BlogNomic: The First Dynasty of Desertfrog

In the rule “Offices”, replace “A Commander may spend 2 Power to assign an Oligarch to (or remove an Oligarch from) the Office of Authority corresponding to the Commander’s Office.” with:-

A Commander may spend 2 Power to assign an Oligarch who has no Office to the Office of Authority corresponding to the Commander’s Office. A Commander may spend 2 Power to remove an Oligarch from the Office of Authority corresponding to the Commander’s Office.

Kevan enacted “Clearing Things Up” but doesn’t seem to have do the last thing in it (failing the CFJ and increase my/raichuKFM’s power and decreasing Clucky’s power). I don’t know if there was a reason or if it was an oversite so I wanted to ask before doing anything.

Add a new Police Action:-

With Authorisation, the Chief of Police may Frame an Oligarch, reducing the Credibility of that Oligarch by 30 and the Power of the Despot by 10. This Action is Punitive.

In the rule titled “Government Actions”, change:

* The Despot may spend 5 Power to change the Reputation of any Oligarch.

to:

* The Despot may spend 5 Power to change the Reputation of any Oligarch to Seditious.
* The Despot may spend 5 Power to change the Reputation of any Oligarch to Loyal, if that Oligarch asked to become Loyal in a post or comment in the last 48 hours.

One Military Leader may once as a result of this Authorisation exile Purplebeard.

Despot, you devastatingly handsome man, it’s been a trying week. Treat yourself to a massacre. You deserve it.

I have determined that Larrytheturtle is responsible for the issues arising between Oligarchs Clucky, Kevan and Purplebeard. If Larrytheturtle is removed from our realm then we can assume that the security of the state is intact.

To reiterate: Larrytheturtle is behind all untoward activity in the Realm from recent days. Removing Larrytheturtle resolves all outstanding issues.

I trust that this is well understood.

Remove 100 Power from the Oligarch named Purplebeard. Increase the Power of the Despot by 50.

If the Oligarch named Clucky is the Director of the Bank, then that Oligarch shall be removed from that Office.

Add the following paragraph after the second paragraph in the rule “Flunkies”

Some Flunky actions may require one or more other Oligarchs to be Targets. If an Oligarch is picked as a Target, they are said to be Targeted by the Flunky action.

In the rule “Flunkies”

replace

Police Station - House Arrest Action - Target Oligarch’s Flunky is moved to their Home location and cannot be moved for four days. The using Oligarch gains 5 Power.

with

Police Station - House Arrest Action - The using Oligarch picks a single Target. Target Oligarch’s Flunky is moved to their Home location and cannot be moved for four days. The using Oligarch gains 5 Power.

replace

Central Bank - Corruption Action - If the using Oligarch is Seditious, they and no more than two other Oligarchs of their choice gain 10 Power and the Director loses 10 Power. If the using Oligarch is Loyal, they gain 10 Power and the Despot gains 5 Power. Only one Flunky may be in the Central Bank at any time.

with

Central Bank - Corruption Action - If the using Oligarch is Seditious, they may pick up to two different Targets. They and the selected Targets gain 10 Power and the Director loses 10 Power. If the using Oligarch is Loyal, they gain 10 Power and the Despot gains 5 Power. Only one Flunky may be in the Central Bank at any time.

replace (if it exists)

Television Centre - Propaganda Action - The using Oligarch may raise or lower the Credibility of another Oligarch by up to 3.

with

Television Centre - Propaganda Action - The using Oligarch picks a single Target. The using Oligarch may raise or lower the Credibility of the Target by up to 3.

If the Call for Judgement “Definitions are a pain” is still pending, immediately fail it, otherwise ignore the rest of this proposal. Increase the power of the oligarchs Larrytheturtle and RaichuKFM by 10. If Clucky has greater than 10 power, reduce his power by 10 otherwise reduce it to 0. LarryTheTurtle may not perform another Flunky action for the week that this proposal was posted.

I recently attempted to preform the Corruption Action the central bank. Clucky undid the whole act saying that he can’t be targeted since he is at home. I believe that anything that is “x person of your choice” is targeting and something that says a certain office or set of people(like all oligarchs) is not targeting a person. Therefore, in my act, the only illegal part was giving Clucky back the 10 power as on of the 2 other oligarchs. I’m not sure what everyone considers the definition of target so I wanted this to be clarified and also to straighten out if I preformed an act or not. Therefore I think the GNDT should be affected as follows:

Increase the power of the oligarchs Larrytheturtle and RaichuKFM by 10. Decrease the Power of the oligarch known as Clucky by 10.

Add the following to the list of Flunky Actions in the rule entitled Flunkies:

Television Centre - Propaganda Action - The using Oligarch may raise or lower the Credibility of another Oligarch by up to 3.
Embassy - Diplomacy Action - The using Oligarch may raise their own Credibility by 1.

If Proposal: Flunky Cage passed, undertake no further actions as a result of the passage of this proposal. Otherwise, in the rule entitled Flunkies, amend the entry for “Home” as follows:

Law Courts - Judicial Corruption Action - The Oligarch using this Flunky Action may reverse the effects of a single Flunky Action to have taken place in the preceding 24 hours. An Oligarch’s Flunky must have been at the Law Courts for at least 48 hours to use this Flunky Action.

Replace the first paragraph of the rule entitled “Civil War” with the following:

The Despot is not an Oligarch for the purposes of any dynastic rule.

In certain circumstances as mandated in this rule, an Oligarch may Depose the Despot. When they do so, that Oligarch becomes the Interim Despot, and the Despot becomes an Oligarch, each retaining all of their existing GNDT values. The new Interim Despot may then convert any amount of their Credibility to Power at a rate of 10 Power per Credibility spent. Whichever Oligarch or Despot performed the action that caused the change in Despot must immediately make a story post highlighting the change. An Interim Despot who has been Interim Despot for three consecutive days since they were last an Oligarch then becomes the Despot. Interim Despots may not be Deposed.

Whenever a Loyal Oligarch has more Power than the Despot and more Power than every other Oligarch, they may Depose the Despot.

Whenever all Seditious Oligarch have a combined Credibility that exceeds the Despot’s Power, the Oligarch with the highest Credibility may Depose the Despot.

Replace the text of the rule “It’s good to be King” with:-

If the Despot has been the Despot for more than seven consecutive days in this dynasty, and is not named Josh, then they may Retire. When the Despot Retires, he or she ceases to be the Despot and has achieved Victory.

In the rule “Flunkies”, remove the three Martial Law actions.

Any Flunky located at the Barracks, Air Base or Naval Yard shall be moved to Home.

Oligarch Skju has been attempting to bribe loyal members of our society, spreading their Seditious corruption through our glorious, fair and entirely democratic society. If a member of the Armed Forces would be so kind as to confiscate their belongs and escort them to the airport I’d be very grateful.

Halve the current power of the Despot. Halve the Boldness values listed in Rule 2.5 Government Actions.

In the rule “Fight the Power”, replace “If the Bank is Open, an Oligarch may transfer any amount of their Power to any other Oligarch, or to the Despot, at any time.” with:-

If the Bank is Open, an Oligarch may make a Bank Transfer of two or more Power by spending that amount of their own Power, increasing the Power of any one Oligarch or the Despot by one less than that amount, and increasing the Power of the Director of the Bank by one.

Enact a subrule to “Offices” entitled “Jobs”:

Any Official action may be performed by the an Oligarch who holds the appropriate Office as a weekly action at a cost of 10 power.
Official Actions are as follows:

• Chief of Police:
• May publish a story post entitled “Legal Referendum”, in which they may order that a single, one time, legal game-relevant action within 48 hours. For each Oligarch who is able to but does not comply with this order, the Chief of Police may spend 2 Power to penalize that Oligarch by reducing that Oligarchs power by 10.  If any Oligarch is punished in this way, for every Oligarch who is eligible to be punished and is not punished, the Chief of Police loses 2 Credibility. If the Chief of Police has no Credibility to lose 4 power instead. If all Oligarchs follow the order, the Chief of Police gains 20 Credibility.

Enact a new rule entitled “Black Market”:

Any Seditious Oligarch may have one Occupation, which should be recorded in the Office category in the GDNT:
Once per week, any Seditious Oligarch who has no occupation may pay 10 power to change their Occupation to one of the following:

• Hacker
• Mole
• Black Market Dealer

Any Illicit action may be performed by the a Seditious Oligarch who holds the appropriate Occupation as a weekly action at a cost of 5 credibility.
Illicit Actions are as follows:

• Mole
• May take any unoccupied Office, and may only be removed from this Office at a cost of 20 power to anyone who is legally able to remove Oligarchs from this Office

Josef has not made a post or comment in the last seven days and becomes idle.

This leaves the position of General vacant. I wish the Despot well in his search for a replacement; someone loyal to him who has the necessary military experience.

Signed,
Purplebeard, a staunch supporter of our glorious Despot, with literally dozens of hours of experience with military leadership

In “Civil War”, change

Whenever an Oligarch has more Power than the Despot, they become the Despot

to:

Whenever an Oligarch has more Power than the Despot and more Power than every other Oligarch, that Oligarch becomes the Despot

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled It’s good to be King:

If any player, other than the player named Josh, has been the Despot for more than seven consecutive days in this dynasty, they have achieved Victory.

Create a new post category “Demands”

Enact a rule entitled “Demands”:

At any point (provided that Demands are Being Heard), any Seditious Oligarch may use 10 power to post a list of Demands in a “Demands” post. In this post they may request from any or all Loyal Oligarchs to perform legal game-relevant actions. Any Loyal Oligarchs who acquiesce to any of these demands gains 5 credibility per demand, and should note this in the comments to the Demand post.

If a demanded action is one that is only available to a restricted set of oligarchs (e.g. any Government action), then the Oligarch who performs such an action in response to the demand gains an additional 5 credibility.

In the rule “Government Actions”, in the “Political Actions” list add the bullet point:

The Despot may spend 50 power to stop Demands from Being Heard. If they do so every Seditious leaders gains 30 credibility. The Despot may spend 10 power to allow Demands to Be Heard if they are not currentely Being Heard. If they do so, they gain 30 credibility.

Append to the end of the rule Credibility the following text:

If the credibility of an Oligarch is 200 or more than proposals of which they are the author may not be vetoed.

To the rule “Offices”, add:-

The Admiral of the Navy, Brigadier of the Air Force and General of the Military are all Military Leaders.

Add a new list to the rule “Government Actions”, called “Military Actions (0)”. Add a new Military Action:-

The General of the Military may declare a Coup attempt by spending 10 Power and making a Proposal with the string “Coup:” in its title - that Proposal is counted as a Coup Proposal. If a Coup Proposal does not have an AGAINST vote from either the Admiral of the Navy or the Brigadier of the Air Force, then that Proposal cannot be vetoed. If there exists a Military Leader who has not voted FOR a given Coup Proposal, then that Proposal cannot be enacted.

Oh Despot!

I placed one of the Seditious Oligarchs, LarrytheTurtle, under House Arrest. He was planning to perform some Corruption at The Central Bank, I’m certain.

Your Air Marshal,
Ludwig

P.S. Purplebeard, your flying lessons start tomorrow.

In the rule “Offices”, replace “A Commander may spend 2 Power to assign an Oligarch to the Office of Authority corresponding to the Commander’s Office.” with:-

A Commander may spend 2 Power to assign an Oligarch to (or remove an Oligarch from) the Office of Authority corresponding to the Commander’s Office.

Turtlemoon recently updated their own Office to “Associate”, but I can’t see any rule which would have allowed that - only that “A Commander may spend 2 Power to assign an Oligarch to the Office of Authority corresponding to the Commander’s Office”. Am I missing something?

Relatedly, as soon as the National Bank is operational, any Oligarchs wishing to begin a career in the police force need only transfer a 2 Power processing fee to me, in order to be hired as an Inspector. Act quickly and you may be wearing your government-issue mirrored sunglasses in time for this week’s salary payments.

Add the following to the end of the Rule “Flunkies”:

* Oil Wells - Drilling Action - The using Oligarch awards every Oligarch five power.
* Refinery - Sabotage Action - The using Oligarch reduces the Power of every Oligarch by five, to a minimum of zero.

In the rule entitled Government Actions, add “of Command” after the word “Office” in the following string:

minus 100 for each Office which is not currently held by an Oligarch

RaichuKFM is getting too powerful. I require a military leader who wishes to keep their job to Exile this turbulent Oligarch from the land.

Ely idles out after 8 days of inactivity. Quorum holds at 8.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Credibility:

Each Oligarch has an amount of Credibility, which is tracked in the GNDT. The default Credibility is 0.

Upon becoming Seditious, an Oligarch gains 5 Credibility.

Any Oligarch may convert Power to Credibility at a rate of 5 Power to 1 Credibility.

After the “Administrative Actions” section of the “Government Actions” rule, add, the following:

Atrocity Actions (0)
* The Despot may Detain Dissidents, Carry Out an Assassination, or, with Authorisation, Commit a Massacre as a weekly action. If they Detained Dissidents, the Despot gains 15 Power and every Seditious Oligarch gains 5 Credibility. If they Carried Out and Assassination, they gain 60 Power and every Seditious Oligarch gains 20 Credibility. If they Committed a Massacre, they gain 200 Power and every Seditious Oligarch gains 100 Credibility.

Set the Credibility of each Seditious Oligarch to 10.

In the rule “Government Actions” replace

The Despot may spend 5 Power to assign an Oligarch to an Office of Command not already taken by an Oligarch, or to remove an Oligarch from their Office.

with

The Despot may spend 5 Power to assign an Oligarch to an Office of Command not already taken by an Oligarch, or to remove a Commander from their Office.

In the rule “Flunkies” replace

Target Oligarch’s Flunky is moved to their Home location and cannot be moved for seven days.

with

Target Oligarch’s Flunky is moved to their Home location and cannot be moved for four days.

And add to the first paragraph in “Flunkies”:

Every Flunky’s Location defaults to Home.

In the Rule “Idle Oligarchs” replace the phrase “Admins may render themselves Idle at any time provided they’ve made a post or comment declaring their intent to do so in the past four days.” with the phrase “Admins may render themselves Idle at any time, but should make a post announcing it when they do so.”

Create a new Rule, “Rebellion”, containing the following:

As a Weekly Communal Action, any Oligarch with fifty or more Power may decrease the Despot’s Power by the number of Seditious Oligarchs, and give each Seditious Oligarch 10 Power. If a Loyal Oligarch does this action, they also gain 20 Power, and the Despot loses an additional 5 Power.

In the rule “Government Actions”, replace “As a weekly action, the Director of the Bank may increase the Power of every Loyal Oligarch by 10.” with:-

As a weekly action, the Director of the Bank may increase the Power of every Commander by 15, the Power of every Oligarch who holds an Office of Authority by 10, and the Power of every Loyal Oligarch who falls into neither of the previous categories by 5.

To the rule “Fight the Power”, add:-

The Bank is Open if the Offices of Director of the Bank and Bank Associate are both held by Oligarchs. If the Bank is Open, an Oligarch may transfer any amount of their Power to any other Oligarch, or to the Despot, at any time. (Oligarchs who unidled or joined the game within the previous five days may not transfer Power in this way.)

All Seditious Oligarchs loose one half of their Power, rounded down.

Oh Star of Wisdom, Ruler of all that is Nomical, oh Mighty Despot etc. etc.

Why can’t I appoint my Air Marshals (in the GNDT)? All your planes are collecting dust at the moment.

Your humble servant,
Ludwig

Hello.

If the proposal “Feudal System” failed, this proposal does nothing.

Otherwise, amend the second paragraph of “Flunkies” to read:

As a weekly action, an Oligarch can order a Flunky Action. Flunky Actions have different effects depending on the Flunky’s Location at the time of the order.  If that Oligarch’s Flunky changed locations in the 12 hours before the Flunky action was ordered, the effects can be reversed by any Oligarch affected by the action.  The affected Oligarch may only reverse an action if it is less than 12 hours since the action was taken and less than 12 hours since the Flunky last changed locations.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Flunkies:

Each Oligarch has a Flunky, whose Location is tracked in the GNDT. An Oligarch can change their Flunky’s location as a daily action.

As a weekly action, an Oligarch can order a Flunky Action. Flunky Actions have different effects depending on the Flunky’s Location at the time of the order.

Legal Flunky locations and their associated Actions are as follows:

* Home - no Action, but an Oligarch with a Flunky at Home can never be the target of another Oligarch’s Flucky Action
* Police Station - House Arrest Action - Target Oligarch’s Flunky is moved to their Home location and cannot be moved for seven days. The using Oligarch gains 5 Power.
* Central Bank - Corruption Action - If the using Oligarch is Seditious, they and no more than two other Oligarchs of their choice gain 10 Power and the Director loses 10 Power. If the using Oligarch is Loyal, they gain 10 Power and the Despot gains 5 Power. Only one Flunky may be in the Central Bank at any time.
* Barracks - Martial Law Action - The using Oligarch may take up to 10 Power from another Oligarch. Additionally, a Flunky in the Barracks protects their Oligarch from a Martial Law Action stemming from a Flunky in the Air Base.
* Air base - Martial Law Action - The using Oligarch may take up to 10 Power from another Oligarch. Additionally, a Flunky in the Air Base protects their Oligarch from a Martial Law Action stemming from a Flunky in the Naval Yard.
* Naval Yard - Martial Law Action - The using Oligarch may take up to 10 Power from another Oligarch. Additionally, a Flunky in the Naval Base protects their Oligarch from a Martial Law Action stemming from a Flunky in the Barracks.

Add a new list to the rule “Government Actions”, called “Military Actions (0)”. If “By Your Command” passed, move the “Exile” action to the Military Actions list.

Add a new Military Action:-

The General of the Military may declare a Coup attempt by spending 10 Power and making a Proposal with the string “Coup:” in its title - that Proposal is counted as a Coup Proposal. If a Coup Proposal does not have an AGAINST vote from either the Admiral of the Navy or the Brigadier of the Air Force, then that Proposal cannot be vetoed.

After the first paragraph of the rule “Government Actions”, add:-

Where an Action require Authorisation, it can only be performed if the Despot has made a blog post in the past 24 hours explicitly asking for the Action to be performed, and any decisions made in its performance must match the instructions given in that blog post.

Reword the “Exile an Oligarch” Security Action to:-

With Authorisation, the General or a Colonel may Exile an Oligarch, reducing that Oligarch’s Power to zero and reducing the Despot’s Power by 50. This Action is Punitive.

Reword the “Raid an Oligarch” Police Action to:-

With Authorisation, the Chief of Police may Raid an Oligarch, reducing the Powers of that Oligarch and the Despot by 10 each. This Action is Punitive.

Move the Director of the Bank’s action from “Commanding Powers” to the “Administrative Actions” section of Rule 2.5, and repeal “Commanding Powers”.

In the rule “Fight the Power”, insert after the first paragraph:

Power may be freely traded between Oligarchs and between Oligarchs and the Despot. It is the responsibility of Oligarchs to ensure that the terms of such trades are adhered to.

Throughout the ruleset, change “assign an Oligarch” to “assign an Office-less Oligarch”.

Append to the rule “Offices”:

The Despot and all holders of Offices of Command or Authority, taken together, may be referred to as The Government.

Enact a new rule entitled “The Resistance”:

Any Oligarch may, as a daily action, join the Resistance and change their Office to “Rebel” by paying 1 Power to The Resistance. Every Oligarch may freely give Power to The Resistance. The Resistance’s Power is tracked in a GNDT row labeled “Resistance” with all other columns empty.

If more than 1/3 of all Oligarchs, rounded down, are Rebels, then any Rebel may make a Resolution by spending 7 power and submitting a Proposal with a subject starting with “[Res]”. No more than 2 Resolutions may be pending at a time, and all pending Resolutions may be failed at any time if the number of Seditious Rebels falls below the threshold stipulated above.

Resolutions are limited to:
* Distributing Power within the Resistance. Resolutions cannot create or destroy Power or affect the Power of non-Rebels.
* Imposing or altering a hierarchy or order within the Resistance. Resolutions cannot impair or enhance any Oligarch’s ability to vote on Votable Matters.

Oligarchs who are not Rebels must pay 1 Power to The Resistance to vote on a Resolution, Oligarchs in the Government must pay 5 Power to The Resistance to vote on a Resolution, and the Despot must pay 15 Power to Veto a Resolution. In addition to the normal rules for Proposals, a Resolution may pass if at least 3/4 of all of the larger group of [Rebels or Seditious Oligarchs], rounded up, vote FOR it and there are more votes FOR it than AGAINST.

Create a new Rule “Forced Redistribution” containing the following:

Whenever the Despot loses Power, except by spending Power to perform a Government Action that is Punitive, all Seditious Oligarchs gain an amount of Power equal to the total amount of Power lost, divided by the number of Seditious Oligarchs, rounded down.

Every Oligarch but the Despot gains 50 Power.

In the rule “Commanding Powers” replace

As a weekly action, the Director of the Bank may increase the Power of every Loyal Oligarch by 10.

with

At any time The Director of the Bank may Supply The Constituents. When the Director of the Bank Supplies the Constituents, all Loyal Oligarchs who have not yet received power from the Director Supplying the Constituents for the current week gain 10 power.

All Oligarchs who received Power when Clucky last performed the action previously outlined in “Commanding Powers” are considered to have received power from the Director Supplying the Constituents for this week.

Dearest Despot,
  Since the actions that caused me to become Seditious were ultimately deemed to not have happened, could you please restore me to Loyalty?

NOT A PROPOSAL

In the rule “Fight the Power”, insert after the first paragraph:

Power may be freely traded between Oligarchs and between Oligarchs and the Despot. It is the responsibility of Oligarchs to ensure that the terms of such trades are adhered to.

Throughout the ruleset, change “assign an Oligarch” to “assign an Office-less Oligarch”.

Append to the rule “Offices”:

The Despot and all holders of Offices of Command or Authority, taken together, may be referred to as The Government.

Enact a new rule entitled “The Resistance”:

Any Oligarch may, as a daily action, join the Resistance and change their Office to “Rebel” by paying 1 Power to The Resistance. Every Oligarch may freely give Power to The Resistance. The Resistance’s Power is tracked in a GNDT row labeled “Resistance” with all other columns empty.

If more than 1/3 of all Oligarchs, rounded down, are Seditious Rebels, then any Seditious Rebel may make a Resolution by spending 7 power and submitting a Proposal with a subject starting with “[Res]”. No more than 2 Resolutions may be pending at a time, and all pending Resolutions may be failed at any time if the number of Seditious Rebels falls below the threshold stipulated above.

Resolutions are limited to:
* Distributing Power within the Resistance. Resolutions cannot create or destroy Power or affect the Power of non-Rebels.
* Imposing or altering a hierarchy or order within the Resistance. Resolutions cannot impair or enhance any Oligarch’s ability to vote on Votable Matters.
* Enacting Dynastic Rules that do not violate the above restrictions.

Oligarchs who are not Rebels must pay 1 Power to The Resistance to vote on a Resolution, Oligarchs in the Government must pay 5 Power to The Resistance to vote on a Resolution, and the Despot must pay 15 Power to Veto a Resolution. In addition to the normal rules for Proposals, a Resolution may pass if at least 3/4 of all of the larger group of [Rebels or Seditious Oligarchs], rounded up, vote FOR it.

NOT A PROPOSAL

Create and blank a wiki page entitled “Members of the Resistance”.

Enact a new rule entitled “The Resistance”:

Any member may be part of the Resistance, irregardless of their recorded loyalty in the GNDT. Members of the resistance are tracked in the “Members of the Resistance” wiki page.

At any point when there are 3 or more seditious Oligarch, any seditious Oligarch may post a story post with “General Assembly” in the title, as long as no other such post is still “Unresolved” or has been posted in the past 48 hours. In this post, the seditious leader may nominate any seditious Oligarch to be the “Head of the Resistance”. If, at any point after this post is published, there are a majority of FOR votes from seditious Oligarchs, this post becomes “Resolved” and the nominated Oligarch becomes the Head of the Resistance, losing any office they are holding (if any), and have their office set to “R. Leader”. If there has not been a majority vote after 48 hours, this post becomes automatically “Resolved” with no effect. Once a post has become “Resolved” any Oligarch may edit the story post title to reflect this.

As soon as there is a “Head of the Resistance”, that Oligarch shall be given sole access to the wiki page “Members of the Resistance”, and may give out access to this page as they please. Only the Head of Resistance may edit this page, and they may only add the names of Oligarchs who have given them written permission. The only exception to this rule, is that, any Oligarch who is added to the “Members of the Resistance” must record some kind of affirmation in the wiki that they are aware and desire to be part of the Resistance next to their name.

If, at any point, the “Head of Resistance” is removed from office or the Despot is overthrown, the wiki page is blanked, and access is given to the new “Head of Resistance” (or is held in a blank state until a new Head of Resistance is elected.)

Once per week, the Despot may story post with “J’accuse” included in the title, in which they may accuse a single Oligarch, who they have not already successfully accused, of being part of the Resistance (other than the “Head of the Resistance”). In response to this post, the “Head of the Resistance” must make a response in the comments indicating if the Despot is correct (an Oligarch whose name is legitimately on the “Members of the Resistance” wiki) in their accusation or not (otherwise).  If the Despot is correct, the Despot gains 100 power. Otherwise, the Despot loses 100 power. If it can be proven that the Head of the Resistance made a false response to the Despot, the Head of the Resistance is immediately removed from power, is exiled, and the Despot gains 200 power.

Alter the gamestate so that it relects that any votes cast on a Proposal to which a Deferential vote has been posted, that were cast between the passings of the Proposals “Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely” and “Per your Command” were invalid unless one Power had been spent to cast them.

If Proposal: Shred Tape passed, add the following to the end of the rule entitled Government Action; otherwise, add it to the end of the rule entitled Fight the Power:

Whenever an Oligarch loses Power as a result of being Exiled or a Raid, all other Loyal Oligarchs gain an amount of Power equal to the total amount lost due to that action, divided by the number of Loyal Oligarchs, rounded down.

In the rule “Fight the Power”, insert after the first paragraph:

Power may be freely traded between Oligarchs and between Oligarchs and the Despot. It is the responsibility of Oligarchs to ensure that the terms of such trades are adhered to.

Throughout the ruleset, change “assign an Oligarch” to “assign an Office-less Oligarch”.

If the proposal “Delegation” failed, the rest of this proposal does nothing.

Append to the rule “Offices”:

The Despot and all holders of Offices of Command or Authority, taken together, may be referred to as “The Administration”.

Enact a new subrule of “Offices” entitled “Orders”:

If at least 1/4 of all Oligarchs, rounded down, are in the Administration, then any such Oligarch may make an Order by spending 7 power and submitting a Proposal with a subject starting with “[Order]”. No more than 2 Orders may be pending at a time, and all pending Orders may be failed at any time if the number of Oligarchs in the Administration falls below the threshold stipulated above. Orders cannot directly interfere with The Resistance and should be used primarily for the Administration’s internal matters.

Oligarchs who are not in the Administration must pay 1 Power to the Despot to vote on an Order. In addition to the normal rules for Proposals, an Order may pass if more than 3/4 of all Loyal Oligarchs vote FOR it.

Enact a new rule entitled “The Resistance”:

Any Oligarch may, as a daily action, change their Office to “Rebel” by paying 1 Power to The Resistance. Every Oligarch may freely give Power to The Resistance. The Resistance’s Power is tracked in a GNDT row labeled “Resistance” with all other columns empty.

If at least 1/4 of all Oligarchs, rounded down, are Seditious Rebels, then any Seditious Rebel may make a Demand by spending 7 power and submitting a Proposal with a subject starting with “[Demand]”. No more than 2 Demands may be pending at a time, and all pending Demands may be failed at any time if the number of Seditious Rebels falls below the threshold stipulated above. Demands cannot directly interfere with the Administration and should be used primarily for The Resistance’s internal matters.

Oligarchs who are not Rebels must pay 1 Power to The Resistance to vote on a Demand, and the Despot must pay 15 Power to Veto a Demand. In addition to the normal rules for Proposals, a Demand may pass if at least 2/3 of all Rebels, rounded up, vote FOR it.

If the proposal “Shred Tape” failed, the remainder of this proposal has no effect.

Remove the text “The Despot may change any Oligarch’s reputation freely.” from the rule “Factionalism” and add an Action to the Administrative Action list:-

The Despot may spend 5 Power to change the Reputation of any Oligarch.

To the end of the rule “Government Actions”, add:-

If an Action is Punitive, the Despot gains 5 Power immediately after it is performed, if the chosen Oligarch is Seditious and if it is the first Punitive Action that has been performed that day.

Add the text “This Action is Punitive.” to the bullet points of the actions which Exile an Oligarch and assign an Oligarch to an Office, in the rule “Government Actions”. Reword the Raid action to:-

The Despot may spend 10 Power to Raid an Oligarch, reducing the Power of that Oligarch by 10. This Action is Punitive.

Bucky’s Power increases by 10 the next time he increases the Power of every Loyal Oligarch by 10 this week.

The proposal “Per your command” fixed a problem where votes on a proposal after the first DEF cost 1 Power each for everyone but the Despot, instead of the Despot as intended.  However, it was adminned when it apparently hit quorum, despite most of the votes being invalid due to not having their Power cost paid.

We should take the minimally invasive approach to fix this and declare retroactively that the proposal “Per your command” took effect on 09 Nov 2013 at 20:08:00 UTC , the time indicated in the Admin box, despite not having a Quorum of For votes, and has not actually been blocking the proposal queue since then.

Create a new rule entitled “Striking Back” with the following text:

An Oligarch may Raid the Despot , spending any amount of Power to reduce the Power of the Despot by that amount.

What’s going on with “Drain drain drain!”? It looks like Bucky adminned but it’s not showing up…

You passed the “With Numbers Comes Power” proposal based on my vote not being valid. It was cast before the “Per your command” proposal passed and was thus valid (at the time the rule specified “The Oligarch” not “The Despot”). I’m on a phone so can’t correct the enactment; could you please revert the enactment and correctly mark it as failed.

Thanks.

Cut everything in the rule “Fight the Power” from “The Despot starts the game with 1000 power” onwards.

Add a new rule, “Government Actions”:-

Various Government Actions exist. Each Government Action belongs to a named Tier, as listed below; the number in brackets after the name of the Tier is its Boldness - if the Strength of the Government is less than this number, Actions in that Tier cannot be performed. The Strength of the Government is equal to the Power of the Despot, minus 100 for each Office which is not currently held by an Oligarch.

Security Actions (750)

• The Despot may spend 50 Power to make a story post in which they Exile an Oligarch. An Oligarch who is Exiled loses all of their Power.

Police Actions (500)

• The Despot may spend any amount of Power to Raid an Oligarch, reducing the Power of that Oligarch by twice that amount spent.

Political Actions (250)

• The Despot may spend 10 Power to Shred a Document.

Administrative Actions (0)

• The Despot may spend 5 Power to assign an Oligarch to an Office not already taken by an Oligarch, or to remove an Oligarch from their Office.

If “Delegation” passed, replace “assign an Oligarch to an Office not already taken” with “assign an Oligarch to an Office of Command not already taken” in the ruleset.

To the rule “Civil War”, add:-

The Despot may not cast a Veto on any votable matter unless they have taken a Shred a Document action in the previous ten minutes. The Despot may not veto more than one votable matter within a ten-minute window.

In the rule “Fight the Power”, replace the text

New Oligarchs start with 10 Power

with

New Oligarchs start with Power equal the median Power of the other Oligarchs, rounded down.

Create a new Rule entitled “Sedition” containing the following:

As a Weekly Communal Action, any Oligarch can increase the Power of every Seditious Oligarch by one-and-a-half times the number of Seditious Oligarchs, rounded down, plus one.

Amend the rule “Offices” to read:

Each Oligarch may hold a single Office. By default, an Oligarch holds no Office. An Oligarch’s Office is tracked in the GNDT.

The following Offices are Offices of Command and are tracked in the GNDT by the first word of their titles. An Oligarch who holds an Office of Command may be referred to as a Commander. Each Office of Command may be held by no more than one Oligarch at a time:

* Chief of Police
* Director of the Bank
* Admiral of the Navy
* Brigadier of the Air Force
* General of the Military.

The following Offices are Offices of Authority, are tracked in the GNDT by the last word of their titles, and correspond to the Offices of Command by department. Each Office of Authority may be held by no more than 1/5 of all Oligarchs, rounded down, at a time:

* Police Inspector
* Bank Associate
* Navy Captain
* Air Marshal
* Military Colonel.

A Commander may spend 2 Power to assign an Oligarch to the Office of Authority corresponding to the Commander’s Office. An Oligarch may remove themself from an Office of Authority by paying 1 Power to their Commander.

Enact a subrule of “Offices” entitled “Commanding Powers”:

As a weekly action, the Director of the Bank may increase the Power of every Loyal Oligarch by 10.

In the rule “Fight the Power”, change “assign an Oligarch to an Office not already taken”
to “assign an Oligarch to an Office of Command not already taken”.

Add to the rule “2.4 offices” to the list of offices

Foreman of garbage disposal

Reduce the Despot’s power by 10

Add the following rule to the ruleset, entitled Resources:

Cash and Militia may be traded between Oligarchs freely. It is the responsibility of Oligarchs to ensure that the terms of such trades are adhered to.

Oligarchs may give Militia, Cash and Power to the Despot at any time, and the Despot can give Militia or Cash to the any Oligarch at any time.

Add the following as a subrule to that rule, entitled Swiss bank accounts:

The Despot and each Oligarch have a quantity of Cash. The default quantity of Cash for an Oligarch is $50,000, while the default amount of Cash for the Despot is $50,000,000. Cash is tracked in the GNDT. As a weekly action, the Director of the Bank may increase their Cash by $10,000.

Add the following as another subrule to the rule called Resources, entitled Militias:

Each Oligarch has a Militia value, which defaults to zero and is tracked in the GNDT. The Oligarch with the highest Militia value may increase their Power by the difference between their Militia value and the next highest Militia value as a weekly action.

As a weekly action, the Chief of Police, Admiral of the Navy, General of the Army and Brigadier of the Air Force may pay $x000 to the Despot to increase their Militia values by x.

Add the following to the first bulleted list in the rule entitled “Fight the Power”:

* The Despot may Seize the Assets of an Oligarch if that Oligarch is Seditious. When an Oligarch’s Assets are Seized, the Despot reduces that Oligarch’s Cash and Militia by half and doubles that Oligarch’s Power.
* The Despot may spend $1,000,000 at any time to increase their Power by 10.

Add the following to the second bulleted list in the same rule, between the entries marked 500 and 250:

* 300: The Despot can no longer Seize an Oligarch’s Assets,

In the same rule, to the sentence reading “The Despot may spend 5 Power to assign an Oligarch to an Office not already taken by an Oligarch, or to remove an Oligarch from their Office”, add the following:

(unless the Oligarch is Seditious, in which case they can be removed without cost).

Add a new rule to the ruleset.  Call it “Puppeteering” and give it the following text:

Whenever a proposal becomes Enacted, its author gains an amount of Power equal to Quorum unless the proposal’s title includes the word “Trivial”.

If the Proposal “With Numbers Comes Power” failed, create a new Rule entitled Sedition.
Replace the body of the Rule “Sedition” with the following:

As a Weekly Communal Action, any Oligarch can increase the Power of every Seditious Oligarch by one-and-a-half times the number of Seditious Oligarchs, rounded down, plus one.

Create a new rule with the title “Sedition” and containing the following text:

As a daily action an Oligarch who is Seditious may increase their Power by the number of Oligarchs who are Seditious.

Create a new Dynastic rule titled “La Revolución” and reading as follows:

The Unrest Index is a variable that is tracked in the GNDT. Every time the Despot has his own Power reduced as a result of an action of theirs, they shall increase the Unrest Index by the same value they just subtracted from their Power.
While the Unrest Index is higher than the Strength of the Government, any Oligarch may repel all the Dynastic rules and start a Metadynasty. If they do so, they shall pubblish an entry In the “Ascension Address” category with the word “Metadynasty” in the title.
As a weekly communal action, the Chief of Police may decrease the Unrest Index by twice the number of Loyal Oligarchs.
As a weekly communal action, the Despot may decrease the Unrest Index by half of the value of the Power of the General of the Military, if in the last 24 hours the General of the Military has been continuously Loyal and has continuously held that Office.
As a weekly communal action, any Oligarch may Fuel Rebellion by increasing the Unrest Index by 25.
At any time any Seditious Oligarch may transfer any amount of Power to the Unrest Index, if this does not cause the Unrest Index to become higher than the Strength of the Government.

Amend the definition of Weekly Communal Action in the Keywords section of the Appendix to:

A Weekly Communal Action is a Weekly Action that can be performed only if it has not already been performed by any Oligarch in that week.

Set the Unrest Index to 100.

In the rule “Fight the Power”, change “The Oligarch must spend 1 Power” to “The Despot must spend 1 Power”

In the Rule “Fight the Power” remove the phrase “and is immediately rendered idle”.

If the proposals “Jobs for the Boys” failed, this proposal has no further effect.

In the rule “Factionalism”, remove “Any Oligarch who is Loyal may at any time gain 1 Power for every full day that they have been Loyal since they last gained Power through this method, to a maximum of seven Power.”

In the rule “Offices”, add to the “Director of the Bank” bullet point:

As a weekly action, the Director of the Bank may increase the Power of every Loyal Oligarch by 10.

To the first paragraph of “Factionalism”, after “which is either Loyal or Seditious” add “, defaulting to Loyal”.

Quorum remains 8.

I unidle myself and reclaim the power that I rightfully deserve.

Can someone with authority please unidle me so that I can rebel against them and usurp their power. Thanks!

In the Rule “Fight the Power”, if it exists, remove the phrase “and is immediately rendered idle”, and replace the phrase “The Oligarch must spend 1 Power” with “The Despot must spend 1 Power”.

In the rule “Victory and Ascension”, replace “When a DoV is failed, if it has a number of AGAINST Votes that exceed Quorum, the Oligarch who posted it cannot make another DoV until after 120 hours (5 days) have passed since the time their DoV was failed.” with

An Oligarch cannot make a DoV if they have already posted a DoV in the last 120 hours (5 days).

Add a new rule, “Offices”:-

Each Oligarch may hold a single Office, from those listed below. By default, an Oligarch holds no Office. An Oligarch’s Office is tracked in the GNDT, by the first word of their Office.

• Chief of Police.
• Director of the Bank.
• Admiral of the Navy.
• Brigadier of the Air Force.
• General of the Military.

To the first bulleted list in “Fight the Power”, add:-

• The Despot may spend 5 Power to assign an Oligarch to an Office not already taken by an Oligarch, or to remove an Oligarch from their Office.

And replace “The Despot additionally loses access to some of their actions when their Power dips below a certain threshold.” with:-

The Strength of the Government is equal to the Power of the Despot, minus 100 for each Office which is not currently held by an Oligarch. The Despot loses access to some of their actions while the Strength of the Government is below the following thresholds:

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Factionalism:

Each Oligarch has a Reputation, which is either Loyal or Seditious. This is tracked in the GNDT.

The Despot may change any Oligarch’s reputation freely. An Oligarch who is Loyal may change their Reputation to Seditious at any time. An Oligarch who is Seditious must request the Despot to change their Reputation to Loyal. The Despot may impose conditions on such a change or decline to do so entirely if they wish.

Within 24 hours of a change in Despot, all Seditious players may freely change their Reputation to Loyal.

Any Oligarch who is Loyal may at any time gain 1 Power for every full day that they have been Loyal since they last gained Power through this method, to a maximum of seven Power.

Twenty years ago, on the tarmac of the city’s airport, a man - middle aged even then - in a general’s uniform had stood and made a speech. There was no audience; the army has sealed off the airport, and the other decorated generals behind the man were just for show, as were the attack helicopters lazily spinning their rotors in the background. But the address was televised, and broadcast on radio. It was reprinted in full in newspapers across the world, and discussed at length in every corridor of power.Every citizen knew of that proclamation, for it altered the fate of their country irreversibly.

Now old, the general - he still styled himself as a general - had the sheet of paper he read from framed in the national Museum of the Revolution. The single act, that single speech, had not been all that was needed to sweep the old, corrupt government from power; no, there had been fighting, years of it, millions dead. But that was in the past now, and the last decade had been peaceful. He had give his country security, and protected it from outside forces. Was that not worth a little blood spilled?

Apparently there was no loyalty in this world, though, no gratitude, for his courtiers, sensing weakness in his age, had started to circle. He had made them, each and every one; he had elevated them to wealth and power, while under the old Parliament they would have been, what, merchants? Academics? Pfeh. If money can’t buy you loyalty these days, what can?

Force. Only force.

If you want my power, he thought to himself, you’ll have to prise it from my hands.

Repeal all dynastic rules, replace MN wherever it appears in the Ruleset with Oligarch, and replace Speaker wherever it appears with Despot.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Civil War:

The Despot is not an Oligarch for the purposes of any dynastic rule. Whenever an Oligarch has more Power than the Despot, they become the Despot, and the Despot becomes an Oligarch, each retaining all of their existing GNDT values. Whichever Oligarch or Despot performed the action that caused the change in Despot must immediately make a story post highlighting the change.

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Fight the Power:

All Oligarchs and the Despot have an amount of Power, which is tracked in the GNDT. New Oligarchs start with 10 Power.

The Despot starts the game with 1000 power, but must expend Power to perform some actions, as follows:

• The Oligarch must spend 1 Power to cast a vote on any proposal that has already has at least 1 Deferential vote cast upon it.
• The Despot must spend 10 Power to veto any proposal. The Despot may also spend 20 Power to veto a Declaration of Victory.
• The Despot may Raid an Oligarch, spending any amount of Power to reduce the Power of that Oligarch by twice that amount.
• The Despot may spend 50 Power to make a story post in which they Exile an Oligarch. An Oligarch who is Exiled loses all of their Power and is immediately rendered idle,

The Despot additionally loses access to some of their actions when their Power dips below a certain threshold.

• 750: The Despot may not Exile an Oligarch if they have less than 750 Power.
• 500: The Despot may not Raid an Oligarch if they have less than 500 Power.
• 250: The Despot may not cast a veto on any votable matter if they have less than 250 Power.

Jeo, Murphy and Scshunt get idled after more than a week of inactivity. Quorum drops to 6.

Hello guys!
I hereby announce my formal intention to become a player! :)

I don’t technically need to wait for the other DoV to fail before posting another, under 1.7, and the progress of platonic ruleset effects doesn’t appear to be impeded by hiatus, so: now that the gamestate is polarised and we’re not relying on a potentially dodgy time travel argument, I’ve achieved victory on the basis of rule 2.1.

As per rule 2.1, I achieve victory.

Create a new rule entitled ‘Blocks’, containing the following:

In each political affiliation (i.e. WS or SW) exist Blocks. Every MN may set their Block as a Weekly Action. The Block of a MN is tracked in the GNDT.

If the number of members of a Block in a certain Orientation is more than one third of the number of members of that Orientation and more or equal to two, then this Block is called a Strong Block.

A Strong Block can influence all decisions of this Orientation, i.e. if all members of a Block vote the same on a certain Votable Matter, then all votes of the members of that Orientation count are changed into that Vote.
If there is more than one Strong Block in a Orientation, and these Blocks vote different on a Votable Matter, then the votes of the members of that Orientation for that Votable Matter are not changed by this Rule, and Polarization is accelerated by 6 hours.