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Sekidean Charter published as a book, translated into Zhoushi

The Agreement of the merger of Shanghou Pact and Purple Community into Sekidean Union, commonly referred to as the Sekidean Charter, is a set of agreements bound into a single charter that guide and set basic rules of the Sekidean Union. All countries joining the Union are obligated to obey said rules as a condition for their acession.

History

TBA

The agreement itself

Agreement of the merger of Shanghou Pact and Purple Community into Sekidean Union
Presented23 June 1982
Ratified14 November 1982
Date effective1 January 1983
LocationGimyeong, Prei Meas
Author(s)Ulman Чuчlik, former Zhoushi president
Signatories
Media typeInternational Document
PurposeBetter stability in the region

Used terms and synonyms

  • Country applicating for the SU membership - The Applicant, Applicant
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Original agreement

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

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 memebrs 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 Gadorien, 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 1st of October at 5:37 PM GMT, all countries which have not cast their vote before 4th 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

Voting amendment

The process of application

Inalienable rights

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 to the high crime of treason
    3. With exceptions to the high crime of murder
    4. With exceptions to the high crime of espionage
    5. With exceptions to 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. Freedom of speech
    1. No man shall be prosecuted because of the things they said, both in private or in public
    2. With exception to hate speech and advocating for commitment of serious offences, such as murder, theft, rape, harrasment, assault or blackmail
    3. With exception to the cases, where a dangerous alarmist message is spread, such as shouting "fire" in a crowded theater
  3. Right to property
    1. With exceptions to the cases where the property was gained illegally
    2. With exceptions to the cases where the nation is in a state of war and needs said property for defense purposes
    3. With exceptions to 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 to the cases where the property imposes a public danger
    5. With exceptions to 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

Dokodo cooperation amendment

Tribunal amendment

State of war

Inner and Outer Union

Trade amendment

Climate amendment

Sekinar monetary policy

See also: Sekidean Union, Inner Sekidean Union, Dokodo Union, and Sekinar

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