Criminal Code

## Preface

**I.** This legislation will contain a list of offenses that shall be outlawed may be criminally prosecuted by the government.

**II.** This list may be expanded at any point. III. If a maximum punishment is not listed for a crime then it is assumed that any punishment may be given..

**IV.** In trial upon a guilty verdict, the judge shall allow both the prosecution and defense to make a recommended punishment based on the severity of the crime.

**V.** Fines may also be levied and have no maximum. VI. Any action deemed as illegal by Parliament may be added to the criminal code by the Office of Head of State regardless if the Parliament states that it should be added. The reason for this is to ensure that all illegal behavior is included in the criminal code.

**VII.** If the Office of Head of State determines it is necessary, they may change the language and formatting of an illegal act when they add it to the criminal code. The spirit and legal consequences of the law must be maintained when they adapt it to the criminal code.

### Criminal Code

#### Conspiracy to Commit a Crime

Conspiracy is defined as an agreement or plan involving at least 2 people to commit a crime. The outcome of the plan is not relevant in conspiracy charges. Obviously satirical/fake plans do not count as conspiracy.

#### Treason

Treason shall be defined as any act that subverts or overthrows a government that is in the position to govern under the rules set out in the constitution. Treason shall be defined as the unconstitutional disillusion of the Parliament. Treason shall be defined as any citizen conducting negotiations on behalf of Voices of Democracy if they do not have the authority to do so.

#### Admin/Mod Abuse Admin/Mod Abuse

shall be defined as any act of moderation that has no justification in the law or morally.

#### Bribery

Bribery shall be defined as anyone using something of personal value to convince someone to act in a way they would not have otherwise acted. Acts of regularly conducted business is not considered bribery. The briber may be charged regardless of wether or not the bribe was accepted. The person being bribed may be charged only if the bribe was accepted. The maximum sentence shall be a mute of two weeks.

#### Ping Abuse

Ping abuse shall be defined as any role ping(s) or mass ping(s) that may reasonably cause server members annoyance. The maximum sentence shall be a mute of one week.

#### Server Nuke

Server Nuking shall be defined as any suer unlawfully deleting part or all of the infrastructure of Voices of Democracy.

#### Fraud

Fraud shall be defined as a citizen falsifying information in order to gain personal value from the government or individual(s). The maximum punishment shall be a mute of two weeks. 8 - Abuse of Power Abuse of Power shall be defined as any unlawful action taken by someone in a position of power who could only take said action because of their position.

#### Obstruction of Justice

Obstruction of Justice shall be defined as any citizen who disrupts a criminal investigation or trial.

#### RP Crimes

RP Crimes shall be defined as any crime that can be committed in real life. This only applies to rp situations, for example if user x “assassinated” user y 11 - Electoral Fraud Electoral fraud is defined as any action that will lead the results of an election to not be accurate or will prevent an election from being conducted in a free and fair way. If the Head of State believes there to be electoral fraud, he must report it immediately to the Attorney General and provide any and all evidence that he has. The Head of State is also required to cooperate in any court proceedings related to an electoral fraud case.

#### Spam

Spam shall be defined as sending discord invites to people in mass quantities. Spam is defined as messages sent by a server members repeatedly in a way that would cause any reasonable person annoyance.

#### Toxicity

Toxicity is defined as any person or persons that causes a reasonable person to feel the server is negative and uncomfortable over a the course of a conversation or multiple conversations. Debates will not violate the toxicity provision of the law unless their language either violates other laws or the debate is not conducted is good faith.

#### Raiding

Raiding is defined as a group of people joining simultaneously or close together for the purposes of disrupting the server chat, being annoying to any reasonable person, spam pinging, spamming messages, violating Discord TOS, or any other law.

#### Alt Account Abuse

Alt Account Abuse shall be defined as the use of alternate accounts for unfair purposes such as evading a sentence in either a criminal or civil case, collecting double income, or increasing odds in using the crime command. Alt Account Abuse shall be defined as the use of an alternate account to perform an illegal action. For example: concurrently holding two offices that cannot be held at the same time or committing voter fraud by voting multiple times. If a guilty verdict is reached on a charge of Alt Account Abuse then the alternate account shall be banned from VoD.

#### Bot Abuse

Bot Abuse shall be defined as the use of a bot to spam a command such as -work, -crime, or -collect-income.

#### Brigading

Brigading shall be defined as inviting someone to join Voices of Democracy with the express purpose of politically benefitting an individual or party. It is also considered brigading to join Voices of Democracy with the express purpose of politically benefiting an individual or party.