Proposal Archive (3551-3600)

Proposal 3551 - Sun 06 Sep 1998 10:53 EDT
Senade
Niccolo Flychuck (Uri Bruck)
Decision: rejected

I. In R411 "Senate" replace the text :
" The Senators are collectively a Unique Organization known as the Senate."
with the text:
"The Senators and the Churches are collectively a Unique Organization known as the Senade. The Senade owns a More Than Human."

II. Replace all occurences of the string "Senate" in the rules with the string "Senade".

III. In R401 "Offices, Commonalities" replace the text "Offices are named, unownable entities, except for Capital Offices, which are Tradeable entities. "
with the text:
"Offices are named entities. Capital Offices are Tradeable entities. Functional Offices are Tradeable Entities, however, they may only be owned by Organizations, all other types of Offices are named, unownable entities."

IV. amend R403 "Functional Offices" to read in full:
"

This rule takes precedence over rule 401.

If at any time a Functional Office becomes unowned, or owned by anything other than an Organization, then it immediately becomes owned by the Senade.

An Office is a Functional Office if and only if the Rules specify it as such.

The following applies to all Functional Offices:

(i) A functional Office has only one Seat unless the Rules specify otherwise.

(ii) As a Privilege of Office, each Player shall receive a monthly salary equal to the Standard Harfer Fee for every Functional Office held.

(iii) Each Functional Office has a unique Office License associated with it. Office Licenses may only be manipulated as specified in the rules. Office Licenses are Tradeable Entities.
If at any time an Office License becomes unowned, the it immediately becomes Owned by the owner of the Office with which the License is associated. The name of an Office License is identical to the name of the Office with which it is associated, with the word 'License' appended to it.
The Owner of an Office may give the license to any player. The player who owns an Office License fills the Office associated with that License. A player may gift an Office License to the owner of the Office Associated with that Office License at any time. A player can trade an Office License only with the consent of the owner of the Office Associated with that License. An Office owner may Recall an Office License for any Office it owns at any time as an Organizational Action. When this happens, the Recalled Office License is immediately transferred to the owner of the associated Office.
When a player ceases being Active for any reason, all Office Licenses e owns are autmoatically recalled.

(vi)An Office License may not be owned by any Organization other than the Organization which owns the Office Assocaited with that License. Whenever an Organization owns an Office License, and the duties of the Office go unperformed for a week or more, then all members of the Organization which owns that Office License are deemed to have violated the Speed Rules.

(v) A Vacationing Functional Officer is considered to have vacated eir Seat for the duration of eir vacation, after which he shall hold the Seat once again.
"

V. Append to R411 "Senade" the following text:
"
At any given time exactly one Church is known as the Divine Church of Ackanomic. This designation has no effect on the name of the Church. The Divine Church of Ackanomic may manipulate Office Licenses owned by the Senade as if they were owned by the Divine Church of Ackanomic. The Senade may manipulate an Office Licenses it owns, by taking Organizational Actions.
Whenever a cycle is ended, the following things happen in the Senade:
1. The Dinivity of each Church which is also a member of the Senade is determined by adding up the following quantities:
a. The sum of the scores of all Active players who are also members of the Church.
b. 1/5 of the total wealth of all Active players who are also memebrs of the Church and the Church itself

2. The Church that has the greatest Divinity becomes the Divine Church of Ackanomic. Any other Church which held this title, is stripped of that title.

The Senade may trade Offices to other Organizations, provided that at least 2/3 of the members of the Senade agree to the trade. This sentence takes precedence over R1005.
"

Proposal 3552 - Sun 06 Sep 1998 10:54 EDT
In Valen's Name
Wild Card (Jonathan David Amery)
Decision: rejected

Create a rule with the title "The works of Valen", a legal integer number which is the lowest that is not currently used in the rules and is larger than 900 and the following ONEWHOWAS delimited text.

ONEWHOWAS

There exists a book in the Library called The Book of Valen. It contains the entire works of Valen, however it is written in an obscure language no-one has yet been able to decipher fully. [English in fact!]

Any player who is in the Library may read the book at most once per fortnight. After reading the book thay should propose a proposal which creates a single rule in the "Book of Valen" rule suite. The title of the rule should include the text "Book of Valen".

If this proposal is accepted then they are given a number of ackadollars which is the largest integer strictly less than one standard harfer fee for services to translation.

All such proposals should touch upon the disaster that is to befall Ackanomic.

This rule is the head of the "Book of Valen" rule suite.

["Book of Valen" rule suite]
ONEWHOWAS

{{If there exists an entity named Phoebe that can own entities then transfer 1 point to Phoebe from Wild Card.}}

Proposal 3553 - Sun 06 Sep 1998 10:55 EDT
Cream of Sum Yung Gai
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: accepted

Create a new Rule, numbered 943, named "Hula!" with the following text (delimited by WAHINE):

WAHINE
Muumuus are Garments. Any player may create a Muumuu by going to the Wilds of Ackanomic and eating an Amber Banana.

A player wearing a Muumuu and no other Garments(except, possibly, Hats) may hula dance as a public action, even on the town hall steps; this takes precedence over any Rule which would prohibit such dancing.
WAHINE

Proposal 3554 - Sun 06 Sep 1998 10:56 EDT
Nabla Cross Mu-Nought Times E
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: rejected

Amend Rule 340, "Conventions", as follows:

Replace the following text(delimited by CURL)

CURL
VI. Whenever division is performed in Ackanomic, and the denominator of that division evaluates to 0, then the result of that entire division shall be 0.

VII. Alphabetical ordering shall be determined by a word-by-word comparison, each word compared letter-by-letter. For these purposes: A word is considered to be delimited by whitespace; an initial word 'The' or 'the' is ignored; a single string of digits is considered equivalent to a letter; digital 'letters' precede alphabetical letters; and non-alphanumeric characters are ignored (excluding whitespace used for the purpose of delimiting words, which counts only for this purpose); and case is ignored. All else failing, two words that are otherwise equivalent shall be sorted in ASCII collation order.

VIII. When any Rule requires a public message contain a fixed piece of text in order to satisfy some condition, then, that Rule notwithstanding, any piece of text in a public message which is unambiguously a close approximation to the text in question, such that the intent of the text in the message is unambiguously to satisfy the condition laid down in the Rule, shall be considered, for the purposes of that Rule, to be equivalent to the fixed piece of text.
CURL

with the following text(delimited by DIV):

DIV
VI. Alphabetical ordering shall be determined by a word-by-word comparison, each word compared letter-by-letter. For these purposes: A word is considered to be delimited by whitespace; an initial word 'The' or 'the' is ignored; a single string of digits is considered equivalent to a letter; digital 'letters' precede alphabetical letters; and non-alphanumeric characters are ignored (excluding whitespace used for the purpose of delimiting words, which counts only for this purpose); and case is ignored. All else failing, two words that are otherwise equivalent shall be sorted in ASCII collation order.

VII. When any Rule requires a public message contain a fixed piece of text in order to satisfy some condition, then, that Rule notwithstanding, any piece of text in a public message which is unambiguously a close approximation to the text in question, such that the intent of the text in the message is unambiguously to satisfy the condition laid down in the Rule, shall be considered, for the purposes of that Rule, to be equivalent to the fixed piece of text.

The following conventions apply to mathematical calculations in Ackanomic, unless otherwise specified:

I. Whenever division is performed in Ackanomic, and the denominator of that division evaluates to 0, then the result of that entire division shall be 0.

II. Whenever a trigonometric function is to be applied to a number, and no unit of angle measurement is specified, then the unit shall be taken to be grads. (100 grads = 90 degrees = pi/2 radians.)
DIV

Proposal 3555 - Sun 06 Sep 1998 10:57 EDT
Where'd the bries go
TJ (JT Traub)
Decision: accepted

This is a modest proposal.

{{[In P3366 Slakko tried to replace the way bries are gained and typo'd in the proposal causing them to not be able to be gotten. This fixes that.
]}}

After the following text as delimited by GOUDA
GOUDA
A player receives a gouda if e wins a game of grab a donkey, wins a game of party chess or wins three games from the games and contest containing five or more players (starting from the instant this rule is adopted or the time a cheese of this type belonging to this player as destroyed; whichever is more recent).
GOUDA
insert the following text as delimited by BRIE
BRIE
A player receives a brie when they win a Duel. If a player owns a brie when they lose a Duel, that brie is destroyed.
BRIE

Proposal 3556 - Sun 06 Sep 1998 10:58 EDT
Or Put A Kiss But In The Cup
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: accepted

Append the following text(delimited by OCCUPANT)to Rule 1390.2, "Royal Frinks":

OCCUPANT
Any frink not otherwise defined as Royal shall become Knurd if frunk from a hydria. Knurd is a Royal Frink.

Hydriae are tradeable entities, which may only be created as described in the Rules.
OCCUPANT

Proposal 3557 - Sun 06 Sep 1998 10:59 EDT
All Our Dooms
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: rejected

This is a Modest proposal.

Amend Rule 1250.3, "General Equipment", by replacing the following text(delimited by MARL):

MARL
a) The Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary (OSPD), as defined by the URL: telnet://eel.st.usm.edu:7777
MARL

with the following(delimited by WAK):

WAK
a) The Enchanted North American Benchmark Lexicon(ENABLE), available in compressed form at the URL: http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/enable10.zip
(Note: the above Zip archive may contain files other than the wordlist, but it should be clear what is the actual wordlist itself.)
WAK

{{[ While I'm at it...]

Add the following words to the Ackanomic Lexicon: "ack", "acked", "acks", "acking".
}}

Proposal 3558 - Tue 08 Sep 1998 05:50 EDT
BAA!
Mr. Tambourine Man (Tom Walmsley)
Decision: accepted

Repeal rule 1240.5 (Otzma Card of Type Rod & Staff)

Proposal 3559 - Tue 08 Sep 1998 05:52 EDT
Until The Handle Breaks Off
Alfvaen (Aaron Humphrey)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest proposal.

{{[ In my game of Bacon with K 2, it turned into a contest of trying to find the most obscure actron that the other player had never heard of. Just to provide a little bit of a guard against that... Unfortunately, it will slow the game down a bit, but hopefully not too badly. ]}}

Amend Rule 1250.22, "Bacon", as follows:

Replace the following text(delimited by FURRFU):

FURRFU
The game consists of a series of rounds. At the start of each round, each player must name an actor or actress(hereafter referred to as an actron), who has appeared in at least one movie as specified in the Movie Database. This naming period is over when both players have named an actron, or three days have passed since the referee announced the start of the round, whichever comes first; in the latter case, if one player named an actron and the other did not, then the first player wins the round, and if neither named an actron then the round is a draw.
FURRFU

with the following text(delimited by WAYNE):

WAYNE
The game consists of a series of rounds. At the start of each round, each player must privately email the name of an actor or actress(hereafter referred to as an actron), who has appeared in at least one movie as specified in the Movie Database. This naming period is over when both players have named an actron, or three days have passed since the referee announced the start of the round, whichever comes first; in the latter case, if one player named an actron and the other did not, then the first player wins the round, and if neither named an actron then the round is a draw.

The referee then posts the names of both actrons. The players have three days to either object to each others' selection, or to state that they are satisfied with it. If the three days pass with no objections, or both players state that they are satisfied, then the actrons are deemed to be accepted. If one or both players object, then the referee must rule on each actron thus objected to. If the referee rules that the actron is too obscure, then the player who selected that actron loses one Gamepoint. If the referee rules that the actron is not too obscure, then the player who objected loses one Gamepoint. If one or both actrons is rules to be too obscure, then the naming period begins again(and both players must email the name of another actron to the referee), otherwise play proceeds.
WAYNE

{{[ A lot rests on the referee here, but e can certainly use the Movie Database to determine how many movies an actron has been in, if nothing else. Or ask for information privately from the player who suggested em. ]}}

Replace the text "After the actrons have been named for a round" with "After the actrons are accepted".

Replace the text "from the time the naming period ends" with "from the time the actrons are accepted".

Replace the text "The winner of a round receives a Gamepoint" with "The winner of a round receives 2 Gamepoints".

Replace the text "first player to obtain 5 Gamepoints" with "first player to obtain 10 Gamepoints".

Proposal 3560 - Tue 08 Sep 1998 05:53 EDT
Guerillas at the Ballot Box? Yeah Right.
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Status: retracted

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend Rule 320 by replacing the following CHE-delimited text:

CHE
All players have a rebeliousness characteristic which may either be "on" or "off" (the default value is off). A player may freely change the value of this characteristic by publicly stating that they are doing so, and what they are changing it too.
CHE

with the following GUEVARA-delimited text:

Exactly those players whose rebeliousness characteristic are "on" are Rebels. Rebels are ineligible to vote.
GUEVARA

Proposal 3561 - Tue 08 Sep 1998 05:54 EDT
Labs need a bit more turnover
JT (JT Traub)
Status: retracted

In rule 1013, replace the following text as delimited by SLOW
SLOW
Each Secret Laboratory may be used to build a Gadget at most once each calendar month.
SLOW
with the following SLIGHTLY_FASTER delimited text
SLIGHTLY_FASTER
Each Secret Laboratory may be used to build a Gadget at most once each fortnight, but it cannot be the same type of gadget as either of the previous two built by that lab.
SLIGHTLY_FASTER

Proposal 3562 - Tue 08 Sep 1998 06:02 EDT
Oh Lordy
breadbox (Brian Raiter)
Decision: accepted

This is a Modest Proposal.

{{[I'm not sure that this isn't already implied by the wording of Rule 250, but it can't hurt to make it explicit. By the way, this text is taken almost verbatim from the previous version of Rule 250.]}}

Amend Rule 250 by inserting the following as a new paragraph immediately after the text "Non-player persons are not entities.":

No natural person may be associated with more than one player concurrently. No matter how many times a person legally registers as a player in Ackanomic, that person is always considered the same player. [That is, if a player quits and later rejoins, e is considered the same player.] {{If any natural person has more than one player associated with em, then all of eir players except the oldest immediately become non-players. Furthermore, if any of the players so removed were active at the time, the surviving player is penalized 69 points [for trying to scam this stupid loophole].}}

Proposal 3563 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:38 EDT
Grey Unity
Wild Card (Jonathan David Amery)
Decision: rejected

Add to the end of rule 1031 (Grey Council) the following SUMMUTUSEFUL-delimited text.

SUMMUTUSEFUL
If all the members of the Grey Council vote YES on the same proposal then one "Grey Counil Unity Vote" shall be voted by the Council itself YES on the proposal, in a similar manner to a Political Party. Only one such vote is ever made regardless of the size of the Council.
SUMMUTUSEFUL

Proposal 3564 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:39 EDT
Some Permanance around here please...
Wild Card (Jonathan David Amery)
Decision: rejected

I was young and foolish then, I feel old and foolish now.

Create a rule with the lowest integer number greater that all others within the Blueprints rule suite named "Shield of Permanence" with the following FUBAR-delimited text.

FUBAR

There exists a unique named tradeable entity that is a gadget named The Shield of Permanence.

If anything causes a gadget owned by the player who owns The Shield of Permanence to be destroyed then the following happens:

1) The gadget that was destroyed is recreated within their possession.

2) The Shield of Permanence shimmers briefly and is transfered to a randomly determined player.

{{If there doesn't exist an entity named The Shield of Permanence then create The Shield of Permanence in the possession of a randomly determined active, voting player.}}

FUBAR

Proposal 3565 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:40 EDT
Guerillas at the Ballot Box? No Way.
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Decision: rejected

This is a Modest Proposal.

Amend Rule 320 by replacing the following CHE-delimited text:

with the following GUEVARA-delimited text:

GUEVARA
All players have a rebeliousness characteristic which may either be "on" or "off" (the default value is off). A player may freely change the value of this characteristic by publicly stating that they are doing so, and what they are changing it to, provided that they have not changed the value of the characteristic of their own accord during the current calendar week.

Exactly those players whose rebeliousness characteristic are "on" are Rebels. Rebels are ineligible to vote.
GUEVARA

[The once per calendar week thing gives this some effect. If you were intent on overthrowing your lawfully elected government (or lawfully appointed, whatever) by revolution (not by the statute book - i.e. proposal) why should you be accorded the rights of other citizens? ]

Proposal 3566 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:41 EDT
Tabulation Disaggregation
Slakko (Duncan Richer)
Status: retracted

This is a Modest Proposal.

[Aim of this proposal - to eliminate the main link between Count Tabula and the Tabulator - the appointment method, which is by now outdated.]

Rename Rule 408 to "Tabulator".

Amend Rule 408 to read as delimited by TABBY below:

TABBY
The Office of the Tabulator is a Functional Office. The Duties of the Tabulator are:

(a) to count votes on each proposal.

(b) to maintain the voting records of each player on each proposal.

(d) to be the Substitute for the Office of Count Tabula.

The Tabulator need not perform duties (a),(b), or (c) on any proposal which has been retracted, nullified, or deemed invalid in accordance with the Rules.
TABBY

Create a new Rule, numbered 408.1, named "Count Tabula", with the following COUNTA-delimited text:

COUNTA
The Office of Count Tabula is a Functional Office.
The Duties of Count Tabula are:

(a) to ask for, tabulate and report votes on Ackanomic matters other than Proposals. This includes, but is not limited to, Hearings (unless otherwise specified) [see Rule 360], Impeachment Papers [Rule 404], and all Elections for Office [Rule 402]. In the case of Hearings, such tasks are only a Duty of Count Tabula when e is Hearing Harfer.

(b) to conduct any Nominations for Office that are not the responsibility of any other Officer.

Count Tabula is the Substitute for the Office of the Tabulator.
COUNTA

Proposal 3567 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:42 EDT
DoppelSlakko for real
JT (JT Traub)
Decision: accepted
Declared harfy by Weishaupt (Gabriel Drummond-Cole) on Sat 12 Sep 1998 05:15 EDT

Create a new rule with the smallest integer greater than 1200 and less than 1300 which is valid to be a rule titled "The Illustrious DoppelSlakko" and the text as delimited by CONFUSION
CONFUSION
There exists the office of DoppelSlakko with one seat.
The player who holds this seat is known as the DoppelSlakko.

The office of DoppelSlakko has no priveledges.

The office of DoppelSlakko has the following duties:
a) once per calendar month, the DoppelSlakko must submit a proposal which attempts to break the game in some fashion. This proposal must contain the furniture 'Warning: Attempting to break the game'. When the proposal mentioned previously has it's voting period expire all players will automatically vote NO on this proposal an infinitesimal amount of time before its voting period ends. An infinitesimal amount of time before that, Tammany will vote YES on it. This takes precedence over any other rules regarding voting. If the DoppelSlakko fails to submit such a proposal, they lose 25 points.

Any player may claim the office of DoppelSlakko by posting a proposal with the furniture 'Warning: Attempting to break the game'. If that proposal is rejected, the former DoppelSlakko immediately steps down and then the player who submitted the proposal fills the office. This is the only way this office may be filled, and this takes precedence over any rule other than this one regarding offices and who may fill them.

{{The office of DoppelSlakko is filled by K 2}}
CONFUSION

Proposal 3568 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:43 EDT
Fighting over the slaves
Ethelred (David Kenning)
Decision: rejected

This is a modest proposal

[Currently it is possible to change a player's thrall attribute by the normal rule-defined methods regardless of whether or not their thrall attribute is already set to the name of another player, but I think a Player's current thrall value should influence your ability to change it]

1. Add the following THRALL-delimited text to the end of Rule 750/0:

THRALL
If Player [S] has a Thrall attribute the value of which is the name of a Player [T], then Player [S] may be said to be "in thrall to" Player [T].
THRALL

[just to make "in thrall to" a rule-defined term (it isn't already is it?), which also makes the wording of the other parts of this proposal easier]

2. Replace the second paragraph of Rule 755/1 (currently: "When a Proposal which is part of a Potential Enthrallment is accepted, the Player mentioned in the Potential Enthrallment has their Thrall Attribute set to the name of the author of that Proposal.") with the following SLAVE-delimited text:

SLAVE
When a Proposal which is part of a Potential Enthrallment is accepted, the Player mentioned in the Potential Enthrallment has their Thrall Attribute set to the name of the author of that Proposal, provided at least one of the following conditions is true:

i) the Player mentioned in the Potential Enthrallment is not already in Thrall to any other Active Player, unless condition ii is true.

ii) [Player X] is in thrall to [Player Y] and [Player Y] is in thrall to [Player Z] where [Player X] is the name of the Player indicated in the Potential Enthrallment, [Player Z] is the name of the author of the proposal indicated in the Potential Enthrallment, and [Player Y] is the name of another Active Player.

iii) the Player mentioned in the Potential Enthrallment is already in thrall to another Player, but the author of the proposal indicated in the Potential Enthrallment has won a duel against that player during the current cycle.
SLAVE

[other conditions can be added later, but these are just some suggestions to start with.]

3. Amend the third paragraph of Rule 755/1 (currently: "When a Proposal which is part of a Potential Enthrallment is rejected, the author of that Proposal has their Thrall Attribute set to the name of the Player mentioned in the Potential Enthrallment.") to the following SERVANT-delimited text:

SERVANT
When a Proposal which is part of a Potential Enthrallment is rejected, the author of that Proposal has their Thrall Attribute set to the name of the Player mentioned in the Potential Enthrallment, unless e is already in thrall to another Player.
SERVANT

Proposal 3569 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:44 EDT
Government Type: Plutocracy
Ethelred (David Kenning)
Decision: rejected

This is a modest proposal.

Create a new rule in the Governments Rule Suite with the following MONEYMONEYMONEY-delimited text:

MONEYMONEYMONEY
When the current Government type is Plutocracy, only the wealthiest active player (i.e. the active player with the largest positive number of Ackadollars) may vote on proposals.
MONEYMONEYMONEY

Proposal 3570 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:45 EDT
Government Type: Insane Emperor
Ethelred (David Kenning)
Status: retracted

This is a modest proposal.

Create a new rule in the Governments Rule Suite with the following CALIGULA-delimited text:

CALIGULA
When the current Government type is Insane Emperor, the OiCoRT shall select one active voting player who shall be given the title Caligula. Only the player with the title Caligula may vote on proposals, and e may vote as many times as e wishes, in any way that e chooses (i.e. e may vote both yes and no, and do either or both as many times as e wishes). Furthermore, that player may fire any officer from eir position and appoint any Ackan entity to that office, even if that entity would not normally be eligible for the office. While the government type is Insane Emperor, this rule takes precedence over any rule that would make the actions described in this rule illegal. When the government type changes from Insane Emperor to another government type, the player who held the title Caligula loses that title and is put in Gaol.
CALIGULA

Proposal 3571 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:46 EDT
Creating Conflicts
Ethelred (David Kenning)
Status: retracted

This is a Modest Proposal.

[I can see no logical reason for the current system of deciding superiority in rule conflicts -- I mean, if a proposal has been accepted, it is because people agreed with the content of that proposal, and it's a bit tight if it then turns out that the effects of the proposal are not as intended because of some earlier proposal claiming superiority. Before anyone states the obvious objection, I realise that this *might* lead to players deliberately putting forward proposals containg elements contrary to existing rules, but (a) I don't see this as a necessarily bad thing, and (b) if people did start deliberately putting forward proposals with contrary statements, I would expect them not to be accepted anyway]

Amend Rule 102/8 to read as per the following CONFLICT delimited text:

CONFLICT
If two or more rules other than this one conflict on a particular issue, and if the rules other than this one (and not restricted to the conflicting rules) specify a single, coherent, unambiguous method for resolving the conflict then that method is applied to determine which rule or rules take precedence with regard to that issue. Otherwise, wherever the rules conflict on a particular issue, the rule which shall guide play with regard to that issue shall be decided at random by the OiCoRT. Rule conflicts that are resolved in this way shall not establish a basis for resolving future instances of conflict caused by the same rules. In each case, the OiCoRT should resolve the conflict without any weighting based on previous judgements.

If two statements within a single rule conflict with each other, and the rule doesn't define a way to resolve the conflict, precedence shall be described by the same means.
CONFLICT

Proposal 3572 - Wed 09 Sep 1998 13:47 EDT
A change is as good as a rest
Ethelred (David Kenning)
Decision: accepted

Replace the first sentence of the third paragraph in Rule 320 (viz "Governmental Rules should specify who is eligible to vote on proposals (if it fails then all active voting players may vote), and may also specify any deviations from the normal rules.") with the following GOVT-delimited text:

GOVT
Governmental Rules should specify who is eligible to vote on proposals (if it fails then all active voting players may vote), and may also specify any deviations from the normal rules and conditions under which that Government Type may become active, other than those listed below. It may also specify conditions other than those listed below under which a Revolution may start while that Government type is Active.
GOVT

[I'm thinking here about things like military coups, plus ways I have in mind to overthrow certain government types other than by revolution.]

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