Olympia Protocol

A map of parties to the Olympia Protocol.

The **Olympia Protocol** or formally known as the **Sports And Warfare Protocol** (SAW Protocol) is a multilateral agreement in which it tackles about the usage and production of Recrelympic-made equipment. The protocol was signed at the General Assembly of the United Nations Security Council in Olympia, Greece, on July 25 1991. It went into adoption on December 26 the same year, with its depositary being the International Recrelympics Committee.

The Protocol is an attempt to limit the conversion and prohibits the uses of Recrelympic-made equipment during a conflict in which the user is considered as the aggressor. The Protocol also talks about the restriction of the production of these equipment, this Protocol also saw the introduction of the Seventh Nations Peacekeepers (SNP), a special entity that is tasked to investigate, intervene, and disarm any states that breaches the Protocol.

## Development

### Prologue

The conversion to lethal weapons from Recrelympic-made arms were already happening right before the eventful 1950s. Events such as the German Re-armament of the 1930s and the both sides of the Spanish Civil War sparked (albeit slightly) controversies about the sudden use of these Recrelympic only ordnances, though silence abrupted this concern when Polish Resistance converted the largely available "dueling guns" into their real counterpart in 1939. This silent abruption continued during the Soviets' strategic defense against the Germans during Operation Barbarossa, particular battles such as the Siege of Sevastopol, Battle of Moscow, and the Last Stand of Stalingrad were instances where there's an influx of converted guns and vehicles being used as an ad hoc emergency act enacted by the Soviet Officials.

This silence finally ended when Nazi Germany desperately allowed the German Youth to work and utilize these weapons during the last stages of the Battle of Berlin in 1945. Even the Imperial Japan was criticized harshly by the Allies when the truth was learned about the Student Corps or *Gakutotai* across the territory occupied by the Empire, such as Korea, China, Malaya, Burma, and the Dutch East Indies.

The line in which the act of conversion is legal to not is a thin line vaguely tackled during this period. But as soon as the Second World War ended, this line started to thicken and became a concern during the many conflicts that happened during the Cold War, specifically the catalyst of this is the Korean War.

#### Korean War

Prelude to the Korean War of 1950, with the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance signed between the Chinese and Soviets, this strengthened the connection of the newly formed Democratic People's Republic of Korea to its eastern and northern neighbors, though less stable compared to its southern neighbor. Following the effective strategy of the German Re-armament, the North Koreans initiated a large covert operation in which materials, manpower, and weapons were made and imported to the country in preparation for the imminent invasion. This large-scale clandestine operation managed to not only fool its southern neighbor and its Allies, but it even fooled the UN when observers were sent to the 38th Parallel line and concluded that "War is Not Imminent on this Border."

Though while the South remained oblivious, the North begun to further accelerate their preparations, and soon one by one, guises such as modernizing their commercial air fleet, hosting "defense training" regimens to its people, and the establishment of a dummy organization that affiliated itself to the International Recrelympic Committee (IRC) in which they successfully fooled the world, and by the June 25th of 1950, all sportified assets under these guises suddenly were used to the front line of the 38th Parallel line alongside other military equipment provided by both the Chinese and Soviets, thus sparking the Korean War.

In act of this sudden invasion, the IRC was forced to intervene and conferred the South Korean's Recrelympic Committee to legally convert their Sportified assets into their real counterparts, but this allowance would formed as the basis of the foundation of the Olympia Protocol.

### Formation of the Protocol

Many decades have passed and nations and groups across the World faced the reality that Sportified Vehicles and Equipment has more usage to the military than to the people's interest for growth and improvement of their lives. And so the act of limiting these assets to Militaristic purpose started to brew in both hemispheres and across the planet. Starting from the Yugoslav's *Balance of Sports and Warfare Act* in which it entails that Sportified Assets will only be used during circumstances that threatens their National Security. Right after that, Sweden followed suit with their *Sports and Defense Neutrality Policy* in which the nation's policy towards limiting the usage of Sportified Weapons during Conflicts is advocated by the people, to the people.

Soon after many nations started to approach this type of policy as education begins to prioritized more than defense budget, especially to countries outside the interest of the superpowers during the Cold War, or countries that tried to stay neutral for the duration of the Cold War Period, the members of the former League of Recreational Olumpikos (LRO) gathered together and formulated the draft of the Olympia Protocol headed by Mitchell Vrede van Holland, a member of the Dutch's Golden Helder Association and the first few members of the LRO.

## Obligations

### **Main Obligations**

The main obligations of the SAW Protocol are indicated below.

* No state party shall convert any equipment or assets that are solely used for Recrelympics.
* No state party shall use these Recrelympic-made Assets for conflicts.
* Disarmament or reconversion of used Recrelympic-made weaponry from former/current conflicts.
* Governed the limitation of production of Recrelympic Assets.
* Formation of the Seventh Nations Peacekeepers.

### **Other Obligations**

Other provisions of the treaty include the following:

* State parties must cooperate with each other in the implementation of the treaty and manage the production of each parties.
* The Protocol shall not prevent states who convert their Recrelympic Assets under special circumstances in which the Council will oversee their conversion.
* Any States who signed the Protocol can leave after 1 year's notice, but not if engaged in armed conflict at the time.