Game Rules

The following is the list of rules on how the game will be ran.

1. Each week in real life will be equivalent to one month in game.
2. Users may sign up for one roleplay character, no more and no less.
3. You must announce your candidacy in the community section.
4. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
	1. Polling numbers for candidacies are taken from the beginning of the last election.
	2. Endorsements by various people will boost your campaign via a points system. Senators and Governors endorsements are worth 2 points nationally, and 4 points in there home state. Representatives are worth 1/2 point.
	3. The polls for the elections will begin with the results from the previous year by state, affected by the endorsements and campaigns of candidates via a points system.
	4. Rallies have a 2 point bonus in a state and can only be done by the candidate with a max of five per month. Ads, which are determined by fundraising, give a vary of 1-5 point bonus.
	5. Ads can be worth 1 million-5 million dollars for a single ad campaign. The number of ads can be determined by fundraising numbers. A 1 million dollar ad will give a 1 point bonus, a 5 million dollar ad will give a 5 point bonus.
	6. Fundraising is done with endorsements, you may fundraise in 10 states a in-game month. Each million people in that state supporting you will give you 1 million dollars in funds.
5. SENATORIAL, HOUSE, AND GUBERNATORIAL RACES
	1. Polls, endorsements, rallies, ads and fundraising are done in the same manner as Presidential elections, except the fundraising is state wide by month (given by default) and endorsements can only be done in your home state. Governors endorsements, and the endorsements of the state's Senators (excluding an incumbent running for office) are worth 5 points.
	2. Candidates must have name recognition (i.e. if a Google Search is done on them you will see them as the top 1 to 3 results) or be serving or have served in public office (ie a State Senator or Representative, State Attorney General, etc.)
	3. Races will go with the results that my formulas project them to until one or more in-game candidates enter. Endorsements can only be given to candidates playing the game.
6. You may retire your RP character if they die in game, are impeached in game, or if they retire in game. Also, if your candidate serves two terms as the President, you may choose to keep that character to give endorsements, and in this case and in this case only can you have two or more RP characters.
7. Trolling, insults, etc. are not acceptable. Violation of wiki or site rules will result in one of the following, depending on the offense or number of offenses.
	1. First violation: Warning
	2. Second violation: Lose of RP character for 1 week (will be reverted to a non-RP character)
	3. Third violation: Kick for 1 week.
	4. Fourth violation or particularly gross offense: Ban, for life.
8. NEWS STATIONS
	1. You may RP a news station (i.e. CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, etc.) and in this case, it does not have to be a real news station although that is encouraged. News stations may report on events, scandals, races, and the like and may give political endorsements (worth a 1 point boost in the race).
9. EVENTS
	1. Events will be determined by a council of Admins, Moderators, and others invited to the 'Council of Special Events.'
10. Moderators
	1. Moderators will be selected at the behest of American2006, the community founder.
11. Other
	1. Admins and Moderators with Admin approval may add rules as they see fit.