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2nd International Cheese Festival
“Hrarroom!” (= “Greetings”),
Ten years ago the International Democratic Union hosted the first International Cheese Festival.
We have now decided to organise a second such event, which will officially start on the 22nd of February (which is the 2nd Full Moon of the Lunar Calendar) this year.
Competition categories =
‘Best IDU Cheese’ (open only to IDU member nations)
‘Best Cheese imported into the IDU’ (open only to non-IDU nations)
‘Best Cheese-related Product’ (open to both IDU and non-IDU nations)
Post your entries, by the festival’s starting date, at: http://s10.zetaboards.com/IDU/topic/7560196/1/
Even if you don't want to enter, please make a point to stop by after Feb. 22 to vote on the cheeses! :)
The first invitations are being sent to regions that already tend to interact with the IDU, or that I think are particularly likely to be interested in this event anyhows, but this would be a great chance for other nations / regions to establish a trade relationship with the IDU too.
from
Urrsarra o Whiterose,
Third member of the Committee for Rabbit
(i.e. ‘Trade Minister’),
Bears Armed.
Kegars, Frieden-und Freudenland, and Canaltia
What's there to vote on? Everyone knows that queso fresco is the best cheese. ^_^
Are we voting on second best? I'd say paneer, but it isn't as if the varying types of goat cheese aren't solid contenders...
What won last time?
Details of last time (accidentally omitted from the invitation):
http://archive.nswiki.org/index.php?title=Category:IDU_Cheese_Festival
http://archive.nswiki.org/index.php?title=International_Democratic_Union_Cheese_Festival
It's the Australia Day holiday tomorrow, so I'll have a look at it then.
My proposed amendment is italicized below:
6.1 No embassy requests with regions containing less than 6 WA nations or younger than 6 months will be accepted by Forest. Regions which do meet these requirements must submit a telegram describing their region and reasons for making the request to the appropriate members of Forest's government (typically the Forest Keeper and/or Minister of Foreign Affairs if appointed). If only an in game request is made the requesting nation will be contacted by an appropriate member of Forest's government asking for information. If after 7 days no contact has been made, then the request is to be assumed invalid If the request meets all of the above requirements, the request will be voted on as described in Clause 6.4.
6.1.1 In the event that an embassy request arrives that meets the aforementioned age and size requirements, and no further information is provided within 24 hours, then a telegram will be wired to the proposing party. After 5 days, or 4 from the time the telegram was sent, if there is no response and the proposal yet stands, a messenger is to be sent into the proposing region to make contact. Such a messenger may be appointed by whosoever has been granted authority over Forest embassies (typically the Forest Keeper and/or Minister of Foreign Affairs if appointed).
I'm not exactly a legal scholar, so feel free to poke holes in my phrasing. ^_^
How about this:
6.1 No embassy requests with regions containing less than 6 WA nations or younger than 6 months will be accepted by Forest. Regions which do meet these requirements must submit a telegram describing their region and reasons for making the request to the appropriate members of Forest's government (hereby defined as the Forest Keeper and/or Minister of Foreign Affairs if appointed). If only an in-game request is made and no further information is provided in 24 hours, the requesting nation will be contacted by an appropriate member of Forest's government asking for information. After 5 days, or 4 from the time the telegram was sent, if there is no response and the proposal yet stands, an appropriate member of Froest's government will post on the requesting region's regional message board. If after 7 days no contact has been made, then the request is to be assumed invalid, (although new requests with the appropriate information from the same region will be considered.) If the request meets all of the above requirements, the request will be voted on as described in Clause 6.4.
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Sounds good to me. ^_^ Dunno why I tried to turn it into an extra section...
There's a spelling mistake on the region's name.
I don't have any problems.
Wait a minute... Sorry I completely missed this, but how is a member of the Forest government to post on the RMB of unaffiliated regions?
Don't we need an embassy to do that? I was suggesting sending a puppet in to accomplish this.
Apologies for skimming, I somehow ended up with the impression that you had merely streamlined the formatting somewhat.
Sorry, what you wanted wasn't 100% clear to me in your original version, this seems like a minor enough change that I've fixed this and fixed the typo and put it up to vote...
Sorry I wasn't clear.
Here's my proposed revised version of the constitution to disentangle the Forest Keeper and WA delegate. Please let me know your opinions and any edits you have...
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3.3 No Regional Officer may have a power that the Forest Keeper does not also have except WA delegate powers.
3.4 The Forest Keeper shall also be or appoint a World Assembly (WA) Delegate of Forest (use of a WA puppet nation is acceptable for this responsibility, subject to 3.2). Should the WA delegate appointed by the Forest Keeper not currently be the WA delegate, the Founder is permitted to take whatever reasonable action necessary to rectify the situation in a speedy but orderly transition.
4.2 i Remove all powers from the regional government (excepting WA powers, which the currently selected WA delegate may continue to execute until they are replaced)
4.2.v Open a poll for the duration of one week with all nations in Forest eligible to vote. The poll will be entitled ‘Do you want to run to be the Forest Keeper?’ and have two options ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Further explanation of all polls by the Founder is permissible, at the Founder’s discretion.
7.1 Should the founder cease to exist, the WA delegate has emergency authority to take on the roles generally reserved for the founder. The WA delegate shall only have those powers identified in this constitution and should he step outside of these authorities, a new WA delegate shall be informally selected by the WA nations, preferably with the Forest Keeper's (if separate nations) recommendation. Change of the WA delegate during this emergency period shall be undertaken only if absolutely necessary.
7.2 The WA delegate shall password protect Forest without distributing the password as soon as possible. Forest will then take a 3 week (21 day) waiting period. During this time plans may be made for re-founding but no active re-founding actions will be undertaken. All elections and recall elections are suspended until the founder returns or Forest is successfully re-founded. Should the founder return at any time of the re-founding process, Forest shall return to normal. If the WA delegate also cease to exist the nation with the most endorsements is the new WA delegate.
7.2 The WA delegate shall work to re-found Forest. First an election will be held similar to elections in Article 4.
It looks like I missed renumbering 7.2 to 7.3 in the second time it occurs. Basically I'm splitting 7.1/7.2 into 3 separate clauses. Here are those relevant clauses in their present state:
3.3 No Regional Officer may have a power that the Forest Keeper does not also have.
3.4 The Forest Keeper shall also be the World Assembly (WA) Delegate of Forest (use of a WA puppet nation is acceptable for this responsibility). Should this not be the case, the Founder is permitted to take whatever reasonable action necessary to rectify the situation. The exact methods are at the discretion of the Founder, but may include an endorsement cap. In transitional times after election of a new Forest Keeper, the Founder may take whatever actions necessary to achieve a speedy but orderly transition between WA Delegates.
4.2. i Remove all powers from the regional government (excepting WA powers, which the Forest Keeper may continue to execute until they are replaced).
4.2. v Open a poll for the duration of one week with all WA member eligible to vote. The poll will be entitled ‘Do you want to run to be the Forest Keeper?’ and have two options ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. Further explanation of all polls by the Founder is permissible, at the Founder’s discretion.
7.1 Should the founder cease to exist, the Forest Keeper has emergency authority to take on the roles generally reserved for the founder. The Forest Keeper shall password protect Forest without distributing the password as soon as possible. Forest will then take a 3 week (21 day) waiting period. During this time plans may be made for re-founding but no active re-founding actions will be undertaken. All elections and recall elections are suspended until the founder returns or Forest is successfully re-founded. Should the founder return at any time of the re-founding process, Forest shall return to normal. If the Forest Keeper also cease to exist the nation with the most endorsements is the new Forest Keeper. Changing endorsements during the emergency period is highly discouraged and it is within the right of the Forest Keeper to eject nations to maintain power and order during this emergency period.
7.2 The Forest Keeper shall work to re-found Forest. First an election will be held similar to elections in Article 4. In these elections all nations will be eligible to be founder. Only WA nations are eligible to vote on the founder.
To all the nations that moved to Forest in December:
Thank you for sticking around and for your patience in waiting to get on the map. I'll have an update ready within the next 3 days that will include the addition of 15 nations that joined between Dec. 7 and Jan. 2.
Lompe steen haha, Esterild, Gil zardon, Frieden-und Freudenland, and 2 othersGuman, and Canaltia
Yay! I've dropped from top 5% weapons manufacture in Forest to top 10%. I hope this means Caracasus is building fewer weapons, and not that Forest nations are building more.
Esterild, Taco Respublic, Frieden-und Freudenland, Guman, and 1 otherCanaltia
Shalotte certainly isn't building more, unless you count the five clay pots they made this year as weapons.
Esterild, Caracasus, Frieden-und Freudenland, and Canaltia
You can blame the Saudis and more recently Iran for the low oil prices. They will go up soon enough, but not enough to help green energy. Such is the world in which we live.
Gil zardon and Canaltia
Depends how far you can throw em I guess.....
Shalotte, Frieden-und Freudenland, and Canaltia
I was about to remark on my arms industry, but at -7 on the Charon Conveyancy Index, I apparently don't have one...
I have a rather sizeable military though, does that mean I import all my weapons? That can't be good.
The United People's Republic has a healthy arms manufacturing sector, so feel free to promote intra-regional trade by importing them from Bemberna.
Yeah that's always what I've assumed. A negative number is where you're importing more of that category of goods than you export.
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