Galactic Council Charter

(Revised turn 1595)

• The Galactic Council shall be comprised of representatives from multiple alliances and politically active independent ships.
  
  
• Factions seeking participation on the council must define their group as an alliance, must have a common mission, ideology or set of goals, and must take responsibility for the actions of their members.
  
  
• All council discussions shall take place on the tbg_presidential@yahoo.com discussion board, and the board shall only be used to conduct official government business.
  
  
• Votes within the council shall be weighed by the number of votes held by each respective faction.
  
  
• The President, the Ministers and the Tribune are automatically conferred seats on the council, and each member alliance may send three additional representatives, separate from the positions already noted.
  
  
• Due to the volatile nature of the Tribune position, the Tribune must win three consecutive elections to qualify for council membership. Galactic criminals, as determined by the council, are automatically ineligible for any form of government participation.
  
  
• All membership requests shall be deliberated by the full council, and the decisions of the council shall be held independent of the relations between individual alliances even in times of war.
  
  
• The president is free to secure private votes from ships outside of the council, but these ships will only have a voice on the council if a majority (by votes held) of existing representatives agree. Supporters of the presidency at the time of the council's founding aren't subject to this majority review.
  
  
• All members in good standing shall be expected to vote for the presidential candidate agreed upon by the general council. Discussions about changes to the presidential platform, including candidate selection, shall occur on every third presidential election term (30 turns).
  
  
• Member alliances shall be given a ministerial position if they have a qualifying candidate that has not been rejected by the Tribune. If sufficient positions are unavailable, the final decision falls to the president, with due respect to the council. Alliances' claims have no priorities over agreements with independent ships supporting the presidency.
  
  
• All trade, rogue and 10%+ plague data gathered by the government shall be made available to the general public on the POI (Presidential Office of Information) page.
  
  
• Module production shall be announced the turn of production on the POI page or in the SST or both.
  
  
• All ministers shall provide the president with the means to automatically read their "Report from Alien ships", though they may optionally filter out the ship location and configuration data if they prefer to not share this data with the council. The president shall provide a combined alien ship report to all contributors on a turnly basis, typically by means of an automated script. Contributors who do not share full ship data with the government shall only be eligible to receive a limited version of the combined alien report that has this data filtered out.
  
  
• To reduce the incidence of voting mishaps, the council shall maintain a list of ships that are considered friendly to the council's administration. At a minimum, the supporter list shall include all sitting representatives of the council and shall also include any independent supporters or participating alliance members that wish to be listed. The supporter list shall not be circulated outside of the council or its member alliances. Taking votes from ships on the supporter list shall be off limits unless prior consent is arranged. The president and his ministers shall not be allowed to threaten or attack ships for diminishing their influence or taking over their worlds unless they had at least 50 influence at that world at the time of the attack.
  
  
• Council representatives shall be kept abreast of any module production requests and shall be given input on production priority. The president shall maintain the final word on production, but the process shall be handled more democratically than it has in the past. Any member may discontinue participation on the council without military sanctions so long as any change of affiliation is announced to the council beforehand and takes place on the turn following a given election.
  
  
• Any member may discontinue participation on the council without military sanctions so long as any change of affiliation is announced to the council beforehand and takes place on the turn following a given election.