Mutual Assistance Compact (MAC)

The **Mutual Assistance Compact**, commonly abbreviated as the **MAC**, is an alliance founded by the Romanian Socialist Republic and the Bulgarian Socialist Republic, which later left after becoming a vassal of the Diyakenid Empire. The alliance's main goal was to maintain server activity by sponsoring smaller nations and keeping them alive by cooperation between member states and funding one another when the need arises, but, at least according to Romanian sources, it deviated far from this, leading to the developments listed below.

The MAC has been practically disbanded following Romania and Great Britain leaving.

## The Basic Legislation of the MAC

"The following articles form the basic legislation of the MAC, which all member states must abide by.

1. Member states of the MAC hereby agree and swear oath to protect one another in the face of any foreign threat to the security of any MAC member state.
2. Member states of the MAC will not conduct espionage on one another by the medium of this alliance. While friendly relations cannot instantly be imposed by the MAC on two previously rival nations, failure to set aside these past grudges in matters of united MAC foreign and internal policy will result in suspension or limitation of said member nations' powers in the MAC for a time period.
3. Member states of the MAC agree to help one another economically, should need arise, and also receive the benefit of asking for aid, also should the need arise or should there be a good reason.
4. Member states of the MAC will not disrespect other member nations, other ethnic groups etc. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia and other such behaviors are not tolerated.
5. Member states of the MAC agree to not impose authoritarian rule or unjust laws upon their subject populations, and to maintain at least a sensible and rational level of equality in their societies.
6. Member states of the MAC cannot be totalitarian, authoritarian etc. However, monarchies, both constitutional and semi-constitutional, are allowed to join the MAC's ranks."

-The MAC official Discord, #information.

## History of the Alliance

The alliance was created on 26/04/23, amidst the end of Iteration 3's Dark Age (see Iteration 3 and History of the Server). The Bulgarian Socialist Republic joined the MAC not long after and, for over a month, things remained still. However, with Bulgaria becoming a Diyakenid vassal, they left the alliance either on 6/12/23 or in a time interval of 3 days before this date. On 6/12/23 however, Great Britain and the SPQR joined the faction, turning it into a de facto powerhouse-alliance in mere minutes.

An important event in the Crimean Crisis, Crimean admission into the MAC (and its failure), was a turning point in the conflict and highlighted the alliance's inability in being compatible with then recent happenings.

On 31/07/23, following the events of the aforementioned crisis, Danish Civil War and the Dario Greggio Fascism Fiasco, Romania announced that it would withdraw from the MAC due to the fact that it has failed its intended goal of safeguarding liberty, becoming a decrepit faction used by the current world order to defend itself from instability which must be faced. This also coincided with a narrowing of the formerly pragmatic Romanian foreign policy into a different, idealistic one. On the same day, Great Britain also left the alliance.