SimDem Armed Forces Revision Act
Preamble:
This act will codify the provisions made in EO 136-03. It will also remove the COAF position and provide more things for the Secretary of Defense to do. It expands on what the SDAF can do and provides some much-needed changes.
Article 1: Definitions
§1. “SimDem” refers to SimDemocracy.
- §1.1. “Times of peace” or “a time of peace” shall refer to times when SimDemocracy is not currently legally at war with another nation.
- §1.2. “Times of war” or “a time of war” shall refer to times when SimDemocracy is currently legally at war with another nation.
- §1.3. “Active-duty” shall refer to a member of the SimDemocry Armed Forces currently being given work and being paid.
- §1.4. “Reserve status” refers to a member of the SimDemocracy Armed Forces currently in the Reserves.
- §1.5. “SDAF” shall refer to SimDemocracy Armed Forces.
- §1.6. “Salary pay” shall refer to a consistent value of Tau provided to someone over a period of time.
- §1.7. “Service member” shall refer to an individual within the SDAF.
Article 2: The Reserves
§1. All members of the SimDem Armed Forces will by default be considered “within the SDAF Reserves”, or the “Reserves” for short, during times of peace.
§1.Service members within the SDAF Reserves shall not be given any mandatory duties or directives involving the Armed Forces while within the Reserves other than responding to messages from the Secretary of Defense. Individuals within the Reserves will not receive any salary pay.
- §1.2. Service members in the Reserves may be placed into active duty by the Secretary of Defense with approval from the president and will be assigned duties or missions to work on. They will begin to be paid salary pay on the next payday.
§2. All members of the SimDem Armed Forces will by default be considered Active-duty during times of war.
§2. The president or Secretary of Defense may take any member of the SimDem Armed Forces off of Active-duty status to return them to reserve status at any time.
Article 3: Secretary of Defense Overhaul
§1. The position of Chief of Armed Forces will be disbanded. All the duties of the Chief of Armed Forces will go to the Secretary of Defense.
- §1.1. The Secretary of Defense will no longer be just a civilian position and will now be a military position within the SDAF.
- §1.2. An individual who is appointed as Secretary of Defense must have been a prior service member for a period of at least one week before being appointed as Secretary of Defense.
- §1.3. The Secretary of Defense will now be the highest ranking role within the SimDem Armed Forces and may hire or fire service members of the SDAF with approval from the President.
- §1.4. The Secretary of Defense will now be the chief military advisor to the president and legislative branch and be prepared to answer any relevant questions from either authority.
- §1.5. The Secretary of Defense will now be tasked with submitting a report every two weeks to the senate and the president including:
- The status of military readiness.
- Budgetary expenditures and allocations
- Ongoing or planned military operations, excluding classified matters that could compromise national security.
- §1.6. The Secretary of Defense will now be tasked with auditing the SimDem Armed Forces at the beginning of each presidential term by contacting the members of the SDAF either via dms or internal chats to confirm they are still ready and willing to serve in the SDAF, regardless of their active-duty status. They will record the number of service members within the SDAF and who responds and report it to the president.
- §1.7. Service members who don’t respond to any contact methods by the Secretary of Defense after a period of 5 days post-contact with at least two contact attempts, and didn’t previously mention a period of inactivity, may be removed from their position in the SDAF with an “honourable discharge” by the Secretary of Defense.
- §1.8. The Secretary of Defense shall also be known as the “General of the Armed Forces” during times of war.
§2. The SimDem Armed Forces will now be optionally tasked with creating pro-SimDemocracy pieces of media during times of peace.
- §2.1. Pro-SimDemocracy pieces of media can include music, posters, physical or digital art pieces, videos, poems, stories, websites, or games that paint SimDemocracy in a positive light or represent national pride as deemed by the President or Secretary of Defense.
- §2.2. Individuals within the SDAF Reserves may choose to create any type of Pro-SimDemocracy media to submit to the Secretary of Defense for the potential of receiving compensation, if the Secretary of Defense believes it is high enough quality.
- §2.3. The Secretary of Defense may duly compensate service members for the Pro-SimDemocracy media they create with a value of Tau based on the level of quality and effort put within it. The Secretary of Defense will consult with the Secretary of Expansion and President to decide upon the quality of Pro-SimDemocracy media and the amount of compensation deserved, and two out of the three must agree to a compensation before it is given out.
- §2.4. The Secretary of Defense may also contract businesses to create Pro-SimDemocracy media using the same pay standards.
§3. The Secretary of Defense will be provided a budget of up to 500 tau a week to be used to pay those who created Pro-SimDemocracy media. If the budget provided isn’t spent within a week period, it will be kept within the SDAF account until needed.
- §3.1. A channel will be created to publicly share all the pieces of Pro-SimDemocracy media created called #Propaganda.
- §3.2. The Secretary of Defense shall be tasked with publicly sharing the Pro-SimDemocracy media created by posting it within #Propaganda and news threads if they choose.
- §3.3. Any private citizen, not contracted by the SDAF, may request to the Secretary of Defense put a piece of media they made in the #propaganda channel. The Secretary of Defense can agree to post the media in the #propaganda channel. The citizen will not be paid for this. The Secretary of Defense must use discretion to make sure only pro-SimDemocracy media is allowed in #propaganda unless told otherwise by the president.
Article 4: Conflict of Interest
§1. An active-duty member of the SimDem Armed Forces may not concurrently be a diplomat or delegate to a nation SimDemocracy is at war with.
§2. The Secretary of Defense may not use SDAF funds to pay themselves for Pro-SimDemocracy media that they made but may share that media in #propaganda.
§3. Any member of the SDAF given criminal charges during their time in the SDAF shall be removed from their position with a dishonourable discharge.
Article 5: Pay
§1. The Active-Duty SimDemocracy Armed Forces members will be paid salaries by the Department of Treasury.
§1. The Secretary of Defense shall be tasked with submitting an up-to-date weekly report listing the Discord username of every active-duty member of the SimDem Armed Forces and their salary amount to send to the Department of Treasury so they can receive pay.
§2. The salaries of each Armed Forces position while in active-duty shall be as follows:
- Major General- 150 Tau per week
- Captain- 130 Tau per week
- Sergeant- 110 Tau per week
- Cadet- 90 Tau per week
§3. After the end of a war, the Secretary of Defense may ask the senate for an increased budget to pay out bonuses to specific members of the SDAF based on their service during the war. The senate may approve or not approve this.
