*** Rules for TCNomic:
  * Rules 73
  * Offices 7
  * Officers 7
  * Players 1
  * Proposals 0
  * Petitions 0

*** Rules

0) GENERAL PROVISIONS

   0] "Titles, Sections and Numbering" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The Rules shall be gathered into a collection of numbered Titles,
    each of which shall consist of zero or more numbered Sections. 
    No Title or Section may be numbered less than 0; no two Titles or
    two Sections within the same Title may have the same Number.  The
    first Section in each Title should be numbered Zero (0). 
    Subsequent sections added to a Title are given the next unused
    Number in that Section."

   1] "Citations" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "An individual Rule may be cited within another Rule by specifying
    its Title and Section numbers (e.g. this is Rule 0-1)."

   2] "All and Only" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "These Rules shall govern all activities of those Entities
    described within these Rules.  No Entity described within these
    Rules may act in a manner prohibited by the Rules while that
    Entity is under the jurisdiction of the Rules."

   3] "Other Behavior" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Any action which is not explicitly prohibited by the Rules is
    permitted without regulation, with the sole exception of changing
    the rules, which is permitted only when a rule or set of rules
    explicitly or implicitly permits it."

   4] "Office of the Rulekeeper" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "There shall be an Officer, called the Rulekeeper, who shall
    maintain a record of all the Rules according to the Nomic 1.0 DTD
    published at
    http://www.technocage.com/~caskey/nomic/nomic-1.0.dtd."

   5] "Formats" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "All dates and times are referenced according to ISO8601.  All
    documents are in XML 1.0 and must validate against their
    corresponding DTDs.  No official document may exist without a
    corresponding DTD."

   6] "Title and Section Names" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "In addition to being numbered according to Rule 0-0, both
    Sections and Titles shall have brief descriptive names. 
    Furthermore, Sections will have a Body.  The Body of a Section is
    the part of the Section which comprises the Rule."


1) PLAYERS

   0] "Players are..." /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Player is a person who has been registered to play Nomic.  A
    Player may not be registered or deregistered except as provided
    by the Rules."

   1] "Registration Announcements" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A person may, at any time, announce their intent to play Nomic,
    and thus become registered as a Player.  Such announcement must
    be made such that all current Players may receive it."

   2] "Deregistration Announcements" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Player may, at any time, announce that e no longer intends to
    play Nomic, and thus cease to be registered as a Player."

   3] "Rule Bound" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "While a person is registered as a Player, e is bound by the Rules
    of Nomic, and must abide by them at all times."

   4] "Chicken" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Player always has the option to forfeit the game rather than
    continue to play or incur a game penalty.  No penalty worse than
    losing, in the judgement of the Player to incur it, may be
    imposed."

   5] "Office of the Registrar" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "There shall be an Officer, called the Registrar, who shall
    maintain a list of all registered Players."

   6] "Minimum Players" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Play shall occur only when there are at least four registered
    Players.  If, at any time, there are less than four registered
    Players, the Game is suspended, and the only actions which may
    take place within the Game are the registration and
    deregistration of Players, and all matters pertaining to
    Petitions and Judgements."


2) ENDING THE GAME

   0] "End by Declaration of Winner" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The game shall end when a winner is declared, either by a rule or
    by an entity with the power to delare a winner."

   1] "End by Paradox" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "If a Player believes that the rules are such that further play is
    impossible, or that the legality of a move cannot be determined
    with finality, or that a move appears equally legal and illegal,
    then the Player may invoke judgement under the rules of Title 7,
    on a statement to that effect.  If the statement is judged TRUE,
    then the Player who invoked the judgement shall be declared the
    winner of that game with no provision for starting another game."


   "This rule takes precidence over every other rule determining the
    winner of the game."


3) SCORING

   0] "Starting Score" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Each Player shall, upon registering, have a score of zero
    Points."

   1] "Changing the Score" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Player's Score may not be changed except as specified in the
    Rules."

   2] "Office of the Scorekeeper" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "There shall exist an Officer, called the Scorekeeper, who shall
    maintain a record of the scores of every Player."

   3] "Points for Voting" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Player shall receive 1 Point for each Vote cast.	This award is
    received at the end of the Voting Period in which the Vote was
    cast."


4) RULE CHANGES

   0] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Rule Change shall be exactly one of the following:
     a) the enactment of a new Rule,
     b) the repeal of an existing Rule,
     c) the ammendment of an existing rule, or
     d) the change of an existing Rule's status to/from Immutable
    No other type of Rule Change is legal."

   1] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Rule Change which enacts a new Rule shall state the Title and
    Section Numbers of the new Rule; if the Title does not already
    exist, the Rule Change shall also state the name of the new
    Title.  No new Rule may be enacted with the same Title and
    Section number of any previously enaced Rule, whether or not the
    previous Rule still exists.  A Rule Change which does not comply
    with this Rule shall have no effect."

   2] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Rule Change may affect any portion of the Rules, including
    those Rules pertaining to Rule Changes."

   3] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "It shall never be completely impossible to change the Rules.  Any
    Rule Change which would result in this state of affairs shall
    have no effect."

   4] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "No Rule may be changed except as the direct result of the
    application of another Rule, or the adoption of a Proposal."

   5] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "An Immutable Rule may not be changed, or a Mutable Rule made
    Immutable, except as the direct result of the application of
    another Immutable Rule, or the adoption of a Proposal which
    required at least twice as many votes in favor as opposed to be
    adopted."


5) PROPOSALS

   0] "Office of the Speaker" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "There shall exist an Officer, known as the Speaker, who shall be
    responsible for administering the process of making and voting
    upon Proposals."

   1] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The Speaker shall assign each Proposal e receives a Proposal
    Number.  E shall then distribute the Proposal to all Players,
    after which the Players shall then Vote upon it."

   2] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The first Proposal shall be numbered 0, and each subsequent
    Proposal shall receive the next higher integer.  Proposals are
    referenced with the prefix "P-" and their number (e.g. the first
    proposal would be P-0)."

   3] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Any Proposal which is adopted shall take effect in the exact form
    it was Voted upon."

   4] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "No Proposal may be adopted without a properly-conducted Vote in
    which it has received the required number of Votes and in which
    Quorum has been achieved."

   5] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Unless otherwise specified, a Proposal shall be adopted if and
    only if it receives more YEA Votes than NAY Votes."

   6] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Proposal containing a Rule Change which in any way changes an
    Immutable Rule, or which makes a Mutable Rule into an Immutable
    Rule, shall be adopted if and only if it receives more than twice
    as many YEA Votes as NAY Votes."

   7] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "When a Proposal is adopted, the Rule Changes it contains shall be
    applied to the Rules in the order they appear in the Proposal."

   8] "Office of the Scribe" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "There shall be an Officer, called the Scribe, who shall maintain
    a complete historical record of all Proposals made, by whom, and
    their final outcome."

   9] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Draft Proposals are to be submitted to the Speaker by their
    Sponsor and a request that they be assigned a Number and
    distributed to the Players for voting."

   10] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Only the current Fool, as defined in Rule 8-2, may Sponsor a
    Proposal."


6) VOTING

   0] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Vote shall commence at the moment the Proposal to be Voted upon
    is distributed to the Players, and shall last for a Voting Period
    of seven days."

   1] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Quorum is defined as 75% of the registered Voters at the
    beginning of the prescribed Voting Period.	For a Vote to meet
    Quorum, at least this many Voters must Vote."

   2] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Each Voter registered at the beginning of the Voting Period shall
    have one Vote."

   3] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "All Players are Voters."

   4] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "An individual Vote may consist of one and only one of YEA, NAY or
    ABSTAIN.  Votes must be clear and unconditional."

   5] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Only those Votes cast between the beginning and the end of the
    Voting Period on a given Proposal are valid; all others are not."


7) JUDGEMENTS & RULE APPLICATION

   0] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Certain Rules may, in accordance with other Rules, be designated
    as Immutable.  Immutable Rules always take precedence over
    Mutable Rules, even if another Rule states otherwise."

   1] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "If two or more mutable rules conflict with one another, or if two
    or more immutable rules conflict with one another, then the rule
    least recently enacted or ammended takes precidence, unless one
    of the Rules involved explicitly claims or yields precedence to
    the others, in which case that provision shall govern precidence.
     If, however, two or more of the Rules in conflict claim
    precedence over one another, or yield in precidence to one
    another, the chronological method shall again govern precidence."

   2] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "For the purpose of Rule 7-1, the Initial Rules shall be
    considered to have been sequentially enacted in the order they
    appear, by Title and by Section within each Title."

   3] "(unnamed)" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "No Rule shall have retroactive effect or application.  No Rule
    shall have any legal force prior to the moment it is enacted, any
    Rule to the contrary notwithstanding."

   4] "Office of the Clerk" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "There shall be an Officer, known as the Clerk, who shall be
    responsible for administering the operation of the Courts."

   5] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "If a Player believes an Action to have been in violation of the
    Rules, or disagrees with the interpretation or application of the
    Rules, e may submit a Petition for Judgement (PFJ) to the Clerk."

   6] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The Clerk, upon receiving a Petition in accordance with 7-5 shall
    assign it a number and select a Judge to rule on it.  E shall
    then distribute the Petition to all Players and announce the
    identity of the Judge."

   7] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The first Petition shall be numbered 0, and each subsequent
    petition shall receive the next higher integer.  Petitions are
    referenced with the prefix "PFJ-" and their number (e.g. the
    first petition would be PFJ-0)."

   8] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The Judge of a Petition shall be selected at random from all
    Players not barred or recused on that Petition."

   9] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The submitter of a Petition is barred from being assigned to
    Judge it."

   10] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "If there are no Players not barred or recused from a given
    Petition, all Players recused on that Petition shall again be
    considered eligible for selection.	If there are still no
    eligible Players, all Players barred, excluding the Player
    submitting the Petition, shall be considered eligible for
    selection."

   11] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Once a Judge has been assigned, e has seven days from the date of
    distribution of the Petition to render their decision.  If the
    Judge fails to render a decision in that time, or upon their
    request, e shall be recused, and a new Judge shall be selected."

   12] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The Judge of a Petition shall deliver their Judgement by
    submitting it to the Clerk, who shall then Distribute it to all
    Players."

   13] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Judgement is one of TRUE, FALSE or UNDECIDED.  The Judge may
    choose to include reasons or arguments along with their
    Judgement, but such reasons and arguments are not part of the
    Judgement.	If the Judge chooses to include reasons and arguments
    along with their Judgement, these shall be distributed along with
    the Judgement itself."

   14] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "All Judgements shall be made in accordance to the Rules.  If the
    Rules are silent, inconsistent, or unclear, the Judge shall
    consider game custom and the spirit of the Game before applying
    other standards."

   15] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The Clerk shall, in addition to their other duties, maintian a
    complete historical record of all Petitions for Judgement, the
    Judgements rendered upon them and by whom."


8) TURN SEQUENCE

   0] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Game play consists of Rounds in which each Player has one Turn. 
    After the end of one Player's Turn, it becomes the the next
    Player's Turn.  The order of Turns is dictated by the
    chronological order of Player Registrations as recorded by the
    Registrar."

   1] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "It may only be one Player's Turn at a time."

   2] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The current Player, while executing their Turn is designated as
    the Fool."

   3] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "A Player's Turn ends immediately and concurrently with the
    completion of a Vote on that Player's Proposal, or, if no
    Proposal has been submitted to the Speaker, seven days (168
    hours) after the beginning of that Player's Turn."

   4] "Office of the Turnmaster" /immutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "There shall be an Officer, called the Turnmaster, who, after the
    end of one Player's Turn, shall announce the beginning of the
    next Player's Turn to all Players.	The date and time of this
    announcement will serve as the starting time of that Player's
    Turn."


9) THE SPEAKER; OTHER OFFICERS

   0] "Singular Officers" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "For every Office required by the Rules, there must be exactly one
    Player filling that Office at any given time."

   1] "Default Officer" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "In the event that an Office would not otherwise be filled by a
    Player (by resignation, deregistration, or other reason), the
    Speaker shall fill that Office."

   2] "(unnamed)" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "If the Office of the Speaker would otherwise not be filled, the
    Player with the highest Score shall be Speaker.  If there are two
    or more Players with the same highest Score, the Player whose
    name lexicographically preceds that of the other's shall become
    Speaker."

   3] "Power of Appointment" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The Speaker shall have the power to appoint another Player to
    fill any Office the Speaker is currently filling, provided that
    the Player consents.  However, the Speaker may never appoint
    another Player to become Speaker.  This Rule yields to any Rule
    which designates another means to fill an Office."

   4] "Right of Resignation" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "An Officer may resign their Office at any time by informing the
    Speaker of their resignation.  However, the Player currently
    holding the Office of Speaker may never resign any Office e holds
    in this fashion."

   5] "Public Records" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "If the Rules require an Officer to maintain any sort of records,
    then those Records must be made available for the perusal of
    every Player, unless the Rules specify otherwise."

   6] "Mandatory Records Transfer" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "Upon any change of the holder of an Office, the former
    Officeholder shall transfer all records pertaining to that Office
    to the new Officeholder."

   7] "/dev/random" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "If the Rules require that a random designation be made, but do
    not specify a Player who is to make that determination, the
    Speaker shall do so."

   8] "Directory of Officers" /mutable/ 
   Voted on 2005-02-17 (1 yea, 0 nay, 0 abstain) 

   "The Registrar shall, in addition to their other duties, maintain
    a record of which Players hold which Offices."


*** Offices

   Office of the Speaker
    Officer: Caskey <caskey-AT-technocage.com>
   Office of the Rulekeeper
    Officer: Caskey <caskey-AT-technocage.com>
   Office of the Registrar
    Officer: Caskey <caskey-AT-technocage.com>
   Office of the Scorekeeper
    Officer: Caskey <caskey-AT-technocage.com>
   Office of the Scribe
    Officer: Caskey <caskey-AT-technocage.com>
   Office of the Clerk
    Officer: Caskey <caskey-AT-technocage.com>
   Office of the Turnmaster
    Officer: Caskey <caskey-AT-technocage.com>

   "Current Fool: *None*"


*** Players

  'Caskey' <caskey-AT-technocage.com> Score: 0

*** Proposals


*** Petitions


*** END