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Here's a wondering post
Nogodia and Wanasnaswa
Here's a post stating we're planning our next bill.
Oh god I hope I didn't just accidentally suppress an old RP post. Gotta check...
Edit: It's safe.
===Map Update===
- removed The Hudon Archipelago
- removed Shibukawa
- removed Bolbination
- removed New United States of America
- removed Sveopia
- removed Mithlin
- removed Rome and Bologna
- removed Alsesia
Nogodia, The Socialist Republic of Saian, and Wanasnaswa
Nogodia and The Socialist Republic of Saian
I concur.
Nogodia and Wanasnaswa
The titles of "Statsminister", "Landsraad", and "Staatsblad" are to be renamed based on a public vote.
Amendments to Act VIII:
Act VIII : Emergency Powers Act
Section 1: Title
The title of this law is the "Emergency Powers Act of 2017." It may be cited as the "EPA".
Section 2: Defined Terms
"CISB" means the "Community, Independence, Solidarity, Brotherhood" region within the NationStates game.
"Founder" means the nation of Pascala.
"President" means the President of CISB.
"Min Mil Ad" means the Minister of Military Affairs. Administration.
"Min Int" means the Minister of Internal Affairs. the Interior.
"CJ" means the Chief Justice of CISB
"Vice-President" means the Vice-President of CISB.
"Regional Security Officer" means each of the Founder, the Min Ad, Chief Justice, and the Min Int.
Section 3: Authority to Declare State of Emergency; Duration
The President may declare a state of emergency at any time he determines CISB to be under attack from external raiders or sleeper agents within CISB. A state of emergency declared by the President will last for 48 hours, but it may be renewed for one additional consecutive 48-hour period.
If the President is unavailable or otherwise fails to act, a state of emergency may be declared by any two or more National Security Officers, acting together, determining the CISB to be under attack from external raiders or sleeper agents within CISB. A state of emergency declared by National Security Officers under this Section 3 §2 will last for 24 hours but may be replaced or followed by a state of emergency declared by the President under Section 3 §1.
Any single National Security Officer, acting unilaterally, who determines the CISB to be under attack from external raiders or sleeper agents within CISB may declare a temporary state of emergency. A state of emergency declared under this Section 3 §3 will last for 12 hours, but may be replaced or followed by a state of emergency declared by the President under Section 3 §1, or by two or more National Security Officers under Section 3 §2.
The Regional Assembly may, by simple majority vote, cancel or extend any state of emergency (whether declared under Section 3 §1, §2 or §3).
The maximum total duration of any state of emergency, howsoever declared or extended, is one week.
Any declaration of a state of emergency must be supported by a statement specifying the reasons for the declaration. This statement must be posted on the RMB, the regional Factbook and in the offline forums, and must be signed by the required number of nations as per Section 3 §1, §2 or §3 of this law.
Section 4: Effects of State of Emergency; Martial Law
During a state of emergency, martial law applies within the CISB. During martial law, any National Security Officer who is online may issue a declaration of war against the raider region.
During martial law the Founder shall grant border control authority, embassy authority and appearance authority to all National Security Officers and to any other nations named by the President, Chief Justice, or the Min Ad. The Founder shall dismiss any officer deemed to be a threat to regional security by the President, Chief Justice, or the Min Ad.
Any nation holding border control authority during martial law must exercise border control authority to eject and ban any nation declared by the military authorities to be a threat to CISB and may exercise border control authority to eject and ban any nation that reasonably appears to be a threat to CISB. Martial law authority cannot be used to eject the President, the Chief Justice, or any National Security Officer unless it is clearly apparent that such official is an invader or colluding with invaders. Ejections may be appealed using the procedures specified in the Charter, but an appeal cannot be used to halt an ejection (only to reverse the ejection later). Any nation entrusted with border control authority during martial law may lock the region with a password, or remove a password lock imposed by raiders.
Any nation holding appearance authority during martial law must exercise that authority to defend against attempts by invaders to post misleading information on the regional Factbook or RMB.
Any nation holding embassy authority during martial law must use it to block efforts by the invaders to close embassies with regions allied to CISB.
During martial law, both the President and the Chief Justice will have command authority; this command authority may be exercised jointly or separately. Any nation in CISB carrying out an order issued by the President or the Chief Justice during martial law is considered to be acting lawfully, even if that order appears to contradict the Charter or other valid CISB legislation. The President and the CJ have authority to delegate all or part of their command authority to any other nation in CISB, and to issue orders for the banning and ejection of nations.
The command authority described in Section 4 §3 will automatically end at the end of the state of emergency.
Any orders issued pursuant to martial law command authority will end at the end of the state of emergency. The sole purpose of martial law command authority is to facilitate rapid response to invaders and raiders. Martial law command authority cannot be used to repeal or amend the Charter, or to effect permanent changes to duly enacted CISB laws and regulations.
This is a quick and dirty proposal before we post our other one regarding regional RP changes.
Section 1: Title
The title of this law is "The Regional Dependencies Act". It may be cited as the "RDA".
Section 2: Definitions
"Cabinet Minister" means the Statsminister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister of the Interior, the Minister of Administration and the Minister of Role Play.
"CISB" means the "Community, Independence, Solidarity, Brotherhood" region within the NationStates game.
"Citizen" means a nation that obtained full citizenship in the CISB region.
"Dependency" means a region within the NationStates game that is under the ultimate control of CISB, but is given limited autonomy to act as a platform for Puppets of CISB Citizens to engage in role-playing under alternative timelines and scenarios.
"Nation" means a nation within the NationStates game.
"Player" means an individual human player (or group of players) controlling a single account within the NationStates game.
"Founder" means the founder of CISB.
"Dependency Founder" means the founder of a Dependency Region.
"Dependency Official" means the Governor of a Dependency and any other official holding in-game authority within a Dependency.
"Principal Nation" means, with respect to each Player, one (and only one) Nation designated by that Player to be the main nation for purposes of the CISB region or CISB's Dependencies.
"Puppet" means any Nation, other than a Principal Nation, under common control by a single Player.
"Resident" means any nation that is a member of any region in the NationStates game.
Section 3: Applications
Any Citizen of a CISB may write to the Statsminister Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the forms of telegram or dispatch, requesting the creation of a Dependency of CISB. This dispatch will be known as the "Application" and the player as the "Applicant".
The Application must detail the proposed name and purpose of the Dependency.
When reviewing an Application, the Foreign Minister must decide, following consultation with Cabinet Ministers, whether the following criteria are met:
Has the Applicant decided to make the Application for a clear purpose?
Is it within CISB's interests of regional harmony, security, and moral obligations to accept the Application?
Would accepting the Request be beneficial to the majority of residents of CISB?
The answers to the above criteria must be affirmative in every case in order for the Application to be submitted to the Statsminister to accept an Application on CISB's behalf.
If the answer to any of the above criteria is "No", then the Statsminister must not accept the Application on CISB's behalf.
The Statsminister may revoke their approval of an Application at any time, without reason. Similarly, even if all the aforementioned criteria are met, the Statsminister is under no obligation to accept the Application. However, any Landsraad member may propose a referendum to force the acceptance of the application. This may only be done if the Application has met all the criteria.
Section 4: Dependencies
Once an Application has been accepted, the Founder must use a puppet to create the Dependency region to the specifications requested by the Applicant and approved by the Statsminister. The puppet is then known as the Dependency Founder.
The Founder must always remain in control of the Dependency Founder.
Dependencies will have no regional government of their own and will be reliant upon CISB for security and governance. However, upon instructions from the Statsminister, the Dependency Founder must appoint a resident of the Dependency to the office of "Governor" The Governor will act as Cabinet's representative in the Dependency and as such will be treated as the highest-ranking official of the Dependency.
The Statsminister may also instruct the Dependency Founder to appoint one or more other residents of the Dependency to administer the Dependency's map and to administer RP within that Dependency. Any such Dependency Officials will be given the appropriate authority levels within that Dependency as they may need to perform their tasks. This official may be given any title as seen fit by the region (i.e, Loremaster). However, the official's role must be clarified on the WA Factbook Entry as well as on the RMB.
Residence in a Dependency is restricted to Puppets who are controlled by a Citizen of CISB. To enforce this requirement, the Dependency Founder must password-protect the Dependency and share the password only with the Statsminister, the Founder and any Citizens of CISB that personally telegram the Statsminister with a request to move a Puppet to the Dependency.
The Statsminister must provide the password for a Dependency to any Citizen of CISB upon request unless the Statsminister considers disclosing the password to present a risk to the safety and security of either CISB or the Dependency. The Dependency Founder may change the password from time to time to protect regional security.
Dependencies may actively recruit new members. However, any recruitment messages sent by a Dependency Official must direct newly recruited nations to CISB. Section 4.5 of this Law always applies to all recruited nations.
The Governor is tasked with the day-to-day running of the Dependency.
The Governor may write to the Statsminister to seek advice on executive actions to be made within the Dependency, in order to aid the day-to-day running of the Dependency.
Section 4.9 of this Law includes the recommendation of appointments of further officers within the Dependency to carry out specific duties.
The Governor is tasked with maintaining an up-to-date dispatch listing all the residents of the Dependency and their corresponding Principal Nation residing in CISB. This dispatch should be pinned the Dependency's World Facebook Entry.
A Player may swap its Principal Nation in CISB with its puppet in a Dependency, however, each Player must always maintain one nation as a citizen of CISB at all times.
Any Player that has a nation as a resident of a Dependency that does not also have another nation as a citizen of CISB will face summary ejection from the Dependency unless the Statsminister sees a valid reason to waive this rule.
The Governor and the Dependency Founder are jointly responsible for upholding the standards set in this Law.
The Statsminister retains the right to dismiss the Governor at any time from their position and appoint a replacement.
Laws in CISB regarding World Assembly membership requirement for voting remain unaffected by Dependencies and their residents.
Dependencies may not declare war on other regions nor attempt to break away from CISB. The government of CISB is tasked with protecting any Dependencies as though they are an integral part of CISB.
Dependencies are first and foremost role-play platforms. Residents of each Dependency are free to decide amongst themselves on how Role Play will be conducted within their respective Dependencies.
The seniority of the Governor of a Dependency must always be respected when discussing regional matters, although residents are expected to maintain the cordial and fair standards set by CISB at all times.
The Government of CISB may dissolve any Dependency at any time if the Statsminister or the Founder declare this to be in the best interests of CISB. However, a 48-hour notice must be given prior to doing so.
Section 5: Retroactive Measures
At the time this law is ratified, the following regions are declared Dependencies of CISB:
The Founder must bring these regions into compliance with this law within ten (10) days, following which these regions will operate normally as Dependencies as prescribed by this law.
An official proposal for amendments to the Regional Dependencies Act.
Thank you.
I’m up to rename the Statsminister, but to me, the Landsraad and Statsblad will always be that. Also, I wouldn’t mind a change, instead of the already overused title of Prime Minister or President, why not State Minister as a litteral translation. Also also, I’ll be back the 22nd...
Nogodia, The Socialist Republic of Saian, and Kardaze
Sounds good to me.
State Minister.
Wanasnaswa and Kardaze
I agree with Wanasnaswa, however, personally, I am not in favor of renaming anything.
Edit: And I see that I have missed the polls....rip me.
Nogodia, Breen, and Kardaze
It seems to me that the previous poll was a waste of time because it was based on a hastily prepared dispatch that didn't really explain what it was proposing to do.
Some humble thoughts:
(1) Since some people are in favor of changing some names but opposed to changing other names; wouldn't it make sense to run separate votes for each name you propose changing? In other words, one vote for Statsminister, one vote for Landsraad, one vote for Statsblaad? A package-deal vote on amending the constitution to change these names already failed once.
(2) Changing the name "Statsminister" requires a constitutional amendment. Changing the name "Landsraad" requires a constitutional amendment. Changing the name "Statsblaad" does not require a constitutional amendment.
(3) Would it not make sense for the poll to tell voters what the name is being changed to so that people can make a proper choice? In other words, vote on changing Statsminister to Chancellor, or State Minister, or whatever, instead of a poll to change the name without specifying to what? It might affect people's decision making. Many might prefer Chancellor to Statsminister, but might prefer keeping Statsminister rather than changing it to "Grand Imperial Cauliflower Poobah."
(4) Is renaming offices and institutions really the most pressing issue facing CISB right now? It strikes me as a bit like re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Michellae, The Socialist Republic of Saian, Wanasnaswa, Breen, and 1 otherKardaze
Something to keep busy? Honestly, I don’t know what we are doing. Seriously, I have no damn clue what to do either then to chill and to roleplay, which lately I haven’t been doing since my trip. So, if you have a better idea to do with my time, and our time... go ahead...
Nogodia, The Socialist Republic of Saian, and Kardaze
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