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  New Region

Posted by: bigdan
03-30-2022, 12:14 PM
Forum: Fun & Games
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 was thinking, i have this idea where i'll make a new region- through one of my puppets or something. I was also thinking- why not make it like a colony or ally of IDU or something- we could send our puppets there or something? good idea or bad?







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  2021 IDU Film Festival: Voting

Posted by: Libertas Omnium Maximus
02-02-2022, 02:11 AM
Forum: Film Festivals
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The 2021 IDU Film Festival is now open for voting. All exhibitors may rank their top three (in order) choices for each film category. 

Submissions:

Best New IDU Film
Father Christmas (SANCTARIA)
Corinne (EIRIA)
The Edge of Disaster (LAUCHENOIRIA)
The Last Monarch (GARDAVASQUE)
The Girls of Zhou's Landing (LAERAL)

Best Classic IDU Film
The Way of Zongong (ZONGONGIA)

Best Actor
Cathy Sinclar (SANCTARIA)
Alis Krevale (EIRIA)

Best Documentary 
Conflict Inevitable (LAUCHENOIRIA)

Best Foreign Film
no submissions

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As there was only one submission for "Best Classic Film" and "Best Documentary," respectively, and no submissions for "Best Foreign Film," exhibitors need not vote on those categories. 

Congratulations to the cast and crew of The Way of Zongong. They have been awarded the 2021 "Best Classic IDU Film" Award.

Congratulations to the cast and crew of Conflict Inevitable. They have been awarded the 2021 "Best Documentary or Non-fiction Film" Award.

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  [Draft] Music Education, Examination, and Assessment Board

Posted by: Novella Islands
01-19-2022, 02:09 PM
Forum: WA Proposal Clinic
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To remedy the sore lack of “Artistic” AoEs in Education and Creativity, I humbly present to the GA for drafting critique the:

Quote:Music Education, Examination, and Assessment Board
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Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Artistic
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The General Assembly,

Recognising that the pursuit of creation and enjoyment of music must be approached as an intersection of artistic, cultural, and academic expression;

Applauding the foundation that GAR#86 Museums of Musical Heritage provides for the protection and promotion of the musical arts, however;

Dismayed at the glaring lack of protections and promotions for the arts, in particular the musical arts, and especially with respect to the intellectual and academic approaches to musical expression;

Confident that professional musical assessment and examination after thorough education is the most effective way through which to ensure both high quality musicians and musical culture is developed;

Appreciating that the challenge of the constantly evolving nature of music, accounting for popular culture shifts over time, requires consistent monitoring and progressive development of pedagogical standard;

and Affirming that those who wish to practice, perform, and contribute in a non-professional and non-assessed manner should be able to do so without hinderance or prejudice, whilst retaining the right to equally benefit from the development of their peers who are so trained;

Hereby

Establishes the Music Education, Examination, and Assessment Board (MEEAB), to:
1. Promote the musical arts as both a legitimate and exemplary method through which cultural expression may manifest;
2. Ensure rigorous pedagogical standards are met, in accordance with the evolving needs and desires of the general population-at-large, through overseeing national music assessment and teaching curricula;
3. Provide both a broad and deep knowledge base of peers, connecting skilled musicians in various genres to those who require their expertise;
4. Act as not a gatekeeper, but as a advocate of professional and academic excellence in musical expression;

Encourages musicians and academics alike to engage with MEEAB in furthering the musical profession as a whole, across nations;

Strongly Recommends World Assembly national governments establish parallel national organisations to the MEEAB, placing musical education and examination as a national priority.

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  Echoes of a Hidden Past [Planning]

Posted by: Lauchenoiria
01-18-2022, 07:53 PM
Forum: Planners' Office
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Please note name change from Remain, Reform or Revolt? to Echoes of a Hidden Past.

In 1934, the Sixteen Founders of Kerlile became the Ten Councillors of Kerlile. The new, fledgling Kerlian Matriarchy now had to find a way to erase their massacre of the others from history while forming a new nation and changing the patriarchal culture of a feudal remnant state into the exact opposite. All this while the world around was against them, wanting to maintain the old world order and viewing the fledgling matriarchy as part-joke and part-threat. In the shadows, a baby survived the massacre and not everyone is happy with the new Kerlian order.

In 2022, the Ten Councillors of Kerlile must decide whether or not to expel one of their own for treason as she lingers in prison, becoming Nine. But only once before has the number changed, and it suited the Council to pretend that never happened. Erasing the precedent now makes their trial of Carmen Robinson that much more difficult. Meanwhile the Reformists and Traditionalists each plot against each other, while in the wings the revolutionaries who are frustrated with the slow progress of reform make their own plans.

In the past and in the present, the politics of Kerlile remains precarious, with many factions and forces plotting to manipulate the fragile institutions of power. Join the Matriarchy in their struggle to maintain stability in a system that has never experienced it. Or, cause more instability. Your choice.

Rules of RP

1. No WMDs.
2. No invasions of Kerlile, or anywhere else.
3. Use technology appropriate to the year the post is set in.
4. Date all posts, with at minimum the year.
5. No killing other people's characters without permission.
6. Do not change established Kerlian history: https://idugov.com/wiki/Kerlile#History
7. Sign up in this thread to participate!

If you'd like to get involved, please post below what nations you'd like to get involved as, and whether you want to be involved in 1934 or 2022 (or both).

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  A Haven for Good Men

Posted by: Sanctaria
01-02-2022, 10:52 PM
Forum: International Affairs
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18 October 2020
Promethean Sea
SNS Hercules

"Captain, sir", the warrant officer cried over the wails of the storm surrounding them. "Captain, she's listing to starboard. The rocks must have torn through the rivets on her belly". The auburn-haired, soaked-to-the-skin veteran of the Sanctarian Navy nodded grimly. "Aye. We've contained the flooding but we're too exposed out there, we need to make for port. Where's closest?"

"Sir?", the warrant officer and navigation guide of the SNS Hercules could barely hear his commanding officer over the din.

"Where's the CLOSEST PORT?", the captain screamed. Though he knew the answer. The closest port that would be friendly to Sanctarian ships was likely either Laeral or Libertas Omnium Maximus. "LOM, sir", the shout from his subordinate confirmed it. He nodded in the direction of his shipmate, who diligently set the course in navigation. It'd be a long few hours in this storm before they got to Libertas Omnium Maximus.

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01 November 2020
Department of Homeland Security
Sanctus, Sanctaria

The Director General of the Department of Homeland Security had only just had his first coffee of the morning before it was time to meet with military top brass. He hated it. They treated him like an idiot because he never served, and because he wasn't a politician elected by the people, they claimed he had no mandate to boss them around. Which was partly correct, but everyone and their mother knew the Secretary had to delegate some meetings to civil servants, and he headed the department!

"Dr. Carson", one middle-ranked soldier said, nodding in his direction as he entered the room. The flag officers all looked up to acknowledge he had entered, but soon went back to ignoring him. He cleared his throat. "Gentlemen, we need to discuss ship maintenance, I believe? The message to Secretary Stewart indicated it was urgent?"

"It is", a gruff reply from an older officer came back. An admiral, judging by the uniform, though Carson didn't recognise the name. "SNS Hercules, of the 4th Fleet, was damaged during a storm while they were on a routine navvy in the Promethean Sea. They're in port in LOM, but the damage is too severe for them to get back to us."

"Ok", Carson said. "Don't LOM have shipyards and maintenance bases?".

The admiral smirked. "Aye sir, they do", sarcasm heavy on the sir, "but we haven't vetted their personnel. We don't know enough about the people at those dockyards. We have national security considerations. We'll need to send our own people out there for repairs."

Great, Carson thought. Foreign Affairs were going to love him for sending them this problem. "How long is it going to be out of operation", he asked.

"That depends on how long it takes our maintenance and repair crews to get there. Once there, maybe 6 months, maybe longer, we need to properly survey the damage." The admiral paused. "We need a naval base out there if we're going to be keeping the 4th Fleet in those waters. It's too long at sea for the men, and we need to be able to maintain our ships."

Carson nodded. He knew the admiral was right. "I'll take this specific incident to the Secretary and I'll draft a memo for government on the need for naval bases in the area. We'll need DFA's input, though", he said, referring to the Foreign department. The admiral just grunted in reply and went back to the huddle of military officers discussing something else.

"Well", Carson said quietly to himself. "I guess we're finished then".

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Quote:
Department of Foreign Affairs
Bruton House
Sanctus
Divine Federation of Sanctaria
Vice-Speaker Tiacihitli
Huenyan Federal Legislature
Chuaztlapoc
Federation of Huenya

02 January 2022

Your Excellency, Vice-Speaker Tiachitli,

I write firstly to congratulate you on your decisive victory in the recent elections. The Divine Federation is hopeful this will continue the very good relationship that your good nation has with us, and that it will lead to further opportunities of development.

It is on further opportunities of development that is the secondary reason for this letter. The Divine Federation, as you know, has made significant investment into the enlargement of our fleets, including our Fourth Fleet which operates in and around the Promethean Sea. This investment, however, requires us to ensure proper maintenance of our fleet, and the distance between Divine Federation lands and the waters in which the Fourth Fleet, in particular, operates is creating less than satisfactory outcomes.

In order to satisfy my government's legislative and regulatory requirements in the upkeep of our fleet, the Divine Federation has been conducting reviews into locations in the Caxcanan region where a safe haven for our fleet could be established, and, whereby, the Divine Federation would be able to headquarter the Fourth Fleet to ensure satisfactory outcomes in terms of morale of our seamen, and upkeep of our ships.

The Sanctarian Department of Homeland Security has identified the port city of Ixtenco as a suitable location to establish a naval base, and as such I have been tasked with opening negotiations with your good government to realise this. Naturally, the Divine Federation of Sanctaria would not expect such a gift to come freely, and I am happy to discuss any terms your government may have in this regard.

Congratulations, again, and warm regards,

Brian Young
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
Divine Federation of Sanctaria

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  Echoes of a Hidden Past

Posted by: Lauchenoiria
12-30-2021, 06:59 PM
Forum: International Affairs
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Castle of Grapes, Ancestral Home of the Fleuran Royal Family
February 1934

“Welcome, ladies, to the inaugural session of the newly-formed Council of Kerlile.”

Sixteen - not ten - women sat around a large oak table. The mercenaries they’d spent the last decade paying to help retain their new country had been dismissed. The guards in the room were part of the new ranks of the Women’s Army of Kerlile, trained over the last ten years and chosen for their loyalty to the cause. The mercenaries were packing up to go home, the loot stolen from the old North Fleuran noble families weighing down their bags. The ten-year experiment had been a success.

A cheer went around the room upon Wilma Greenwood’s uttering of the welcome to their new meeting. Each of the women in the room had spent the last decade trying to shape a region of what was once North Fleura, a feudal remnant state, into Kerlile, a pioneering utopia for women and feminists worldwide. Each woman in the room had used different methods to transform the culture of her region, to change the attitudes of hundreds of people and to keep order during the most challenging transition period of the 20th century so far.

“We are gathered here today, because we have succeeded. Each of us has taken her assigned region and shaped it into somewhere women can live without the fear of the men who, up until this point, controlled the lives of women worldwide. Each of you here has accomplished a monumental task, and yet we have an even more monumental one to come. We must now unite our regions together, to create fully the new state we have dreamed of, and realise the goal of women’s equality in this small corner of the world, so that we can spread our word to our sisters far and wide, and usher in a new era where women have all the rights we have always dreamed of,” Wilma addressed the room.

Her words were followed by even more cheers. The women; the wealthiest of the regular attendees to the International Women’s Congress as of 1924, and the most willing to risk everything for a cause, had done something others could only dream of. Instead of fighting for the meagre scraps offered by men, they had seized control of their own destiny. After the death of the last in line to the North Fleuran throne, they had swooped in to the burgeoning succession crisis and turned it to their advantage, thanks to the mercenaries they’d hired and the relative weakness of the North Fleuran economy. This land had given them opportunity, and now they would bring opportunity to the women of this land.

“Our first order of business is to share what we have learned in the last decade, as to create this brave new world of ours, we must first learn the best methods of doing so. Each of you has something unique to bring to this new Council, and each of you will have different ideas of the way forward. I would invite Nancy Arnott to begin.”

*

Thus began the story of what would become the Council as we know it today. Readers will note the presence of sixteen proto-Councillors in that very first meeting, as opposed to the ten (soon to be nine after Robinson’s betrayal) we of the 21st century know. There is a tale behind this discrepancy, one my ancestors went to great lengths to bury. I write this down today, for if we should fail, the truth may fade from memory altogether, to be replaced with a convenient story, the history written by victors who won due to greed and treachery. Nobody today knows of the Six, but I shall attempt to explain what happened.

*

The inaugural meeting of the Council of Kerlile was eleven hours long, not counting the breaks taken in the middle. The meeting which began at 9 o’clock in the morning finished closer to midnight, the women participating all exhausted by the end of it. They each made their way back to the rooms set aside for them in the old castle, to rest and prepare for yet more meetings the next day - this time on how to move forward.

Yet as five of the would-be-Councillors lay down to rest, the other eleven reconvened in the darkness of the meeting chamber, lit only by candles as they sought to save their fledgling state’s small electricity supplies. They had been summoned by Edith Hart, who had been the instigator behind the entire Kerlile Project. She had raised the initial funds, convinced the others, and had tricked enough Fleuran nobles that they’d gained their foothold before anyone could fight back.

“Ladies,” Edith spoke softly in the candlelight. “We have a problem.”

“The other regions are behind,” nodded Camila Letitia Hale, her Sanctarian accent still strong despite the years away from the land of her birth. “They will need more guidance.”

“Not only that,” Edith shook her head. “Our friends who lie in their beds; they seem unwilling to do what needs to be done.”

*

As the Founders of Kerlile summarised their decades of enforced transition to their compatriots, a divide had opened in the room. Eleven of the Councillors spoke of their methods to encourage the women to speak up, and to prevent the men from regaining control. They spoke of their rewards and punishments, their strict management of the territories, and the need for a strong Council to continue to guide the fledgling state and ensure the sanctity of the women’s revolution, which had been so difficult in the first place.

The other five spoke of their encouragement of change, but they reported a continuation of instances of patriarchal attitudes and misogynistic violence. They had not been willing to punish the offenders, at least no more than the North Fleurans would punish such people beforehand. The regions of the five had been left too much alone by their guardians. And, worse still, the five believed that it was time to transition to democracy already. It had always been part of the original plan, but the Ten believed it too soon. It was necessary for their guardianship to continue, at least for the time being.

The views of the five expressed in that first Council meeting were a threat to the power and influence of the Founders as a whole. And that couldn’t be allowed to continue. So, the eleven sat up all night, plotting the deaths of their compatriots, the wiping of their names from history, and the ending of their family lines. But one of the eleven was uncomfortable with this direction. There was a difference, she thought, between executing counterrevolutionary men, and executing those who had worked towards the same goal, no matter the difference of opinion.

*

Audrey Quinn slipped out of the meeting chamber under the pretence of needing to use the bathroom. Instead, she hurried up the stairs and down the castle corridor to her family rooms, where her young daughter slept alongside her nanny. Audrey slipped into the room and shook the nanny awake.

“Joan, Joan wake up,” she whispered in the other woman’s ear. Joan’s eyes opened.

“M’lady?” Joan yawned, quickly trying to get to her feet.

“You need to dress quickly,” Audrey said quietly. “You need to take Adelaide and get as far from here as possible.”

“M’lady, is something wrong?” Joan’s eyes opened wide, alarmed.

“Not yet, but there will be. You have to get Audrey out of here in case something goes wrong. I have to speak to the others; to warn them. If I don’t return, If I don’t see you again, then you have to hide her, understand? Hide her so she is never found, and teach her of this day. Teach her to tell her daughter, and her daughter’s daughter, and everyone else until the day comes when we can undo this injustice. Now, hurry!”

*

Audrey did not know that Margaret Robinson had followed her, suspecting the woman of some treachery after noticing her quiet in the plotting. Margaret slipped away while Audrey packed her daughter’s bags and informed the others of the betrayal. So the other Ten, who would become the Founders of history textbooks and the ancestors of the present Council of Kerlile, moved more quickly than they intended to.

Their new loyal servants, recruited from among those who had been the worst off before the Matriarchy, who had been rewarded most by the change of regime, crept to the rooms of the five who slept, knives in their hands. But Audrey was faster than they had anticipated, and they found her in the room of Tetli, a Founder of Xiomeran origin who, though growing up with more rights than most women in the world, saw the Kerlian project as an opportunity to bring peace and prosperity to more lands. Audrey and Tetli raised the alarm, and managed to overpower the would-be assassin.

The Castle of Grapes exploded into chaos, as fights broke out throughout the building. Joan and Adelaide, carried in a blanket by her nanny, managed to slip out and escape. They were not seen, and the family was not heard from again until 2018, with the Quinn daughter being presumed dead after what happened in the castle. The Council of modern days thought themselves safe from the skeletons in the closet. They forgot to check the ashes.

*

Audrey screamed as the masked woman plunged a knife in her shoulder. She remained conscious, shoving the woman away and pulling the knife out to yet more agony. She ran out of the room as the other woman gave chase, leaving the table she’d knocked over after the shove on the ground. Audrey, bleeding from her several wounds, was slow, and the assassin caught up with her quicker than she was prepared for. 

In another room of the castle, Tetli held a ceremonial sword wrested from a wall display in the old king’s throne room, battling against four of Wilma Greenwood’s new guards who each held daggers. There were no guns in this fight; neither side wished to waste the precious little ammunition they had gathered in case of invasion by patriarchal forces. The Founders, those who would be remembered and those who would not, were united in their commitment to the women’s revolution. It was not enough.

Tetli fell with a dagger to her back, as across the castle the Six screamed and died. In the room Audrey had run from, however, a new spark was spreading throughout the castle, undetected as the others continued to fight, the upstairs levels abandoned as the victims of the hunt tried to escape the large building. By the time anyone noticed, it was far too late to stop the fire which had spread from the candle knocked onto the rich curtains in what had been Tetli’s bedroom.

*

The history textbooks of Kerlile tell us that the Castle of Grapes was burned in a ceremony to usher out the old North Fleura and cement the new Kerlian state. The ruins, once the fire was allowed to burn out, were taken apart piece by piece, and the new Council Chambers built on the foundations of what was once the home of the Fleuran monarchs. The city of Grapevale sprung out from what was once the vineyards of the Fleuran monarchy, their greatest export once upon a time being wine.

The new capital of the Matriarchy was hailed as a wonder of Kerlian innovation, proof of the virtues of allowing women positions of power and jobs in traditionally male industries. The city sprung up in such a short period of time it was considered a miracle by Secadualist priestesses of the new Singularist sect of that declining religion. In truth, the city was built on the slave labour of those arrested for resisting the new regime. In the early days, Grapevale was the largest labour camp of all.

In the fire, the bodies of the Six, the documents with their names on them, and the true history of the foundation of the Matriarchy of Kerlile all burned. There are sixteen regions of Kerlile, and ten Councillors. Those who point out this discrepancy tend to disappear. Those who worked closely with the Six suffered accidents; their offices in their regions were robbed or burned or turned into prisons for those who spoke out. The Six were erased from life, and erased from memory. But the Councillors remembered.

It became a cautionary tale for young Daughters of the Council. A way to ensure our loyalty to the Matriarchy, by telling us that we were not too important to be killed; that our lives are protected only so long as we protect the status quo. I see it a different way. I see it as hope. There were once people who looked at the early days of Kerlile, when it was harder to prevent the slip back into patriarchy, when the world was even more hostile than today, and thought it was possible to do this fairly.

The Six believed democracy and true gender equality were compatible as far back as 1934 when men in smoky rooms laughed and bet on how quickly Kerlile would fail. So tell me, why shouldn’t we believe in it today? The time of the Council is coming to an end. Though the traditionalists try to cling to their power, it is obvious to all that a new era is beginning in Kerlile. We, as Daughters, were raised to be guardians of the revolution. Yet we have become guardians of stagnancy, of preventing progress. I will not be part of that. 

Daughters, Councillors, everyone must rise up and say “no more”. Will reform save us, or do we need another revolution? I don’t know. What I do know is that the time for remaining as we are must end now. Those of us who truly want women’s equality must rise up, whether in peace or in war, and we must unite to show the Council that we believe in Kerlile. We believe that equality, the principle on which Kerlile was founded, is possible without the need for autocratic control. They are the ones who do not believe in Kerlile. So, if they will not give us the power, we will take it.

Will you join me?

*

From A Daughter’s Manifesto by an anonymous Daughter of the Council, written in 2021 and yet to be published.

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  Original IDU flag

Posted by: Grosseschnauzer
12-28-2021, 05:07 AM
Forum: Cartography, Vexillology, and Historiography
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I have temporarily posted the 2006 IDU regional flag as the flag for "All Schnauzers" in the IDU in Nationstates. I will use that account to post in the regional message board so one can grab the image (my file is in a png format.

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  Nominations for President of the League of IDU Nations

Posted by: Sanctaria
12-21-2021, 08:39 PM
Forum: League Headquarters
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I am opening nominations for President of the League of IDU Nations. The term of office shall be for one year, as that is the maximum provided under the constitution, and no law has yet shortened it.

Any of the following nations may nominate and/or be nominated:

Bears Armed
Comhar
Eiria
Gardavasque
Gnejs
Grosseschnauzer
Laeral
Lauchenoiria
Libertas Omnium Maximus
New Lusitania & the Algarves
Ponoxien
Sanctaria
Shuell
Slokais
Sycona
United New England
Xiomera


Nominations open immediately, and run until 8pm Central European Time on Monday, December 27th.

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  LIDUN Membership Administration

Posted by: Sanctaria
12-21-2021, 08:36 PM
Forum: League Headquarters
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Hi there!

This thread is the Office of Membership Administration for the League of International Democratic Union Nations. All members of the IDU are welcome to apply for LIDUN membership in this thread.



What is the LIDUN?

The LIDUN is the formal, in-character governance arm of the IDU. It is responsible for passing legislation that affects the region, electing the President, and resolving regional differences. The IDU places a premium on democratic engagement and encourages all IDU members to participate.

The President of the LIDUN is the in-character leader of the League, as well as the out-of-character leader of the region. The President is also responsible for placing items at vote and for admitting candidates into the LIDUN. The President shall be responsible for maintaining the list of LIDUN members.

A Member of the IDUSA is responsible for voting on legislation, electing the President, and participating in debates on regional matters. All members of the IDU are not only permitted but are encouraged to participate in the LIDUN.



Current Membership Rolls (Updated 28 January 2025)

Andhrapur
Aredoa
Auria
Bears Armed
Comhar
Doatia
Ecclesiastical Dominions
Eïkangärd
Eiria
Gardavasque
Gesthenia
Glanainn
Gnejs
Great Tequila Island
Greater Acadia
Haesan
High Fells
Holokovoy
Huenya
Kerlile
Laeral
Lauchenoiria
Lavender Country
Legionas
Lehvant
Libertas Omnium Maximus
Mallacaland
Manabí Rive
Milintica
Misumi
New Lusitania & the Algarves
Novella Islands
Opthelia
Sanctaria
Serriel
Slokais
Sunemia
Sycona
Trive
United New England
Whetosonghnee
Wosteaque
Xiomera
Zongongia

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  Constitution of the IDU

Posted by: Librarian
12-21-2021, 07:07 PM
Forum: Law Library
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Constitution of the IDU

§1 - Rights of Member Nations

  1. Nations in and of the International Democratic Union are sovereign. No law can compel them to act in a certain manner in issue selection, WA membership votes, and votes in the region.
  2. Participation in any regional body is voluntary. Participation in the World Assembly is voluntary.
  3. No Nation in the International Democratic Union shall be ejected or banned without reason, or avenue for recourse. The Regional Founder(s) shall have final say in matters of regional security. Exceptions to recourse shall exist for those considered by majority vote of the Regional Founder(s) and the regional government authority to be fundamental threats to the region.
§2 - Regional Governance

  1. All matters of regional governance not otherwise laid out by this Constitution is reserved to a regional body called the League of IDU Nations.
  2. All IDU states are entitled to apply to join the League of IDU Nations. 
  3. The League of IDU Nations will be, except where determined otherwise by this Constitution or the body itself, considered an In-Character (IC) body, and may make laws for, and resolve differences within, the region.
  4. The League of IDU Nations will operate on a one player, one vote basis for all Out of Character (OOC) matters including elections. The League of IDU Nations may regulate membership and voting rights for all IC matters.
  5. The League of IDU Nations will elect a member nation to be President of the body for a term of office not exceeding one (1) year in length. This term length may be shortened by the body itself, should it so choose to do so.
  6. The President of the League of IDU Nations will act as the OOC head of state and government of the region for the length of their tenure. The player whose nation is selected as President will be responsible for all OOC foreign and domestic policy of the region, save for regional security and World Assembly matters which are the sole responsibilities of Regional Founder(s), and the World Assembly Delegate respectively.
  7. The player of the nation elected as President of the League of IDU Nations will also act as the IC leader of the League of IDU Nations. Powers related to the IC role of President will be regulated by the League of IDU Nations. 
  8. No player may be elected to the position of President of the League of IDU Nations for more than two consecutive terms.
  9. The President of the League of IDU Nations may be elected to office, and removed from office prematurely, in a manner to be decided by the League of IDU Nations.
  10. The President of the League of IDU Nations may delegate some duties of OOC governance to other nations/players, but they too must be members of the League of IDU Nations for the duration of such delegation.
  11. The President of the League of IDU Nations may also delegate some IC duties to other member nations of the League of IDU Nations. Such duties which may be delegated shall be determined by the League of IDU Nations.
§3 - World Assembly Delegate

  1. A nation may be selected by the League of IDU Nations to be the region’s World Assembly Delegate. It is not required for the nation to be a member nation of the League of IDU Nations, but they are required to be, and to remain, members of the World Assembly.
  2. The nation selected as World Assembly Delegate shall enjoy a tenure in office with no defined limit.
  3. The World Assembly Delegate shall leave office via retirement, ending their membership of the World Assembly, ceasing-to-exist, or impeachment by the League of IDU Nations. The League of IDU Nations shall make their own provision on reasons for impeachment, and the manner, vote threshold, and other such provisions that an impeachment vote should take.
  4. Except for required formalities in the League of IDU Nations where necessary, the World Assembly Delegate shall be an otherwise OOC position.
  5. The World Assembly Delegate may require nations not to exceed a certain number of endorsements. The World Assembly Delegate may request the Regional Founder(s), with agreement from the President of the League of IDU Nations, eject nations that threaten to unseat the World Assembly Delegate via endorsement count.
  6. The World Assembly Delegate position should remain a non-executive position in the context of regional security and controls.
  7. The World Assembly Delegate is required to vote in the General Assembly, or any other body of the World Assembly with the exception of the Security Council, in a manner that reflects the region’s wishes.
  8. The World Assembly Delegate is required to vote in the Security Council of the World Assembly in a manner that reflects the region's wishes, with the exception of votes where the World Assembly Delegate is of the opinion that to do so would (i) harm the region's international standing and/or reputation, (ii) negatively impact the region's relationship with treaty allies, or (iii) alter the region's long-standing anti-malicious raiding position.
  9. The World Assembly Delegate is required to post on the Regional Message Board at the time of their vote, and the manner of how they voted; the World Assembly Delegate may, from time to time, abstain from voting if they are of the belief the region is equally, or close to equally, divided.
  10. During a period of voting, the World Assembly Delegate shall have the discretion to vote on behalf of the region in the General Assembly, Security Council, or any other World Assembly body, according to their own beliefs and their own position provided that their vote at the close of voting ultimately meets the requirements of the above provisions.
  11. The World Assembly Delegate shall have discretion to approve proposals made to the General Assembly, Security Council, or any other World Assembly body.
§4 - General Provisions

  1. This Constitution may be amended by a two-thirds majority of members present and voting.

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