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Ratification of IRTAO Treaty
Topic Started: Sep 30 2013, 08:10 PM (186 Views)
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INTRODUCTION
On 29 September 2013, a particular founder attempted to commit a large-scale act of poaching from active User Created Regions (UCR) throughout NationStates by sending a mass recruitment letter to all of NS. Luckily, certain technical limitations prevented this message from getting to everyone, as the offending founder reported many automatic “bounce-back” messages as the servers were temporarily occupied trying to deliver all the messages.

The moderators have ruled to permit this activity. We are NOT here to dispute or question that ruling or any other, ONLY to respond in-game to its implementation.

The promotion or wide acceptance of this practice will result in (real-life) expensive “recruitment-letter wars” between our UCRs.

Just because this type of activity is “permissible” does not mean that we as active, dynamic UCRs need to succumb to endless onslaughts of poachers.

Just as raiding is permissible, but fought against, so too must this disruptive type of raiding-via-telegram be fought against.

UNION OF USER CREATED REGIONS
The United Technocratic Realms of Athretvari proposes a union of user created regions, called the Inter-Regional Treaty Alliance Organization (IRTAO), that it may be a true inter-regional forum for UCRs to act together to insure the greater interests of our regions, namely to act in unison to defend ourselves and develop in peace.

IMMEDIATE PURPOSE
IRTAO will develop “acceptable conditions” for the use of recruitment messages against UPRs. For example, the only regions that may be acceptably targeted may be defined as:
those that show little or no activity within the last 15 days on their RMB, and
those that do not have, or show little or no activity in an offsite forum within the last 15 days.

Regions explicitly identifying themselves “No Recruitment” are off-limits.

IRTAO would also be charged with in-game enforcement and response to violations, which could include the following actions:
Condemnation
End of all diplomatic and other relations with the offending region
Embargoes upon all RP activity (diplomacy, trade, cultural and otherwise on all forums) against the offending region and its members
Other permissible in-game actions, including a coordinated, targeted retaliatory telegram operation against the offending region

Many are confusing the moderators’ permission of this activity as an endorsement or advertisement to commit it. I believe sincerely that this act is no different than a raid, which is also a “permissible” action. And just as we are allowed to organize and defend against raids, we must do the same to defend our regions from this new poaching-by-telegram threat.

GREATER PURPOSE
IRTAO’s greater purpose is to enable active, and role-playing regions throughout NationStates to work together to enrich our regions and the greater NationStates universe through the development of good, active relations between our regions; the development and sharing of region-enhancing ideas, methodologies, and tools; and the development and exercise of mutual role-play, and the assurance of mutual regional defense.

PROPOSED FUTURE OPERATIONS
- Library of blank, starter regional maps to assist in starting and developing a region-wide RP
- Development of a “Founder’s Guide” that would include the tips and tricks we’ve learned and don’t mind sharing. (Like setting up an offsite forum, using IRC chat to add “chance” and truly random events to spice up your RP, etc. The hope is of course, that in the process we all gain insight into some things we could do to help stimulate activity in our regions.)
- Sharing of real resources, like a spreadsheet template of a functional regional bank (currently being developed).

STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE
IRTAO’s activities are driven by member regions, within a clear framework of advisory bodies and interactions.

The Inter-Regional Assembly – IRTAO’s supreme governing body is the Inter-Regional Assembly. The Inter-Regional Assembly is composed of the Founders, the chief executives, and one appointed delegate from each member region. It interacts regularly to make all important decisions related to policy, resources, working methods, activities and programs. Each member region of IRTAO shall have one vote in the Inter-Regional Assembly, and all decisions shall be made by greater than a majority of all member regions. The Inter-Regional Assembly shall elect the Secretary General on an exact date to be set and announced by the Inter-Regional Assembly.

IMPLEMENTATION
Day-to-day implementation of IRTAO’s decisions is carried out by the General Secretariat and member-region Governments.

General Secretariat – The General Secretariat operates continuously and is run by the Secretary General. The General Secretary is empowered to request or enlist the assistance of member regions and their resident nations to execute his or her assigned duties and responsibilities.

Member Region Governments (MRGs) – Each IRTAO member region commits to their own good governance and deference to the responsibilities and role of IRTAO. Each member region commits to the appointment of competent officers to the Inter-Regional Assembly and their respective governments. MRGs are the lifeblood of IRTAO, contributing to our work and cooperating together on cross-regional interaction, operations and development.

OVERSIGHT
Each member region is empowered to request information of, and/or inspect the work of IRTAO.

The Inter-Regional Assembly shall approve the admission of new regions to IRTAO upon their ratification of this convention.

UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN MEMBER REGIONS
Article 1 The member regions agree that a raid on one member region will be considered a raid on all member regions.

Article 2 Each member region will take immediate action to organize as many of its WA members as possible, and commit them to the defense of other member regions in the event of a raid when requested by any of the Founders or the chief executives of a member region. This article includes anything to a lesser extent, which requires an assembly of WA members.

Article 3 Each member region shall refrain from active or deliberate recruitment through the use of advertisement, propaganda, mass telegrams, or blackmail of member states from any member region, but no restriction shall be placed on the movement of nations to any member region, except when such movement results or may result in instances of disruption or discord, nor shall sanctions be imposed against any nation that voluntarily decides to move from one member region to the other, nor sanctions against the region to or from which said nation moves.

Article 4 All member regions agree to commit a proportional degree of resources and energies when capable to any joint projects, so that the resources of other regions are not stressed or abused.

Article 5 Member regions agree through participation in the Inter-Regional Assembly to continued consultations and negotiations to decide the exact extent of any other cooperation or joint activities, assuming they comply with the four articles above.

Original: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=263994

For those wondering, IRTAO has been something our region has discussed before with the NCON. It's something that we all generally liked, and now it is becoming a reality. These obligations are not thick, and as a result should not bear any reason to vote against the ratification of this treaty. To involve ourselves in a larger, international organization will bring nothing but good to our region, and it is important that we band together and unify to ratify this treaty.

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I vote yea.
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I vote yea
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