Establishment of Nationstates Region Act

The Establishment of NationStates Region Act

Whereas; Establishing a ‘region’ for SimDemocracy within the website NationStates would be a way for SimDemocracy to potentially gain users.
Whereas; Establishing such a colony of SimDemocracy requires establishing the way the colony would function.

Article 1: The NationStates Region

§1. SimDemocracy shall establish a ‘region’ for the website https://www.nationstates.net/ .

§1.1. This ‘region’ shall be a colonial territory of SimDemocracy itself, and the jurisdiction of SimDemocracy shall be applied to this ‘region’.

§2. The colony is to ensure the legal rights granted to SimDemocracy users by the Constitution and laws of SimDemocracy the same as if they were within the official subreddit or discord of SimDemocracy.

§2.1. A SimDemocracy user is an individual that has either commented or posted on the official subreddit of SimDemocracy or is a member of the official discord of SimDemocracy.

§2.2. To confirm that they are a SimDemocracy user participating or wanting to participate within the colony, that individual must contact the governor of the colony who then must record this SimDemocracy users reddit or discord username (both usernames if applicable) and the name of their ‘Nation’ within NationStates.

§3. Bans from SimDemocracy itself shall constitute a ban from the colony for the amount of time they are banned from the territory of SimDemocracy itself.

§3.1. The courts may make exceptions to this and specify that the user is allowed to stay within the colony while banned from the rest of SimDemocracy unless the crime is particularly serious and the user has been sentenced to a ban for a particularly significant amount of time.

§4. No SimDemocracy user is to be removed from the colony by colonial authorities unless sentenced to a ban from all of SimDemocracy’s territories, without the previously mentioned exceptions being applied to the sentence, or banned specifically from the colony by the courts of SimDemocracy.

§5. The ‘region’ is not to be transformed at any time to a ‘Frontier’ region.

Article 2: The Governor of the NationStates Colony

§1. The Governor of the NationStates Colony (The Governor) shall be the user with the ‘governor’ status within the NationStates ‘region’.

§1.1. The Governor must be a SimDemocracy user.

§1.2. The Governor may simultaneously be of any other office within SimDemocracy except for the Discord Supervisor, the Reddit Supervisor or the Elections Supervisor.

§2. The Governor shall utilise the powers of the ‘governor’ status to properly maintain and lead the colony.

§3. The Governor may remove any user from the colony that is *not* a registered user of SimDemocracy.

§3.1. If a SimDemocracy user is mistakenly removed from the colony, they must be promptly added back to the colony if they have contacted the Governor about the error.

§3.2. If an individual eligible to be considered a SimDemocracy user, who has not registered as a SimDemocracy user within the colony, is removed they must be promptly added back to the colony if they have contacted the Governor about the error and then registered as a SimDemocracy user within the colony.

§4. The Governor is responsible for removing SimDemocracy users that have been banned by the courts of SimDemocracy from the colony, and for adding those SimDemocracy users back to the colony if they want to return after their ban has been completed, and for counter terrorism action compliant with the Counterterrorism and Security Act 2023.

§4.1. The Governor is to report any possible crimes committed by SimDemocracy users within the colony to the authorities of SimDemocracy and must work with any investigation conducted by the SimDemocracy authorities if requested by the SimDemocracy authorities.

§5. The Governor is to be appointed by the President and confirmed by a simple majority vote of support by the Senate.

§6. The Governor may be removed from office by the President if the Senate votes with a simple majority of support for the removal of the Governor from office.

§7. The Senate may impeach the Governor with a ⅔ majority vote of support for the impeachment and additionally a ⅔ vote of support for the impeachment via a public referendum.

§8. The Governor may conduct diplomacy with other NationStates regions or nations, however this must comply with any treaties ratified by the Senate, any foreign policy decisions by the President and the Department of State (which can itself conduct diplomacy with NationStates regions and nations and may issue any reasonable order to the Governor) and any decisions agreed by a popular vote among the colony.

Article 3: Decisions

§1. The users within the colony may collectively agree decisions as to matters of the colony of both internal matters to the colony and to matters of diplomacy with other regions or nations.

§1.1. These decisions must comply with the laws of SimDemocracy, including any treaty ratified by the Senate and the foreign policy decisions of the President and the Department of State.

§1.2. These decisions shall be agreed by way of a vote that shall be introduced by the Governor and then voted by the users within the colony, a simple majority of votes supporting a decision is required to establish a decision.

Article 4: Delegates

§1. Users within the colony that are elected as a ‘delegate’ to the world assembly must act within the world assembly according to SimDemocracy law, including treaties ratified by the Senate, and the foreign policy decisions of the President and the Department of State.