Constitution

Summary
The tasks and rules of constitution begin with defining the official languages, naming the community and defining the confines in accordance with neighbouring communities. Then, the inside is structured and organised into plots, buildings and floors, basic communities and higher-order communities.

The representative heading the consitutional domain is named the president.

The president must ensure that the other representatives work, the community meetings are orderly conducted and the due decisions taken. There can be no delayed decisions, meetings take as long as all pending issues are decided.

The smallest state unit is the basic community, then there are higher-order communities (may be called quarters, regions, cantons, provinces, ...) and the top-level community is called the state.

When other states representatives officially visit a stable state, then at least 3 of the state representatives are present. If the other state's president officially visits, then our president is also present, i.e. among the minimum 3 state representatives welcoming and hosting the guests. However, there can be no contracts or any other binding regulations be made with other states, except the confines usage contracts mentioned in SC.03.6. Ambassadors issues can be talked but not negotiated.

SC.01 Define the official languages
SC.01.1 First official language of a basic community: The native language spoken and written by a majority if not all in the basic community is chosen as the first official language. It is decided by the standard democratic procedure, if not obvious. If it is English, it must be written in the fonetic inglish standard. Else, it must also have a phonetically written form using the standard alphabet, an inglish/language dictionary and teaching material to learn the language for inglish speaking people. It can also have another writing but all state documents must be (also) published in the phonetic alphabet form.

SC.01.2 Second official language of a basic community: If English is the first official language, then any other fulfilling the conditions outlined in SC.01.1 must be chosen as the second official language. It is decided by the standard democratic procedure. Else, fonetic english must be the second official language.

SC.01.3 Additional official languages of a basic community: Optionally, additional official languages fulfilling the conditions outlined in SC.01.1, can be defined by the standard democratic procedure.

SC.01.4 Official languages of higher order communities: When an official language of a part-community is single, i.e. no other part-community of a higher-order community has it as official language, then the higher-order community, while still having the duty to communicate everything in this "single-language", does NOT have this language as its official language. All other non-single official languages automaticall become official languages of the higher-order community.

SC.02 Define name and flag
SC.02.1 The name of the country must be defined in all official state languages by the standard democratic procedure, if not obvious. All neighbour states must agree with the name.

SC.02.2 The flag of the country must be defined by the standard democratic procedure, if not obvious. All neighbour states must agree with the flag.

SC.03 Define the confines
SC.03.1 A land-land (including river) border must be marked with a "border stone" in cultivated areas and besides transportation areas (streets, bike/foot paths, rails, …). In non-cultivated areas (deserts, glaciers, …) this is optional. Each border stone is 1 meter high above soil, 1 meter wide and 20cm deep. tt has name and flag of the state encarved on the side of the state. The next border stone in each direction should be visible in clear weather conditions. The "stones" can also be concrete. Practically, the stones are not on the border but at least 20cm inwards. Also, the stones must carry the geo coordinates on the top surface.

SC.03.2 There must be no building on a border.

SC.03.3 A water (lake, sea) border needs no marking if the neighbour state is more than 10km away, The default on-water-border is the middle-line between the shores if not the international waters rules apply (open sea borders).

SC.03.4 Vertically, the state's room extends down to the middle of the planet and up to the end of the atmosphere (30km).

SC.03.5 In the case of unresolvable, not discussable disputes on confines of our state with a neighbour state ("claim some ancient state's or nation's land" or whatever) our state must post the border stones where it thinks the border should be. In the course of this border stones setting are afterwards, there may be military action to attack/defend the border. If the border in whole or part is maintained for 5 years, the border is automatically internationally (including the other state) agreed, including all geo coordinates, of the border (whole or part) that is there for 5 years or more. During these and other wartimes with another state, the free trade and persons exchange with this state may be restricted. The nature and extent of the restrictions of our state are democratically defined unless acute hostile actions are ongoing, in which case trade and exchange are immediately/automatically fully blocked.

SC.03.6 Except for confines usage contracts (i.e. contracts to fly (possibly at limited hours and in geographically limited corridors) in the state's atmosphere, use waterways and or under-surface areas (for tunnels e.g.), there must be no contracts with other states. All these usage  contracts must be open to the public be democratically accepted in the impacted regions.

SC.03.7 In cases of singular violations of the confines and/or confines usage contracts by the other state (or unidentifiable) within our state's confines, then our military/police forces must catch the violator(s), only within our state's confines. The other state's representative(s) ("president(s)") must be notified, including the violator(s) identities (as good as identfiable) and evidence of the violation act. The violator(s), for just this (there may be other delicts that are committed and governed by other stablestate's rules), get a 1 month respect-violation delict punishment.

SC.03.8 In case of non-singular violations, an invasion is assumed. Then, the military forces must immediately defend under wartime rules. Such invasions must be anticipated by the military forces with their anticipation techniques as good as possible, so invasions can be prevented and/or at least successfully be repelled within shortest time possible.

SC.04 Define calendar, weeks and time(zone)
SC.04.1 A stable state uses UTC, universal time. I.e. there are no timezones.

SC.04.2 Each month begins with a Monday, has 4 weeks and 0, 1, 2 or 3 "free" days to be used for holidays outside of any week (no weekday, but holiday).

SC.04.3 Each week has first 5 work days (Mo-Fr), 1 Saturday (which is not a work day for most jobs, but shops, transport, tourism, health care and emergency services are at work), 1 Sunday (only transport at reduced service, tourism, health care and emergency services are at work, no shops)

SC.04.4 The "free" days / holidays operate in "Sunday" mode

SC.04.5 There must be no (religious or whatever) holidays in the 4 weeks of each month.

SC.04.6 Each city/region defines its lunch-time UTC (e.g. 12:00 for London) in 15min. precision. Standard morning work start is lunch-time - 4 hours. Standard afternoon work start is lunch-time + 1 hour and COB is lunch-time + 5.5 hours. Special rule on date change during daylight: If the lunch-time is 02:00, then the work week begins Sun, 22:00. If the lunch time is 01:45, then the work week begins Mon, 21:45. And Saturday/Sunday/Holiday modes accordingly.

SC.04.7 Work under contract: The maximum work hours per day are 16. The maximum work hours per week (any 6 days in a row, also holidays) are 80 hours. The maximum monthly hours are 240. The maximum annual work hours are 2'400.

SC.04.8 Personal holidays and sickdays under contract: 4 weeks minimum. If an employee is sick, this "counts as holiday". (It is important to know that medical treatments and medications are free up to a "lower limit" of p_free_medic_cost_percent_per_year, long-time unfitness-for-work has other regulations in the section of persons administration that mitigate hardness for the individuals. Also, each employer may offer better conditions to its employees.)

SC.05 Define free trade ranges (or price-battle-perimeters)
SC.05.1 Goods and services are free to trade with other countries except for democratically decided "Price battle ranges" per goods/service category.

SC.05.2 A Price battle range of X kilometres for a goods/service category means that any good/service of the specified category that comes from farther than the range (goods/persons transportation km) must be sold at least 10% more expensive than the locally produced good/service. This means that each product/service can be challenged quality-wise world-wide but not price-wise. The price battle for a producer/provider of such goods/services is hence limited to competitors within a range of X kilometres.

SC.06 Define the inner territory (room)
SC.06.1 A stablestate is is organised in basic communities and higher order communities. A basic community has 40 to 280 grownup citizens. It is governed by 7 representatives, each responsible for 1 of the 7 domains. A higher order community is composed of 5 to 11 basic communities or higher order communities. The order of a community is the distance to the basic communities, i.e. 0 for the basic communities, 1 for the community bundling basic communities, 2 for the next, etc. Communities up to order 3 must be geographically coherent with the thinnest part being 50 meters, i.e. no small exclaves or inclaves are allowed. Larger geographically non-coherent communities are allowed (e.g. Alaska, Finland and Greenland might form a community - a purely ficitve example). The top-most higher order community is the state and it may be composed of 3 to 11 communities. A higher order community with 30'000 or more grownup citizens and/or geographically well separated (by the sea, lakes, rivers, mountains) may call itself a region. Also, each basic community must contain at least 14 marriages (c.f. Persons administration).

SC.06.2 Each region or larger higher order community can democratically leave a stablestate. It needs the qualified majority >66% of the grownup citizens of the region to leave a state. Either it becomes an independent stablestate or integrates into another one according to SC.07.3.

SC.06.3 The entire stablestate and/or a region can make a fusion with another stablestate. In the case of a region this is a leave decision according to SC.07.2 combined with entering another stablestate which has to agree with also >66%. For 2 stablestates to fusion, all the state-wide parameters (e.g. taxation coefficients, etc. cf. the complete list in Parameters list) need first to be democratically made equal within each of the states. Then, both states need a qualified majority >66% to make the fusion happen.

SC.06.4 A basic community can decide to split-up when all parts will fulfill the requirements for basic communities. If such a part has >66% vote (counted only in the to-be-part which must be specified before) for the split, the split happens irrespective of the opinion of the rest.

SC.06.5 Two or more basic communities can decide to merge based on all community-level parameters being equal before and each's >66% agreement.

SC.06.6 The split and merge of basic communities are forced by the higher order community if the requirements for basic communities are violated for more than 6 months. This means that basic communites that have become too small or too large with respect to the number of grown citizens within, have 6 months time to decide on their own on what to do. After the 6 months a too large basic community is split by an algorithm that divides so that as close to 50% grownup citizens and 50% surface will result without splitting properties. And a too small basic community is merged with its smallest neighbour basic community.

SC.06.7 A community (basic or higher order) can decide to switch the higher order community it belongs to with >66% vote.

SC.06.8 Analogous to the rules SC.07.4-6 of split/merge decisions and forced split/merges of basic communities the higher order communites can decide to or may be forced to split or merge. SC.06.9 Wild land areas: Within each community of level 2 or higher there must be 5% of the land left "wild" (for biodiversity). Within each community that covers 70x70km land area (4'900 km2) or more, there must be a coherent area (thinnest past not less than 1km) of a minimum of 30x30km (900km2). If an area turns from non-wild to wild, then no re-construction measures must be taken. Just leave it. The "wild" areas belong to the community. Property must be taken away to assure this but compensated with other equivalent property.

SC.06.9 Wild lake and sea areas: 30% of all lake and sea areas must not be used for shipping and fishing. These are defined (GeoCoordinates) democratically. The stable state domain 4 Inner Security responsibles take measures (GPS senders on ships) to check this and intervene on violations.

SC.06.9 Airplane free areas: 50% of all areas must not be used for flying over. These are defined (GeoCoordinates) democratically. The stable state domain 6 Exterior Security responsibles take measures (GPS senders on airplanes) to check this and intervene on violations.

SC.07 Organise the community assemblies
SC.07.1 Die Basisgemeinden tagen genau 1x pro Monat am 4. Samstag             und erledigen dabei alle Geschäfte, welche den Bürger betreffen (Basistagung). Die höheren Gemeinwesen tagen 2x im Monat an den anderen Werktagen             in jeweils 14 Tagen Abstand.

SC.07.2 Es wird immer offen abgestimmt und             es gilt die einfache Mehrheit. Anträge bzw. Initiativen benötigen             immer 1/6 der Bürger.

SC.08 Organise the elections of the community representatives (aka state officials) for 4 years
The elections of the 7 representatives (1 head of constitution (the president), 2 head of persons management (the secretary), 3 head of culture, sports and science (the wizard), 4 head of inner security (the sherrif), 5 head of justice (the judge), 6 head of exterior security (the general), 7 head of finances (the cashier)) of a community are conducted like this:

SC.08.1 Candidatures: The candidates are marriages (the state representatives are, normally, couples of 1 male/1 female, hence, no discussions about male/female quota). There are voluntary candidates and always the 7 eldest marriages (by date of marriage) as the default backup candidates. Each candidate marriage must provide an ordered list of replacing candidate marriages (= the political friends aka "party").

SC.08.2 For basic communities: each citizen votes for 7 different marriages in ranks 1, 2, 3 .. 7 (invalid votes are filled-up with the eldest marriages). Actually, there must be 100% of the citizens present at an election assembly. An election assembly is the first community constituting assembly and every 4 years henceforth.

SC.08.3 Voting Points: Each marriage voted for gets and hence each marriage gets its total of points. Then, the first 7 get elected as the heads in the order, e.g. rank 1 becomes president, rank 2 becomes secretary, etc. Also, positions 8 etc. are proxy ranks that must jump into head ranks as elected marriages get out of service (e.g. by election-up in a higher order community or other reasons). There is no possibility for a marriage to resign during the 4 years period.

SC.08.4 For higher-order communities/assuring sub-communities representation: the state representatives of all sub-communities form the voting body and candidatures pool. The candidaturing (replacing lists) and voting is analogous to the procedure in the basic community. Except: when a candidature marriage would be elected but the sub-community it comes from is already (over-)represented, then the next replacment that fulfills the sub-community criterion is elected. If this is not possible, the next candidature is chosen.

SC.08.5 Resignations: For individual representatives re-elections that become necessary during the term of office, the original voting and candidatures are re-evaluated and the next fitting candidate after the risignee marriage is elected.

SC.08.6 Representative's salaries (no fringes, no expenses, no extras): basic community := 2 x BME (basic monthly expenses), others := BME * (2 + 1.5n)  // n = der Level über der basic community, z.B. 1 für den ersten Level der higher order communities

Events
Create a StableState (Name. Flag, additonal language(s), Confines (Geodata), Communities (Structure))"A StableState is best created out of an existing state that has its confines and inner structure (communities, regions, …) already defined. Maybe, these structures and confines need some pre-work to be conform to the StableState's rules. If, once, these are well-defined, it should comparatively easy to find a name, flag and additional languages(s). All these are fully democratically decided."Change name

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