YOU THE NORTHERN COMPACT/ standing 7.4 · you are the indicting party
ORDER PAPER CYCLE 19
STANDING LAW 31 IN FORCE
Resolutions stack and repeal costs more than passage. A bloc that passed three boring
trade laws in Act I has locked in a legal environment for the whole world, and the
counterplay was to have shown up.
Tribunal 147-A · vote window open
THE NORTHERN COMPACT v. THE CONSORTIUM OF THE SOUTH
Indictment: concealment of ordnance holdings in excess of declaration.
Filed turn 145 by the Federal Republic of the Northern Compact.
The Chairwoman, Perpetual Secretary
"The floor recognises the Federal Republic of the Northern Compact."
(pause)
"Whose indictment rests on a single shipping manifest, photographed rather than
obtained, by a source the Federal Republic grades C, and which the Federal Republic
has not corroborated in the four turns it has held it."
"The Consortium has submitted a Provenance Analysis. I am obliged to read the figure
aloud, and I intend to read it twice."
Evidence 147-A-1
submitted turn 145 by the Northern Compact
Shipping manifest, Aden commercial letterhead
Document date turn 331 by its own header. Photographed in situ. Claims an ordnance
stockpile of 340 at the Pretoria depot complex, against a declared figure of 190.
Provenance chain, as submitted
Origin
An Aden commercial intermediary
not a party to these proceedings
Collection
FIELD AGENT, grade C, photographed in place
turn 143
Corroboration
None offered
the Compact's own signals collection reads 190
Analysis, run by the accused, in public
31% confidence of authenticity
a confidence, never a verdict. It does not say the document is forged.
Provenance Analysis returns a confidence, never a verdict. 31% is not a finding
of forgery and every delegate in the room knows it. It is a number twenty-four
intelligence services will now vote on, weighted by how much each of them wants the
Consortium to be guilty.
The defence · delivered turn 146
197 / 200
"We declared 190 on turn 128 and every eight turns since, to this body, in writing.
The Compact has a photograph of a piece of paper. We invite them to say who printed it.
We have asked twice. They have not answered."
The Chairwoman
"Thirty-one per cent."
(pause)
"Thirty-one per cent. Does the Federal Republic wish to withdraw the indictment before
the vote, or would it prefer the record?"
Your right of reply · 200 characters, one turn, written by you
0 / 200
Withdrawing costs the Pretext and 8 Legitimacy. Losing the vote costs the Pretext,
18 Legitimacy and the Consortium. There is no option on this screen that gives you
the turn back.
A Tribunal is not a trial. It is twenty-four intelligence services voting on how much
they believe a document, weighted by how much they want it to be true, in a room where
at least three of them know it is fake and one of them made it.
TALLY STANDING-WEIGHTED
For
0
Against
0
Abstain
0
Standing = 0.35 dominion + 0.30 legitimacy + 0.20 treaty network + 0.15 straits.
Military strength contributes nothing. A Chamber with the largest army
on Earth and no friends is a nobody in this room.
BUY A VOTE OFF THE BOOKS
1st vote
14 LEV
2nd vote
26 LEV
3rd vote
47 LEV
You hold
43 LEV
Buying is possible and expensive. It is also detectable by anyone running a network in
Valletta, and the Chairwoman annotates everything.
You would need three, and you can afford two.
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