Umbrella

Charter of Umbrella
Article I: Admittance to the Umbrella 1. Nations wishing to apply for membership in the alliance must publicly state their desire to do so. A member of the triumvirate must then approve their application, following this, a public interview of the applying nation open to all members of the alliance lasting a period of one hundred and twenty hours will be conducted. Afterwards, a poll will be held open to all members of the alliance lasting a period of seventy-two hours. If a majority of the votes are in favor of approving the applying nation, that nation will become a member of the alliance.

Article II: The Government of the Umbrella 1. The complete power of the government shall be vested in a triumvirate charged with maintaining and directing the entirety of the affairs of the alliance. Each member of the triumvirate shall have complete power over the alliance and its members unless a decision requires a Majority, Supermajority, or Public Majority as defined in Article III. 2. The members of the triumvirate shall be elected by a vote in which all members of the alliance may participate. Members of the triumvirate shall serve terms of three months; after three months, an election shall be held with all eligible candidates. After a period of seventy-two hours from the opening of the election, the election shall be closed and the candidate with the most votes shall replace the current member of the triumvirate. 3. An eligible candidate for inclusion in an election is one who has been a member of the alliance for longer than two months, has been nominated by a second member of the alliance who is not a current member of the triumvirate, and has had said nomination seconded by a third member of the alliance who is not a current member of the triumvirate. 4. Elections shall be staggered by a period of at least one week such that at any given time there will exist a member of the triumvirate who has been present in the triumvirate for at least two weeks. 5. If a member of the triumvirate is removed from office prematurely, the remaining two members of the triumvirate shall immediately appoint a temporary third member of the triumvirate other than the member removed. Candidates may be nominated during the forty-eight hour period following the removal of the member of the triumvirate, following this, if there is at least one eligible candidate, they will be subject to elections as defined in Article II: 2. If there are no eligible candidates within forty-eight hours of the removal of the member of the triumvirate, the temporary member of the triumvirate will serve the remainder of the removed member's term.

Article III: Majority, Supermajority, and Public Majority Decisions 1. A Majority decision requires the consent of at least two members of the triumvirate. 1a. Decisions requiring a Majority: The overriding of a decision by a member of the triumvirate. 2. A Supermajority decision requires the consent of all three members of the triumvirate. 2a. Decisions requiring a Supermajority: A declaration of war. 3. A Public Majority decision requires a public poll in which all members of the alliance may participate. After a period of one hundred and twenty hours from the opening of the election, the election shall be closed. If more than half of the current members of the alliance have voted and one decision has recieved three fourths of the vote or greater, that decision will be ratified. 3a. Decisions requiring a Public Majority: An amendment to the charter; the premature removal of a member of the triumvirate, the signing of treaties with foreign alliances.

Article IV: The Policies of the Umbrella 1. All members of the alliance must bear the alliance affiliation of Umbrella. 2. All members of the alliance must be present on the black trading sphere after at most ten days following the joining the alliance unless given exemption by the triumvirate. 3. No member may speak on behalf of the alliance unless directed to do so by the triumvirate. 4. No member of the alliance may declare war on another nation unless the alliance as a whole is at war with that nation or that nation's alliance.