United Nations of History Scope

The following is the latest version of a document written by current UNHS Speaker Manatite titled "*What is the UNHS?*"

     What is the UNHS? ₍ᵥ₁.₃₎

(WRITER:MANATITE)-(EDITOR:MANATITE)

United Nations of History Scope

Official Document

The United Nations of History Scope (UNHS) is a group of nations on the History Scope Minecraft server, aimed at co-operating & working together to achieve greater things than we could ever do alone. This union’s primary goal to help nations grow and prosper through numerous initiatives designed and developed by the people to serve the people that need it most. This union not to be a military pact.

Purpose:

‣ UNHS members can call for help at any time when the UNHS nation is attacked by a non-UNHS aggressor;

‣ Protect and aid developing nations within the UNHS;

‣ Allowing nations to prepare 10 minutes before being attacked;

‣ A UNHS court system allows for international disputes to be settled more easily, making judgement a less rough process (in the process of being implemented)

‣ Councils dedicated to helping specific sectors develop (e.g. public farms) to be discussed(edited)

Joining and leaving:

‣ One must be part of a HS nation in order for the individual to join the UNHS;

‣ Nations can join or leave the UNHS at any time they wish;

‣ Nations may be removed from the UNHS for misconduct if any of the outlined rules in this document are evidently broken.

Structure:

‣ Should occur every Sunday at 2pm & 7pm (UTC+0);

‣ Usually have specific topics of discussion, with the conversation directed by the UNHS Speaker;

‣ Sessions occur both in Discord voice call and in-game;

‣ Attendees to the in-game meetings can be either representatives or spectators (WARNING: disruptive spectators have the potential to be killed by UNHS representatives in case of misconduct);

‣ Meeting discussions can take place in the #unhs-meeting-chat as well as the 'Leaders' voice channel on Discord

‣ Will happen in #voting on the UNHS Discord server

‣ UNHS Speaker should put up these votes;

‣ The usual voting should be 'Yes', 'No', or 'Neutral/Undecided/Hesitant';

‣ 'Undecided' votes are not counted;

‣ Votes can only be cast by the representatives (leaders or otherwise) of their respective nations, else they are discounted

‣ Is the main representative of the UNHS internationally

‣ Should maintain and upkeep the UNHS and its interests of peace through democracy and diplomacy;

‣ Attends all meetings to make sure that the meetings are on-topic;

‣ Guides the meeting to potential on-topic points of discussion;

‣ Makes sure that things that need voting on are voted on;

‣ Can announce events, and can announce peacekeeping operations where necessary;

‣ Does not have any special overriding powers unless deemed as absolutely necessary & last-resort in order to maintain the stability of the UNHS

‣ Is changed every 2 weeks unless voted to stay in their position

‣ If it is the case that people evidently would like to replace the current Speaker, there must be a vote held as to whether to replace the current Speaker or not and if yes then a Speaker election must take place within 24hrs of the prior vote closing;

‣ At least 1 day before a Speaker election, there must be an announcement to let the people of the UNHS know that they can ask to be on a list of candidates to be potentially elected as the new UNHS Speaker;

‣ The vote for the UNHS Speaker must be held like a normal vote on the UNHS Discord.

‣ Moderate the UNHS Discord server;

‣ Are usually the go-to people when one would like to get something sorted on the official Discord server;

‣ Have no more power in-game

Courts System

‣ Courts are only to be utilised if there is no immediately agreed upon answer as to whether or not the accused actually broke any UNHS rules;

‣ The accused is innocent until proven guilty;

‣ Court rooms are to be located in nations which have court rooms and are willing to give permission to use them;

‣ The court room consists of 2-3 (non-leader) judges at the head, 5 random (non-leader) jury members, a prosecutor and a defendant as well as the accused;

‣ The judges are to be from randomly-chosen UNHS nations; judges are randomly chosen to be UNHS judges every so often. Only 2 of the 3 judges must attend the trial for the trial to commence, and these judges or jury members cannot be part of the defendant or prosecutor’s nation;

‣ If (a) judge(s) are considered biased then the judge(s) will be replaced with (a) new judge(s) from another nation;

‣ Judges guide the conversations/debates held in the court room;

‣ The judges are to propose the punishment for the accused assuming they were to be guilty and the jury are to decide whether the accused is guilty or not;

‣ If the accused does not turn up for their trial, they will be trialled in abstention.

‣ Punishments are to be decided depending on the situation. This includes but is not limited to imprisonment, making the prosecuted pay back repairs, etc.

The Rules

‣ Use of Potions at any time;

‣ Use of End Crystals at any time;

‣ Anarchy, so long as it doesn't break any other UNHS rules;

‣ Wars between UNHS nations;

‣ Combat logging

‣ Killing innocents¹ at any time;

‣ Wither bombing² at any time;

‣ Slavery;

‣ Being an inactive³ nation in the UNHS (will result in a kick);

‣ A Pop.5+ UNHS nation attacking a non- Pop.5+ UNHS nation;

‣ Not declaring war in the global Minecraft chat;

‣ Not allowing for the defending UNHS nation to have 10 minutes to prepare before being attacked.

‣ Give back all items, after killing a single opposing player, at the end of a war between 2 belligerent UNHS members states – keep 1 item by choice of the killer (the killer may choose to let the killed decide which 1 item they would like to lose);

‣ As mentioned before in this document, defending nations must be given 10 minutes to prepare before being initially attacked;

‣ A declaration that a battle was to begin between players must be announced in global chat.

Extras

‣ These are player-suggested advancements for doing things in-game that do not give the player an advancement in-game;

‣ These are presented to and claimed by the player displayed in the form of a role on the UNHS Discord server;

‣ Anyone, even a player not part of the UNHS, can claim a HS advancement provided they are part of the UNHS Discord.

¹An innocent is one in-game which wears no armo(u)r and is not attacking players at the time of being attacked.

²Wither bombing is deliberately spawning Withers for malicious purposes.

³An inactive nation is one which does not participate regularly in UNHS meetings and does not regularly appear in-game. The requirement for a nation to be inactive is zero activity on Discord to do with the History Scope Minecraft server as well as at least 2 months of not appearing in-game.