General Assembly Proposals

The World Assembly,

Recognizing the ability of games of chance/skill in helping individuals, businesses, and organizations grow their audience, strengthen their brand, and drive future sales,

Appalled by individuals, businesses, and organizations using games of chance/skill to gather personally identifiable information and other personal data about participants without their knowledge,

Believing that a host must disclose basic information about their contest with potential and current participants,

Concerned by the amount of waste generated by the prizes of games of chance/skill and the process of marketing/operating the game itself,

Seeking to make all games of chance/skill fair for all participants,

Also seeking to set a minimum standard for what a prize can be,

Hereby,

1. Defines for the purpose of this resolution:

   1. Promotion as a publicization of a product, organization, or venture to increase sales or public awareness for that product, organization, or venture,

   2. Game/s of chance as a promotion in which participants can enter to win a prize with value and the winner is purported to be or would appear to an objective unbiased member of the public to be randomly chosen,

   3. Game/s of skill as a type of promotion where participants' entries are skill-based and winners of the prize with value are chosen on merit or skill,

   4. Host as an individual, business, or organization that runs a game of chance or game of skill,

   5. Participant (or Participants) as an individual/s, business/es, or organization/s that enters a game of chance or game of skill,

   6. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) as information (or representation of information) that permits the identity of an individual to whom the information applies to be reasonably inferred by either direct or indirect means, and

   7. Prize as the item that a participant wins in a game of chance or game of skill;

2. Requires that games of chance/skill clearly and publicly disclose:

   1. Eligibility criteria, including age restrictions, residency requirements, entry deadline, and other qualifications to participate,

   2. The nature of the contest such as the type of game the promotion entails,

   3. The prize details,

   4. The winner selection process,

   5. Potential taxes and other legal requirements, and

   6. Any other rules the host may choose to implement;

3. Additionally requires that games of chance clearly and publicly display the odds of winning (and if those odds may change due to participant elimination or other factors);

4. Decrees that a host must:

   1. Allow participants to withdraw their entries at any time as easily as they could make a new entry,

   2. Ensure that all entries:

      1. In a game of chance, regardless of entry method or choice of whether or not to partake in PII collection/marketing, have an equal chance of winning,

      2. In a game of skill are judged equally and only on the skill on which the promotion is based,

      3. In a game that qualifies as a game of chance and a game of skill have the instances in which chance is applied specified (with the guarantee that such instances give the entry an equal chance of winning), have equal chances given equal situations of skill, and are judged equally and only on the skill the promotion is based upon;

   3. Not gather PII or other personal data about participants that enable the use of their data for direct marketing purposes without their prior consent while allowing any participant to withdraw their aforementioned consent,

   4. Ensure that all PII and other personal data gathered about participants is processed securely (and deleted irrecoverably after the game of chance/skill concludes) in compliance with national and WA privacy protections,

   5. Not reject or disqualify entries as a result of a participant's lack (or withdrawal) of consent to PII research,

   6. Pay for the cost of waste collection and recycling of items used to market and operate the game of chance/skill once the event concludes in compliance with WA and national sanitation laws, and

   7. Deliver the prizes as promised within a timely manner to winning participants;

5. Declares that prizes cannot be monetarily valueless or something that the host must already provide by law; and

6. Grants participants the right to donate their prize to an individual, business, or organization.

The World Assembly (WA),

Noting the repeals of resolutions concerning aircraft and airspace, such as GARs #34, #342 and #464, and the legislative lacuna resultant therefrom;

Desiring a common approach to defining what constitutes "airspace", in order to facilitate trade and travel between WA states;

The WA hereby enacts as follows:

1. Definitions.

   1. "Flying object" means anything defined by the International Aero-Space Administration as (i) able to travel in "airspace" (defined below) and (ii) relying on its own power, but excludes any living flying creature.

   2. "WA organs" means the WA and any of its sub-committees.

2. Sovereignty.

   1. Each WA state has and shall be deemed to have sovereignty over its own airspace.

   2. "Airspace" is hereby defined as the atmosphere vertically over any land mass or any waters for which the said WA state claims sovereignty, up to the boundary where the exobase ends and barometric conditions no longer apply, and where outer space thereafter begins.

   3. For WA states in celestial bodies with physical features (such as the lack of an atmosphere) that render the definition in subclause 2(b) inapplicable, the airspace of the said WA state is that space (which, for convenience, shall also be referred to herein as a WA state's "airspace") vertically over any land mass or any waters for which the said WA state asserts sovereignty, either (whichever is lower):

      1. Up to the point that allows the said WA state a height of airspace as enables it to conduct those activities that a technologically similar terrestrial WA state would be able to conduct, or

      2. Up to the point where the gravitational pull of the celestial body on which that WA state asserts sovereignty becomes negligible for the domestic purposes of that WA state.

   4. Airspace that is vertically over terra nullius, or that is over international waters where no WA state has asserted sovereignty, is hereby declared to be international airspace.

   5. The extent of airspace as defined in subclause 2(b) and 2(c) can be varied by valid treaties signed and ratified by all WA states that possess airspace affected by the said treaty.

3. Jurisdiction.

   1. A WA state may assert jurisdiction over (1) any flying object registered to the competent authorities of the said WA state, or (2) any flying object traveling under the flag of that WA state, such as military aircraft belonging to that WA state.

   2. The WA may assert jurisdiction over any flying object operated by, for, or on behalf of a WA organ. Such objects shall be known as "WA aircraft" for the remainder of this resolution.

4. Non-interference of WA aircraft.

   1. A WA state must not impede the normal operations of any flying objects under the jurisdiction of the WA itself, except strictly for the purposes of:

      1. capacity management if it is traveling within the WA state's airspace; or

      2. quarantines.

   2. Subclause 4(a) is subject to resolutions existing prior to the passing of this resolution. Subclause 4(a) also excludes cases where the WA aircraft has been hijacked by rogue actors, or by those that have mutinied against the WA, and other analogous circumstances of loss of control.

Co-author: Kenmoria

General Assembly Resolution #688 “Bail Conditions Arrangements” (Category: Regulation; Area of Effect: Legal Reform) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

The World Assembly,

Appreciating the noble intent of resolution number 688, “Bail Conditions Arrangements,” to expand due process and freedom for people prior to conviction,

Worried, however, by the self-contradictory nature of the resolution,

Citing the preamble which declares an intent to target the practice of cash bail as unfair towards the less wealthy, however in practice clause 3 requires that cash bail be the primary option for bail,

Acknowledging the writing of this clause was a mistake, and was intended to set cash bail to be used only if alternatives were impractical,

Believing this mistake to be detrimental to the resolution and rendering it nonsensical in its entirety, given that other clauses attempt to limit the use of cash bail, thus effectively eliminating the ability of many defendants to be granted bail, and

Wishing to handle the topic of bail more eloquently moving forward and with respect to the sovereignty of its member nations,

Hereby repeals resolution #688, “Bail Conditions Arrangements.”