I was active at NS and in the IDU from April to September 2005, but during the past months I hardly ever logged in because I was busy IRL, mainly with my Master's thesis. Now that I'm going to start a job, I decided to officially quit my NS activities.

If anyone is interested in running the Federation of Yuunli, please drop me an e-mail (Yuunli at GMX.net), and I can give you the password as well as any information you need to know about the country.

You can find everything I published about Yuunli in the NS wiki: http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php...ory:Yuunli

Enjoy the game!

Happy 23rd birthday!

Here's your birthday smilies: :wave: :duck: :pisang: :thrpt: :funky_pisang: :worship: :juggle: :grouphug: :clapurhands: :boogie: :yeah: :jump: :micky: wing: LMAO :topspin:

I found the following article very interesting and contributed to it:

International Death Penalty Statistics
http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/I...alty_statistics

I'd like to encourage those of you whom like to add your nation to NSWiki articles to contribute your nation's position to this article. The more articles that link to our nations, the better *and* Capital Punishment is a divisive issue in the UN, which it can only help us to understand one another if we document our national policies on these issues.



Naturally if you want help with the article, just post your position here and one of us that frequently updates on NSWiki will add your national position to the list!

Hello,

We?ve been conducting a series of polls on the NationStates Jolt forums to determine the Best Resolution of 2005. The final poll has been posted:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=472509

Please go and vote for your favorite 2005 resolution. The more votes we have, the more meaningful the results of the survey will be.

Text and discussions about each of the 10 resolutions that made it to this final around can be found on NSWiki:

*Diplomatic Immunity
*United Nations Security Act
*The Sex Industry Worker Act
*Natural Disaster Act
*Repeal ?Promotion of Solar Panels?
*The Microcredit Bazaar
*Tsunami Warning System
*Repeal Save the Forests of the World
*Nuclear Armaments
*UNCoESB

Thank you,
Janet Van Dyne
Mikitivity United Nations Association

Nations have ISO nation codes, like IRL. How should we structure ours?

OPTION I: Each nation has an IDU nation code. For interregional purposes, it is prefixed with a region code, which I believe ought to be ID, although other suggestions are welcomed.

OPTION II: Keep as is: each nation has an IDU code, as well as a four letter interregional code

I support option I.

Just was curious as to the Gender makeup of the IDU

From the regional message board:

Quote: 1 day ago: The Gemeinde of Sober Thought ceased to exist.[/quote]

:pout: :o :unsure:

Edit:This is now the second draft:

Quote: Agreement on Extradition

Category: Political Stability
Strength: Significant

The United Nations:

NOTING that definitions of crimes and their appropriate punishments vary between nations;

FURTHER NOTING that people often commit crimes in nations other than their own;

MINDFUL that perpetrators may leave the nation in which they committed a crime after said act, or after they have been duly tried and convicted for said crime;

REGRETTING that this constitutes a barrier to the just resolution of such crimes;

RECOGNIZING many nations have already signed extradition treaties;

DESIRING to create a coordinated agreement to govern in absense of said treaties;

DEFINING:
a) ?extradition? as a process by which a criminal suspect within one government?s jurisdiction is given over to another government for trial or to serve out a sentence;
b) ?requester? as the member state which requests the handing over of a suspect from another government?s jurisdiction
c) ?requestee? as the member state under whose jurisdiction a suspect falls, and which is requested to turn over said suspect

1. MANDATES that all member nations shall extradite into the custody of a requester any individual within their jurisdiction who:
a) is suspected in a crime in the requester?s jurisdiction, provided that there exists a clear case against said individual, or;
b) has been convicted of a crime in the requester?s jurisdiction and has not served out their sentence;

2. ALLOWS a requestee to deny such a request where:
a) the crime of which said individual is not recognized by the laws of the requestee;
b) there is reason for the requestee to believe that the individual will not receive a fair trial or punishment proportionate to the crime;
c) the expected punishment for the crime is illegal in the requestee?s territory, unless the two governments can agree that an alternate punishment will be used in this case;

3. STRONGLY URGES member nations to refrain from reprisals for denied extraditions under the above conditions;

4. ENCOURAGES member states to agree to international treaties to further coordinate extradition proceedings, and to detail, and eventually reduce, the circumstances under which they intend to reject extradition under Article 2.
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Any comments, especially on the category, are extremely welcome.

Hello,

It is once again time for my annual conference in Monterey, California (actually Pacific Grove). I'll be heading down in the next hour, and won't be back til likely Saturday night or Sunday mid-day. It should be a good conference ... I packed a cooler full of beer. :9 (we need a "yummy" smilie)

Some things I hope to get to in March:

Documenting the IDU Cheese Festival (it is officially over, but things have been crazy for me at work).
Cleaning up the Embassy Row
Starting Regular Contact in our Foreign Embassies (including the North Pacific)
Adding more to the IDU Ecology
Fleshing out more Central Region Geography and Transportation Issues
Encouraging more IDU Olympic Participation (a medal for any IDU nation will help the region)

From TNP messageboard:

Quote: 3 hours ago
The Corporate Wasteland of Forge Masters

Hello, I know that you'll probably ignore this so I'll make it short.

There's this new region called "Boldovinia" ready for all kinds of people to join, even you. Please join now, and help build this region.

66 minutes ago
The Bowler Hat Wearing Peoples of Namyeknom

Lesson One: The Logic of the Recruiter

"Hello, I know that you'll probably ignore this so I'll make it short."

Beautiful...[/quote]