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The International Coalition of Allied Regions for Unequivocal Safety

In realizing that the world we live in today is an international economy with relations between nations being established and dissolved as events continue to develop internationally with each passing day - yet no governing body currently resides to restrict certain nations, establish international laws, nor punish international crimes committed by governments and their implementing civilians - this document serves to establish the grounds upon which an international alliance might lead the world towards this safety and morality for not only today’s citizens of this fine planet, but also the children who will inherit this world after we ourselves are long past.

From this point on this document shall be referred to as any of the following - The ICARUS Pact, The Pact, This Document, and ICARUS.

ICARUS or Icarus, depending on stylized text and preference, are the official branding and title of the organization in which these signatory nations agree to participate. It is to be referred to as such by signatories, queued nations to review as signatories, and those who do not consider themselves potential signatories at the current date for collective whole.

Article 1 : Military :

1. All member nations, unless granted an appeal to withhold military donation, must submit a determined number of soldiers to The ICARUS Pact’s internationally governed armed forces, The Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces or PAF. This submission of Peacekeepers must be at least five thousand (5,000) in number, and may be drafted from recruited civilian forces or current conscripted armed forces. Dedication increases may only by two thousand five hundred (2,500) personnel in donations and not exceeding twenty five thousand (25,000). Such soldiers will be organized in two thousand five hundred (2,500) man Divisions, where each of these divisions will be a member of their parent nation’s Battalion.

1.1) The determinant number of the Battalion’s number shall be in the order of the Parent Nation’s signatory status to The ICARUS Pact. Through such, the publishing nation of this document holds The First Battalion, while the first signatory after publication is to be The Second Battalion while the second signatory is The Third Battalion and so on until the final signatory of a current date.

1.1.1) The calling of Divisions shall two digit numbers ordered to be in the list of the Battalion number then the direct Division number. Such would make the Second Battalion, Third Division the Twenty-Third Division the PAF.

1.1.2) Breakdowns beyond the Divisionary degree are not mandatory, however a frequently deployed Battalion or Division might find use in further organizing their dedication force to the PAF for enhanced martial control and ease of management.

1.2) The quality of military supplies for each Peacekeeper ought to be ready for combat operations. The Peacekeeper ought to be outfitted with a solid black BDU, or Battle Dress Uniform, Kevlar armor with MOLE vests providing tactical sustainability, a primary and secondary weapon, and enough munitions per Peacekeeper to deploy on a tactical mission at any alert time.

1.2.1) The acceptance of ample munitions per soldier are to be determined through the role of a Division. Combat roles are to possess higher munition counts than Patrol, who will carry more than Base Management. The only exceptions are to be in TaskForces to the PAF.

1.2.1.1) Taskforces are to be excluded from the count of dedicated Peacekeepers to The PAF. A Peacekeeper force is to be counted as a direct reactionary force to PAF controlled by the Staff of Generals - where each member nation should hold one seat in such staff should they meet the four Division donation requirement for such.

1.2.2) Traditional military dress when not in active deployed duty is to remain the solid black BDU, or Battle Dress Uniform, with above listed combat-ready equipment for reasons of discipline and all time combat preparation in the instance of The Pact finding itself under attack or in threat of war for ease of transition.

1.3) Military transportation and equipment, though not required to be uniform, is to be of the parent nation’s modern capacity. Should The Council of The ICARUS Pact determine that a signatory’s military vehicles are outdated beyond acceptance, equipment will be provided to them by a designated member nation, with the charge of purchase for the equipment laid to the parent nation who is being supplied the updated transportation and equipment.

1.3.1) Should a signatory refuse to modernize their military vehicles for any reasoning, they shall be required to possess no vehicles for their Divisions of The PAF. They may then, if demanded to possess no vehicles by the Council, apply to hold vehicles in their dedication to The PAF once they have made advances in their own domestic armaments, or they have agreed to purchase accepted vehicles from an approved nation.

1.3.2) A signatory who is without vehicles for their Divisions of The PAF will be designated heavy combat positions for urban and rapid engagement operations. Should they prove to be ineffective at Combat roles for The PAF, they will be reviewed for fraternity within The Pact unless they can offer some other essential role to The Pact disregarding their inept military dedication.

1.4) The Peacekeepers are not under determined control of their parent nation once signed to The ICARUS Pact, rather they are to be controlled by The Staff of Generals. Such means that if The ICARUS Pact should find itself going to war with a nation or alliance of nations, and one member nation wishes to exclude themselves from combat, their Peacekeepers and their General within The Staff will not be voided from combat operations as they are property of The ICARUS Pact rather than their own parent nation.

1.4.1) Should a nation decree that the war effort of ICARUS is immoral to their people, they may withdraw from The Pact entire for the duration of the war to withdraw their Divisions of The PAF and their General from The Staff of Generals. After the end of the war, such nation may reapply for fraternity to The Pact should they desire, though note of their abandonment will require financial donation along with the request to join, in order to foster a possibility of recovery of relations with ICARUS Signatories.

1.4.2) Should a nation withdraw from ICARUS, they will be exempt from protection by, and from, The Pact’s Signatories. Should a nation withdraw and a Signatory of ICARUS attack them during this time of war, no retaliation against the Signatory will be taken by fellow Signatories, however ICARUS Signatories may indeed join the war effort against the former Signatory.

1.5) Member nations of The ICARUS Pact are withheld to their own sovereignty, however they are expected to hold embassy and free trade agreements with all accepted nations into The Pact unless special conditions under this Article are met, and shall maintain friendly relations with said nations while contributing to The Pact. Should two member nations harbor unfriendly relations they shall be encouraged to diplomatically resolve their differences, though no penalty shall be implemented if nations do not fully cooperate with every Signatory.

1.5.1) Should two Signatories engage in hostile relations through military operations, the two of them shall both be expelled from The Pact and will be required to pay reparations to The Pact for their damages and furthering of instability within the sphere of intended peace before reapplying to The Pact.

1.5.2) ICARUS Signatories may not place further embargo or sanction upon fellow Signatories without taking the appeal before The International Court Community. Previous embargos and sanctions are not, however, required to be dropped or modified upon a nation that is either facing or placing these sanctions joining The Pact.

1.6) Nations that do not contribute any military donations to The Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces by means of combat forces nor logistical and intelligence agents are to agree to house a military base for ICARUS signatories’ combined forces in The PAF and contribute at least 75% of domestic maintenance costs to the facility, however civilians in proximity to the base will still be allowed to work civilian occupations within the facility after completing a background screening check and being approved by the base’s highest local officer.

1.6.1) Nations that hold a base for housing foreign members of The Peacekeepers may only be granted domestic civilian occupational openings at the facility if the base is substantial enough in Peacekeeper housing to require staff from outside the conscription of The PAF by means of housed infantry or civilians from the housed Battalion’s homeland.

1.6.2) Both domestic and foreign civilians will be paid in the localized national currency and will not be subject to employment taxation through The Pact and her income taxes, but will still be taxed for income tax to the local government in accordance to the existing income tax regulations of the host nation. Military personnel shall be paid in the local currency, however they shall be taxed the ICARUS income tax as well as the domestic income tax with most services through the pact free.

1.6.3) Military bases in host nations are to be maintained once a year with regular inspection to electrical work, establishment facility stability, fire-protection, and all other infrastructure codes all to the host nation’s national level of code. Should the host nation have no minimum standard to such regulations, they shall be established in accordance to the code standard of the nation who holds the largest percent of housed Peacekeepers to a facility.

1.6.4) The failure to maintain a base will submit the nation for review in negligence to their infrastructure. Should they be found guilty of negligence they shall be ordered to pay reparations to The Pact for damages to ICARUS property in the matter of the cost of repair not to be exceeding 125% repair costs for damages recorded during the time of the condemning inspection. Unrecorded damages, or damages occurring after inspection are exempt from damage costs.

1.6.5) Facilities that are abandoned by The Pact may be used as residency for domestic infantry without the need of purchase of the facility from The Pact by the domestic military. Any infrastructure or principal data that has carelessly and recklessly been left in the facility is to be reported to The Pact, where action may be taken from there; however the facility’s resident nation is not disallowed to acquire this information for themselves.

1.6.6) Should a nation decree that they may not hold a base to ICARUS’ combined forces, for reasons of the host nation’s size or other council agreed legitimate reason, they will be required to pay an additional stipend in their payments to maintain Signatory status within The Pact. They will then be exempt from contributing soldiers and / or a military infrastructure, however they shall pay a rate of 125% of the standard fee to remain a Signatory to The Pact as determined in Article 5.1.

Article 2 : The International Council and Court :

2. Each member nation is to hold one (1) seat in The ICARUS Pact’s Council. This Council shall hold court decisions to commend and condemn nations both within and outside The Pact, shall vote on international laws that The Pact’s signatories must follow, and shall hold an International Court to put on trial individuals, groups, and even governments for crimes committed after the creation of this alliance.

2.1) No more than one (1) seat of the council may be elected to any nation, however The Grande Seat, which houses The Key Speaker of The ICARUS Pact, shall be elected as a non-delegated seat at the beginning of each year. Such means a member of Nation A may hold their seat in The Council, and that councilperson is elected to The Grande Seat. The seat in The Council for Nation A shall then be appointed by the leader or leaders of said nation.

2.1.1) The Key Speaker is to hold a formal education in law or economics from a higher education facility. The accumulative GPA for this educational path with either of the two Doctorates (or equivalent level of education) accumulated through the education system is to be at least a 3.51 or higher for qualifications of candidates to be met.

2.1.2) Should The Key Speaker be decreed unable to complete his or her duties, the Speaker of The Floor from The Key Speaker’s cabinet shall take the position of The Grande Seat until The Key Speaker can resume their duties, or until another annual vote can be taken to reelect a Key Speaker.

2.1.3) The cabinet for the duration of The Key Speaker’s term, which is the length of two years, may be appointed by The Key Speaker upon election. He will have two months to ready his cabinet while the previous Key Speaker’s term comes to an end. Should a Key Speaker be reelected they may reassign their cabinet or maintain it as with the previous term.

2.1.4) Should The Council agree that members of The Key Speaker’s cabinet are inept to the requirements of their position, or should they be shown to be corrupt in their dealings within the parameters of their occupation by any means as supported with concrete evidence, they may be condemned of their position and tried by The Court for failure to properly complete their job, or for the convicted corruption.

2.1.5) Should a member of The Key Speaker’s cabinet be condemned of their occupation and forced out of office, The Council will democratically elect the replacement among a civilian candidate as per three candidates selected from nations selected at lottery.

2.1.6) Positions within the cabinet of The Key Speaker shall be created as per needed with an approved majority (75%) vote of Council support.

2.2) Commendations, Condemnations, and Laws must be passed by The Council with a majority vote (75%) approval of the proposed article at vote. Laws passed must be followed by every signatory of The ICARUS Pact, though any loopholes or perversions of the laws are not disallowed as would either only encourage the amending of the law to remove said loophole, or the complete repeal of the law if these perversions are serious enough to constitute a new law.

2.2.1) Should a loophole or perversion of the law be implemented to violate another law passed previously by ICARUS Signatories, the at fault nation for the perversion shall be fined an amount decided upon by The Key Speaker and his Minister of Law. Loopholes violating laws passed at a later date may still be followed should the later law not directly address the issue.

2.2.2) Should the perversion of the law be agreed upon by the majority of the fellow Signatories, the convicted nation may face condemnation by ICARUS in court, and may be fined or ejected from The Pact depending on the severity of the infraction the nation has been condemned of with the presiding case judge determining the penalty.

2.2.3) Perversions of the law are to be considered lenient in definition, unless a law explicitly leaves no room for free interpretation, as the interpretation of a law by one nation may be the perversion of such law to another nation, and so forth.

2.2.4) In accordance with Article 2.2.2 any nation that objects to another nation’s interpretation of the law in question may present this case to The Key Speaker who will then determine the severity of the situation and from there decree whether The International Court has any ground to host a case between the two nations over the dispute. In accordance with this, Article 2.2.4 of This Document, no article of This Document shall supercede any other article of This Document unless said explicitly so.

2.2.5) A court case held to determine the resolution of a dispute over interpretation of a law shall commence only if said law is in need for a vote of repeal or amendment to such law. The defendant nation may not be condemned in any manner for their interpretation of the law unless concrete evidence can show they have perverted the law intentionally to cheat other governments in some manner, or the perversion is used justify atrocities committed under the guidance of such perversions.

2.3) The Grande Seat is the housing seat of the International Judge, also known as The Key Speaker, who is tasked with presiding over the highest cases of The International Court and delivering speeches to the International Community as needed. Jury members for court cases are to be selected through lottery for cases brought to The Court. Should a case hold to a government entire be tried by The Court, no jury member may be the representative nor descendant by two generations of the nation at trial.

2.3.1) Court cases brought before The Grande Seat must be involving either multiple governments, have passed through several lower and more centralized channels, including lesser courts of The International Court, before queuing the trial to The High International Court, or must involve the breaking of laws passed by ICARUS among members, unless faults of unacceptable accusation such as genocide and war of aggression are on trial by non members of The Pact who are being condemned for these actions.

2.3.2) Should a court case involve a non-Signatory for activities such as genocide or other condemnable action worthy of note as morally blameworthy by the majority of The Council, the defendant shall receive an ICARUS defense attorney to ensure they have a quality judge, unless the defendant would rather outsource to their own defense attorney for any reason. A body that cannot appoint their own defense attorney will be awarded the ICARUS attorney to ensure they have a defense representation.

2.4) While The Pact aims to pass international laws that would better the quality of life through the world, there remain certain areas of law that, for the safety of a nation’s sovereignty and individual rights to their government, may not be enforced through this organization. Laws that are found to violate these liberties are to be reviewed by The Council and amended or struck null and void, depending on the severity of the infringement upon the infringed upon. It is reminded that in accordance with Article 2.2.4 of This Document, neither a previous nor a following article in This Document shall supercede any other article unless said explicitly so.

2.4.1) The Pact may not enforce the practice of a specific religion upon any Signatory through a vote of law, nor may it force a Signatory to abandon their current stances on religious practice as this is a direct violation to the sovereignty of such signatory. Religions and the private handlings of such are strictly kept at a level to the individual nation to decree to their citizens.

2.4.2) The Pact may not force the reduction or abolition of a nation’s military unless the nation has presented itself a continual threat to international security, or unless a nation has been the losing party of an act of war. Upon these two special conditions only The Council may determine the route of martial management to the nation, however unless one of these clauses is met, the infringement of military capacity is strictly prohibited.

2.4.3) The Pact may not enforce or prohibit certain forms of government from ruling over a populous in the case of enforcing Nation A to become democratic federal provinces or in prohibiting Nation B form maintaining a Council-lead Communism for example. The only time The Pact may interfere in any way with the form of government to a nation is with the exceptions provided in Article 2.4.2, then with The Council agreeing as a super majority vote (90%) that the government in power is in need of transition to a decreed government body.

2.4.4) The Pact may not interfere with the freedoms of political expression and speech to a nation as such enforcements may come with destabilizing consequences to a nations who is either bountiful or lacking in these freedoms as an effect after the laws come to effect to modify such freedoms of the populous.

2.4.5) The Pact may not cease or modify a nation’s process of decreeing the new leader of a nation, as such practice limits the form of government and political freedoms the government affords. The only time The Pact may modify the method of official’s coming to office is through the conclusion drawn to the end of Article 2.4.3 of This Document.

2.5) Select nations may hold the ability to Veto a single document of legislation, application to The Pact, or other council voted document once per equinox with such legislation or application being denied a vote itself until the first day after each equinox should pass. The only nation to initially possess the authority to order a veto is the publishing nation of this document.

2.5.1) Upon the change in an equinox a legislative document or application to join ICARUS may be resubmitted, where upon the previously vetoing Signatory must use their previous veto again to clear the legislation from the floor, thus removing their ability to veto any further legislation through the remainder of the equinox.

2.5.2) A nation that has left The Pact for any reason, and been accepted to regain fraternity among The Pact and her Signatories, shall not receive a restoration to their previously used veto, nor shall they have their previous veto if they had not used it before their ejection or leave of The Pact.

2.5.3) Signatories may not object to Declarations of War where upon The Pact itself has been declared war upon, as such veto would leave The Pact to fight a defensive war only. Though the council in itself may determine the proper response, yet no Defensive Declaration of War may be vetoed. Wars of Aggression for the pact entire, however, may indeed be vetoed.

2.5.4) Should Signatories believe a veto is unruly and wish to have it removed, two other Signatories which hold the power to veto and still hold their veto must vote to counter the veto with their own. Such causes all three Signatories to lose their equinoxal veto, however the previously vetoed document may now reach the floor.

2.5.5) Signatories wishing to remove a veto without practice of Article 2.5.4 must vote unanimously, excluding the Signatory whom placed the veto, to remove the veto effective, however such practice restores the veto the the Signatory which had initially laid the veto upon the legislation.

Article 3 : Declarations and Involvements of War :

3) The Declarations and Involvements of Martial Confrontation by members of The Pact, individually and through the PAF collectively, is to be maintained through the requested assistance of The Pact and its members if the request is made and approved. Formal Declarations of War by the entire Pact must be passed through The Council and signed by The Key Speaker, while individual wars declared by a Signatory are less strict on declaration.

3.1) Should one of the Pact’s Signatories be attacked by another nation, they should find themselves able to request The Pact to assist them in their war effort, upon which The Pact may vote in The Council if it is a matter of ICARUS entire to assist, or if it is to individual nations’ decision of assistance. Should ICARUS find the war needing their entire collective defense by majority, individual nations should mobilize their militaries to the nation’s defense in accordance to what they wish to contribute or are requested to contribute, while The Peacekeeper’s Armed Force will also deploy their soldiers in the defense of the Signatory.

3.1.1) The Peacekeepers within the nation that has been attacked shall be deployed to assist the local military and civilian populations in the defense of the Signatory host nation should the commanding officer host a force greater than two hundred fifty (250) soldiers. Such defense for less populated bases may also occur without direct consent of The Council in advance, however they are not required to do so.

3.1.2) Should Peacekeepers assist in the defense of a Signatory nation in accordance to Article 3.1.1, the commanding officer shall notify The Council after defensive operations have concluded, or within forty eight (48) hours, whichever should be the first to occur.

3.1.3) A Signatory who is defended by local Peacekeepers within a hosted base is not de facto granted assistance from The Pact entire, as such defense does not necessarily reflect the stance of the entire Council on the defense of The Signatory.

3.1.4) Should The Council decree the defense of The Signatory to be granted, The Staff of Generals shall oversee the operations in defense of the Signatory and the offensive capabilities of both the Signatory and The PAF, while then deciding if The Pact should contribute to an offensive measure of the war effort.

3.1.5) If The Staff of Generals has decided to pursue offensive options for the Signatory who has been attacked, The Council shall vote on the acceptability of the dedication of The Pact’s forces for the offensive operations, while individual nations may abandon their effort at their own discretion after the defense is complete.

3.2) Wars declared by ICARUS Signatories for defense of sovereignty - be it economic interest security, declared territories’ defense or inter-territorial threat removal, the intervention of a regime which blatantly violates International Court Laws, the intervention to cease a regime’s genocide against its own citizens or foreign nationals, or the declaration of war against an attacking nation that has not previously declared war, are to be responded with PAF defense in accordance with Article 3.1.1 while The Council decides The Pact’s stance on the war effort.

3.2.1) The defense of Economic Interest Security should be used only to identify the security of economic business belonging to a foreign nation if, and only if, such trade agreements stand that enforce the capacity of these facilities to be considered sovereign business of the nation from whom the economic groups should originate. Should a trade agreement either not exist, or should it not outline the required defense of the facilities, The Peacekeepers located within the country are not required to respond unless the base commanding officer accepts a request from either the host nation, or the nation whom presides over the economic facilities.

3.2.2) The defense of Declared Territories’ Defense is to be under the interoperation of “The defense of sovereign territory of a Signatory’s accredited land mass, the defense of a dependency nation of a Signatory’s sovereign nation, the defense of a declared territory or claim of a Signatory’s sovereign nation, or the defense of insular territories managed by a Signatory’s sovereign nation.

3.2.3) The defense of Inter-Territorial Threat Removal shall be implemented only when a Signatory is under the threat of terrorist attack or another form of disturbance for their domestic area and areas covered in Article 3.2.2, and they cannot combat the terror threat for either lack of a counter-terrorist agency or special force operatives for capably removing the threat, when the attack against them has occurred already and has been perpetrated what The Council decrees an ‘international threat organization with the capacity to cause disturbance in the Signatory requesting the assistance and beyond’, or when The Council has met on their own terms and agreed that the combating of such threats is a necessary precaution to enduring safety in the world.

3.2.4) The intervention to a regime which violates International Court Laws can only be decreed by a supermajority (90%) both to The Council and The Staff of Generals. Such laws must also be proved to destabilize the specific region or nation upon which the Declaration of War is being voted towards. The laws violated must result directly in allowing a nation to participate in:

A) The interruption of life from murder to genocide or racial cleansing.
B) The enslavement of a particular group of people.
C) The desorption of the forced transfer of a particular group of people.
D) The imprisonment of a particular group of people.
E) The torture of individuals outside of the theater of war.
F) The rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced sterilizations, or other crimes of a sexual nature on a particular group of people en masse.
G) The apartheid of a particular group of people.
H) The practice of other crimes which produce physical or mental and emotional harm to a particular group of people.

3.2.5) The intervention to cease a regime’s genocide shall have no intervention of The Peacekeepers until ground forces can determine the genocide is effectively taking place. Such Peacekeepers deployed shall initially only search the country for signs of the genocide presented in convoys and through their own intelligence gatherings, and shall only engage combatants in such nation when they themselves are engaged first.

3.2.6) The defense of a Signatory who is attacked by a nation with no prior Declaration of War for any reason that is not supported in any piece of Article 3.2 prior shall be followed in accordance the the outline provided in accordance with Article 3.1 of This Document and by Articles 3.2.1, 3.2.2, and 3.2.3 of This Document upon a supermajority of The Council agreeing to the Declaration of War.

3.2.6.1) Should a Signatory be attacked by a non-signatory for any reason implemented by Article 3.2 prior but no Declaration of War has been published, The Pact shall wait forty eight (48) hours for the publication of a Declaration of War by the attacking nation before intervention. Should the Signatory indeed be guilty of violating any part of Article 3.2 themselves against this nation, The Pact may not interfere with their defense unless the attacking nation and their allies begin to violate any part of Article 3.2.4 themselves. The Pact may then only interfere in the manner of the defense of their Signatory, and may take no offensive actions unless a Declaration of War is presented to The Pact entire.

3.3) Wars declared by ICARUS Signatories without cause, or for cause not found to be justified - from expansion of territorial claims, the pilfering of wealth or resource of a nation, the removal of a government, the intimidation upon other regional nations, or the supporting of a terrorist organization with personnel in their crimes, is not to be and shall not be considered to be responded with a PAF intervention, nor will The Council accept review for intervention by the declaring nation. Individual nations themselves may lend assistance, however ICARUS as a whole will not commend the war effort.

3.3.1) Should the war of aggression be found to violate specific sovereignties of the attacked nation, such sovereignties being the agreed upon terms from Article 3.2 of this document to degree, the Signatory who has declared the war will be at the minimum fined a sum for their war and demanded to cease their hostile activities, or at the maximum they shall be tried before The International Court and ejected from The Pact.

3.3.2) Signatories who are ejected from The Pact may infact be declared upon for war by either individual nations at will of their government, or by The Pact should a supermajority vote that the War of Aggression has violated enough of This Document’s Articles to constitute and support the Declaration of War.

3.3.3) Nations who interveign in the war effort at their own digression, Signatories or nay, shall not be condemned unless they are found to contribute Crimes Against Humanity, found in This Document under Article 3.2.4 or laws passed under Crimes Against Humanity at a later date than the publication of This Document.

3.4) The end of a conflict involving The Pact and her Signatories is to be withheld as the most important key of the war. A treaty or ceasefire will be written at the end of the war by The Key Speaker and voted upon by The Council, where a special majority (60%) shall vote in approval of the document. Should this special majority vote in favor it shall be presented to the other party of the conflict to sign or be further engaged until submission.

3.4.1) Ceasefires do not end a war, and a border held with the other nation shall be constructed as a dematerialized zone, or DMZ. Patrols of Peacekeepers will ensure there are no border transgressions along the DMZ, including tunnels dug under the border itself and holes in the fence being reported and repaired with any transgressions into the country arrested and taken to a local court to determine if the person should be imprisoned, deported, or allowed immigration into the Signatory nation.

3.4.2) A ceasefire can be broken if a nation deploys a sizable across the DMZ in accordance to Article 3.2 of This Document. Unless such transgressions are made, however, the cease-fire remains in effect. Skirmish across the Dematerialized Zone between forces however, does not violate the ceasefire as such volatile areas are prone to the subjugation of constant military conflict as both sides remain in a state of war.

3.4.3) Deserters transgressing the border into the Signatory state should be received openly with a quality of luxury afforded to the individual that should be envious to the comrades of this deserter in order to encourage a leverage among the discourse that could take place to formulate a finalized treaty of the conlift that faces such ceasefire.

3.4.4) Treaties in themselves, so as such sovereign documents, shall prove to show their own restraints and rules to the nullification or obligation to the terms of these documents. Such documents, unless declared nullified by practice of atonement for transgressions by a Council majority vote, shall be continued to an indefinite time whereupon such vote of nullification occurs when believed valid.

Article 4 : Humanitarian Aid and Humanitarianism :

4) ICARUS exists for reasons further than a collective war effort and an International Court. As such, ICARUS is to devote some of the collective funding towards the betterment of humanity from both Signatories’ nations and non-Signatories.

4.1) Signatories donations are derived from their contributions to The Pact for annual membership. When a nation applies it may then direct how much of the funding they pay to Icarus shall go towards Humanities and Aid functions in such ways that are allowed to reflect their external policy, their belief systems, and their capacity, all to degree.

4.1.1) Humanities, in accordance of This Document, shall be defined from this point of publication on as the providing of such things that would be essential to life, as the absence or severe shortage of such things should prove to lead to a crisis in which a great loss of life should occur; be these Humanities food, water, infrastructure, or housing. Humanities may be delivered in the accord of an initial Relief Fund or in the eventual providing of Independent Sustainability after the immediate relief fund has been completed through its allocated timeframe.

4.1.2) Humanities may be in the dual usage of Relief and Sustainability providings, or in the allocation of only one of these methods of Humanities Deliverance. The decision of which form of Humanities should be provided is decreed by The Council in their vote to the introduction of the Humanities Request for Acceptance Petition, or H RAP.

4.1.3) Aid, in accordance of This Document, shall be defined from this point of publication on as the providing of a stable environment for a government and people to exist, with the essential infrastructure and defense capabilities to ensure the sovereignty of a nation. Such variations of Aid are covered further under Article 4.3 of This Document.

4.1.4) Aid may last no longer than one year, as in which time the recipient of the Aid may reapply for such donations, where upon The Council may take to a vote to determine is the requesting nation or region is in need of further Aid or not. A majority vote should determine that the furthering of Aid is needed for The Pact entire to dedicate aid to this request.

4.2) Nations that are selected for receiving aid must be agreed upon by The Council through a majority vote of approval, with the selected nation either applying for aid through petition to The ICARUS Pact’s Council, or if the nation is lacking a formal government and a member of The Council submits the nation for a review of aid.

4.2.1) Nations that apply of their own accord may submit the H RAP document to The Icarus Department of Aid and Humanities (IDAH) where it shall be queued for review by The Council and can be expected to be reviewed within the following five (5) to seven (7) business days from the time of submission.

4.2.2) Nations that are declined at the vote of their H RAP document may submit themselves again for review on Humanities and Aid at the turn of the equinoxal period of the voting sessions where upon the reach of the submission in queue, The Council shall again review the proposal and vote on the grant of Aid and Humanities.

4.2.3) Applicants that are in lack of a formal government for reasons that do not include the region being an unrecognized association of bodies seeking acknowledgement of nationhood sovereignty shall be recommended by a Signatory of The Council, who shall prepare the H RAP document for the applicant.

4.2.4) Applicants that are in lack of a formal government for reasons of being an unrecognized association of bodies seeking acknowledgement of nationhood sovereignty shall first need to be recognized as a nation by at the minimum a special majority of The Council before their H RAP shall be considered a valid application.

4.3) Aid to a nation is to be of the categories, or a combination of the categories of :

A1 - Assisting a government in suppressing violent internal confrontation
A2 - Construction of and maintaining of civilian infrastructure
A3 - Joint military formation and training through ICARUS Signatories
A4 - Construction of and maintaining of military infrastructure
A5 - Maintaining economic facilities or introduction of foreign economic facilities
A6 - Providing medical vaccines and other necessary medical technologies
A7 - The formation of an official government body or transitional government body
A8 - The lending of financial aid to a nation to advert an Economic Recession
A9 - Performing non-Humanities Aid-related sponsorship not fitting of prior categories

4.3.1) Any combination of these categories may be used if the Aid to a nation is to be a complicated effort in which The Pact has multiple objectives to complete before their assistance to the nation is completed.

4.3.2) The use of Aid type A1 shall be used only on violent separatists, the forces of a coup, revolutionary forces that are unjustified, or an invading force that has not given an appropriate Casus Belli to the nation. In the later case, Article 3.2 of This Document may be extended upon to the invaded non-Signatory state at a majority vote for the introduction of Military Aid.

4.3.3) The use of Aid type A3 and A4 shall be only for nations that possess inadequate Armed Forces, where the preexisting Armed Forces are not adequate in securing the nation from threats internal and external alike should the government need them.

4.3.4) The use of Aid type A6 should be in that if a nation is under the threat of epidemic or lesser widespread diseases or contagious illness, the Greater Health Organization of Science and Technology shall dispatch biomedical treatment specialists with biological quarantine soldiers of The Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces to ensure the safety of the doctors and scientists.

4.3.5) The use of Aid type A7 should be only used at the specific request of the supermajority of the population’s approval, or the genuine request from a supermajority of all upper level government officials of the requesting nation.

4.3.6) The use of Aid type A8 is fitted to a standard interest rate of .05% APR unless a supermajority of The Council should find that there is legitimate drive for a higher or lower annual percentage rate with the minimal interest rate locked at .025% indefinite.

4.4) Nations hostile to ICARUS or individual Signatories of The Pact may not be exempt from humanitarian aid on grounds of humanities and the right of life to individuals regardless of nationality, creed, or ethics. However, should the local government, a large and organized opposition group, the general populous entire, or other notable organized groups oppose the relief effort, aid may be abandoned through a vote to the council to a special minority (30%).

4.4.1) A nation that is at war with The Pact may not be the recipient of any form of Humanities or of any form of Aid so long as they remain at a formal state of war. This includes nations that are actively engaging Pact Signatories in warfare, have signed only a ceasefire but have not signed a treaty, and any other unaddressed region which engages in martial confrontation against The Pact of individual Signatories.

4.4.2) Nations that have been damaged by a war with The Pact may submit their H RAP only after one equinox has passed since their surrender. Should a nation sign a surrender on the equinox they may submit their H RAP after submitting to both demilitarization and a forty eight (48) hour post-demilitarization period.

4.4.3) Should a nation be abandoned in Aid and Humanities by The Council, they may not submit another H RAP until significant contributions to the safety of The Pact’s aid personnel have been made and shown to The Council by a representative of the nation.

4.5) Nations that are Signatories to ICARUS are liable to opt out of sending aid to a voted upon nation if they hold strong grounds or political discourse with the aided nation. Such would mean that the nations are at a formal or informal state of war, have been known to engage in conflict when met with each other, or have been engaged in a sort of ‘Cold War’.

4.5.1) Nations that are at a formal state of war with an Icarus Signatory are not viable to be the recipients of Aid and Humanities by The Pact so long as they remain at the formal state of war with this Signatory. Thier H RAP will then remain at the forefront of the queue, however it shall be skipped over until the confrontation with the Signatory has come to an end.

4.5.2) Nations that are at informal states of war with a Signatory may receive aid, however the nation who has chosen to opt out of sending aid to the recipient shall be allowed to continue their operations against this nation should they be pursuing any as long as these operations do not interfere with the progress being made by fellow Signatories and their contributions to the nation.

4.5.3) Nations that are at a state of a ‘Cold War’ are to be allowed Aid and Humanities unless they are at such ‘Cold War’ with the entirety of The ICARUS Pact whereupon they are not subject to review for their H RAP to The Council for review.

4.5.4) Nations who are subject to strong views by a Signatory may be subject to aid from nations not including The Signatory as long as they remain at least neutral with the remainder of The Pact. Should they begin to hold more negative discourse with Signatories of The Pact entire, they are subject to a revoke of approval for their Aid and Humanities.

4.6) Nations that receive aid are not required to repay their aid unless certain parameters of the issue of aid are derived from a deal with ICARUS to receive larger sums of aid than regularly issued through a lend-lease programme. Upon which, the extended amount only is what shall be repaid with the standard aid value not required for repayment.

4.6.1) The use of Aid type A8 with the standard interest rate shall be subject to repayment of only the interest accumulated in accordance to the yearly plan of repayment, however additional funds sent for Aid of the nation shall be subject to compound interest with the amount of the additional bailout sum being implemented in the repayment required where it is subject to the special compound interest.

4.6.2) Nations that are proven to have exploited their Aid in the light of having not needed the Aid in the end are subject to repayment of the dedicated Aid with a compound interest rate of 102.5% annually.

4.6.3) Should a nation who receives aid become a Signatory of ICARUS after they have progressed to a point where they believe they may apply and are thus admitted, they shall not be subject to a higher fraternity payment plan or increased fees elsewhere as the Aid that has assisted them is the very reason they have risen to the capacity to join ICARUS in the first place.

Article 5 : Articles of Membership to Maintain Fraternity :

5) ICARUS is an organization that requires certain standards to be met to maintain membership and fraternity with fellow Signatories. Such requirements are to ensure both strict dedication towards the larger body than the individual nation, and to ensure no Signatory should not cease contribution towards their fellow Signatories.

5.1) Nation’s contributions to The Pact, as a standard, are to be standardized as .05% of a nation’s GDP annually with additional stipends in accordance to other Articles of This Document that should allocate the increase of an annual donation fee. Collections of this fee shall be done at the turn of a nation’s fiscal year, where the fee is used in the statistic of the previous fiscal year.

5.1.1) Signatories may either pay their sum in one direct payment once their fiscal year changes over or they divide the payments to quarterly payments entered at the turn of each equinox. These payments are made to The Icarus Pact through the funding of their allocations, where they will divide their funding between the departments of finance.

5.1.2) Signatories that decide to do their entire funding payment at once may have a total of thirty six (36) hours to organize their funds and process the appeal, where from there they will have an additional week to collect, process, and send their fees to The Pact.

5.1.3) Signatories that decide to do their funding payments through payments at the equinox will have no more than twenty four (24) hours from the beginning of the equinox to collect, process, and send their fees to The Pact.

5.1.4) Should a nation host too fragile an economy to support a simple .05% of their economic wealth as a donation to The Pact for the funding of activities and maintenance such Signatory shall provide adequate soldier strength to The Pact, as well as a determined number of military institutions for housing of The Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces.

5.1.5) Signatories may opt out of donating a fee to The Pact should they decree they will donate an adequate number of military facilities to The Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces and maintain the facilities, holding all of the costs associated with the facility except the payment of the soldiers within the facility. Such facilities should remain held to the standard code of the host nation, should the code be deemed adequate by The Council.

5.1.6) Signatories may also opt out of sending a dedicated force to The Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces, and opt out of hosting a military facility; however such Signatory is omitted from their representative to The Council being able to propose a piece of legislation, is unable to vote on matters that are not International Laws, is unable to hold The Grand Seat and thus the position of The Key Speaker, must still respond to Pact declared wars with their military, and must still follow all International Laws passed by The Council of The Pact.

5.2) Nations may hold non-Signatory positions within The Council, where they may observe the practice of The Pact in their discussion, however such seats are handicapped at only observing The Council, with a host of regulations emplaced on those which would hold this seat. Such seat shall be deemed to be held by ‘Delegates of Observing Nations’, or DONs.

5.2.1) DONs shall not be permitted to submit legislation of any form through their seat to The Council. Legislation must be proposed entirely by a Signatory alone, and legislation proposed through an Observing Nation’s seat shall not be entered into the queue and shall in fact be struck null and void to the interests of The Pact before it is viewed while one Mark of Intolerance shall be given to the DON.

5.2.2) DONs shall not be permitted to vote on, or discuss in any matter, legislation passed through The Council. International Law proposals may not be voiced in opinion of regardless of the impact upon the DON’s nation, and Commendations and Commendations may not be debated on nor voted on, by nations who hold this seat either. Should an attempt to break these rules be made, one Mark of Intolerance shall be given to the DON.

5.2.3) DONs shall not be permitted to vote on, nor discuss, Declarations of War, on Treaties of War, Cease Fires of War, or any other martial document passed through The Council, regardless of the nation of the DON’s involvement in such war effort. They may however be given a change to this rule and be allowed only to debate on the legislation if a majority of The Council votes to give them voice, and if their nation had been involved in the war effort involving such legislations. The breaking of this article shall result in one Mark of Intolerance given to the DON.

5.2.4) Should a DON speak out on legislation without the vote of The Council giving them voice while it is on the floor, but while The Council is adjourned for recess during the process of reviewing legislation, the DON shall be warned once not to discuss the legislation unless The Council votes to give them voice. Should they persist, one Mark of Intolerance shall be given to the DON

5.2.5) DONs that have received three (3) Marks of Intolerance shall be dismissed from The Council for the remainder of the equinoxal cycle. During this dismissal they shall not be allowed entry to The Council Hall, nor any other official facility of The Pact.

5.2.6) DONs that have been removed from The Council for an equinoxal period do not need to re-submit their application to hold their seat, however The Council reserves the right to hold a vote in the terms of a majority in agreeance to decline the return of the DON and thus, render them exempt from observing The Council until their ban, extending to the entire nation, has been voted on by a simple majority to be lifted.

5.2.7) Article 5.2.5 should be used only in the extreme cases where the DON of a nation, or the representing DONs of a nation should the Delegate have changed between offenses, has been ejected from The Council numerous times, with the limit being decreed by The Key Speaker in a case-by-case situation to bring this matter to vote at The Council.

5.2.8) Regardless of where The Council should travel, a DON is not permitted to enter an Icarus Military Facility, housing Peacekeepers or Peacekeeper Taskforces. Should The Council travel to such facilities, the DON must return to their home nation where they may use a satellite communications device to video chat with The Council to watch the meeting, should The Council grant that access.

5.3) Signatories and DONs alike to Icarus are held to interpersonal acceptances of each other regardless of their own Signatories’ relations with one another. Representatives of Signatories, in any field of The Pact’s employment, shall treat each other in due respect they believe their own nation is adequate of deservance and then some.

5.3.1) Members of The Council who cannot maintain professional relations with another Signatory Councilman are to be instructed to better control their outbursts. Should they persist, The Council may vote to eject the Councilman in light of their actions and request a Signatory send a replacement Councilman.

5.3.2) Members of The Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces are required to follow their doctrine to the letter in that your weapon remains on safety at all times while on base unless they are on patrol, and that should they raise their weapon at a fellow Peacekeeper they shall be Court Martialed for dissidence to The Pact.

5.3.3) Members of The Council holding DON seats are to be seen and not heard, unless they have been voted to be given voice by The Council’s Signatory Delegates. They may raise their hand to signal that they wish to speak, where Councilmen will vote via their electronic devices on the allowing of a DON to speak during The Council’s meeting.

5.3.4) Should a Signatory speak to a DON outside of The Council Hall the DON may respond to The Signatory, however they must maintain their respectful tone towards The Signatory. The only time a DON may break this barrier of respect is if a Councilman is belittling, harassing, insulting, mocking, ridiculing, or performing similar act upon a DON or towards the nation a DON originates from.

5.3.5) Should a DON be under the application process of becoming a full Signatory, they shall be afforded the rights and privilege of a dedicated Signatory in all matters previously placed against them, and will only be barred from speaking on their own application to join The Pact. However should a Signatory direct a question to the DON, they may answer in response directly without needing to be given voice.

5.4) Signatories may abandon The Pact should they give a single equinox in advance to warn The Pact and their fellow Signatories of their leave of The Pact, unless special conditions are met in accordance to Articles 1.4.1, 1.5.1, 2.2.2, and / or Article 3.3.1 of This Document. Should The Key Speaker be from a Signatory who abandons The Pact for any reason, including dismissal, The Council shall vote for an interim Key Speaker, while ruling the entire body of government under the former Key Speaker null and void of employment unless the Interim Speaker should decree the former cabinet shall be employed under their position of office.

5.4.1) Signatories who have abandoned The Pact of their own accord are reduced from requirements to hold embassy with every Signatory of The ICARUS Pact regardless of international relations, are no longer entitled to the Free Trade Agreements shared by Signatories through The Pact, may not be protected by The Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces under the threat of war, are no longer allowed to attend The Council’s meetings, may not apply for Delegation of Observing Nation status, and may not apply for Aid and Humanities for the sum time of two passings of the equinox from the date they left.

5.4.2) Signatories who abandon The Pact and do not give the time of one full equinox in preparatory time for The Pact to plan accordingly will be placed under mandatory embargo from all Signatory states, and shall not be permitted to apply to regain their seat indefinite, as well as all conditions placed under Article 5.4.1 of This Document. Any funding placed towards The Pact will not be refunded to the former Signatory under this condition, as their inadequate planning has resulted in an unpleasant change for The Council and shall be rectified by the maintaining of the funds of the former Signatory to the Council’s discretion.

5.4.3) Former Signatories who are declared war on for any reason shall be barred from submitting a proposal to join The Pact for the duration of one full year, unless a supermajority of The Council has decreed otherwise, upon which the former Signatory will be able to submit an application to join The Pact again should their government wish to do so.

5.4.4) Former Signatories and former DONs who are condemned after their leave of The Pact shall be required to have their condemnation lifted before they may host embassies with members of The Pact beyond any they already possess. They must also have the condemnation lifted before they may enter a trade agreement with any Signatory of The Pact.

Application to Join The ICARUS Pact:

Full title of the applicant nation:
Current head of government:
Government type:
Economic practice:
Signatory Delegate Name:
Dedication to the Peacekeeper’s Armed Forces:
General dedicated to The PAF (if applicable):
Military facilities provided:
Date for change of fiscal year:
Division of fees -
Funding The Council and Staff: __%
Funding The Peacekeepers and Staff: __%
Funding Aid Programmes: __%
Funding Humanities Programmes: __%
Funding of Facility Maintenance: __%

Application to Join ICARUS as a DON:

Full title of the applicant nation:
Current head of government:
Government type:
Delegate Observer name:
Intent to become a full Signatory at some point (y/n):

Humanities Request for Acceptance Petition:

Full title of applicant nation:
Current head of state:
Government type:
Aid applied for (Humanities / Aid):
Form of Aid requested if any:
Form of Humanities requested if any:
Additional finances requested if any (please use Svet Ukyts):
Signatory status (y/n):
(If Signatory) How long have you been a Signatory (y/n):
(If not Signatory) Are you considering petitioning to become a Signatory (y/n):