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Abbreviations and shorthand names

• Sekidean Union - SU, The Union, the Union, Union
• Inner Sekidean Union - ISU, The Inner Union, the Inner Union, Inner Union, Inner Countries, Inner countries
• Dokodo Union - DU, Dokodo
• Norterric Assembly - NA, Norterric, Norterria, Norterrica
• Member State of the Sekidean Union - SU Member, SU member, The Member, Member, Sekidean Member - currently 17 states
• Member Entity of the Sekidean Union - SU Entity, SU entity, The Entity, Entity, Sekidean Entity - currently 20 entities
• Member of the Inner Sekidean Union - ISU Member, ISU member, Inner Sekidean Member, Inner Sekidean member, Inner Member, Inner member, Inner Country, Inner country - currently 10 members
• Country applicating for the SU membership - The Applicant, Applicant, Applicant nation, Applicant country, The Candidate, Candidate, Candidate nation, Candidate country
• Country applicating for the ISU membership - The ISU Applicant, ISU Applicant, ISU Applicant nation, ISU Applicant country, The ISU Candidate, ISU Candidate, ISU Candidate nation, ISU Candidate country
• Country associated to the SU via a special deal - The Associate, Associate, SU Associate, Associated nation, Associated country
• Sekidean Charter - Sekidean Treaty, Sekidean Treaty System, Sekidean Treaties, SU Treaty, SU Treaty System, SU Treaties, Treaty System, The Treaty, The Treaties, The Treaty System, The System, SU Charter, The Charter

Treaties assigned to the whole of the Sekidean Union

Agreement of the merger of Shanghou Pact and Purple Community into Sekidean Union

As it has been originally drafted by Ulman Чuчlik & signed in 1982 in Gimyeong by the 6 founding members

The nations that are the Members of the Sekidean Union are expected to follow the principles of the Union, out of which the key ideas are:

1. Obligation to defend other member if he is attacked. This does not include cases, where the Union member is considered to be the agressor in the said conflict
   1. For this purposes, agression is defined as "Being the first to use the instruments of war over peaceful means in an agressive way or forcing the opposing country to attack first by the means of political leverage, such as provocations, state-sanctioned terrorism and political or economical attacks"
   2. Nations are not required to weaken their own defence capability beyond the point, where the territorial integrity of their own is threatened by the enemy in question or an alleged ally to the enemy in question
   3. Every constituent nation of the Union is obligated to defend an attacked member according to this regulation even when the attacking nation is another SU member
2. Free trade agreement
3. No customs or border tariffs
4. Obligation to remain neutral or pro-government if a civil war or a coup d'etat begins in a member country
   1. Civil war is defined as "an armed conflict of two or more semi-organized sides within one or more nations". This definition does not include an insurgency, which is defined as "an armed uprising by semi- or fully-organized forces against the governmental or government-backed authority"
   2. Coup d'etat is defined as "a hostile takeover or a attempt of takeover of the governmental powers of either legislative, executive or judiciary, or a combination of those, by the means of armed forces, military, militia, police or any other armed personnel, by an organized group stationed or operating within the nation"
   3. If there is a tangible proof, that the civil war was started as a proxy conflict by another country (no matter if it is a Member or not), all SU nations are obligated to follow the mutual defence clause
5. Right to vote in the pact manners
   1. Every Member gets the same voting power unless specified differently and approved by all the member nations
   2. Member can be disenfranchised according to the regulations set in further passed amendments
   3. Votes are to be public and publically shared, with no voting secrecy. Each nation's vote is to be public to both the citizens of the nation as well as citizens of the whole Union alike
6. Obligation to treat other pact member's citizens or respective minorities that are a majority or a plurality in other member country or have their home territory in other member country kindly, meaning no directed harassment or violence and offer them right to ask for a court in their home country or the country having a majority of their ethnicity in if the country is in the alliance
   1. As such, no citizen can be expelled from their country of origin or prohibited from returning to the country of origin, based on their nationality, sexual orientation, gender, sex, ethnicity, class, political orientation or religious affiliation
   2. No minority outside of those whose homeland is currently within the Sekidean Union can be directly prosecuted or attacked by the central or local authority or deported, although they are not obligated to be politically subsidized from the SU funding
7. Members shall recognize our joint history and culture and work together to protect our joint heritage
8. Members shall vote together on issues concerning culture and mineral extraction and trade
9. Every member country gets a right to make polls for others to vote, majority/plurality/unanimous vote requirements to be set in a further agreements (to be determined on a further summit requiring an unanimous vote to enact)
   1. For the addition of a new member, no current member shall be openly against the proposal (voting no) and more than ¹/₂ of the members must be in favor of the motion
   2. For suspension (= freezing of the membership voter right and representation right, but not kicking the member out), ³/₅ majority of the countries must vote in favor of the motion, while no more than ¹/₅ of the nations shall vote against
   3. For alteration or amendment of this founding document, that is the "Agreement of the merger of Shanghou Pact and Purple Community into Sekidean Union" without amedments, a ³/₅ majority is required along with no more than a single negative vote
10. Every Member is allowed to move through the Canton Canal and the Colonia-Pinžak with Military Ships, for this Canton River Delta is allowed to charge toll on the Canton Canal and the Committee formed by Renia, Zhousheng and Monte Blanco on the Colonia-Pinžak Canal
11. Members agree to protect only the mainland or the heart territory of each state, colonies remaining unprotected by the pact as their position doesn't apply to the original Pact conditions
12. If a new member asks to join, an unanimous vote is required as per §9.1 of this document. To apply, a country must be bordering the mainland of an existing pact member or have a reasonable naval connection that can not be easily disrupted by a foreign non-pact military power in the region

Functionality amendment

1. Countries get right to join a free movement area
   1. An opt-out deicision can be made by the government of the newly joining nation, not joining the free movement union
   2. A country that is already a member of the free movement area and for some reason decides to close their borders has to provide at least 2 year long transitional period, where the free movement is ensured and transitional IDs are given to people wanting to cross the border after the transitional period
2. Neither SHANGHOU PACT or PURPLE COMMUNITY have dissolved, but contain only the former member of the founding alliances, newcomers are members of neither
3. Both members and founders are member of the supranational entity – the SEKIDEAN UNION
4. All joining countries agree to give up their right to vote after 3 days of the vote, meaning that if new vote is declared on the 1^st of October at 5:37 PM GMT, all countries which have not cast their vote before 4^th of October at 5:37 PM GMT officially agree to abstain from voting, meaning that votes are concluded as if the non-participating country had voted neutrally
5. Countries agree to develop military assets using a standardized calibre for each type of weapon with the exception for armament for special forces
6. For opening of the SU-lead negotiations, more than 50% of the SU members must agree for it
7. Joining the SU must be proceeded with a unanimous (no negatives) vote and a negotiation that can be opened with official application for membership
8. To change the founding charter unanimous (no negatives) vote must be required with at least 75% of people voting in favour of the edit
9. SU mission must have at least 50% of the SU members voting in favour before it is approved
10. Country can be kicked from the Sekidean Union if at least 65% of votes on the kicking vote are for the proposal (and negative votes work like negative positives and are subtracted from the percentage)
11. On other votes, ≥50% of votes must be AYE for the vote to pass, but NAY serves as a negative aye, meaning that if there are 4 ayes and 2 nays, it is just like if there were just 2 ayes
12. No member shall join an international organization whose guidelines or binding rules contradict, break, circumvent or conflict with those of the Agreement of the merger of Shanghou Pact and Purple Community into Sekidean Union or may cause a clash of interests in a reasonably foreseeable scenario

Amendment to the Sekidean Charter regarding voting of the member entities

1. Voting is established on absolute majority of voting and rights of the member entities
2. The voting pool of the Sekidean Union is formed by the Heads of governments of the member entities
3. Every country casts a single vote, no matter the number of people forming the hypothetical collective head of government
4. Voting on regular deals and deals effecting politics takes 48 hours for the heads of governments to cast votes on their countries' behalf
5. Voting on deals affecting security and membership requires
6. Voting includes trinary system, comprising of the following options:
   1. AYE - Voting in favor of a proposal
   2. IDC - Literally meaning "I don't care", stating neutrality on the issue
   3. NAY - Voting against a proposal
7. Regular deals of the Sekidean Union
   1. Resolution needs simple majority of the votes cast to be "AYE" to pass
   2. Resolution can be fast-tracked and approved before the expiration of the voting period if the number of NAY votes can not realistically be bigger than 1/4 of the votes
      1. This number is determined using the formula ⌈n/2⌉+⌈1/2(n-⌈n/2⌉)⌉, where n is the number of members
   3. This resolutions include economic deals, cooperation treaties and decisions regarding common policy
   4. In case the proposal has not been rejected (the number of AYE votes is equal to the one of NAY votes), the vote is repeated and IDC option is removed
8. Deals effecting the politics in the Sekidean Union
   1. Resolution needs an absolute majority of all possible votes cast to be "AYE" to pass
      1. This number is determined using the formula ⌈n/2⌉, where n is the number of members
   2. Resolution can be fast-tracked and approved before the expiration of the voting period if the number of NAY votes can not realistically be bigger than 1/4 of the votes
      1. This number is determined using the formula ⌈n/2⌉+⌈1/2(n-⌈n/2⌉)⌉, where n is the number of members
   3. In case the proposal has not been rejected (still has the same amount or more AYE votes than NAY votes), but the total number of AYE votes is not the one required, the vote is repeated and IDC option is removed
9. Deals effecting the security of the Sekidean Union
   1. These deals include military excercises, entanglement in foreign conflicts or the triggering of defensive clauses outside of regular specifications as defined in the Agreement of the merger of Shanghou Pact and Purple Community into Sekidean Union
   2. NAY votes are considered to be "negative", meaning that every NAY vote is subtracted from the number of AYE votes, with the resulting number requiring to be bigger than ⌈n/2⌉, where n is the number of members
   3. If the voting ends with an inconclusive result, the vote is repeated and IDC option is removed
      1. This number is determined using the formula ⌈n/2⌉+⌈1/2(n-⌈n/2⌉)⌉, where n is the number of members
10. Deals effecting the membership in the Sekidean Union
    1. These dealts include amendments to the Sekidean Charter effecting the whole Sekidean Union and votes admitting a new member into the Sekidean Union
    2. Unanimity is required, meaning, no NAY votes can be cast and at least half of all members must vote AYE
    3. If no NAY vote is cast, but the number of AYE votes fails to reach one half of all member, the vote is repeated and IDC option is removed, and NAY no longer works as a veto

The process of application

TBA

Addition to the Sekidean Treaty System regarding the fundamental human rights of all people living within the Sekidean Union

The Sekidean Union nations agree to obey the following human rights and freedoms, obligating every nation that is a Member to obey by the following principles, but not necessairly obligating members to not add any more rights to their local governments:

1. Right to life
   1. Exceptions were carved out to for the countries which still have death penalty set for multiple crimes
   2. With exceptions for the high crime of treason
   3. With exceptions for the high crime of murder
   4. With exceptions for the high crime of espionage
   5. With exceptions for the high crime of naval piracy
   6. All of the exceptions must be approved by the Sekidean High Court before they are carried out to prevent any judicial murder
2. Right to a freedom of speech
   1. No man shall be prosecuted because of the things they said, both in private or in public
   2. With exception for hate speech and advocating for commitment of serious offences, such as murder, theft, rape, harrasment, assault or blackmail
   3. With exception for the cases, where a dangerous alarmist message is spread, such as shouting "fire" in a crowded theater
3. Right to property
   1. With exceptions for the cases where the property was gained illegally
   2. With exceptions for the cases where the nation is in a state of war and needs said property for defense purposes
   3. With exceptions for the cases of property abandonment, which shall last at least 5 years or the owner has to be consent to the confiscation
   4. With exceptions for the cases where the property imposes a public danger
   5. With exceptions for the cases where the property is blocking a publically benefitial project, in which case it may be confiscated and compensation shall be paid with no less than 50% of the property's value
4. Right to personal identity, without exceptions
   1. Including post-gender change identities
   2. The treaty doesn't specify non-binary genders, that one is questionable (though it is generally considered a part of the treaty by most)
5. Right to a freedom of assembly
   1. Applies in all cases except those specified as exceptions in §7.1 of this document and the cases labeled below
   2. With exceptions for the meeting with the purpose of conspiracy
   3. With exceptions for where the meeting may endanger public safety, such as in a state of war or during an epidemic
6. Right to a freedom of association
   1. Applies in all cases except those specified as exceptions in §7.1 of this document and the cases labeled below
   2. With exceptions for the association with the purpose of conspiracy
   3. With exceptions for where the association may endanger public safety, such as in a state of war or during an epidemic
7. Right to protest
   1. Applies in all cases except those specified as exceptions in §2.2 of this document and the cases labeled below
   2. With exceptions for violent protests, that were unprovoked by the local or national authorities' violence or provocation thereof
   3. With exceptions for extremist political rallys
   4. With exceptions for where the protest may endanger public safety, such as in a state of war or during an epidemic
8. Right to a freedom of the press
   1. Applies in all cases except those specified as exceptions in §2.2 of this document
9. Right to a freedom of religion
   1. With exceptions for the religions may be considered extremist cults
   2. With exceptions for the religions that impede on any of the other rights labelled above
10. Right to a freedom of movement
    1. With exceptions for where the movement from one location to another may endanger public safety, such as in a state of war or during an epidemic
11. Right to a freedom of thought
    1. No man shall be prosecuted because of the things they think or thought
    2. With exceptions labeled within the term conspiracy, that means bringing thoughts into action

Dokodo Union - Sekidean Union Co-operation Treaty (DUSU-COT)

Chapter 01: Pact of Non-Aggression

1. The Member States/Entities of the DU and the SU shall refrain from engaging in armed conflict with one another in order to promote social harmony and economic integration between the two blocs. The Pact of Non-Aggression formalises the association between the two blocs and ensures that neither bloc must prepare for a military advance from the other.
2. In case there is a possibility of armed conflict between the DU and SU members, the DUSU-COT DEM (De-escalation Mechanism) shall go into action.
   1. The COT-DEM is designed to ensure co-operation between members of the two blocs and allows for a passive, non-militaristic method of conflict resolution
   2. A member from one of the blocs shall be chosen to provide a space for discussions between the member states/entities involved with conflict and a member state/entity from the other bloc shall be expected to provide staff and moderation to facilitate the discussions for de-escalation and resolution
3. The states who shall participate in the facilitation of de-escalation must be un-involved in the said conflict and the roles of the two states shall be decided by a lottery system
4. In the case that the COT-DEM fails to achieve de-escalation and an armed conflict blows out between member states/entities of the DU and the SU, the mutual defense clauses that are a part of both blocs shall remain inactive, meaning, other member states/entities of the bloc shall have no legal obligation to provide military support in the instance of armed conflict between DU and SU member states/entities
5. In the stead of mutual defense, the un-involved DU and SU nations would be expected to collaborate and ensure a quick end to armed conflict while also ensuring minimal collateral damage due to the armed conflict
6. In case an armed conflict does break out between DU and SU members, a tribunal consiting of at least 2 DU and 2 SU nations shall be formed to adjudicate on the penalities to be imposed on the member states/entities participating in the armed conflict, as well as deliver justice by conducting free and fair trials for war criminals

Chapter 02: Free Trade Association

1. The member states/entities agree to enter into a free trade alliance, meaning goods originating in member states/entities of one bloc shall not charged any form of duties, tariffs or quotas while getting imported into the member states/entities of the other bloc
2. Nations would be encouraged to ensure an easy movement of goods and services between blocs by removing physical and other barriers to trade, but there shall be no legal obligation under this treaty to eliminate such physical barriers
3. The Free Trade Association would recognize certain goods and services as unique cultural heritage of certain nations, upon submission of a list of such goods and services, and members shall be allowed to apply certain trade restrictions on such goods and services

Chapter 03: Customs Agreements

1. The DU and the SU shall, for the sake of economic integration, form a Customs Group
   1. The Customs Group would be a body made up of representatives of all member states/entities of the DU and the SU
   2. The Group shall have no binding legal powers but shall be a place for deliberation on customs regulation
2. The DU and the SU shall make use of the Customs Group to deliberate upon and try arriving at the same or similar customs regulations, essentially matching each other in custom regulations, allowing for the smooth functioning of the Free Trade Association
3. Since the Customs Group has no binding legal authority, no bloc is obligated to follow regulations, but for improving economic relationships it would be in the best interest of both blocs to deliberate and apply at least similar customs regulations and policies

Chapter 04: Social Integration

1. Both blocs shall be encouraged to remove travel restrictions on individuals from the other bloc allowing for easier movement of people between the two blocs both for business and travel purposes
2. Member States/Entities within both blocs shall also be encouraged to reduce restrictions on naturalisation for individuals from the other bloc to allow for more effective social integration and cultural exchange
3. The DU and the SU shall establish a DUSU student scholarship programme:
   1. This shall be a scholarship programme administered jointly by the DU and the SU by forming a Scholarship Group comprising of 2 nominated representatives from each bloc who shall be the Board of Governors for the Scholarship
   2. The BoG shall decide the number of scholarships made available to students from each member state/entity for each year
   3. The Scholarships shall allow students enrolled in schools and universities of DU and SU member states/entities to study in a member state/entity of the other bloc for one academic year
   4. The scholarship shall cover for tuition, housing, food and minor recreation for each of the participants

Amendment to allow establishment of control systems within the Sekidean Treaty System

TBA

Agreement of the Sekidean Union in regards to the defence of the member entities

TBA

On establishment of the Inner Sekidean Union

TBA