A game written and run by Jonathan Whiting
Left: Jonathan, Patrick, Stephen, (3 members)
NIALL: Niall, Terry, Damien, Rolpege (4 members)
Independence: Alan, Darien (2 member)
Do-Nothing: Robert Yang (1 member)
SHOW DON'T TELL
For: Left, Independence, NIALL
Against:
PASSED
REPEAL LAW 30
For: Left, Independence, NIALL
Against:
PASSED
THE DICTATOR PARTY
For:
Against: Left, Independence, NIALL
FAILED
SELF-NOMINATION
For: Left, Independence, NIALL
Against:
PASSED
Ian and Kyle are in breach of rule 28 (haven't affiliated with a party).
Nial Moody proposes:
Within a party, all citizens will be expected to provide their preferred choices for each proposal to be voted on. Any differences will then be resolved through friendly debate. If there are differences of opinion which cannot be resolved, the majority consensus will be taken as the correct one. If there is a deadlock in such a situation, the party will not be permitted to vote on that issue. Citizens are permitted to abstain from voting on proposals, in which case their vote will not be counted.
Once the party has come to a conclusion regarding its voting preferences, the party will nominate a citizen to vote for the party, a vote which must be in concordance with the previous paragraph.
Ian Snyder proposes:
I propose we repeal Law 28: Political Parties.
It seems that a lot of people are beginning to break into parties that contain just themselves anyway, and in the larger groups it is causing lots of overhead that has already lead to one of the main parties accidentally not voting. It just seems to me like it's done more getting-in-the-way than anything else.
Alan Hazelden proposes:
I wish to propose the follow new law, as originally contained in paragraphs 1 and 2 of the defeated motion PAGEANT OF JUSTICE (proposed by Darien):
"Each citizen may submit one and only one grievance per turn. A grievance is an action accusing exactly one other specific, named citizen of violating the law. In submitting a grievance, the submitter shall identify the specific citizen who has allegedly violated the law, the specific law violated, the specific actions taken that violated said law, and a proposed specific punishment therefore.
Submitting a grievance is not the same as submitting a motion, and a citizen may do both in the same turn."
Our laws define the games scope.
Anything not defined or mentioned in our laws is not a part of the game.
Each of our laws has an index. A unique positive integer.
New laws are assigned the lowest available index that is higher than all already in play.
When two of our laws contradict, the law with the higher index prevails.
Our game begins at 8pm GMT on Monday 11th July.
Our game ends at 8pm GMT on Friday 29th July.
Our turns last 24 hours.
New turns begin at 8pm GMT on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
When a turn is not in play the game is suspended.
We are the citizens of our game.
Citizens must abide by our laws.
Citizens should act in the spirit of our laws.
An action is a single act made a single citizen.
During a turn citizens submit actions by stating unambigously that they are doing so via the mailing list.
A correction is an addition, repeal or amendment of one of our rules.
A motion is an action taken to propose a single correction.
Our citizens may each submit a single motion during a turn.
Motions should be sent with an email subject indicating that it is a proposed correction, and includes a name for the motion that hints towards its contents.
In the turn following a motions submission citizens can take an action to vote for or against it.
One vote per citizen per motion.
We require a beneficial dictator at all times.
Our beneficial dictator can make a single overriding vote in each turn.
When the beneficial dictator excercises this right all other votes on that motion are ignored.
At the end of the turn a motion was up for vote the motion will be enacted or discarded.
If the majority of votes are in favour of the motion it is enacted; otherwise the motion is discarded.
At the end of the game the winner is the citizen who has spent least time serving as beneficial dictator.
If multiple citizens tie, the winner is chosen by the current beneficial dictator.
Citizens are only amongst us whilst a law explicitly describes them.
Traitors should be executed by a motion repealing that law.
The beneficial dictator is elected every turn by popular vote, replacing any previous holder of the position.
Each turn, a citizen can make one vote for a new beneficial dictator for the next turn.
In the case of a draw, or if only one citizen has made a vote, the current Beneficial dictator stays in place.
Jonathan Whiting is one of our citizens.
Rolpege is one of our citizens.
Darien Sumner is one of our citizens.
Alan Hazelden is one of our citizens.
Niall Moody is one of our citizens.
Terry Cavanagh is one of our citizens.
Ian Snyder is one of our citizens.
Kyle is one of our ciitzens.
Patrick is one of our citizens.
Damien Landreau is one of our citizens.
Stephen Lavelle is one of our citizens.
Robert Yang is one of our citizens.
During the turn it was proposed, a motion may be amended any number of times by the citizen who proposed it. In the following turn citizens will vote on the most recent version of the motion.
There are two political parties.
Each citizen must declare their party affiliation, and they may change it at most once per day.
Each citizen must align themselves with one party, and all members of a party must vote in exactly the same way.
If a citizen neglects to vote on a particular issue it is to be treated as a vote in concordance with the rest of the party members.
Citizens are assessed for their ability to design good laws which carry the support of our community.
The popularity of a motion is defined to be an integer equal to the number of votes for that motion minus the number of votes against.
The popularity of a citizen is defined to be an integer equal to the sum of the popularity of all motions which have been submitted by that citizen.
If ambiguities exist that cannot be resolved within the text of our laws the most popular citizen decides the valid interpretation that we understand to be true. If more than one citizen is the most popular this power is given only to the equally most popular citizen with the alphabetically first last name.