Very interesting. it gets rather easy to find one of several "niches" with the system though. People with polar opposite governments in the comments are all getting no crime and 100% across the board by simply balancing the agenda so they can CORRECT the issues their gov creates via the points system. In short, too much leniency with points allows for almost any government with extremes that are equal (2 low extremes and 2 high extremes) to survive via damage control. RNG also messes with you a lot at the beginning depending on your intended gov, since on my first day in office I was shot (before I could make any adjustments) for my first method and got aliens the first two days of my third method.
Just in my playthrough alone, I went with four different methods that got me all the medals easily. My method starting off with a lot of control, a lot of food food, and normal-to-low laws & punishments (depending on if I needed more points to save other things while I poured a ton into security). This helped me survive the assassinations but not get reelected. I then tried to make a full dictatorship, which got me secret medal 12. The other two methods came from the comments-- Popope's got me positive awards, reelection in real elections, and secret medal 13, while Piexe Aereo's method got me through the fake election, medal 12 again, and (incidentally when I messed up at first) secret medal 14.