Treaty of Zhuque

### Location

Celestial Symposium of the Sinican Peoples, Zhuque, Lizhou system, People's Republic of Sinica, Nauticus Sector, Gamma Quadrant

### Condition

Ratification by Menschlicher Sternenstaat, Human Republic of Megaslava, Sinica, Olimpiada, Pikasistan, Protectorate of Fiskplat, Coalition Theomilitary, Abajun Empire. Observed by Kue'sahn Ministrate.

### Depositaries

Vera, Menschlicher Sternenstaat
Triumvirate, Olimpiada

Arcenia, Pikasistan

Zhuque, Sinica

### Languages

Galactic Standard, Stadtverisch, Xinghua, Greek, Latin

The **Treaty of Zhuque** (colloquially as the **Compact Charter**) is the founding document of the Interstellar Compact of Collective Human Harmony, a major military and economic alliance between various human-majority nations for the collective benefit of mankind. The Treaty of Zhuque underlines several key functions and directives of the Compact itself, such as the objectives of assuring human prosperity across the Milky Way and facilitating major cooperation between member states in the fields of economics, technology, and security. All member states of the Compact are bound to the articles of the Treaty due to functioning as set of supranational guidelines for "a better, human future".

The Treaty of Zhuque was drafted throughout the week of June 7th to June 14th, 790 SA within the halls of the Celestial Symposium of the Sinican Peoples during the Zhuque Summit on Zhuque, Sinica. All founding nations (i.e the People's Republic of Sinica, Menschlicher Sternenstaat, Federated Worlds of Olimpiada, Greater Imperium of Pikasistan, Coalition Theomilitary, in addition to the Compact dependencies of the Human Republic of Megaslava and the Protectorate of Fiskplat) signed the completed charter in the waning hours of the 14th. This newly-formed charter came into effect two days later on the 16th of June through its ratification by the respective legislatures of all founding nations. The Abajun Empire ratified the Treaty of Zhuque for itself on August 16th; a day after being accepted for entry into the Compact.

Currently, five original copies exist for the Treaty of Zhuque, with four of the five corresponding to the languages of the grounded, non-nomadic founders of the Compact (as can be seen in **Article XII**). The last copy, composed in Galactic Standard, is currently held in the headquarters of the Compact on the world of Triumvirate and symbolically represents the outreach of the Compact to all human states, regardless of spoken language.

## Provisions

### Preamble

> *The Signatories to the **Treaty of Zhuque** hereby declare their allegiance to the greater, transcendental purpose that is the continuation of Mankind's supremacy within the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy and their desire to maintain the sovereignty of Mankind across the stars.*
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> *They are determined to safeguard the freedom, cultures and civilizations of humanity, founded on the principles of prosperity, security and the rule of law. They seek to promote stability and growth in all of human space.*
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> *They are resolved to unite their efforts for collective defensive, economic and technological cooperation and for the preservation of order and security. They therefore agree to this **Interstellar Compact for Collective Human Harmony**:*
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### Article I

> Signatories shall agree to resolve conflicts with other Signatories by peaceful, diplomatic means in order to ensure that the Compact's cohesion is not threatened in any way, shape or form, and refrain to use any military means to resolves aforementioned conflicts.
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### Article II

> Signatories shall engage in maintaining the prosperity, stability and security of all human dominated nations across the stars and that by all means they can afford and aim to extend the benefits of the Compact to other human-dominated nations when possible.
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### Article III

> All Signatories shall maintain their own military capacities in order to withstand foreign invasions and to help in the security operations of the Compact. In addition, all Signatories must provide a set of locations where Compact forces may be stationed within their space; however, Signatories are not mandated to deploy any military units unless;
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### Article IV

> A Signatory may invoke Article IV in order to marshal part of the Compact's maintained resources in order to resolve a threat to its own sovereignty or any kind of disaster within its own borders. Such actions can scale from the deployment of disaster relief teams to full-scale military operations against threatening nations. Such actions being defined as:
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* > (**i**) the raiding and harassment of vessels affiliated to a Signatory's navy,
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* > (**ii**) incursions into a Signatory's territory (be it material or numerical),
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* > (**iii**) threatening star-lanes, trails, or roads within or coming in the borders of a Signatory,
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* > (**iv**) attacking vessels, worlds or assets belonging to a Signatory, if the Signatory wasn't the attacking party.
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### Article V

> Signatories shall engage themselves to facilitate economical and technological development of other Signatories, be it by reducing commercial barriers or by the establishment of commercial or technological accords. Signatories are also encouraged to extend such efforts with Observators and Affiliated States.
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### Article VI

> Signatories shall refrain from joining any institutions which might be contradicting with the ideals of the Compact. In addition, they shall engage themselves to respect their engagements to other Signatories above any other state.
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### Article VII

> An Interpolitical Directorate shall be founded as the supreme political organ of the Compact in order to discuss pressing matters; each Signatory being represented by their appointed delegates, said Interpolitical Directorate may found other committees or organs as it sees fit and procedures within them do not need to strictly follow the procedures of the Directorate.
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### Article VIII

> Additional states may be invited to become Signatories by a unanimous vote of the Interpolitical Directorate. Observator states only require a simple majority vote and Affiliated States are automatically added by their ties with a Signatory.
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### Article IX

> The Compact will be ratified according to the Signatory's constitutional customs and cannot be enforced in any other way.
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### Article X

> The Treaty of Zhuque can only be amended after 15 Terran Standard Years with an unanimous vote of the Interpolitical Directorate.
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### Article XI

> Any Signatory may withdraw from the Compact at a minimum of 50 Terran Standard Years after they became a Signatory.
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### Article XII

> The original copies of the Treaty of Zhuque, redacted in Stadtverisch, Xinghua, Greek and Latin will be archived within the national archives located respectively in Vera (Menschlicher Sternenstaat), Zhuque (People's Republic of Sinica), Triumvirate (Federated World of Olimpiada) and Arcenia (Magnam Imperii ec Pikasis).
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## Trivia

* The components of the Charter were written by the author of Pikasistan.
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