote directly for the best candidate. But its just the popular vote