Constitution of Elwynn (1671-1696)

The Constitution of the Elwynnese Republic was the constitution governing the entirety of the Elwynnese Republic. It has six parts, the first part covers the national government, the second part the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic, and the third part the Congressional Counties of the Elwynnese Republic, and the fourth part covers the Autonomous Republic of Normark, the fifth the Sovereign Confederation's Autonomous Republic, and the sixth part the Amokolian Republic. Abandoned by 1699 AN.

Constitution of the Elwynnese Republic

ARTICLE 1: On the Republic.

Section 1: Establishment

The Elwynnese Nation, finally united after having been ravished over the centuries by subjugators and imperialists, establishes for itself a free, independent and sovereign body politic under the name of the Elwynnese Republic.

Section 2: Law and jurisdiction

1. The territory of the Republic is indivisible.
2. The official languages of the Republic are Elw, Babkhi, Norse, Istvanistani, and North Amokolian.
3. The symbols of the Republic are defined by Act of the Republic and protected under the law of the Republic.
4. The law, administration and jurisdiction of the Republic extend to the whole of its territory under effective control of its Government. All Government officers and members, whether elected or appointed, operating under the authority of the Republic must be citizens of the Elwynnese Republic excepting special and honorary appointees made by the Prince that are subject to the discretion of the Council of Eliria.
5. The common law, and all other law adopted before this Constitution, remains intact in as much it conforms to the present Constitution.
6. The present Constitution is the supreme law of the land. All things repugnant to it are null and void.

ARTICLE 2: Bailiwicks and autonomous republic.

Section 1: Bailiwicks

The Republic is divided into bailiwicks. The borders, names and number of the bailiwicks are decided by Act of the Elwynnese Republic. The official languages of a bailiwick are those which at least one fifth of the population in that bailiwick has as native language as well as such languages as that bailiwick shall further afford the status of official.

Section 2: Autonomous republics

1. The Republic is divided into five autonomous republics – the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic, the Congressional Counties of the Elwynnese Republic, the Autonomous Republic of Normark, the Sovereign Confederation's Autonomous Republic, and the Amokolian Republic – the borders of which are indicated by the map affixed in Schedule 1 to this Constitution.
2. Each autonomous republic shall decide on the powers of its bailiwicks for all other matters as are not indicated by this Constitution and any law made under the Constitution.
3. The constitutions of the autonomous republics are affixed to the present Constitution and form part of it.

ARTICLE 3: Legislature

Section 1 Powers

1. The legislative powers of the Republic are vested in the Council of Eliria. Laws made by the Council of Eliria are termed Acts of the Republic.
2. The jurisdiction of the legislative powers of the Republic are state security and intelligence, military affairs, the enforcement of justice and the system of courts throughout the Republic, foreign affairs and trade, national elections and referenda as well as all interrepublican trade, commerce, and infrastructure and all such matters as are agreed by the autonomous republic to be vested in the Council of Eliria.
3. The Council of Eliria has the power to impose taxation to fund the annual budget of the Elwynnese Republic.

Section 2: Composition

The Council of Eliria consists of the Prince of the Elwynnese Republic, and one member representing each autonomous republic's legislature, and one member representing each autonomous republic's executive.

Section 3: Procedure

A decision by the Council of Eliria is made by:

• acclamation,
• the vote of the Prince and the vote of seven members ,
• the vote of eight members (when the Prince is absent, unable or unwilling to cast a vote in favour), or,
• in matters of procedure, six votes.

ARTICLE 4: Executive

Section 1: Powers

The executive powers of the Republic are vested in the Prince of the Elwynnese Republic (known as Princess of the Elwynnese Republic when held by a woman). In so doing, the Prince promulgates and executes the Acts of the Republic, oversees and charges the civil service of the Republic, commands the Union Defence Force, and represents the Republic in relations with foreign powers (that is, the Prince accredits and receives ambassadors and other envoys).

Section 2: Term of the Prince

1. The term of office of the Prince is at maximum six years. Before the end the citizens of the Republic shall elect a Prince for the next term.
2. The term of office of the Prince ends upon the end of the six-year period, upon his death, resignation from office or removal from office by an act of impeachment of the legislatures of two autonomous republics.
3. Upon taking office, the Prince shall appoint from among the members of the Council of Eliria a Steward. The Steward shall act in the Prince's name whenever the Prince is absent or during a period of sede vacante of the Prince.

ARTICLE 5: Judicial

Section 1: Court of the Star Chamber

1. The judicial powers of the Republic are vested in the Court of the Star Chamber of the Elwynnese Republic and all such inferior courts as Acts of the Republic may establish.
2. Members of the Court of the Star Chamber are as follows: an equal amount of judges nominated from each of the autonomous republics and confirmed to the Court by the Council of Eliria. The term of office of a member of the Court of the Star Chamber shall not exceed 20 years, or beyond the member's age of 80.

Section 2: Courts of the autonomous republics

Each autonomous republic may establish courts of law for matters under its own jurisdiction. In any conflict between autonomous republican courts and the courts of the Elwynnese Republic, the courts of the Elwynnese Republic have precedence.

ARTICLE 6: Citizenship and residency

Section 1: Extension of citizenship

1. Citizenship of the Republic is automatically extended to all citizens, denizens and loyal subjects of the Imperial Republic who:
   1. at any time between 1652 and 1672 were legally resident in the territory of the present Republic, or
   2. were born in the territory of the Republic, or
   3. were born outside the territory of the Republic to any person legally resident in the territory of the Republic or born in the territory of the Republic.
2. Citizenship is also extended to any person who is born or legally adopted where the mother or father is a citizen of the Republic, or where at least two grandparents are citizens of the Republic.
3. Citizenship may be extended by the Prince to foreigners or stateless persons resident in the Republic with a permanent right of abode.
4. Citizenship may be extended by the Prince to other persons belonging to the Elwynnese Nation.
5. Citizenship of the Elwynnese Republic is also extended to such persons as the Elwynnese Republic has solemnly vowed to take on as citizens in a treaty.

Section 2: Residency

1. Foreign nationals resident in the Republic are resident by virtue of either possessing a permanent right of abode or having leave to remain in the Republic
2. The Prince may, on the application of a foreigner resident in the Republic, grant permanent right of abode to the foreigner if the Prince is satisfied that the foreigner is of good character and enriches the social fabric of the Elwynnese Nation by his/her skills, demeanour, or investments.
3. The Prince may only revoke the right of abode of a person if that person has resided outside the territory of the Republic for a period exceeding five years, or if that person has been found guilty of a crime, the punishment of which is a loss of liberty for any duration of time;
4. The Prince may grant to a foreigner a right to remain in the Republic:
   1. for a specific period of time;
   2. for a specific purpose (for example for the duration of an employment, studies, etc);
   3. in order for the foreigner to exercise his or her rights enjoyed under a treaty with the Republic;

Section 3: Rights and duties not otherwise specified

1. All citizens of the Republic have a right of free movement throughout the Republic in accordance with law; they make take up work or residency wherever in the Republic that they may find a home or employment.
2. All persons resident in the Republic have a duty to uphold the peace, order and law of the Republic.
3. All citizens are equal to one another. Titles of nobility or royalty are not recognized. Feudalism, in all its forms, is abolished.
4. The Prince may revoke the citizenship of a person if the Prince is satisfied that:
   1. the citizen has renounced citizenship in the Republic;
   2. the citizen has been found guilty of a crime against the Elwynnese Nation or Republic;
   3. the citizen has collaborated with enemies of the Elwynnese Nation or Republic;
   4. the citizen has waged war against the Elwynnese Nation or Republic
5. The customary rights of the citizens under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms shall not be infringed upon in so far as they are consistent with the Constitution of the Elwynnese Republic.

ARTICLE 7: The Union Defence Forces

Section 1: Armed forces

The armed forces of the Elwynnese Republic exist for the defence of the Republic and the promotion of peace. Their name is the Union Defence Forces.

Section 2: The Prince's duties

1. It shall be the duty and the right of the Prince to take care that, throughout the Union Defence Force, all units and formations be kept full and well equipped, and that unity be established and maintained in regard to organisation and formation, equipment, and command in the training of the men, as well as in the qualification of the officers. For these purpose the Prince shall be authorised to satisfy himself at any time of the condition of the several contingents, and to provide remedies for existing defects.
2. The Prince shall determine the strength, composition, and division of the contingents of the Union Defence Force, and also the organisation of the militia, and he shall have the right to designate garrisons within the territory of the Republic, as also to call any portion of the Union Defence into active service, subject to limitations detailed by the Constitution herein.

Section 3: The Citizen's duty

1. Every Citizen is subject to military duty, and in the discharge of this duty as a Soldier no substitute can be accepted.
2. A Soldier has his residence in his garrison. The residence of a soldier who has no garrison within the country is deemed to be his last garrison within the country.
3. A Soldier resides apart from civil society, and during his Tenure of Service all guild, corporate and familial affiliations are held to be in abeyance. A Soldier has one loyalty - to the Republic.
4. At the end of his Tenure of Service the Soldier shall return to his former affiliations and obligations as a Citizen of Civil Society.
5. The former Soldier, returning to Civil Society as a Citizen may, unless subject to a criminal record, be considered for preferential advancement, promotion or transfer, between Guilds, Corporations and Bailiwicks, based upon his record of service and demonstrable skills acquired.
6. Every Citizen capable of bearing arms shall be available to serve for seven years in the Union Defence Force, ordinarily from the end of his twentieth to the beginning of his twenty-eighth years; the first three in the Territorial Defence, the last four years in the Auxiliary Corps; during the next five years he shall belong to the Reserve which will provide the Non-Combat Service Corps.
7. The strength of the Union Defence Force in time of peace shall be one per cent of the population of the Elwynnese Republic and shall be furnished by the Bailiwicks in proportion to their population. Any adjustment to the strength of army in time of peace shall be fixed by Acts of the Republic.

Section 4: Deployment

1. The Council of Eliria reaffirms holds the constitutional right to declare war and authorise the deployment of armed forces abroad.
2. The Prince may not declare war and can only deploy forces abroad prior to authorisation in the event of the State of Elwynn being significantly imperilled by an impending and or imminent attack for the purpose of safeguarding the Realm.
3. In the event of authorising a unilateral deployment of forces, any such deployment must be referred by the Prince to the Council of Eliria within forty-eight (48) hours of the authorisation being given.
4. The legislatures of two autonomous republic, acting jointly, may impeach the Prince if, by a majority vote in each, they feel he has acted without justifiable cause. The Offence shall be that of 'Usurpation of Authority and the Waging of Warfare Contrary to Law'. The Prince, if impeached, shall, in addition to suffering loss of Office, be prohibited from holding public office for thirty Elw Years and be referred to the Court of Star Chamber for investigation and trial.

Section 5: Cost

The costs and the burden of all the military system of the Republic are to be borne equally by all the Bailiwicks and their subjects, Where an equal distribution of the burdens cannot be effected in natura without prejudice to the public welfare, affairs shall be equalised by Acts of the Republic in accordance with the principles of the Constitution.

ARTICLE 8: State security

Section 1: Gentlemen-at-Cudgels:

There shall be established within the bounds of the Republic a force for the maintenance of order and discipline therein. This force shall be known as the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels, an Auxiliary Corps of the Union Defence Force, collectively, and individually by titles graded according to rank, area of command and proficiency, as shall be set out hereafter.

Section 2: Structure

1. The Gentlemen-at-Cudgels shall consist of a graded structure as intimated by Article Eight;
2. At its apex shall be the Bludgeoner-General, who shall act at the behest of the Court of the Prince and in that manner shall operate an effective command over all subordinate gentlemen-at-cudgels whom he shall appoint in the Republic for public service with cudgels in the manner instructed by higher authority;
3. Appointed by the Bludgeoner-General shall be a Superintendent Officer of Cudgels for each of March of this State. The Superintendent Officer of Cudgels shall have primary responsibility for the conduct of cudgelling in the March under his charge and shall answer to the Bludgeoner-General for the same;
4. In each city Bailiwick of the March the Superintendent Officer of Cudgels shall appoint a Master of Cudgels who shall be charged with the expediting of writs of cudgelling and other similarly civic-minded duties. The Master of Cudgels shall answer to the Superintendent Officer of Cudgels for his conduct in the exercise of his duties. The Master of Cudgels shall have the services of a retinue of twenty Gentleman-Cudgellers and as many cudgel-carriers and apprentice cudgel-carriers shall be deemed appropriate;
5. The Court of the Prince may at its own discretion establish ad hoc Commanderies or fortified outposts within the State under the civilian authority of a Reeve assisted by a Gentleman-Cudgeller, who shall answer to the Superintendent Officer of Cudgels in the March where the Commandery is established. The Gentleman-Cudgeller shall have command of twenty cudgel-carriers, being the lowest rank of non-apprenticed cudgellers.

Section 3: Writ of Cudgelling

1. A writ of cudgelling may be issued by an appropriate agency so authorized by the Prince, the autonomous republic government or the bailiwick government, for any act that may be reasonably accomplished through the application of cudgels provided that it is discernibly for the benefit of public order and discipline and is to the commonweal of the greater portion of the denizens resident in the Republic;
2. The writ shall specify which Bailiwick or Commandery shall be responsible for the cudgelling, what or whom the cudgelling is to be against, and what is to be done with the cudgelled subsequent to the act of cudgelling;
3. To be valid the writ must be signed by the Court of the Prince and the cudgelling thoroughly expedited by no later than twelve days after the issuance of the aforementioned writ;
4. The Councillors of Eliria shall enjoy immunity from cudgelling.

Section 4: The Panopticon Department

1. By this order the Panopticon Department is hereby constituted.
2. It shall be administered and directed by the Panopticon Department Main Office which shall itself be under the direction of the Chief Director who shall be appointed by the Court of the Prince.
3. The Panopticon Department shall combat all enemies of the State within and outside the borders of the State.

Section 5: Panopticon Department Main Office

The Panopticon Department Main Office shall have responsibility for the coordination of all departments of the security apparatus within the Panopticon Department.

Section 6: The Panopticon Structure

1. . The Panopticon Department shall be structured as follows:
   1. . Office A: Internal Security
   2. Office B: Criminal Activities
   3. Office C: Counter Intelligence
   4. . Office D: Identity, Moral Rearmament & Enlightenment of Elwdom
2. Under those offices the Chief Director Panopticon Department (Main Office) may raise any ad hoc units and formations as he may deem appropriate for the fulfilment of the remit of the Panopticon Department.

Section 7: Enabling Powers

§7.1. The Chief Director Panopticon Department (Main Office) is authorised to undertake whatever actions he deems appropriate for the security of the Republic and shall be granted immunity from prosecution for any actions undertaken in accordance with his role, subject to the discretion of the Council of Eliria.

Section 8: Restrictions

Defence and Security matters are exclusively reserved to the Council of Eliria. No Autonomous Republic, County, or Bailiwick may muster or maintain any armed force or militia that has not been specifically established through an Act of the Republic. With regards to law enforcement, no law enforcement or corporate security professional in the service of an Autonomous Republic or Bailiwick shall be armed save for a lead-weighted cudgel for the preservation of public order, a 9 mm pistol for personal protection, and a 9 mm sub-machine gun for enforcement actions against armed criminals.

ARTICLE 9: Contingencies

Sole section

1. Should the Republic find itself involved in an external conflict, natural disaster or civil emergency, or exposed to the danger of such, the Prince or the President of Congress may convene Congress via special notice outwith the Capital.
2. If the Republic is involved in an external conflict, natural disaster or civil emergency, and consequently either the Prince or Congress are prevented from carrying out their duties, the such Senators as may assemble in any place together may elect a Prince or Steward as necessary.
3. If the Republic is involved in an external conflict, natural disaster or civil emergency, the Prince may arrange mitigating actions, as appropriate, without seeking the approval of Congress, if deferment of such an agreement would otherwise imperil the Republic.
4. Each public authority in occupied or otherwise compromised areas shall act in a manner that best serves defence efforts, or appropriate mitigating actions, as well as the protection of the population and the Elwynnese interests at large. In the event of an area being occupied by a foreign power, under no circumstances may any public authority take any action which imposes upon a citizen of the Republic the duty of rendering assistance to such a power. Neither may elections may be held in such occupied areas.

ARTICLE 10: Final provisions and amendment

Section 1: Replacement

This Constitution replaces the Transitional Charter of Government of the Elwynnese Republic. It may be amended by the Council of Eliria provided the assent for the amendment is given from the legislature of each autonomous republic.

Section 2: Amendments

An amendment to the constitution of an autonomous republic requires only the assent of the Council of Eliria, provided that the legislature of that autonomous republic has adopted a bill to amend its constitution accordingly.

Schedule 1: Map

The autonomous republics of Elwynn on Benacia

Constitution of the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic

Preamble

The Babkhi national community, established in these Benacian lands by right of conquest and sustained through long years of tribulation by the fecundity and prowess of its citizens, overcoming all forms of tyranny, aggression, corruption, and subversion waged against it by the infernal servants of the lie, confidently asserts its position in the vanguard of the forces striving to uphold and advance the cause of the Human Supremacy, mandated by the Highest Divinity, not only upon this portion of the Benacian continent but across its entirety and ultimately across the entirety of this world, this solar system, and throughout the entirety of the cosmos beyond.

The Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic upholds the traditions and values of fallen Babkha. As the largest surviving community of Babkhi in the world today it is the right and obligation of the Alalehzamini to provide leadership to the international Babkhi diaspora, including those communities remaining on Eura.

Forged in the fires of war and quenched in the waters of peace, the Alalehzamini identity is an inseparable and essential component of Elwdom. No power in all of creation may deny the right of the Alalehzamini to proudly describe themselves as Elwynnese.

The autonomous character of the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic is essential to preserve the dignity and identity of the Babkhi race on Eura from those perfidious wretches who would seek to corrupt and dilute it.

Article 1: The Nation

1. The Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic is the defender and embodiment of the Babkhi nation within the Elwynnese Republic and the representative of the Babkhi cultural community within Elwdom.
2. The nation shall exist in perpetuity and comprise of the following bailiwicks:
   • Allswell, Amareazerke, Ardashirsahr, Arsalani, Aryastan, Aslanshahr, Azeroth, Babran, Baltyshahr, Bandar-e Mojaheddeen, Bandar-e Tahmaseb, Dakhm ul Jinn, Dar ul Tazim, Daryapur, Elfinshiyehafir, Eribazistan, Eskenderiyebandar, Faizabad, Fenririe, Gusfandshahr, Halwar, Ironstone, Islus, Ismailabad, Jazâ'ir ul Zjandariyah, Kilkadesh, Kimrynore, Ladurea, Lake Camel, Leila ve Moshk, Lun Ezkaron, Majid-e Aik, Mariyechelân, Metyl Themar, Mohamedion, Moorcorone, Naubandar, Nauron Inna, Norgale, Peikhambad, Perez, Pernetegh, Qajar, Rastakhiz, Rugahi, Shahazerke, Shahershid, Sheikhshahr, Shurim, Sirishahr, Tanshuyuyyal, Varpur, Ville des Riches, Yaltarfalas, Zarddeh, and Zoroaster.
3. The primacy of the mission of the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic as an ark of the Babkhi nation shall in no way circumscribe the rights of Elwynnese citizens born or resident in the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic, excepting certain categories of Protected Persons, to enjoy the rights of citizenship and to regard themselves, and be regarded, as Alalehzamini.

Section 1: Principles of Government

1. The Republic is founded upon the following principles:
   1. The oneness and absolute sovereignty of Zurvan over all things, be they material or immaterial, and the necessity of submission to His commands;
   2. The Sublime Acquiescence of Humanity to Divine Revelation and its fundamental role in setting forth the laws;
   3. The return to Zurvan and the Celestial Spheres in the Hereafter, and the constructive role of this belief in the course of man's ascent towards Zurvan;
   4. The justice of Zurvan in creation and legislation;
   5. Continuous leadership and perpetual guidance, and its fundamental role in ensuring the preservation and promotion of the Harmonious Society and the Human Supremacy upon Micras;
   6. The exalted dignity and value of Mankind, manifested through the Human Supremacy established through the Will of Zurvan and Harmonious Accordance with the Resonant Vibrancy of the Celestial Spheres, and the freedom of Mankind coupled with responsibility before Zurvan; in which equity, justice, political, economic, social, and cultural independence, and national solidarity are secured by recourse to:
      1. Continuous interpretation of the contingent circumstances and observable phenomena by the Rightly-Guided, those possessing necessary qualifications, exercised on the basis off the Holy Writ, upon all of whom be peace;
      2. Sciences and arts and the most advanced results of human experience, together with the effort to advance them further;
2. The implementation of these principles shall inform the adherence of the Republic to the rule of law where this is necessary and beneficial for the preservation of the Republic, the National Community, and the Human Supremacy.

Section 2: Sardar i-Azam

1. The executive power of the Republic is vested in the Sardar i-Azam, who serves as vicegerent of the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic in the name of the Prince. The Sardar exercises his authority by firman (decree).
2. When there is a vacancy in the office of Sardar, due to resignation, death or otherwise, the head of state shall, acting on the advice of the outgoing Sardar or, if that is not possible, on the advice of the Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār (Legislative Assembly & Council of State), appoint a citizen of Alalehzamin to serve as Sardar.
3. The Sardar shall appoint a Darbār (Council of State) to assist them in his duties. The Darbār consists of the Nahust Vazir (Prime Minister) and the heads of government departments, named vazirs, and junior members, named ministers. The organisation and procedures of the Darbār shall be set by decree.
4. The Sardar shall ensure that the laws of the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic are faithfully executed. Any action of the Sardar, or anyone acting in their stead, that is contrary to this constitution, shall be null and void.
5. The Sardar shall cause a budget for the succeeding year to be introduced in the Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār no later than 15.XI of each year.

Section 3: Nahust Vazir

1. The Nahust Vazir shall serve as President of the Darbār, provide for its needs, organise for its continuity and institutional memory, and provide for every material need of its members.
2. The Nahust Vazir shall faithfully serve the Sardar i-Azam in every capacity required.
3. The Nahust Vazir shall serve as Convener of the Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār.
4. The Nahust Vazir shall hope his office for a term of five years, which may be renewed by the Sardar i-Azam for a further five years.

Section 4: Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār

1. The Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār shall comprise of deputies, who are the following:
   1. The Sardar i-Azam;
   2. The Nahust Vazir;
   3. Vazirs and ministers appointed to the Darbār by the Sardar i-Azam;
   4. Electors returned to the Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār by their Bailiwick of residence through general election.
2. Electors shall be voted for by universal suffrage with one for every one hundred thousand citizens in a Bailiwick.
3. Electors shall be returned by means of a General Election that is held once every five years.
4. An Elector may be Recalled through the petition of the Electorate, where fifty-one percent of the Electorate is in favour of the Recall, or else by the Muster of Arms of the Sardārs and Mansabdars in a Bailiwick, provided that it is held upon the čahâr-šanbeh sūrī before Nowruz.
5. The Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār shall hold regular sessions and extraordinary sessions. Regular sessions shall be convened once or twice a year by the Nahust Vazir. Extraordinary sessions shall be convened when the Nahust Vazir deems them necessary, or at the request of more than one-third of the total number of deputies.
6. The Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār shall have the authority to:
   1. Amend and supplement the Constitution.
   2. Enact, or amend and supplement laws.
   3. Approve major bills adopted by the Sardar i-Azam when the Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār is in recess.
   4. Establish the basic principles of the state's domestic and foreign policies.
   5. Elect or recall the chairman of the Sardar i-Azam.
   6. Elect or recall the vice presidents, honorary vice presidents, secretary, and members of the Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār.
   7. Appoint or dismiss the Prosecutor General of the Central Prosecutor's Office.
   8. Elect or recall the President of the Central Court.
   9. Elect or recall the chairmen, vice chairmen, and members of the committees of the Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār.
   10. Deliberate and approve the state plan for the development of the economy of the Republic and the report on the status of its implementation.
   11. Deliberate and approve the state budget and the report on the status of its execution.
   12. Receive reports on the status of the work of the Darbār and central organs and establish measures, if necessary.
   13. Decide on the ratification or abrogation of agreements presented to the Majles-e Showrā-ye Darbār by the Sardar i-Azam.

Article 6: Harmonious Societal Coordination

Section 1: Rights & Responsibilities

1. The customary rights of citizens under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms shall be upheld in the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic excepting those instances where the provisions of the same are held to be contrary and inimical to the moral values and national spirit of Alalehzamini society.
2. The policy of the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic shall be to achieve a Harmonious Societal Coordination of all aspects of public and private life, in accordance with proper morality and devotion to the Highest Divinity, so as to ensure the contentment and effective functioning of all citizens.
3. All people of Alalehzamin, whatever the ethnic, religious, or linguistic group to which they belong, enjoy equal rights; and colour, race, language, and the like, do not bestow any privilege.
4. All citizens of the country, both men and women, equally enjoy the protection of the law and enjoy all human, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, in conformity with proper morality.
5. The government must ensure the rights of women in all respects, in conformity with proper morality, and accomplish the following goals:
   1. create a favourable environment for the growth of woman's personality and the restoration of her rights, both the material and intellectual;
   2. the protection of mothers, particularly during pregnancy and childbearing, and the protection of children without guardians;
   3. establishing competent courts to protect and preserve the family;
   4. the provision of special insurance for widows, and aged women and women without support;
   5. the awarding of guardianship of children to worthy mothers, in order to protect the interests of the children, in the absence of a legal guardian.
6. The dignity, life, property, rights, residence, and occupation of the individual are inviolate, except in cases sanctioned by law.
7. The act of obtaining or providing an induced abortion without lawful authority shall be considered the crime of infanticide which shall carry the same penalty as for murder, as shall be provided by law. In addition whomsoever connives in the destruction of their own child in utero, depriving the state, society, and the economy of a productive potential citizen, shall be obliged to furnish the replacement as a part of their sentence in restitution for the harmful act they have committed against the nation.
   1. Lawful authority for the sanctioning of an induced abortion may only be obtained in those instances where an examining board of three accredited medical professionals with relevant experience in the field of obstetrics are in concurrence that the fetus is not viable, has defects or abnormalities that would render it incapable or cretinous after birth, or that the fetus would cause some irreparable harm to the future reproductive function of the mother or a threat to her life. Under the aforementioned circumstances written authorisation for a termination may be sought for and obtained from a sarkar of the relevant bailiwick.
   2. No penalty shall attend to circumstances of a miscarriage, providing that a thorough investigation is conducted by an examining board of three accredited medical professionals with relevant experience in the field of obstetrics to exclude the possibility of induced abortion.
8. The investigation of individuals' beliefs is forbidden, excepting where an individuals' beliefs are of a Vanic or daemonic inclination, and no one may be molested or taken to task simply for holding a certain belief, except in the case of Vanic or daemonic practices where it is mandatory for all citizens to immediately take up arms against discovered malefactors so as to ensure their destruction.
9. Publications and the press have freedom of expression except when it is detrimental to the security of the Elwynnese Republic, the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic or the rights of the public. The details of this exception will be specified by law.
10. The inspection of letters and the failure to deliver them, the recording and disclosure of telephone conversations, the disclosure of telegraphic and telex communications, censorship, or the wilful failure to transmit them, eavesdropping, and all forms of covert investigation are forbidden, except as provided by law.
11. The formation of parties, societies, political or professional associations, as well as religious societies, is permitted provided they do not violate the principles of independence, freedom, national unity, proper morality, or the constitutional order. No one may be prevented from participating in the aforementioned groups, or be compelled to participate in them.
12. Public gatherings and marches may be freely held, provided arms are not carried and that they are not detrimental to public order.
13. Everyone has the right to choose any occupation he wishes, if it is not contrary to proper morality and the public interests, and does not infringe the rights of others. The government has the duty, with due consideration of the need of society for different kinds of work, to provide every citizen with the opportunity to work, and to create equal conditions for obtaining it.
14. To benefit from social security with respect to retirement, unemployment, old age, disability, absence of a guardian, and benefits relating to being stranded, accidents, health services, and medical care and treatment, provided through Insurance or other means, is accepted as a universal right. The government must provide the foregoing services and financial support for every individual citizen by drawing, in accordance with the law, on the national revenues and funds obtained through public contributions.
15. The government must provide all citizens with free-education up to secondary school, and must expand free higher education to the extent required by the country for attaining self-sufficiency.
16. It is the right of every citizen and family to possess housing commensurate with his needs. The government must make land available for the implementation of this requirement, according priority to those whose need is greatest, in particular the rural population and the workers.
17. No one can be banished from his place of residence, prevented from residing in the place of his choice, or compelled to reside in a given locality, except in cases provided by law.
18. It is the indisputable right of every citizen to seek justice by recourse to competent courts. All citizens have right of access to such courts, and no one can be barred from courts to which he has a legal right of recourse.
19. The passing and execution of a sentence must be only by a competent court and in accordance with law.
20. Innocence is to be presumed, and no one is to be held guilty of a charge unless his or her guilt has been established by a competent court.
21. All forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confession or acquiring information are forbidden. Compulsion of individuals to testify, confess, or take an oath is not permissible; and any testimony, confession, or oath obtained under duress is devoid of value and credence. Violation of this article is liable to punishment in accordance with the law.
22. All affronts to the dignity and repute of persons arrested, detained, imprisoned, or banished in accordance with the law, whatever form they may take, are forbidden and liable to punishment.
23. No one is entitled to exercise his rights in a way injurious to others or detrimental to public interests.
24. No adult citizen who has been assessed by an examining board of three accredited general medical practitioners as being disabled, infirm, or terminally unwell (where death can be expected to occur without intervention within one year of diagnosis) shall be denied the right to request and obtain the gift of mercy from the state.

Section 2: Marriage

1. Marriage is a union, contracted under law, between a man (male) and a woman (female) of the same sentient species for the purpose of the procreation of offspring and the creation of a shared inheritance for any resulting progeny.
   1. A marriage may end only with the death of one party or in divorce.
   2. Man shall not marry man.
   3. Woman shall not marry woman.
   4. Marriage between sapient species is prohibited.
   5. Those proven infertile or genetically defective by medical examination must not marry.
   6. A man must not marry his mother, his daughter, his father's mother, his mother's mother, his son's daughter, his daughter's daughter, his sister, his father's sister, his mother's sister, his brother's daughter or his sister's daughter.
   7. A woman must not marry her father, her son, her father's father, her mother's father, her son's son, her daughter's son, her brother, her father's brother, her mother's brother, her brother's son or her sister's son.
2. Any marriage contracted contrary to this Section must be declared void by a duly appointed court.
3. Marriages contrary to this Section may be recognised on application to a duly appointed court if specifically lawful in a recognised jurisdiction. A recognised jurisdiction is defined as being:
   1. Congressional Elwynn;
   2. Any third party country with whom Elwynn has established formal treaty relations including provision for mutual recognition of official documents.
4. Failure to apply to recognition of an externally contracted marriage from a duly appointed court is an offence and carries the penalty of a forfeiture of rights and incarceration for a period of five Norton years.
5. No marriage contracted in Jingdao shall be recognised as lawful.
6. A marriage, to be lawful, requires only the consent of the participants, two independent witnesses and a formal notification to the competent authority of the bailiwick in whose jurisdiction the marriage has been contracted.
7. Divorce may be granted, upon application to a duly appointed court, for the following reasons:
   1. Lack of consummation, normally within twelve months of the contracting of the marriage.
   2. Infertility or impotence, to be proven by medical inspection of both parties before the court.
   3. Infidelity, to be proven by confessions and evidence set before the court.
   4. Mutual consent.
8. Any marriage which remains childless after ten Norton years is to be declared a "barren union" and dissolved by a duly appointed court at the earliest instance of the case coming to its notice.
9. Only property, wealth and chattels obtained jointly after the contracting of the marriage may be apportioned in a settlement at the discretion of the duly appointed court in which proceedings have been heard.

Section 3: Civil Unions

1. A Civil Union or partnership exists for extending formal recognition to those relationships upon which the recognition of marriage is denied.
   1. A man must not form a partnership with his mother, his daughter, his father's mother, his mother's mother, his son's daughter, his daughter's daughter, his sister, his father's sister, his mother's sister, his brother's daughter or his sister's daughter, his father, his son, his father's father, his mother's father, his son's son, his daughter's son, his brother, his father's brother, his mother's brother, his brother's son or his sister's son.
   2. A woman must not form a partnership with her father, her son, her father's father, her mother's father, her son's son, her daughter's son, her brother, her father's brother, her mother's brother, her brother's son or her sister's son, her mother, her daughter, her father's mother, her mother's mother, her son's daughter, her daughter's daughter, her sister, her father's sister, her mother's sister, her brother's daughter or her sister's daughter.
2. No benefits beyond recognition accrue, excepting the approbation of society.
3. A Civil Union may be ended by mutual consent or upon application to a duly appointed court of one party for a writ of separation citing infidelity.
4. Only property, wealth and chattels obtained jointly after the contracting of the Civil Union may be apportioned in a settlement at the discretion of the duly appointed court in which proceedings have been heard.

Constitution of the Congressional Counties of the Elwynnese Republic

Article 1: The Organization of Congressional Counties

Section 1

1. This Constitution applies to Congressional Counties of the Elwynnese Republic in accordance with the Constitution of the Elwynnese Republic.
2. Elwynnese democracy is founded on the free formation of opinion and on universal and equal suffrage. It shall be realised through a representative and congressional polity and through bailiwick self-government.
3. Public power shall be exercised under the law.
4. Public power shall be exercised with respect for the equal worth of all and the liberty and dignity of the private person.
5. The personal, economic and cultural welfare of the private person shall be fundamental aims of public activity. In particular, it shall be incumbent upon the public institutions to secure the right to work, housing and education, and to promote social care, social security, and a good living environment.
6. The public institutions shall promote the ideals of democracy as guidelines in all sectors of society. The public institutions shall secure equal rights for men and women and protect the private and family lives of private persons.
7. Opportunities should be promoted for ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities to preserve and develop a cultural and social life of their own.

Section 2: Congress

1. The Congress of the Elwynnese Republic is the foremost representative of the people.
2. Congress enacts the laws, determines congressional taxes and decides how Congressional funds shall be employed. Congress shall examine the government and administration of Congressional Counties.

Section 3: Government

The Government governs, and is accountable to Congress.

Section 4: Counties and bailiwicks

1. Congressional Counties consists of traditional counties and bailiwicks.
2. The decision-making power in bailiwicks is vested in elected assemblies.
3. Bailiwicks may levy taxes in order to perform their tasks.
4. Traditional counties exist for purposes of census, statistics, and jurisdictions of courts of appeal.

Section 5: Courts of law

1. Courts of law exist for the administration of justice, and central and local government administrative authorities exist for the public administration.
2. Courts of law, administrative authorities and others performing tasks within the public administration shall have regard in their work to the equality of all persons before the law and shall observe objectivity and impartiality.

Article 2: Congress

1. Congress shall be appointed by means of free, secret and direct elections. In such elections, votes shall be cast for parties, with an option for the voter to express a preference for a particular candidate.
2. Congress shall consist of a single chamber comprising 250 members. Alternates shall be appointed for all members.
3. Every Elwynnese citizen who is currently domiciled in Congressional Counties or who has ever been domiciled in Congressional Counties shall be entitled to vote in a congressional election. A person who has not attained the age of sixteen on or before election day shall not be entitled to vote.
4. Ordinary elections for Congress shall be held every four years.
5. The Government may order an extraordinary election for Congress to be held between ordinary elections. An extraordinary election shall be held within three months from the issue of such an order.
6. After an election for Congress has been held, the Government shall be debarred from calling an extraordinary election until three months from the date on which the newly-elected Congress first convenes. Neither may the Government call an extraordinary election while ministers remain at their posts, pending assumption of office by a new Government, after all have been formally discharged.
7. A newly-elected Congress shall convene on the fifteenth day following election day but not before the fourth day after the result of the election has been declared.
8. Each election shall be valid for the period from the date on which the newly-elected Congress convenes to the date on which Congress elected next thereafter convenes. This period is the electoral period of Congress.
9. The Congressional Counties shall be divided up into constituencies for the purposes of elections for Congress.
10. The constituency seats shall be distributed among the counties on the basis of a calculation of the relationship between the number of persons entitled to vote in each constituency and the total number of persons entitled to vote throughout the whole of Congressional Counties. The distribution of seats among the constituencies shall be determined for four years at a time.
11. The seats shall be distributed among the parties. Party shall be understood to mean any association or group of voters which puts itself forward in an election under a particular designation.

Article 3: Conducător and the Government

1. The Government comprises the Conducător of the Elwynnese Republic and other ministers.
2. The Conducător is appointed by Congress. The Conducător appoints the other ministers.
3. When a Conducător is to be appointed, the President shall summon for consultation representatives from every party group in Congress. The President shall confer with the Deputy Presidents and shall then place a proposal before Congress.
4. Congress shall proceed to vote on the proposal no later than the fourth day following, without prior preparation in committee.
5. If Congress rejects the President's proposal, the procedure shall be repeated. If Congress rejects the President's proposal four times, the procedure for appointing a Conducător shall be abandoned and shall be resumed only after an election for Congress has been held. If no ordinary election is due in any case to be held within three months, an extraordinary election shall be held within the same period.
6. When Congress has approved a proposal for a new Conducător, he shall inform Congress as soon as possible of the names of the ministers he has appointed. Government changes hands thereafter at a special Council before the Prince of the Elwynnese Republic or, in his unavoidable absence, before the President. The President shall always be summoned to attend such a Council.
7. The President issues a letter of appointment for the Conducător on Congress's behalf.
8. If Congress declares that the Conducător or any other minister no longer enjoys the confidence of parliament, the President shall discharge the minister concerned. If the Government is in a position to order an extraordinary election, however, no decision shall be taken to discharge the minister, provided the Government calls an extraordinary election within one week from the declaration of no confidence.
9. A minister shall be discharged if he so requests; the Conducător shall be discharged by the President, and another minister by the Conducător. The Conducător may also discharge another minister in other circumstances.
10. If the Conducător is discharged or dies, the President shall discharge the other ministers.
11. If all the members of the Government have been discharged, they shall remain at their posts until a new Government has taken office. If a minister other than the Conducător has been discharged at his own request, he shall remain at his post until a successor has taken office, should the Conducător so request.

Article 4: Justice

1. The Supreme Court is the highest court of general jurisdiction, and the Supreme Administrative Court is the highest administrative court. The right to have a case tried by the Supreme Court or by the Supreme Administrative Court may be restricted in an act of law. A person may serve as a member of the Supreme Court or the Supreme Administrative Court only if he holds currently, or has held previously, an appointment as a permanent salaried justice of the Court.
2. A court other than the Supreme Court or the Supreme Administrative Court must be established by virtue of law.

Neither a public authority nor Congress may determine how a court shall adjudicate an individual case or otherwise apply a rule of law in a particular case.

1. A legal dispute between private subjects may not be settled by an authority other than a court except by virtue of law.
2. Provisions concerning the functions of the courts relevant to the administration of justice, the principal features of their organisation, and court procedure shall be laid down in an act of law.
3. Administrative functions may be entrusted to a local authority.
4. Administrative functions may be delegated to a limited company, association, collective, foundation, registered religious community or any part of its organisation, or to a private person. If such a function involves the exercise of public authority, delegation shall be made by virtue of law.
5. Neither a public authority nor Congress nor the decision-making body of a local authority may determine how an administrative authority shall decide in a particular case relating to the exercise of public authority vis-à-vis a private subject or a local authority, or concerning the application of law.
6. No judicial or administrative function may be performed by Congress except inasmuch as this follows from fundamental law or from Congress Act.
7. Appointments to posts in courts of law or administrative authorities coming under the Government shall be made by the Government or by a public authority designated by the Government.
8. When making appointments to posts within the State administration attention shall be directed only to objective factors such as merit and competence.
9. Only a Elwynnese citizen may hold or exercise the functions of a judicial office, an office coming directly under the Government, an office or appointment as head of a public authority coming directly under Congress or the Government, or as member of such an authority or its governing board, an appointment in the Government Offices coming immediately under a minister, or an appointment as a Elwynnese envoy. Also in other cases only a person who is a Elwynnese citizen may hold an office or appointment if the holder of such an office or appointment is elected by Congress. Elwynnese nationality may otherwise be stipulated as a condition of qualification to hold an office or appointment under the State or under a local authority only with support in law or in accordance with conditions set out in law.

Inter-Elwynnese Relations

1. The Conducător and the President of Congress are ex officio members of the Council of Eliria for the Congressional Counties.
2. All authorities established under this constitution and congressional law shall cooperate with authorities of the Elwynnese Republic, of the Alalehzamini Autonomous Republic and of the Autonomous Republic of Normark in so far as legal under the Constitution of the Elwynnese Republic.

Constitution of Normark

We, Vidar Ayreon, King of Normark, make it publicly known: that the decision of the Congress and the House of Lords of 6 Regnmåne 1664 has been laid before Us:

Article 1: Executive Power

1. The Autonomous Republic of Normark is a free, independent, indivisible and inalienable State. Its form of government is a constitutional and democratic autonomous republic, forming part the Elwynnese Republic. [Amended 1665, 1678]
2. The Executive Power is vested in the Council of State, of which the Prime Minister is the head. [Amended, 1678]
3. The head of State is the Prince of the Elwynnese Republic. [Amended, 1678]
4. [Repealed, 1678]
5. [Repealed, 1678]
6. The Council of State shall consist of a Prime Minister and at least seven other Members who are Elwynnese citizens resident in Normark.[Amended, 1678]
7. The Prime Minister apportions the business among the Members of the Council of State, as he deems appropriate. Under extraordinary circumstances, besides the ordinary Members of the Council of State, the Prime Minister may summon other Elwynnese citizens resident in Normark, although no Members of the Nordisketing, to take a seat in the Council of State. [Amended, 1678]
8. Husband and wife, parent and child or two siblings may never sit at the same time in the Council of State. [Amended, 1678]
9. [Repealed, 1678]
10. The matters of business shall be decided by voting, where in the event of the votes being equal, the Prime Minister, or in his absence the highest-ranking Member of the Council of State who is present, shall have two votes.
11. The Council of State shall make a report to the Prince of the Elwynnese Republic and to the Nordisketing on matters of business which it thus decides. [Amended, 1678]
12. The Prime Minister may appoint State Secretaries to assist Members of the Council of State with their duties outside the Council of State. Each State Secretary shall act on behalf of the Member of the Council of State to whom he is attached to the extent determined by that Member. [Amended, 1678]
13. Any person who holds a seat in the Council of State has the duty to submit his application to resign once the Nordisketing has passed a vote of no confidence against that Member of the Council of State or against the Council of State as a whole.
14. The Prime Minister, or the Nordisketing in case of the Prime Minister, is bound to grant such an application to resign. [Amended, 1678]
15. Once the Nordisketing has passed a vote of no confidence, only such business may be conducted as is required for the proper discharge of duties.
16. [Repealed, 1678]
17. The Council of State may issue and repeal ordinances relating to commerce, customs, all livelihoods and the police, although these must not conflict with the Constitution or with the laws passed by the Nordisketing [Amended, 1678]
18. As a general rule the Council of State shall provide for the collection of the taxes and duties imposed by the Nordisketing. [Amended, 1678]
19. The Council of State shall ensure that the properties and prerogatives of the State are utilized and administered in the manner determined by the Nordisketing and in the best interests of the general public. [Amended, 1678]
20. The Council of State has the right to pardon criminals after sentence has been passed. The criminal shall have the choice of accepting the pardon or submitting to the penalty imposed. [Amended, 1678]
21. In proceedings which the Nordisketing causes to be brought before the Court of Impeachment, no pardon other than deliverance from the death penalty may be granted, unless the Nordisketing has given its consent thereto. [Amended, 1678]
22. The Members of the Council of State, together with the State Secretaries, may be dismissed by the Prime Minister without any prior court judgment, after he has heard the opinion of the Council of State on the subject. The same applies to senior officials employed in government offices or in the diplomatic or consular service, to the highest-ranking civil and ecclesiastical officials, commanders of regiments and other military formations, commandants of forts and officers commanding warships. Whether pensions should be granted to senior officials thus dismissed shall be determined by the next Nordisketing. In the interval they shall receive two thirds of their previous pay. [Amended, 1678]
23. Other senior officials may only be suspended by the Prime Minister, and must then without delay be charged before the Courts, but they may not, except by court judgment, be dismissed nor, against their will, transferred. All senior officials may, without a prior court judgment, be discharged from office upon attaining the statutory age limit.[Amended, 1678]
24. The Council of State may bestow orders upon whomever it pleases, as a reward for distinguished services, and such orders must be publicly announced, but no rank or title other than that attached to any office. [Amended, 1678]
25. The order exempts no one from the common duties and burdens of citizens, nor does it carry with it any preferential admission to senior official posts in the State. Senior officials honourably discharged from office retain the title and rank of their office. This does not apply, however, to Members of the Council of State or the State Secretaries.
26. No personal, or mixed, hereditary privileges may henceforth be granted to anyone.
27. [Repealed, 1678]
28. All Members of the Council of State shall, unless lawfully absent, attend the Council of State and no decision may be adopted there unless more than half the number of members are present.
29. Proposals regarding appointments to senior official posts and other matters of importance shall be presented in the Council of State by the Member under whose department they come, and such matters shall be dealt with by him in accordance with the decision adopted in the Council of State. However, matters strictly relating to military command may, to the extent determined by the Prince of the Elwynnese Republic, be excepted from proceedings in the Council of State. [Amended, 1678]
30. All decisions drawn up by the Prime Minister shall, in order to become valid, be countersigned. The decisions relating to military command are countersigned by the person who has presented the matter, while other decisions are countersigned by the the highest-ranking Member of the Council of State present. [Amended, 1678]
31. [Repealed, 1678]
32. [Repealed, 1678]
33. [Repealed, 1678]
34. [Repealed, 1678]
35. [Repealed, 1678]
36. [Repealed, 1678]
37. [Repealed, 1678]
38. [Repealed, 1678]
39. [Repealed, 1678]
40. [Repealed, 1678]

Article 2: Legislative Power

1. The people exercise the Legislative Power through the Nordisketing.
2. Those entitled to vote in elections to the Nordisketing are Elwynnese citizens resident in #Normark, men and women, who, at the latest in the year when the election is held, have completed their eighteenth year. [Amended, 1678]
3. The extent, however, to which Elwynnese citizens resident in Normark who on Election Day are resident outside the State but who satisfy the aforementioned conditions are entitled to vote shall be determined by law. [Amended, 1678]
4. Rules may be laid down by law concerning the right to vote of persons otherwise entitled to vote who on Election Day are manifestly suffering from a seriously weakened mental state or a reduced level of consciousness.
5. The rules on the keeping of the electoral register and on the registration in the register of persons entitled to vote shall be determined by law.
6. The polls shall be held every fourth year.
7. The polls shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by law. Disputes regarding the right to vote shall be settled by the poll officials, whose decision may be appealed to the Nordisketing.
8. The number of representatives to be elected to the Nordisketing shall be two hundred and sixty-nine.
9. The Realm is divided into a number constituencies as decided by the Council of State. [Amended, 1678]
10. The number of representatives to the Nordisketing to be chosen from each constituency is determined by proportional representation.
11. Specific provisions on the division of the Realm into constituencies and on the allotment of seats in the Nordisketing to the constituencies shall be determined by the decree of the Council of State. [Amended, 1678]
12. The Nordisketing nominates a President, five Vice-Presidents and two Secretaries. The Nordisketing may not hold a meeting unless at least half of its Members are present. However, Bills concerning amendments to the Constitution may not be dealt with unless at least two thirds of the Members of the Nordisketing are present.
13. As soon as the Nordisketing is constituted, the Prince of the Elwynnese Republic, or whoever he appoints for the purpose, shall open its proceedings with a speech, in which he shall inform it of the state of the Realm and of the issues to which he particularly desires to call the attention of the Nordisketing. No deliberations may take place in the presence of the Prince. [Amended, 1678]
14. When the proceedings of the Nordisketing have been opened, the Prime Minister and the Members of the Council of State have the right to attend the Nordisketing and, like its Members, although without voting, to take part in any proceedings conducted in open session, while in matters discussed in closed session only insofar as permitted by the Nordisketing.
15. It devolves upon the Nordisketing:
    1. to enact and repeal laws; to impose taxes, duties, customs and other public charges, which shall not, however, remain operative beyond Month XV of the succeeding year, unless they are expressly renewed by a new Nordisketing;
    2. to raise loans in the name of the Realm;
    3. to supervise the economic affairs of the Realm;
    4. to appropriate the moneys necessary to meet government expenditure;
    5. [Repealed, 1678]
    6. to have submitted to it the records of the Council of State, and all public reports and documents;
    7. [Repealed, 1678]
    8. to have the right to require anyone to appear before it on matters of State;
    9. to review the provisional lists of salaries and pensions and to make therein such alterations as it deems necessary;
16. Every Bill shall first be proposed in the Nordisketing, either by one of its own Members, or by the Government through a Member of the Council of State.
17. Once the Bill is passed there, a new deliberation is to take place in the Nordisketing, which either approves or rejects it. In the latter case the Bill, with the comments appended by the Nordisketing, shall again be taken into consideration by the Nordisketing, which either shelves the Bill or approves it with the said comments.
18. Between each such deliberation there shall be an interval of at least three days.
19. When a Bill has been approved by the Nordisketing in two consecutive meetings, it is made into law. [Amended, 1678]
20. [Repealed, 1678]
21. [Repealed, 1678]
22. [Repealed, 1678]
23. The Nordisketing shall remain in session as long as it deems it necessary and shall terminate its proceedings when it has concluded its business.
24. [Repealed, 1678]
25. [Repealed, 1678]
26. The Nordisketing may obtain the opinion of the Supreme Court on points of law.
27. The Nordisketing shall meet in open session, and its proceedings shall be published in print, except in those cases where a majority decides to the contrary.
28. Any person who obeys an order, the purpose of which is to disturb the liberty and security of the Nordisketing, is thereby guilty of treason against the Country.
29. The Court of Impeachment pronounces judgment in the first and last instance in such proceedings as are brought by the Nordisketing against Members of the Council of State or of the Supreme Court or of the Nordisketing for criminal or other unlawful conduct in cases where they have breached their constitutional obligations.
30. The specific rules concerning indictment by the Nordisketing in accordance with this Article shall be determined by law. However, the limitation period for the institution of indictment proceedings before the Court of Impeachment may not be set at less than 15 years.
31. The judges of the Court of Impeachment comprise six Members elected by the Nordisketing and the five longest-serving, permanently appointed Members of the Supreme Court, including the President of the Supreme Court. The Nordisketing elects the Members and their deputies for a period of six years. A Member of the Council of State or of the Nordisketing may not be elected as a Member of the Court of Impeachment. In the Court of Impeachment the President of the Supreme Court shall preside.
32. Any person sitting in the Court of Impeachment who has been elected by the Nordisketing shall not lose his seat in the Court if the period for which he is elected expires before the Court of Impeachment has concluded the proceedings in the case. Nor shall a Justice of the Supreme Court who is a Member of the Court of Impeachment lose his seat in the Court, even if he resigns as a Member of the Supreme Court.
33. Specific provisions as to the composition of the Court of Impeachment and its procedures shall be laid down by law.

Article 3: Judicial Power

1. The Supreme Court pronounces judgment in the final instance. Nevertheless, limitations on the right to bring a case before the Supreme Court may be prescribed by law.
2. The Supreme Court shall consist of a President and at least four other Members.
3. The judgments of the Supreme Court may in no case be appealed.
4. No one may be appointed a member of the Supreme Court before reaching 30 years of age.
5. The Nordisketing shall make provision for the publication of a new general civil and criminal code. However the currently applicable laws of the State shall remain in force, provided they do not conflict with this Constitution or with such provisional ordinances as may be issued in the meantime.
6. No dispensations, protection from civil arrest, moratoriums or redresses may be granted after the new general code has entered into force.
7. No one may be convicted except according to law, or be punished except after a court judgment. #Interrogation by torture must not take place.
8. No law must be given retroactive effect.
9. When special fees are paid to officials of the Courts of Justice, no further payment shall be made to the Treasury in respect of the same matter.
10. No one may be taken into custody except in the cases determined by law and in the manner prescribed by law. For unwarranted arrest, or illegal detention, the officer concerned is accountable to the person imprisoned.
11. The Government is not entitled to employ military force against citizens of the State, except in accordance with the forms prescribed by law, unless any assembly disturbs the public peace and does not immediately disperse after the Articles of the Statute Book relating to riots have been read out clearly three times by the civil authority.
12. There shall be freedom of expression.
13. No person may be held liable in law for having imparted or received information, ideas or messages unless this can be justified in relation to the grounds for freedom of expression, which are the seeking of truth, the promotion of democracy and the individual's freedom to form opinions. Such legal liability shall be prescribed by law.
14. Everyone shall be free to speak his mind frankly on the administration of the State and on any other subject whatsoever. Clearly defined limitations to this right may only be imposed when particularly weighty considerations so justify in relation to the grounds for freedom of expression.
15. Prior censorship and other preventive measures may not be applied unless so required in order to protect children and young persons from the harmful influence of moving pictures.
16. Censorship of letters may only be imposed in institutions.
17. Everyone has a right of access to documents of the State and municipal administration and a right to follow the proceedings of the courts and democratically elected bodies. Limitations to this right may be prescribed by law to protect the privacy of the individual or for other weighty reasons.
18. It is the responsibility of the authorities of the State to create conditions that facilitate open and enlightened public discourse.
19. New and permanent privileges implying restrictions on the freedom of trade and industry must not in future be granted to anyone.
20. Search of private homes shall not be made except in criminal cases.
21. Asylum for the protection of debtors shall not be granted to such persons as hereafter become bankrupt.
22. Land and goods may in no case be made subject to forfeiture.
23. If the welfare of the State requires that any person shall surrender his movable or immovable property for the public use, he shall receive full compensation from the Treasury.
24. As a general rule every resident of the State is equally bound to serve in the defence of the Country for a specific period, irrespective of birth or fortune.
25. The application of this principle, and the restrictions to which it shall be subject, shall be determined by law.
26. It is the responsibility of the authorities of the State to create conditions enabling every person capable of work to earn a living by his work.
27. Specific provisions concerning the right of employees to co-determination at their work place shall be laid down by law.
28. It is the responsibility of the authorities of the State to create conditions enabling the Reindeer Herder people to preserve and develop their language, culture and way of life.
29. It is the responsibility of the authorities of the State to create conditions enabling the autonomy of Elijah's Rest in accordance with law. [Amended 1665]
30. Every person has a right to an environment that is conducive to health and to natural surroundings whose productivity and diversity are preserved. Natural resources should be made use of on the basis of comprehensive long-term considerations whereby this right will be safeguarded for future generations as well.
31. In order to safeguard their right in accordance with the foregoing paragraph, citizens are entitled to be informed of the state of the natural environment and of the effects of any encroachments on nature that are planned or commenced.
32. The State authorities shall issue further provisions for the implementation of these principles.
33. It is the responsibility of the authorities of the State to respect and ensure human rights. Specific provisions for the implementation of treaties hereof shall be determined by law.
34. The form and colours of the Norse Flag shall be determined by law.
35. If experience shows that any part of this Constitution of the Kingdom of Normark ought to be amended, such amendment requires that two thirds of the Nordisketing agree thereto.
36. An amendment to the Constitution adopted in the manner aforesaid shall be signed by the President and the Secretary of the Nordisketing, and shall be sent to the King for public announcement in print, as an applicable provision of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Normark.
37. Upon adoption of this Constitution the assembly known as the Congress or the People’s Assembly shall form the Nordisketing, the prime minister appointed by the Congress remain Prime Minister and his government remain intact, and the constitution of the Demesne of Normark Proper voided.

In consequence whereof We have assented to and confirmed, as We hereby do assent to and confirm the same as Law under Our Hand and the Seal of the Realm.

Done at Nordiskehjem, this 6 Regnmåne 1664.

Vidar Ayreon

Constitution of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic

Preamble

Throughout the history of Benacia, Goldshire and its people have withstood invasions and occupations, slaughter and oppression, great evolution and vast stagnations; yet still its identity remains. Split though it finds itself in our modern times, the lands of Goldshire from Lunaris through to Wintergleam retain their own unique cultures in spite of the rest of the world while also maintaining an undeniable Goldshirean identity.

It is this all-important marriage between variation and uniformity which has made the necessity of union with the Republic of Elwynn take such precedence in at this time, for the Sovereign Confederation and indeed the entire nation of Goldshire look to fractured Wintergleam and sees a microcosm of itself. To mend the great divide of Goldshire that began in the tumultuous days of the Kalirion Fracture, we must first reconcile the smaller breaks in our nation, lest they cause the whole region to crumble into distant brethren and warring kin.

The Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic holds the rights and ways of its people to be sacred and inalienable. Our autonomy within a wider national unity is our greatest strength. It is that strength which has seen Goldshire through so much hardship and which will see it through this temporary period of devolution.

This Constitution is the law of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic, binding to all who exist within its jurisdiction including all persons of government.

Article 1: The Nation

1. The Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic (also referred to as the Sovereign Confederation or the Autonomous Republic) is the embodiment of the Goldshirean nation within the Republic and the representative of the various Goldshirean cultural communities within the Republic.
2. The Autonomous Republic shall comprise of the following bailiwicks (hereafter referred to as wards):
   • Ådrabekk, Alnavi, Asantellian, Avakair, Cortallian-Rathwood, Draksfeld, Dravotih iker, Dowry, Ewin, Everstone, Elgjaby, Fremort, Greenwinter, High Harvest, Hoarfrost, Inner Asantelian, Kaliandare, Ketshire, Ketsire, Kingsgate, Kingsland, Kingsweep, Lostfort, Maskerer, Mikkelsvik,Jonsvik, Middledown, Monare, Newharbour, Norestria, Nova Lunaris, Orenthaven, Rathwood, Råvirke, Slineban, Southtemple, Sutherland, Suthergleam, Suthol, Tephal, Vintrastad, and Yttreved.
3. The primacy of the mission of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic as a sanctuary to Goldshirean cultures and identity shall in no way circumscribe the rights of Elwynnese citizens born or resident in the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic.
4. It is the most sacred right of any Goldshirean to express themselves through art in whatever way they desire.

Article 2: Governance

Section 1: The Szodan

1. The executive power of the Autonomous Republic is vested in the Szodan, who serves as vicegerent of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic in the name of the Prince. The Szodan exercises his authority by hæsz (decree).
2. A hæsz may only be issued by the Szodan.
3. Issued hæszs immediately carry with them the full power of this Constitution and shall be adhered to as such.
4. A hæsz may only be voided by the Szodan or by unanimous decision of the Miþuï.
5. A hæsz may not disallow itself from being made void.
6. When there is a vacancy in the office of Szodan, due to resignation, death or otherwise, the head of state shall, acting on the advice of the outgoing Szodan or, if that is not possible, on the advice of the Miþuï (Legislative Assembly & Council of State), appoint a citizen of the Sovereign Confederation to serve as Szodan.
7. The Szodan shall appoint a Haß (Council of State) to assist them in their duties. The Haß consists of the Ænst Szonst (Prime Minister) and the heads of government departments, named "Anvodan, and junior members, named ministers. The organisation and procedures of the Haß shall be set by decree.
8. The Szodan shall ensure that the laws of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic are faithfully executed. Any action of the Szodan, or anyone acting in their stead, that is contrary to this constitution, shall be null and void.
9. The Szodan may interrupt times of normality by declaring a state of emergency in the case that the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic or the Elwynnese Republic is under existential threat.
10. The Szodan shall cause a budget for the succeeding year to be introduced in the Haß no later than 15.XI of each year.

Article 2: Law Enforcement

Section 1: The Sovereign Enforcement League

1. There shall be established within the bounds of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic a force for the maintenance of order and discipline therein. This force shall be known as the Sovereign Enforcement League (hereafter referred to simply as “SEL”), collectively, and individually by titles graded according to rank, area of command and proficiency, as shall be set out hereafter:
   1. The structure of SEL shall be separate from any military body and be centralized under the guidance of an "Ænst Franazan" (First Enforcer) appointed by the Szodan.
   2. SEL shall consist of a graded structure. At its apex shall be the Ænst Franazan, who shall act at the behest of the Szodan and in that manner shall operate an effective command over all subordinate "Uþþs Franazans" (law enforcers) whom the Ænst Franazan shall appoint in the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic for public service in the manner instructed by higher authority.
   3. Appointed by the Ænst Franazan shall be an Ahmst for each ward of the Autonomous Republic. The Ahmst shall have primary responsibility for the conduct of cudgelling in the Ward under his charge and shall answer to the Ænst Franazan for the same.
   4. In each urban ward, the Ahmst shall appoint a Fiþnan who shall be charged with the expediting of writs of enforcement and other similarly civic-minded duties. The Fiþnan shall answer to the Ahmst for his conduct in the exercise of his duties. The Fiþnan shall have the services of a retinue of twenty Silbirs and as many apprentice Silbirs shall be deemed appropriate.
   5. Apprenticeship to become a Silbir of SEL may be granted only to citizens or the Autonomous Republic on recommendation from an Uþþs Franazan of rank Ahmst or higher or by recommendation from a Silbir who has served five or more uninterrupted years at that rank.
2. In times of normality, each ward’s "Uþþs Franazus Haß" (law enforcing unit) may only enforce their ward’s law within that ward.
3. Should a state of emergency be declared, the following shall happen until the declaration is rescinded:
   1. The Ænst Franazan is granted total control over the allocation of each officer or apprentice of SEL.
   2. All ward law is suspended and deferred to the law of the Autonomous Republic.
4. SEL shall be funded only so much as it may convince the Szodan is necessary to perform its duty of peacekeeping and readiness for emergency response.
5. SEL is authorized to take a life only so long as all other options have been exhausted to prevent the undue harm of innocent or protected entities.
6. No officer or apprentice of SEL may hold any position in any military organization of any kind. Doing so will incur an automatic writ of enforcement and immediate discharge from SEL.

Section 2: Writ of Enforcement

1. A writ of enforcement may be issued by SEL for any act that may be reasonably accomplished through the application of cudgels provided that it is discernibly for the benefit of public order and discipline and is to the commonweal of the greater portion of the denizens resident in the Autonomous Republic.
2. The writ shall specify which ward shall be responsible for the cudgelling, what or whom the cudgelling is to be against, and what is to be done with the cudgelled subsequent to the act of cudgelling.
3. To be valid the writ must be signed by a ranking member of SEL of Ahmst or higher and the cudgelling thoroughly expedited by no later than twelve days after the issuance of the aforementioned writ.
4. A writ of enforcement shall not be considered to be lawfully applicable outside the bounds of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic and authorisation to pursue miscreants and fugitives for the purpose of cudgelling must be sought firstly from the presiding executive where they are known to have fled and be at large in the Republic or from the Prince if they have fled elsewhere.
5. The Szodan and Ænst Szonst shall enjoy immunity from writs of enforcement.

Article 3: Wards

1. It shall be the duty of the ward to provide
   1. An excellent administration;
   2. A well-ordered public policy;
   3. A staff of stoans(judges) and uþþofasczi (law experts) capable of ensuring an efficient and fair justice system;
   4. The means for individual and collective prosperity for the improvement of the common-weal of the whole ward;
   5. A local franazus haß organized under the broader structure of SEL;
   6. Represent the cultural identity of its citizens;
   7. The collecting of dues the thoughtful installation and maintenance of infrastructure not shared with another ward;
   8. The schooling of citizens under the age of twenty years in a manner useful to trade, industry and commerce;
   9. The regulation of the Guilds of Dunporters, Artisans, Artificers, Factors, Aldermen and others as may be provided for under law or by hæsz.

Article 4: Uþþos Sto

1. Citizens of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic are entitled to the services of a uþþofascz from either their ward of residence or the ward in which they are partaking in litigation if they request such providence in the stois hasza (court of law) and the presiding stoan deems it necessary for a fair trial.
2. Stoans are to be appointed by ward-election from a ward’s resident uþþofasczi.
3. Stoan elections may be called by the Szodan or the highest governing office local to a ward.
4. Stoan’s may pass judgement on no more than one-hundred cases per term.

Article 5: Guilds and Corporations

1. In each Ward shall be created a ‘Worshipful Municipal Corporation of Dunporters,Artisans, Artificers, Factors and Aldermen of the Ward of [Insert Name], Guarantors of its Ancient Liberties’, which may be known as the ‘Corporation of [Insert Name]’ for short.
2. Each of these ranks represents a distinct guild within the Corporation:
   1. The Guild of Dunporters represents the cleaners, the diggers and the toilers who remove the nightsoil of our Common Weal. They are also responsible for the spreading of the night soil in the fields and for this reason we count the constituency of yeoman-farmers and country folk amongst them.
   2. The Guild of Artisans comprises the craftsmen responsible for the manufacture of the products necessary for the functioning of our society and trade.
   3. The Guild of Artificers are those craftsmen of exceeding quality and skill whose hand has turned to the creation of luxury goods, adding value to the products of the artisans for the benefit of the export market.
   4. The Guild of Factors is the home of all merchants charged with the export of finished goods and the import of raw materials for those finished goods where insufficient quantities are available at home as well as nominal monies for those finished goods.
   5. The Guild of Aldermen, comprises the fifty most able individuals in each Ward, chosen by competitive examination before the ward’s highest governing office under which the Worshipful Corporation is established.
3. Each guild is self-regulating at the discretion of its members and may promulgate a charter. For a charter to be valid it must receive the assent of the Autonomous Republic.

Article 6: The Golden Ratio

Section 1: Rights & Responsibilities

1. The customary rights of citizens under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms shall be upheld in the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic excepting those instances where the provisions of the same are held to be contrary and inimical to the moral values and national spirit of Goldshirean society.
2. The policy of the Sovereign Confederation’s Autonomous Republic shall be to achieve a Golden Ratio of all aspects of public and private life, in accordance with proper morality, so as to ensure the contentment and effective functioning of all citizens.
3. All people of the Sovereign Confederation, whatever the ethnic, religious, or linguistic group to which they belong, enjoy equal rights; and colour, race, language, and the like, do not bestow any privilege.
4. All citizens of the country equally enjoy the protection of the law and enjoy all human, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, in conformity with proper morality.
5. The government must ensure the rights of transcended persons (hereafter referred to as “egos”) in all respects and accomplish the following goals:
   1. create a favourable environment for the growth of ego's personality and the attainment of its rights, both the material and intellectual;
   2. the protection of host-bodies, particularly during maintenance and replacement.
   3. establishing competent courts to protect ego rights.
   4. the provision of special insurance for those who forgo transcendence;
6. The dignity, life, property, rights, residence, and occupation of the individual are inviolate, except in cases sanctioned by law.
7. The act of obtaining or providing an induced abortion without lawful authority and proper medical care shall be considered the crime of theft which shall carry the same penalties as shall be provided by law.
   1. Lawful authority for the sanctioning of an induced abortion may only be obtained in those instances where an examining board of three accredited medical professionals with relevant experience in the field of obstetrics are in concurrence that the fetus is not viable, has defects or abnormalities that would render it incapable of ambulatory movement after birth, or that the fetus would cause some irreparable harm to the future reproductive function of the mother or a threat to her life. Under the aforementioned circumstances written authorisation for a termination may be sought for and obtained from a Gasiþ of the relevant ward.
   2. No penalty shall attend to circumstances of a miscarriage.
8. The investigation of individuals' beliefs is forbidden, save where an individuals' beliefs are of a Vanic or daemonic inclination, and no one may be molested or taken to task simply for holding a certain belief, except in the case of Vanic or daemonic practices where it is mandatory for all citizens to immediately take up arms against discovered malefactors so as to ensure their destruction.
9. Publications and the press have freedom of expression except when it is detrimental to the security of the Sovereign Confederation's Autonomous Republic or the rights of the public. The details of this exception will be specified by law.
10. The inspection of letters and the failure to deliver them, the recording and disclosure of telephone conversations, the disclosure of telegraphic and telex communications, censorship, or the wilful failure to transmit them, and all forms of covert investigation are forbidden, except as provided by law.
11. The formation of parties, societies, political or professional associations, as well as religious societies, is permitted provided they do not violate the principles of independence, freedom, national unity, proper morality, or the constitutional order. No one may be prevented from participating in the aforementioned groups, or be compelled to participate in them.
12. Public gatherings and marches may be freely held, provided arms are not carried and that they are not detrimental to public order.
13. Everyone has the right to choose any occupation they wish, if it is not contrary to the public interests, and does not infringe the rights of others. The government has the duty, with due consideration of the need of society for different kinds of work, to provide every citizen with the opportunity to work, and to create equal conditions for obtaining it.
14. To benefit from social security with respect to retirement, unemployment, old age, disability, absence of a guardian, and benefits relating to being stranded, accidents, health services, and medical care and treatment, provided through Insurance or other means, is accepted as a universal right. The government must provide the foregoing services and financial support for every individual citizen by drawing, in accordance with the law, on the national revenues and funds obtained through public contributions.
15. The government must provide all citizens with free-education up to secondary school, and must expand free higher education to the extent required by the country for attaining self-sufficiency.
16. It is the right of every citizen and family to possess housing commensurate with his needs. The government must make land available for the implementation of this requirement, according priority to those whose need is greatest, in particular the rural population and the workers.
17. No one can be banished from their place of residence, prevented from residing in the place of their choice, or compelled to reside in a given locality, except in cases provided by law.
18. All citizens are rightfully allowed to arm themselves in whatever way they deem necessary for safety, employment, and cultural adherence so long as permits are acquired for any such arms through SEL.
19. It is the indisputable right of every citizen to seek justice by recourse to competent courts. All citizens have the right of access to such courts, and no one can be barred from courts to which he has a legal right of recourse.
20. The passing and execution of a sentence must be only by a competent court and in accordance with law.
21. Innocence is to be presumed, and no one is to be held guilty of a charge unless his or her guilt has been established by a competent court.
22. All forms of torture for the purpose of extracting confession or acquiring information are forbidden. Compulsion of individuals to testify, confess, or take an oath is not permissible; and any testimony, confession, or oath obtained under duress is devoid of value and credence. Violation of this article is liable to punishment in accordance with the law.
23. All affronts to the dignity and repute of persons/egos arrested, detained, imprisoned, or banished in accordance with the law, whatever form they may take, are forbidden and liable to punishment.
24. No one is entitled to exercise his rights in a way injurious to others or detrimental to public interests.
25. No adult citizen who has been assessed by an examining board of three accredited general medical practitioners as being disabled, infirm, or terminally unwell (where death can be expected to occur without intervention within one year of diagnosis) shall be denied the right to request the gift of mercy from the state.

Section 2: Marriage

1. Marriage is a union, contracted under law, between two consenting members of the same sentient species for the purpose of the procreation of offspring and the creation of a shared inheritance for any potential progeny.
   1. A marriage shall expire after a period of five years if it is not renewed during its course.
   2. Marriage between sapient species is prohibited.
   3. Those proven infertile or genetically defective by medical examination must adopt a child upon their first marriage renewal.
   4. A man must not marry his mother, his daughter, his father's mother, his mother's mother, his son's daughter, his daughter's daughter, his sister, his father's sister, his mother's sister, his brother's daughter or his sister's daughter.
   5. A woman must not marry her father, her son, her father's father, her mother's father, her son's son, her daughter's son, her brother, her father's brother, her mother's brother, her brother's son or her sister's son.
2. Any marriage contracted contrary to this Section must be declared void by a duly appointed court.
3. Marriages contrary to this Section may be recognised on application to a duly appointed court if specifically lawful in a recognised jurisdiction. A recognised jurisdiction is defined as being:
   1. An Autonomous Republic of Elwynn
   2. Any third party country with whom Elwynn has established formal treaty relations including provision for mutual recognition of official documents.
4. Failure to apply to recognition of an externally contracted marriage from a duly appointed court is an offence and carries the penalty of a forfeiture of rights and incarceration for a period of five Norton years.
5. No marriage contracted in Jingdao, Stormark, or the Frankish Empire shall be recognised as lawful.
6. A marriage, to be lawful, requires only the consent of the participants, two independent witnesses and a formal notification to the competent authority of the ward in whose jurisdiction the marriage has been contracted.
7. Divorce may be granted, upon application to a duly appointed court, for the following reasons:
   1. Infidelity, to be proven by confessions or evidence set before the court.
   2. Transcendence of one party.
   3. Mutual consent.
8. Only property, wealth and chattels obtained jointly after the contracting of the marriage may be apportioned in a settlement at the discretion of the duly appointed court in which proceedings have been heard.

Section 3: Civil Unions

1. A Civil Union or partnership exists for extending formal recognition to those relationships upon which the recognition of marriage is denied.
   1. A man must not form a partnership with his mother, his daughter, his father's mother, his mother's mother, his son's daughter, his daughter's daughter, his sister, his father's sister, his mother's sister, his brother's daughter or his sister's daughter, his father, his son, his father's father, his mother's father, his son's son, his daughter's son, his brother, his father's brother, his mother's brother, his brother's son or his sister's son.
   2. A woman must not form a partnership with her father, her son, her father's father, her mother's father, her son's son, her daughter's son, her brother, her father's brother, her mother's brother, her brother's son or her sister's son, her mother, her daughter, her father's mother, her mother's mother, her son's daughter, her daughter's daughter, her sister, her father's sister, her mother's sister, her brother's daughter or her sister's daughter.
2. No benefits beyond recognition accrue, excepting the approbation of society.
3. A Civil Union may be ended by mutual consent or upon application to a duly appointed court of one party for a writ of separation citing infidelity.
4. Only property, wealth and chattels obtained jointly after the contracting of the Civil Union may be apportioned in a settlement at the discretion of the duly appointed court in which proceedings have been heard.

Articles of the Amokolian Republic

In order to preserve an illustrious and prosperous as throughout history known, in Amokolia, we, in Anun this [date], do publish and effectively acknowledge the supremacy of the welfare and integrity of the people of the Amokolian Republic, under the supervision of the Government of the Elwynnese Republic in the Articles of the Amokolian Republic.

Article One, the Amokolian Republic

Section I: Definition of the Amokolian Republic

The Amokolian Republic shall be hereafter referred to as "Amokolia" and all other references hereunto the Amokolian Republic shall be called "Amokolia" when appropriate. Amokolia recognizes her subordinancy under the Elwynnese Republic, which shall be referred to as "Elwynn". Amokolia shall encompass all lands historically under Amokolian control.

Section II: Amokolian Sovereignty

Amokolia recognizes the union of Amokolia with the Elwynnese Republic as a legitimate government united for a common cause. In no case shall Amokolia secede from this union except for dire circumstances as voted on by her citizens. Also in no case shall Amokolia become part of any other nation as a subordinate of Elwynn, particularly that of Shireroth or Francia, without consent of her people.

Amokolia recognizes that a large portion of the Amokolian nation remains under foreign occupation. It is the earnest hope of the Amokolian nation to be reunified under the Articles of the Amokolian Republic, in its union with the Elwynnese Republic.

Section III: Amokolian Dominions

We also recognize, that in order to have a united Amokolian Republic under Elwynn, we must first have a more localized governments to better serve her people. In this we establish provinces of the Amokolian Republic. There shall be five provinces of Amokolia.

The Province of Automatica shall be formed of both islands belonging to Amokolia, that is, the island containing the cities of Anun, Luthersville, Fort Fardia, and Capacity; and also the lesser island containing New London south of the aformentioned island.

The Province of Vattnaland shall be formed of all territory on the continent of Benacia immediately east of the bailiwick of Spring Valley and north of the bailiwick of Mishalan, as is established by convention.

The Province of Mishalan shall be formed of all land on the continent of Benacia not referred to already in the aformentioned provinces of Vattnaland and Mishalan.

When the time is right, new provinces, for example the Province of Oleslääd, may be admitted by an Act of Sænate for the lands under foreign occupation.

Article Two, the Government of Amokolia

Section I: The Function of Government

The Function of the Government of Amokolia shall be solely to keep the happiness and stability of her people and her interests around the world. All organs of government listed in these articles shall answer directly to the Court of the Prince of the Elwynnese Republic. All members of the Amokolian Government shall be expected to be honest, trustworthy, and loyal to Amokolia. If members of the Amokolian Government fail to meet these expectations, they shall be accountable to the decision of the Amokolian people.

Section II: The Organs of Government

The Government of Amokolia shall be composed of three equal and essential branches. The Sænatorial branch of Amokolia, hereunto referred to as the Sænate, shall be responsible for the making of passing of laws critical to the stability of Amokolia. The Executive branch of Amokolia shall be responsible for approving and enforcing laws recommended by the Sænate. The Judicial branch shall be responsible for ensuring the fairness and interpretation of these Articles and all laws throughout Amokolia.

Section III: The Sænate

The Sænate of Amokolia shall be composed of at least one member from each bailiwick. A further 200 seats will be allocated to the bailiwicks by proportional representation.

In addition to the responsibilities set forth in Section II, the Sænate shall have the responsibilities of ensuring the proper government in each province, also that the Sænate have the power to replace the current Premier, as shall be discussed below, if a national election is not fairly possible. Also, in order to properly recommend a law to the desk of the Aedile, as is mentioned below, the Sænate shall pass a bill in no less than fourteen days from its introduction by any Sænator.

Section IV: The Executive Branch

The Executive Branch shall compose of two members, the Chairman of the Sænate, hereunto referred to as the "Adeile" and a popularly and fairly elected citizen by the Amokolian people, known as the "Premier". These both shall have the responsibility of enforcing laws recommended by the Sænate to the Adeile.

§ A. The Adeile shall be required to sign any and all laws recommended by the Sænate, regardless of his personal opinion. The Adeile, though, has the power to present any bill he sees fit to the Sænate without restriction. Also, in the event of a tie within the Sænate, the Adeile has the power to break any tie as he sees fit. In the event of any incapacitation of the Premier, the Adeile shall immediately become Premier. The Adeile shall represent the Sænate in the Council of Eliria.

§ B. The Premier shall be recognized as the Head of Government of Amokolia. He shall have the responsibility of enforcing all laws approved by the Sænate, in addition to these Articles. He shall be a citizen of Amokolia for at least three years prior to taking office unless approved by the Sænate. In addition his responsibilities listed above, the Premier shall also act as the via media between the Amokolian People, and the Senate of Elwynn, and any and all powers above those listed here in these articles. The Premier shall represent the Executive in the Council of Eliria.

Section V: The Judicial Branch

The Judicial Branch shall be responsibly for ensuring fairness and equality throughout the land of Amokolia. In order to do this, there must be a Supreme Court of Amokolia, hereunto referred to as the Supreme Court. This body shall consisted of no more than three members, fairly elected by the Sænate. In addition to the responsibilities listed above, the Supreme Court shall ensure all processes listed in these Articles are being followed fairly and properly. If there is any split decision of this court, any measure unsettled shall be turned over to the people for popular consultation through national debate and in no less than seven days, a national vote on the topic in question.

Article Three, The Culture of Amokolia

Section I: National Symbols

The National Symbols of Amokolia shall consist of three main objects, as are dictated by the history of Amokolia. First shall be the Amokolian Flag. The Flag of Amokolia shall be recognized as the symbol of Amokolia throughout not only Amokolia, but the entire world. This flag shall be a red field, and placed upon it, the cross of Saint George in the upper left corner, as dictated by popular convention. Second shall be the Shield of the Amokolian Republic. The Shield shall be decided by the Sænate at a later date. Third shall be the Amokolian Goose, also known as the Branta canadensis. These symbols represent the Amokolian people and her history. None of these symbols may be desecrated whatsoever, and those who desecrate these symbols may be candidates for deportation and revocation of citizenship.

Section II: The Amokolian Language

The National Languages of Amokolia are North Amokolian and Mishalanese, hereinafter known as the Amokolian Languages. The working language of Amokolia, though, shall also be Istvanistani. Elw and Germanian shall be taught in all schools. All documents passed through any organ of government shall be available in the national or working languages of that organ or bailiwick. The Amokolian government shall also have the duty to protect the Amokolian Languages and spread their speaking throughout the entire Republic and Nation. The National Standards of the Amokolian Languages shall be the body that dictates the proper usage and grammar of the Amokolian Languages. This body shall be appointed by the Adeile within ninety days of the passage of these articles.

Article Four, the Delegation of Powers

Section I: The Undelegated Powers

All powers not delegated to the aforementioned organs shall be those of the individual provinces through consultation and universal suffrage of their respective peoples.

Section II: The Delegated Powers

All powers delegated above through these Articles shall be referred as the Articles of the Amokolian Republic. These shall be in effect until voted out of power by the Amokolian People via universal suffrage through a seventy-five percent vote against these articles. Also, these Articles shall come into effect through a fifty-percent-plus-one-vote of the Amokolian people, and approval through all higher bodies belonging to the Elwynnese Republic.