Amend Rule 307/1 to say:

"Any Player may gain or lose the [Away] attribute by sending a message to this effect to a public forum. E may also specify a Date of Expected Return as an additional information.

Players that have not voted in the last three nweeks automatically gain the [Away] attribute without any Date of Expected Return, if they have already been Player during these nweeks. In that case the Administrator shall, within a reasonable amount of time, grant them the [Away] attribute by posting a message to that effect to the public forum. Players that are [Away] are not required to make any action if that action was imposed on them while they were [Away].
The Administrator cannot become [Away].
Players that are [Away] do not count when calculating the Quorum."

[[With the current ruleset, any newly created player would have been set [Away], as e did not vote the previous nweeks.]]

Amend Rule 314/2 to say:

"Any Agent qualified as a Player may cease to be one if a Motion to Remove naming em is adopted. Motions to Remove are Secondary Approvable Motions. A Motion to Remove is subject to
- 10days-unanimous consent if the player has not got the [Away] atribute.
- 30days-unanimous consent if the player is [Away].

If the Player specified a Date of Expected Return, no Motion to remove this player may be created before this date. [[This way, no player can be removed, if e checks the mailing list at least once per nweek, or during predictable periods of inactivity.]]

The Motive Order corresponding to an adopted Motion to Remove directs the Officer in charge of Roster maintainance to remove the named Agent from the Roster."

1. Amend R203 such that its text is the same as that of R213/1.

2. Amend R213 such that its text reverts to its original version.

Amend rule 105 (Agents) to read:

"Any of the following are Agents:

1. Players,
2. Organizations,
3. Parties, if they have one or more representatives who may take actions on behalf of the Party."

Amend rule 106 (Players) by replacing "an Agent" with "a Person".

Create a new rule entitled "Organizations" with the following text:

"Organizations are game entities which may be created only by rules. Each organization has a unique name and one or more representatives who are responsible for taking actions on behalf of the organization. Only Players may become representatives.

The representatives must act on behalf of the organization in resposible way corresponding with the goals of the organization. They must also cause the organization to perform any actions it is required to perform in a timely fashion.

Organizations are never eligible voters."

Amend the first sentence of rule 317 (The Bank) to read:

"The Bank is an organization responsible for the management and distribution of Points."

Amend rule 318 (The Banker) as follows:

Replace the first paragraph with:

"The Office of the Banker is an Elective Office. The Banker is the representative of the Bank." [[ much simpler now :-) ]]

and remove the last paragraph of that rule. [[ Which basically says that the Banker must act responsibly, which is now already required by the organizations-rule. ]]

Amend rule 348 (Player Self-Creation) by replacing "An agent" with "A person".

Amend rule NO-NUMBER-YET (Parties) by replacing "is a type of object" with "is a game entity".
[[ That's because no entity may be both an agent and an object. I think it makes more sense if Parties are agents, not objects. ]]

1. Create a new rule entitled "Item Purchase"

Items owned by the Bank may be purchased by agents if a purchase price is defined in the Rules. The act of purchasing transfers the purchase price in points from the purchaser to the Bank, and the item from the Bank to the purchaser. An agent may not purchase an an item from the Bank if e does not own the purchase price in points.

2. Create a new rule entitled "The Stamp of Failure"

The Stamp of Failure is a transferable object. Initially it is owned by the Bank. If the Stamp of Failure is owned by the bank it may be purchased from the Bank at a price of 50 points.

The owner of the Stamp of Failure, but not the Bank, may use it during the nweekly voting to Fail one ballot item. The effect is the same as if the ballot item had failed due to the number of votes cast against it. This use of the Stamp of Failure transfers ownership of the Stamp to the Bank.

3. Create a new rule entitled "The Stamp of Theft"

The Stamp of Theft is a transferable object. Initially it is owned by the Bank. The Stamp of Theft has a purchase price of 60 points.

The owner of the Stamp of Theft, but not the Bank, may Stamp one item in the posession of another agent, but not the bank, as an action takin in the Public Forum. Ownership of the Stamped object is transfered to the Stamper. This use of the Stamp tranfers ownership of it to the Bank.

4. Create a new rule entitled "The Stamp of Confusion"

The Stamp of Confusion is a transferable object. Initially it is owned by the Bank. The Stamp of Confusion has a purchase price of 70 points.

The owner of the Stamp of Confusion, but not the Bank, may use it during the nweekly voting to Stamp an eligible voter. That voters votes are determined randomly by the Administrator instead of by some other method. The stamped voter shall vote either for or against each ballot item, and there shall be a 50\% chance of each. This use of the Stamp returns ownership of it to the Bank.

1. Enact a new rule entitled "Banker/Tax Collector division of powers" with text as follows:

The Agent holding the office of Banker may never be nominated in an election for Tax Collector, nor may the Tax Collector ever be nominated in an election for Banker.

Should the Offices of Tax Collector and Banker ever be held by the same agent the powers of those offices shall be subject to the following restrictions:
1. All variable awards adjustable by the Banker or Tax Collector from voting, all salaries, and all fines or payments resulting from voting or the proposal process, shall be immediately set to zero, and shall remain at zero until such time as the duties of the two offices are no longer to be performed by the same agent.

2. The holder of both offices may not approve any motion that requires the approval of the holder of both offices.

1. Enact a new rule entitled "Stones" with text as follows:

Stones are objects. They can be created, destroyed, transferred, and otherwise manipulated only as allowed by the rules.

Stones have three states: "Reserve", "In Play", and "Captured". Newly created Stones are always Reserve Stones.

2. Enact a new rule entitled "Stone Purchase"

If a game of Political Go is in progress a player may, at any time, purchase a Stone from the bank. This purchase transfers the purchase cost of that stone in points to the bank, and creates a new Stone [[Reserve]] owned by that player.

The purchase price is equal to 5 raise to the power of the number of stones already purchased by that player in that nweek.

3. Enact a new rule entitled "Reserve Stones"

Ownership of Reserve Stones is transferable at will by the owner of the stone.

4. Enact a new rule entitled "Stones In Play"

Stones In Play acquire the property "location". The location of an In Play stone is specified when it becomes In Play and may not change.

5. Enact a new rule entitled "Captured Stones"

Captured Stones may be sold to the Bank for 1 point each. This sale destroys the stone and transfers 1 point from the Bank to the stone's owner.

1) At the conclusion of every voting period (except for the voting period during which this proposal is voted on), after payments of the opposed minority awards, the failed proposal fines and the adopted proposal award, if the bank is in posession more than 250 points, the banker shall distribute all points in excess of 250 amongst all players who voted in the affirmative for at least one proposal in the voting period just concluded.

Points will be distributed according to the following formula:

(points allocated to a player) = ((total affirmative votes made by that player in the voting period just concluded) / (total affirmative votes made by all players in the voting period just concluded)) * (total points owned by the bank at the end of the voting period and after payments of the opposed minority awards, the failed proposal fines and the adopted proposal award - 250)

2) Anyone voting for this proposal shall receive a special one off peace dividend of 15 points, to be paid from the bank by the banker at the conclusion of the voting period where this proposal is voted on.

Create a rule called "Money for Nothing" with the following text:

At the beginning of each nweek, the score of the Bank shall be increased by five points for each player who voted in the previous nweek.

[[ I want my MTV. ]]

Amend the last paragraph of R344 to read as follows:

"Following the conclusion of each voting period in which the Thug has been used, or whenever the Thug has no empoyer, the Bean Counter shall randomly select the Thug's new employer from among those Players who voted during the previous nweek."

Create a new rule with the following text:

Each time a new Player joins the game, five hundred points shall be created in the possession of the Bank.

1. Enact a new rule entitled "Taxation" with text as follows:

The Property Tax Rate is a variable associated with the Game. It can be changed only as described in the rules.

At the end of each nweek each agent, but not the Bank, whose score is greater than 100 points, owes the Tax Rate times their score at the beginning of that nweek, rounded down, in points to the bank.

If, at the end of an nweek, the score of that one or more agents as of the beginning of that nweek is not known, the Official Bean Counter is fined 20 points, and calculation of the taxation for that agent or agents is put off until such time as eir score is calculated.

1. Enact a new rule entitled "Overdue Debts" with text as follows:

Upon the creation of a debt, the parties involved may specify a Debt Overdue Fee, to be paid to the owner of the debt by the debtor at the end of every nweek in which the debt is past due. Unless specified, this value is 0.

2. Enact a new rule titled "Bank Overdue Debts" with text as follows:

For debts owed to the Bank the debt overdue fee is always 0.05 of the value of the debt.

Create a new rule entitled "Lynching" with the following text:

"Any Player who believes that another Player ought to be punished may = make an Attempt to Lynch. An Attempt to Lynch is a Primary Approvable Motion, subject to voting. It must name exactly one Player to be lynched (the victim), list the crimes which e has commited and state a fine which the victim shall pay. The fine shall shall be at least 10 Points and shall not exceed 50\% of the victim's score; if the victim's score is lower than 20 Points, the fine is always 10 Points.

For any crime commited by a Player, only one Attempt to Lynch may be made. No Agent may make an Attempt to Lynch emself [[to prevent em from lynching emself with only a small fine when e knows e'll be lynched anyway]].

If the Attempt to Lynch is adopted, the victim owes the fine to the bank, and the bank owes (1/N * fine) + 1 Points to each Player who voted for the Attempt to Lynch, where N is the number of Players who voted for the Attempt to Lynch. All Players except the victim who voted against the Attempt to Lynch owe 5 Points to the bank [[as a punishment for trying to aid and abet a criminal]].

If the Attempt to Lynch fails, all Players who voted for the Attempt to Lynch owe 5 Points to the bank [[as a punishment for attempting to lynch an innocent]]. The bank owes one Point to all Players except the victim who voted against the Attempt to Lynch [[as a reward for protecting an innocent]]."

Create a Rule entitled "The Very Small Black Hole" with the following text:

"There exists an entity known as the Very Small Black Hole. Whenever other game entities venture too near the Very Small Black Hole, they are sucked in and are added to its contents.

The initial contents of the Very Small Black Hole are six otherwise unaccounted-for Points."

Append the following quoted string to rule 302/0, Subliminal Religious Indoctrination:

"Principia Discordia, 1st through 4th editions, including introductions."

Create a rule entitled "Prevention of Voting Manipulation" with the following text:

A Motion or Proposal may not make use of the information in its own voting tally (the information specifying who voted which way on the Motion or Proposal). Only the vote totals are accessible to it. If the Motion or Proposal makes use of voting tallies in general [[like the Opposed Minority Award does]], then its own tally is seen to it as everyone abstaining.

Amend rule 204 by changing its title to "Identifying Agents" and amend the text to read:

"All Agents must have a unique name. The name of an Agent is eir real name if e is a person and did not supply any other unique name e would like to be known as.

An Agent may change eir name by sending a message to this effect to a public forum. Agents may change only eir own name. No name changes are possible during the voting period.

Agents should be identified by eir name, but may be identified by any other method as long as that method does not cause any ambiguity."

Append the following quoted strings to rule 302/0, Subliminal Religious Indoctrination:

"The Satanic Bible, by Anton Szandor LaVey"

"The Book of the SubGenius: The Sacred Teachings of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, by The SubGenius Foundation"

Create a rule entitled, "Sack the lazy" with the following text:

If a Rule contains instructions for an Agent to perform a task within a "reasonable amount of time" or similarly constructed time frame, and while the Agent does not have the [Away] attribute as specified in Rule 307/2, the agent has the duration of one nweek to perform the task. After this time has elapsed and the action has not been performed, any Player may request a Motion to Sack or Lynch the offending Player.

If a Rule contains instructions for an Agent to perform a task "as soon as possible" or similarly known time frame, and while the Agent does not have the [Away] attribute set, the agent has the duration of one-half an nweek to perform the task. During this time, e may not create Proposals. After this time has elapsed and the action has not been performed, any Player may request a Motion to Sack or Lynch the offending Player.

Once the [Away] attribute has been cleared, if it was previously set, the time to complete the above actions shall begin.

Create a rule entitled "for Sacking" with the text:

A Motion to Sack is a Unilateral Motion submitted by any one Player, known as the Sacker, that names the offending Player, known as the Sackee, the broken Rule or crime committed and the Penalty. Only one Motion to Sack may be submitted to a Player per broken Rule or crime. The Penalty may include the forced transfer of Objects, Points or Items from the Sackee to the Sacker with a total purchased value of no more than 30% the Sackee's Points or 3 Objects/Items, whichever has a greater value. The Sacker can choose the Penalty based on these guides.

If the Sackee has the [Away] attribute set, this Rule will have no effect until the [Away] attribute is cleared.

The Sackee has three days to comply with the broken rule or to otherwise make reparations for the crime without penalty. These reparations can include offerings of appeasement to the Sacker [[Points, votes, Objects, etc]] or to the game in general.

After three days have passed, if the cause for the sack was a broken Rule and the Sackee complied with the Rule, then there is no penalty. If the cause for the sack was a crime and the Sacker is appeased by reparations, there is no penalty. If the Sacker does not feel appeased, e can submit an Approveable Primary Motion called 'Give Me Justice' to the game in order to receive his Penalty defined in the Motion to Sack. Upon passage of 'Give Me Justice' e must receive as soon as possible the Penalty from the Sackee minus a 20% fee to be transferred to the Bank.

The Sackee can petition his case in a public forum before voting occurs on the Motion Give Me Justice.

Modify Rule 236/0 to replace the text:

"The following are excluded from serving as Judges on a Request for Judgment:

1. the Plaintiff
2. Judges previously recused from the Request

If these exclusions leave no Players eligible to serve as Judge, exclusions may be waived from highest-numbered to lowest until at least one Player becomes eligible."

with the text:

"The following are excluded from serving as Judges on a Request for Judgment:

1. the Plaintiff
2. Judges previously recused from the Request
3. any one Player that the Plantiff requests be recused from the Request

If these exclusions leave no Players eligible to serve as Judge, exclusions may be waived from highest-numbered to lowest until at least one Player becomes eligible."

Amend rule 226 by changing the title to "Voting" and the text to:

"To cast a vote, a Player must submit the vote to a public forum. E may also vote privately if e desires by submitting the vote to the Officer responsible for counting the votes using another method. The Officer shall reveal such private votes at the end of the voting period, but no Player except the voter is allowed to reveal them before."

[[by voting in a non-public forum, the voter reveals the votes emself, which is now legal]]

The office of The Tribune is an elective office. The term of office for the Tribune is one nweek. At the end of the Term of Office the current Tribune is not automatically nominated for election. A specific Player may not be nominated as Tribune more than once every five nweeks. If no player is nominated as Tribune the office is held vacant.
[[severe restrictions so that the Tribune's power is kept in check]]

The Tribune is meant to be the protector of liberty in this game of nomic. The Tribune holds the power of veto, once per nweek the Tribune may Veto a proposal by posting such action to a public forum.

A Proposal Vetoed by the Tribune fails even if would have otherwise been approved. This paragraph overrides rule R229 [[adoption of motions]]

1. Create a rule entitled "Cards: Properties" with the following text:

There exist objects in the game known as Cards. Cards are only transferrable under conditions stated by the rules.

Each Card has 3 properties that distinguish it from all other Cards in the game: Suit, Rank, and Back.

The possible Suits are Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, and Spades. The possible Ranks are Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, Jack, Queen, and King. The possible Backs are described elsewhere.

2. Create a rule entitled "Cards: The Packs" with the following text:

A Pack of Cards is a set of 52 Cards which all have the same Back. The 52 Cards represent every possible combination of Suit and Rank.

The following Packs of Cards are in play:

* The Red Pack
(The Backs of these cards are primarily Red. They are decorated with the traditional card design featuring the twisty lines surrounding circles which appear to contain cherubs on pogo sticks.)
* The Blue Pack
(The Backs of these cards are primarily Blue. Other than the color, they are decorated the same way as the Red Pack.)
* The Fish Pack
(The Backs of these cards contain colorful drawings of tropical fish.)
* The Corporate Pack
(The Backs of these cards contain a message urging you to fly the friendly skies with United.)

4. Create a rule entitled "Cards: The Dealer" with the following text:

The Dealer is the player who owns all the cards in the Deck and is responsible for taking the necessary actions to Deal a card to a Player. The Dealer is an Elected Officer. The original Dealer is PurpleBob.

5. Create a rule entitled "Cards: Dealing" with the following text:

On certain occasions the Dealer will be required to Deal a Card to a Player. The Dealer does this by assigning a unique number from 1 to 52*(the number of Packs) to each Card, and asking the Nomic's dice server to roll one die with that many sides. If the number returned is the number of a Card that is not currently in the Deck, the Dealer keeps rolling until e gets the number of a Card that is in the Deck. The Dealer then transfers this Card from the Deck to the Hand of the player who should recieve the card, and notifies that Player of what the Card is. The Player is then considered to own that Card.

However, if the Deck contains no Cards, the Dealer cannot Deal a Card. This takes precedence over rules that state when a Card should be Dealt.

The method used to assign numbers to cards is this:

The packs are numbered from 0 to (N-1), where N is the number of packs, in the order which they are originally described.

The suits are numbered as such: Diamonds = 0, Spades = 1, Hearts = 2. Clubs 3.

The ranks are numbered as such: Ace = 1, Jack = 11, Queen = 12, King = 13, and all other ranks are numbered as themselves.

The number of a card is: (pack number)*52 + (suit number)*13 + (rank number)

6. Create a rule entitled "Cards: Hands" with the following text:

A Hand is the collection of all cards which a player besides the Dealer owns.

7. Create a rule entitled "Cards: The Deck" with the following text:

The Deck is the collection of all cards which are owned by the Dealer. Originally, all the Cards in all the Packs that are in play are in the Deck.

8. Create a rule entitled "Cards: Dealer's Report" with the following text:

Each nweek, the Dealer make a report of who recieved Cards in that nweek, and what the Back of each Card was. No other information about the Cards should be given by the Dealer.

9. Create a rule entitled "Cards for Votes" with the following text:

At the beginning of each nweek, the Dealer deals a Card to each Player who voted in the previous nweek.

1. Strike the final two paragraphs of R121/3.

[[These conflict with our other Banking rules.]]

2. Amend R303 to read as follows:

"Motions to Amend Trivially are Secondary Approvable Motions which may be made only by Players, are adoptable only through two-day unanimous consent, and fail if it is not granted. A Motion to Amend Trivially, when submitted, must consist of one potential Legislative Order that would unsubstantially amend a Rule if adopted. Motions to Amend Trivially may never become issues on a Ballot.

The Legislative Order corresponding to an adopted Motion to Amend Trivially directs the Administrator to make appropriate changes to the Rules."

3. Amend the first sentence of R117 to read:

"Proposals are Primary Approvable Motions which are not subject to unanimous consent, and may be made only by Players."

[[These are the provisions of my prior "Only Players May Change the Rules" Proposal.]]

4. Retitle R346 to "Motion Dependency" and amend it to read as follows:

"The owner of an Approvable Motion may specify a condition for its adoption in addition to the standard conditions required by the Rules.

Whenever an Approvable Motion would be adopted in the absence of a condition added by its owner, and it is no longer possible for that condition to be met, the Motion fails by dependence.

No scoring may occur due to failure by dependence."

5. Amend the first sentence of R229 to read:

"An Approvable Motion is adopted iff it is subject to and receives consent or at the close of voting on it its passage ratio exceeds one-half, and all other adoption conditions applying to it are met."

And add as the last sentence of the first paragraph:

"An Approvable Motion fails when its adoption becomes impossible."

[[These are the provisions of my prior "Proposal Dependency" Proposal. The current Prop Dependency Rule is horribly broken.]]