Nation of Yordstland

## BACKGROUND:

The Nation of Yorgenheiim is a country located in the west side of Iaddithis, with it having claims in an oak forest and plains biome. The country was founded on January the 25th 2022, off the large town Yorgenheiim, in which its people wanted to become their own nation which they would therefore help grow into a great one. The country's government form is a constitutional monarchy that has a council to help make important decisions within the nation.

## HISTORY:

### Yorgenheiims Founding and Development (November 12th-Current Day)

November 12th marked the day that the nations capital, Yorgenheiim, was founded. Yorgenheiim originally joined the great nation of Solaris, one of the first nations that was founded in Iaddithis. Yorgenheiim quickly grew in the citizens department, and with this lots of expansion and development occurred.

#### The Original

On November 10th ashdinosaur05 founded Old Yorgenheiim, around 200 blocks away from New Yorgenheiim. He spent 2 days constructing some basic buildings before deciding the terrain was undesirable to build on. This led him to disband Old Yorgenheiim and start a new town, traveling a couple hundred blocks away from Old Yorgenheiim then eventually finding the perfect place to start building New Yorgenheiim.

#### The First Town

On November the 12th ashdinosaur05 spent 2 Minecraft days traveling around the area of Old Yorgenheiim to the site of New Yorgenheiim. He constructed the original spawn point, a town square, a house for himself and a port with markets in it. Shortly after this he recruited EvolvedLizard and a couple others to help him with the town, leading to Yorgenheiim as you see it now.

#### Independence

Yorgenheiim became independent sometime in January 2022, starting the nation Yordstland. Since then it has developed a constitution and multiple other towns.

#### CMP Admission

On the 22nd of January 2022, Yordstland officially joined the CMP (Coalition of Minor Powers). This showed they had truly become independent, as they were now acting as their own nation.

#### Yordstlands wealth

Alot of Yordstlands wealth is held in gold and items, with Yordstland currently having over 300k in gold blocks. This is used as backup money in case Yordstland ever needs resources or armor for war.

### Alliances

The current allies of Yordstland are Tennu, the CMP, the Aerilon Commonwealth and Acinusia.

### Events

The main event in Yorgenheiim is the Party of a Thousand Suns. This occurs once every 1000 in game days and where all citizens come together to worship their god, and drink the night away.

## Yordstland Constitution:

Article 1: Yordstland shall be a constitutional monarchy. It shall ensure every citizen is equal, and will not face discrimination before the law. It shall respect all beliefs and opinions based off these beliefs.

Article 2: The national flag shall be the red, blue and cyan striped flag with the yellow and white circle in the middle. The maxim of Yordstland will be “expand and conquer”. Every citizen of Yordstland shall have the right to vote a representative into power once every 3 months.

Article 3: The King of Yordstland shall ensure due respect to the constitution. He shall also ensure the proper functioning of the authorities and the continuity of the State. He shall be the guarantor of national independence, territorial integrity and due respect for Treaties.

Article 4: The representative of the public will be elected for a term of one month. No representative may be in the Council for more than two consecutive terms. The manner of implementation of this article shall be decided by the King.

Article 5: The representative of the public will be elected by the majority of votes cast. If such a majority is not obtained on the first ballot, a second ballot shall take place two days thereafter. Only the two candidates with the majority of votes in the first ballot may stand in the second ballot. In the case of a vacancy, or where the incapacity of the King is declared to be permanent by the council, the heir of the King shall take his place. If the King has no heir, a new monarch shall be elected by the Council. This shall be decided within five days of the King being declared gone. In the event of death or incapacitation of any candidates within the five days where a new monarch is being elected, the election can be postponed by up to three days.

Article 6: The King shall preside over the Council.

Article 7: The King shall promulgate Acts of Parliament within seven days following the final passage of an Act and its transmission to the Council. He may, before the expiry of this time limit, ask the Council to reopen the debate on the Act or any sections thereof.

Article 8: The King shall sign the Ordinances and Decrees deliberated upon in the Council. He shall make appointments to the civil and military posts of the State.

Article 9: The King shall be Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. He shall preside over the higher national defense councils and committees.

Article 10: Where the institutions of the Council, the independence of the Nation, the integrity of its territory or the fulfillment of its international commitments are under serious and immediate threat, and where the proper functioning of the constitutional public authorities is interrupted, the King shall take measures required by these circumstances, after formally consulting the Council. He shall address the Nation and inform it of such measures.

Article 11: The King is vested with the power to give individual pardons.

Article 12: The Council shall determine and conduct the policy of the Nation. It shall have at its disposal the civil service and the armed forces.

Article 13: The Prime Minister shall direct the actions of the Council. He shall be responsible for national defense. He shall ensure the implementation of legislation. Subject to article 9, he shall have power to make regulations and shall make appointments to civil and military posts.

Article 14: The King shall negotiate and ratify treaties. He shall be informed of any negotiations for the conclusion of an international agreement not subject to ratification.

Article 15: The King shall be the guarantor of the independence of the Judicial Authority. He shall be assisted by the High Council of the Judiciary.

Article 16: The High Council of the Judiciary shall consist of a section with jurisdiction over judges and a section with jurisdiction over public prosecutors

Article 17:The only instance where someone shall be sentenced to death is if they are a traitor to the nation. A traitor will be someone who has stolen important materials and killed other nation members.

Article 18: Members of the Government shall be criminally liable for acts performed in the holding of their office and classified as serious crimes or other major offenses at the time they were committed. They shall be tried by the Court of Justice. The Court of Justice shall be bound by such definition of serious crimes and other major offenses and such determination of penalties as are laid down by statute.

Article 19: The Defender of Rights shall ensure the due respect of rights and freedoms by state administrations, territorial communities, public legal entities, as well as by all bodies carrying out a public service mission or by those that the Institutional Act decides fall within his remit.

Article 20: The King, on the recommendation of the Council, shall have the right to initiate amendments to the Constitution.

### Declaration of Human and Civil rights

Article 1: People are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on considerations of the common good.

Article 2: The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of Mankind. These rights are Liberty, Property, Safety and Resistance to Oppression.

Article 3: The principle of any Sovereignty lies primarily in the Nation. No corporate body, no individual may exercise any authority that does not expressly emanate from it.

Article 4: Liberty consists of being able to do anything that does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of mankind has no bounds other than those that ensure to the other members of society the enjoyment of these same rights. These bounds may be determined only by Law.

Article 5: The law has the ability to forbid actions that could harm others. Nothing that is not forbidden by law may be hindered.

Article 6: The law is the expression of the general will. The citizens may take part, through themselves or representatives, in its making. It must be the same for all, whether it be protecting or punishing.

Article 7: No person may be accused, arrested or detained unless determined by the law, and following the procedure in which it has described.

Article 8: The Law must prescribe only the punishments that are strictly and evidently necessary; and no one may be punished except by virtue of a Law drawn up and promulgated before the offense is committed, and legally applied.

Article 9: As every person is presumed innocent until he has been declared guilty, if it should be considered necessary to arrest him, any undue harshness that is not required to secure his person must be severely curbed by Law.

Article 10: Noone may disturbed on account of their opinions, unless these opinions do not interfere with the established Law and Order.

Article 11: The free communication of ideas and of opinions is one of the most precious rights of man. Any citizen may therefore speak, write and publish freely, except what is tantamount to the abuse of this liberty in the cases determined by Law.

Article 12: To guarantee these human rights are respected there shall be a public representative that resides in the Council.

Article 13: Society has the right to ask a public official for an accounting of his administration.

Article 14: Noone shall live in poverty within the nation.

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