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The Constitution of the Free Market Federation

The Constitution of the Free Market Federation
In order to ensure regional tranquility, facilitate inter-nation discussion, and provide an environment for the free market to thrive, the nations of the Free Market Federation hereby declare this document as the source by which the regional government shall rule and derive its power from.

Article 1: Free Speech

All nations are allowed to speak and discuss freely on the regional forums and in telegrams under the guidelines of the FMF Code of Conduct.

Article 2: Free Market

All nations within the Federation must ideologically support a free and open market.

Article 3: National Sovereignty

Any nation may join the Federation, regardless of how it is ruled provided it complies with Article 2. The governing body of the Free Market Federation may not infringe upon the intranational activities of any state, upholding national sovereignty in all FMF member states.

Article 4: Puppet Nations

Nations have the right to set up puppets in the Free Market Federation (both as residents and ambassadors of different regions). However they must be acknowledged as such and cannot take part in elections, proposals of government action, referendums and polls, or hold a regional office.

Article 5: Voting

All nations shall have a single vote in each poll, referendum, or election. Puppet nations shall be barred from participation in any polls, referendums, or elections for the preservation of fair democratic practices. New region members may not vote in any polls, votes, or referendums which are ongoing at the time they enter the region. Voting rights of any non-puppet nation may not be infringed upon by the FMF governing body.

Article 6: Referendums

If an new article is proposed/a current article is called for revision/abolition by a minimum of two nations, a poll shall be held for 3 days after which the article may be amended. Yes votes shall be announced as "Yay" and no votes shall be announced as "Nay". A 2/3rds majority is required for the approval of all laws, and a 3/4ths majority is required for all Constitutional Amendments.

Article 7: Leadership

All region officials shall be appointed by vote of a simple majority. A regional officer may hold their position for a minimum of three months without threat of challenge from another FMF member state. After this three month period a nation can call for an election for the position with the seconding of the proposal from one other non-puppet member state. Indefinite consecutive terms are permitted. In the event that a regional official is unable to carry out the duties of their position or resigns, the High Admiral (or the next highest officer) may temporarily appoint a member region to fill the position until a vote is held. Executive positions cannot be run against except in the case of a vacancy.

Section I: Chain of Command
In the event that the Founder or High Admiral is unavailable or unfit for duty, the chain of command is as follows.
-Founder
-High Admiral
-Chief of Staff
-Chief Justice
-Embassy Minister
-Trade Representative
-Chairman of the Science Board

Section II: Definition of Regional Offices
Each regional office has a specific role to carry out that may overlap with other offices. In this event, the nation higher on the Chain of Command(Article 7, Section I) retains authority in the matter.
-Founder: Creator of the region. Carries out the decisions of other offices due to lack of penalty for "bans" or "kicks." Only office with executive authority, may create regional offices after decision by referendum.
-High Admiral: Highest elected elected office in the FMF. General oversight in all matters of FMF officers. May temporarily appoint regional officers in the event of a vacancy. Power to kick and ban nations with consent of the Chief Justice in accordance with Article 8.
-Chief of Staff: Administrative and bureaucratic control. General oversight of FMF officers. Defecto backup for High Admiral, may kick or ban nations with consent of Chief Justice in accordance with Article 8.
-Chief Justice: Chief Judicial official of the FMF. Interprets the Constitution and laws of the FMF, manages all civil and criminal court proceedings within the FMF or delegates authority to do the same, tries violators of FMF Law, and decides sentences and other penalties for those convicted of violating FMF law, all in accordance with Article 8.
-Embassy Minister: Primary representative of the FMF to outside actors. Controls all embassy requests and proceedings in accordance with Laws and Regulations Regarding Embassies in the Free Market Federation.
-Trade Representative: Manages financial law and negotiations in the FMF. Monitors and enforces the FMF United Trade Zone Agreement.
-Chairman of the Science Board: Manages all proceedings of the Regional Science Board.
-Chairman of the Brewers' Guild: Manages the operations of the Ancient Order of Brewers of the Free Market Federation. Holds no governing authority.
-Regional Bartender: Operates the Bar at the Edge of the Federation in the Free Market Federation Regional Headquarters. Holds no governing authority.
-Stellar Cartographer: In charge of creating and updating the regional map. Holds no governing authority.
-World Assembly Delegate: Represents the interests of the Free Market Federation to the World Assembly and maintains the FMF Mission to the World Assembly. Holds no other governing authority.

Article 8: Violation of Code

Any nations violating any rule of the "FMF Code of Conduct" shall be reported to the High Admiral and Chief Justice. The Chief Justice shall review the violation of the code and decide on the verdict and punishment. If the Chief Justice is unavailable, unable to provide an unbiased verdict, or the offender of a violation, the responsibility of deciding the verdict and punishment falls upon the High Admiral. After the punishment is decided upon, it shall be carried out by the High Admiral, Chief of Staff, or Founder. Appeals may be made to the High Admiral or Chief of Staff for either the verdict of the trial or the punishment given. In the case of an appeal based on the verdict of a trial, the decision on the verdict shall be left to a public vote in accordance with the procedure of a referendum outlined in Article 6. In the case of an appeal based on the punishment decided upon, the High Admiral or Chief of Staff will review the violation of the code and uphold the prior punishment or decide on a new punishment.

Article 9: War

War shall be left as the final options and may only be declared by FMF officers if all other options are seen as unwise or impractical. War can only be declared if proposed by the Founder, High Admiral, Chief of Staff, or Embassy Minister and approved by a 2/3rds majority vote of the regional government. Individual participation in FMF conflicts is voluntary and no draft shall ever be enforced by the FMF governing body.

Article 10: The World Assembly

The Free Market Federation is an active participant in the World Assembly. Nations are permitted to join the World Assembly, but are not required to do so. Nations who have joined the World Assembly have the right to nominate and dispatch a delegate to the World Assembly to represent the interests of the Free Market Federation at-large to the World Assembly. This Delegate shall be determined by endorsements, such that the nation which has received the most endorsements from World Assembly members in the Free Market Federation shall be recognized as the Federation Delegate. The Federation Delegate is Responsible for maintaining the Free Market Federation Mission to the World Assembly, but otherwise holds no governing authority in the Free Market Federation (unless simultaneously holding another position).

The Federation Delegate is permitted to speak on behalf of the Free Market Federation in General Assembly and Security Council debates, and to cast a vote in the General Assembly and Security Council on behalf of the Free Market Federation. World Assembly member nations in the Free Market Federation are not required to vote in line with the Federation Delegate, and are permitted to abstain from General Assembly and Security Council votes if they so choose.

Ratified: February 7th, 2019

Signed,

Catos
Cerveskia
Environmental Support
Free terand
Free Transhumanists
New new zajtahn
The Beer Barony

Existing Laws and Legislation of the Free Market Federation

FMF Code of Conduct

The rules listed below are the standards to which all region members, visitors, and all others who post in the RMB will be held to. Punishments for violating the rules listed are to be given by either the Founder, WA Delegate, High Admiral, or Chief Justice, as they see fit. Excessive punishment will not be tolerated. Flagrant and intentional rule breaking will likewise not be tolerated.

1. No deliberate trolling, harassment, bullying, or excessive belligerence will be allowed. Use
the Golden Rule.

2. No release of personal and/or private information will be tolerated. Doxing will result in an immediate
permanent ban.

3. No spamming the RMB (posting the same and/or similar messages repeatedly in rapid succession).

4. Foul language above that of crap, bastard, damn, etc., if used, should be censored with an asterisk (f*ck,
sh*t, *ss, etc.). If it wouldn't be in a PG-13 movie, censor it.

5. Nothing sexual in the RMB. This includes RP, overtly sexual discussion, pornographic content, or likewise.
Keep that garbage private.

6. No illegal acts of any kind may be committed (distribution of illicit digital files, illegal actions involving anyone
below 18 years of age, sale or transfer of illicit objects, materials, substances, etc. within regional confines
[the RMB, telegrams sent or received by region members, etc.], or any otherwise illegal action or intent).
This should be obvious and will not be tolerated. Illegal acts are to be immediately reported.

United Economic Zone Agreement
United Economic Zone Agreement has the purpose of connecting people together, to strengthen bonds and bring economies between member nations closer.

United Economic Zone Concept: United Economic Zone consists of four layers. First and fourth layer is shared and maintained by all members of the Free Market Federation. Second and third layer is voluntary.

Layers

First Layer: United Trade Zone - unifies universal trade principles throughout the Free Market Federation.

Second Layer: United Market Zone - brings markets closer together by mutual reducing of trade obstacles.

Third Layer: United Monetary Platform - establishes platform for efficient universal monetary exchange and financial transactions between it's members.

Fourth Layer: United Foreign Trade Policy - unifies trade principles, actions and policies related to third party subjects (non-regional states and other foreign regional structures).

Section I.: United Trade Zone:

Part one: United trade principles

Article 1: Nations will allow free movement of regional foreign capital within their territory

Article 2: Nations will allow free movement of regional foreign goods within their territory

Article 3: Nations will allow free movement of regional services within their territory

Article 4: Nations will allow free movement of regional citizens with no visa requirements for minimum of 10 days period. Institutions controlling minimal or larger non-visa period are individually appointed by each state.

Article 5: Nations will disband any business subsidization activities that are directly headed against regional foreign competition.

Part two: The moral code of the United Trade Zone

Article 6: Within the United Trade Zone is not allowed to make contracts where human beings are subjects of a business contract.

Article 7: Within the United Trade Zone is not allowed to make contracts where conscious artificial intelligence beings are subjects of a business contract.

Article 8: Within the United Trade Zone is not allowed to make contracts where other forms of conscious life are subjects of a business contract.

Article 9: Within the United Trade Zone is not allowed to make contracts where subjects specified by one or more regional members as a "citizens" are subjects of a business contract.

Part three: The partial restrictions

Article 10: Office of business harmonization is created in order to ensure that differences in legislation is to be respected.

Article 11: Office of business harmonization is a regional public organization which information is available to all throughout the region.

Article 12: Office of business harmonization is administered by equal share of employees from every member nation.

Article 13: Office of business harmonization releases information which goods and services that are not generally forbidden by The moral code are illegal in separate member nations of the region. Trading with these goods and services may be punished by local authority following the local criminal laws by each selected nation.

Part four: Exceptional borders closure

Article 14: If one nation suffers from any type of a biological threat that might spread abroad it is obligated to halt free movement of people within the United Trade Zone until the threat is overcome.

Article 15: If one nation suffers from any type of a biological threat that might spread abroad it is obligated to halt free movement of goods and services that might spread the biological threat to other countries within the United Trade Zone until the threat is overcome.

Article 16: Every nation in the region has the ability to express a formal grievance to the regional Trade Representative.

Formal grievance might request:

(a) Excluding specific regional nation or nations from the United Trade Zone.

(b) Temporary exclusion of the petitioner from the United Trade Zone.

(c) Resolving of other situation related to the United Trade Zone that will be specified by the petitioner.

After the formal grievance is submitted the Trade Representative has to accept it or to reject it. In the case of accepting the formal grievance the Trade Representative chooses two regional nations that will vote in the matter of the case. If the vote ends with a tie then the Trade representative breaks the tie with his vote. Every accepted grievance needs to be resolved in 72 hours.

Section 2.: United Market Zone

Part One: United Market Principles

Article 1: Members of the United Market Zone will lower border control activities to the necessary minimum between each other.

Article 2: Members of the United Market Zone will not practice import quota regulations between each other.

Article 3: Members of the United Market Zone needs to cancel and not require any import taxes from the products of other member nations.

Article 4: Members of the United Market Zone can't restrict permanent or long-term residency of the citizens from other member nations if there are no contradictions with the national law (i. e. subject is punished by banishment for infringement of the law).

Article 5: Members of the United Market Zone will not intentionally do other activities with the goal of slowing or crippling the legal import and travel from other member nations.

Part Two: United Market Information System

Article 5: United Market Information System is the central international information database that is used by regional nation's law enforcement to compensate weakened border security control.

Article 6: United Market Information System contains information about wanted and suspicious people that may have crossed the borders between members of the United Market Zone.

Article 7: United Market Information System contains information about wanted, illegal and suspicious goods and capital that may have crossed the borders between members of the United Market Zone.

Article 8: United Market Information System is mandatory to use by each member of the United Market Zone.

Article 9: Law Enforcement units of the member state of United Market Zone are permitted to temporary arrest people and after that do the proper investigation in cooperation with the other member nation or nations that have deposited the information into the United Market Information System based on which the subject was arrested.

Article 10: Law Enforcement units of the member state of United Market Zone are permitted to temporary seize the goods or capital and after that do the proper investigation in cooperation with the other member nation or nations that have deposited the information into the United Market Information System based on which the goods or capital was seized.

Article 11: If the investigation proves that the people, goods, or capital is the wanted subject of the United Market Information System - the member nation that caught this subject needs to hand it over to the authorities of the original depositor of the information that have led to the arrest and identification of the subject.

Article 12: If the subject of the United Market Information Zone is the person with granted political asylum then the Chief Justice will decide whether the person will be arrested and handed over to competent authorities or not.

Article 13: United Market Information System can be used by other regional nations that are not members of the United Market Zone only if all members of the United Market Zone unanimously agrees.

Part Three: Membership

Article 14: United Market Zone membership is granted if the regional nation voluntarily decides to join. Putting membership into effect is based individual technical feasibility of the nation.

Article 15: United Market Zone member is free to decide to leave the United Market Zone, however his demand will be technically performed after 5 years from the decision so other members of the United Market Zone would have the time to prepare and adapt their markets for this change.

Article 16: United Market Zone member can be excluded from the United Market Zone based on the accepted grievance given by other member of the United Market Zone. The exclusion process follows the same pattern that is listed in Section 1: United Trade Zone, Part four: Exception Borders Closure, Article 16; in the United Economic Zone Agreement document.

Section 3.: United Monetary Platform

Part One: United Monetary Platform Principles

Article 1: United Monetary Platform respects the nation's right to have and maintain its own currency or currencies.

Article 1: United Monetary Platform respects the nation's right to have and maintain its own domestic monetary policy.

Article 2: Members of the United Monetary Platform have their currencies connected on the universal marketplace that provides actual information about their exchange rates.

Article 3: Citizens, institutions, private organizations and other subjects of member states of the United Monetary Platform have the ability to use this platform for instant cross-currency and international payments according to the actual exchange rate of selected currencies.

Article 4: Members of the United Monetary Platform are forbidden to make state organized inflation or deflation shocks of other member's currency or currencies (i. e. intentional buying of foreign currency to damage economy and cash flow of other member).

Part Two: Requirements

Article 5: Members of the United Monetary Platform have to digitalize at least 40% of their currency so the conditions for appropriate cash flow are created.

Article 6: Members of the United Monetary Platform have to make sure that at least one certified financial institution operating on their domestic market is connected and using the platform so the foreign payments are technically feasible.

Article 7 Members of the United Monetary Platform have to maintain the isolated backup servers that contains the records about cross-currency and international payments. These servers are maintained and used for cases of emergency (i. e. hacking, criminal activity, blackouts, natural disasters etc.).

Article 8: Members of the United Monetary Platform have to be able to build and maintain a dedicated communication system and array that will be sufficient part of the whole United Monetary Platform financial network and able to receive and send complex encrypted data.

Part Three: Membership

Article 9: United Monetary Platform membership is granted if the regional nation voluntarily decides to join. Putting membership into effect is based individual technical feasibility of the nation.

Article 10: United Monetary Platform member is free to decide to leave the United Monetary Platform, however his demand will be technically performed after 1 year from the decision so other members of the United Market Zone would have the time to prepare and adapt their markets for this change.

Article 11: United Monetary Platform member can be excluded from the United Monetary Platform based on the accepted grievance given by other member of the United Monetary Platform. The exclusion process follows the same pattern that is listed in Section 1: United Trade Zone, Part four: Exception Borders Closure, Article 16; in the United Economic Zone Agreement document.

Section 4.: United Foreign Trade Policy

Part One: Foreign Trade Principles

Article 1: United Foreign Trade Policy is based and formed by consensual principle that protects the minority opinion.

Article 2: United Foreign Trade Policy is formed to protect interests of the regional members in the context of the inter-regional trade and the trade with other non-regional third party subjects while it respects the rules and fundamental principles of the free market.

Article 3: United Foreign Trade Policy is formed to take coordinated reactionary regional action and pressure on other inter-regional and other non-regional third party subjects in cases when they cause intentional harm to the trade of the regional member or members. (i. e. intentional nationalization, freezing of legal assets, ethnic and national trade restrictions, punitive quotas or unilateral state-subsidized dumping)

Article 4: Reactionary tools used against inter-regional and non-regional third party subjects can be:

(a) Coordinated embargo

(b) Inflation and deflation currency shocks

(c) International grievance, petition and denouncing of actions

(d) Current reactionary procedure proposed by United Foreign Trade Committee

Part Two: United Foreign Trade Committee

Article 5: United Foreign Trade Committee is temporary specialized organ that is formed every time that member or members of the Free Market Federation calls for taking of coordinated reactionary trade action.

Article 6: United Foreign Trade Committee analyzes the situation and based on the analysis it later chooses or forms current procedure that corresponds the situation.

Article 7: United Foreign Trade Committee always includes all members of the current regional government plus the member or members that called for coordinated reactionary trade action. United Foreign Trade Committee can include other regional nations if at least three members of the current regional government agrees.

Article 8 United Foreign Trade Committee can is allowed to have non-transparent discussion while forming the current policy, but outcome of this discussion has to be always transparent.

Part Three: Passing Of Policies

Article 9: When the outcome of United Foreign Trade Committee is finished and transparent other step that follows is deliberation where every regional nation is free to discuss, oppose or propose changes to the proposed policy. Minimal time reserved for deliberation is 3 days from making the outcome of the United Foreign Trade Committee transparent.

Article 10: Based on the deliberation United Foreign Trade Committee is able to make demanded and discussed changes and alterations in order to get closer towards regional consensus.

Article 11: After the deliberation and possible altering of the planned policy the common regional vote is held. If the vote is successful the policy becomes to put in effect.

Article 12: All members of the United Foreign Trade Committee responsible for current policy making are able to use the right on absolute veto during the policy making process. Absolute veto shuts down the policy making process entirely with inability to revive it for the period of 3 months.

Article 13: All members of the region are able during the deliberation process to form a petition for complete cancellation of the current policy making process. If this petition achieves to be supported by at least 3 regional members the policy making process is stopped by the same conditions as the absolute veto was used.

Article 14 When the policy is passed it can be repealed by the common regional vote when proposal for repealing the policy needs to be seconded by at least one additional regional nation.

Laws and Regulations Regarding Embassies in the Free Market Federation

Article 1: Embassies requests shall be made through the existing embassy system and approved by the Embassy Minister; no official telegram to any official requesting an embassy is necessary.

Article 2: Embassies will be rejected if the requesting region is considered by either its name or its previous actions: extremist, raider, or advocating the use of a centralized/planned economy over that of a market system. However, exceptions may be granted at the order of the High Admiral and Embassy Minister if the region requesting the embassy sends a telegram to said officials with a valid reason explaining why they are either not in violation or are actively changing their policies.

Article 3: Defines extremist as; any region whose government openly and/or actively advocates the harming of person or property based on religion, race, or sexuality. Defines raider as; any region that openly and/or actively commits and/or advocates the relocation of WA member nations to foreign regions for the purpose of overthrowing the foreign delegate and placing the foreign region under the home region’s control.

Article 4: Regions who abide by the requirements for embassies when they are approved but change their policies to violate previous requirements will be subject to removal.

Article 5: The Free Market Federation reserves the right to revoke embassies for any reason as deemed necessary by a committee of both the High Admiral and the Embassy Minister; including but not limited to nations violating FMF laws, using defamatory content within the RMB, spamming or excessively advertising in the RMB, or otherwise being a nuisance.

Article 6: When the Free Market Federation initiates an embassy closure, a telegram shall be sent by the Embassy Minister to either the Highest Ranking Official or Embassy Minister of said region announcing the closure and providing reason for the embassy’s closure. Regions may use the 72 hour closure period to respond. If they find the closure unjust, the region in question may appeal before the Chief Justice of the Free Market Federation to potentially have it rescinded.

Article 7: Upon closure of an embassy, foreign staff of said embassy shall be given a one week period in which they must leave the region. This does not apply to former embassy staff who are citizens of FMF member states.

All laws and regulations within this document are hereby retroactively applied to all regions with an embassy in the Free Market Federation and may be subject to change.

All questions regarding said laws and regulations may be directed at the Embassy Minister.

Approved by Embassy Minister Free terand and cosigned by:
Catos
Cerveskia
Environmental Support
The cosmic roman empire

REDCON Alert System

REDCON=Readiness Condition
Alert system placed on the regional Factbook designed to alert FMF nations to any threats that may exist to the security and prosperity of the FMF.

REDCON 5- Peacetime, no dangers
REDCON 4- Minor Alert, possible threat detected
REDCON 3 -Alert, Begin planning for emergency
REDCON 2- Major Alert, begin preparation for emergency
REDCON 1- Imminent threat confirmed, ready for emergency
REDCON 0- Emergency declared

Regional RP

-RP Rules
3 RP years=1 real day (only used in treaties, etc.)
Use * at the start and end of a sentence to indicate an action
Ex: *Bob opens the door*


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