Conscription in Chawosauria

In the Empire of Chawosauria, an **Imperial Conscription Order** or **the draft**, formerly called the **Royal Conscription Decree**, is military conscription (or a draft) imposed by the Chawosaurian Imperial Government on Chawosaurians who were eligible to be drafted to a war or to a vaccine during a pandemic. Formerly the Chawosaurian Monarch unilaterally drafts Chawosaurians, but the rules were changed in 1900 by a new constitution, that only the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace can enact a conscription of those to serve in the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces and be given the option to either fight in a war or work for the war production industry or the nuclear energy industry which is considered part of military production because of nuclear weapons.

## Process

A draft in Chawosauria only exists during wartime and a public health crisis. The war powers of the Chawosaurian Imperial Government is that in order to start or join a war, a draft is needed, while compared to Chawosauria, the United States would join or start wars without the need for a draft since 1973. The Vietnam War was the last war that there was an actively enforced draft in the United States. Several countries outside the Chawosaurian world has abolished the draft.

The conscription age in Chawosauria is 21 and older. The qualifications for conscription is that a Chawosaurian must be over 21, must be athletic, and must be at least 90% healthy and 100% intellectually and mentally stable. Like much of the non-Chawosaurian world, Chawosauria traditionally drafts men for military service, Chawosauria drafted just men during the Viking and Pirate Wars, Chawo-Wolfsberg War (1860-1895), the War in Russia (1921-1923), the Chawo-Proletarian War (1950-1975), and the Chawosaurian Revolution (2009-2019).

Under Chawosaurian law, there's also a draft to get vaccinated, called a **vaccine draft**, it's only in force during a pandemic, and unlike a military draft, there are no deferments or any excuse accepted to get out of the vaccine draft, **all** Chawosaurians selected by the government by birthday via draft lottery must sign up for conscription to a vaccine. Evading a vaccine draft is punishable by guillotine if vaccine draft evaders are detained, which is why many vaccine draft evaders often hide away in the shadows to avoid being detained because they know what lies ahead if they are caught.

A **proxy draft** (or **proxy conscription**, sometimes called a **dual draft**) is a Chawosaurian law that orders Chawosaurians (traditionally males) with dual citizenship to enlist into the armed forces of their native country rather in the Miaimian world or other worlds, part of a belligerent alliance during a war that the Chawosaurian government supported, for example, during World War II, the Chawosaurian government enacted a proxy draft that required all Chawosaurian men who have dual or multiple citizenship with both Chawosauria and allied nations to register for conscription or enlist to fight against the Axis powers. While the WWII Proxy Draft wasn't popular and it partly cost anti-communists control of the Chawopolis Palace in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, there was massive participation among Chawosaurian men in allied states. After the September 11 Attacks in 2001, the War on Terror broke out and there was a discussion in the Chawosaurian government to issue a proxy draft since there was widespread hesitance against doing a war draft to merge Chawosauria into the war, but the 20th Chawopolis Palace too rejected the idea of a proxy draft, leaving Chawosauria completely neutral on the war on terror, Chawosauria actually declared neutrality on the war on terror.

## Eligibility

Traditionally, only males were eligible, but that changed in 1991. Non-Cisgenders gained eligibility for conscription in 2001. Those Chawosaurians still not eligible for conscription and military service are Religious Chawosaurians, so the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces is extremely secular. Other groups not eligible are violent and sex offenders, Chawosaurians with psychological and intellectual disorders, and pre-existing conditions. The conscription age is 21 and Chawosaurians of whatever race, ethnicity, ancestry, sexual orientation, and gender identity, are all eligible to conscription and for military service.

There is no vetting for a vaccine draft, under Chawosaurian law, all Chawosaurians of whatever group are eligible for a vaccine draft, no exceptions.

## History

### Wars

#### Chawo-Wolfsberg War

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When the Chawo-Wolfsberg War broke out in the early 1860s, a draft was issued. It was the first draft in Chawosaurian history. But as the war drags on and Chawosaurians become exhausted, the draft becomes unpopular and draft evasion becomes commonplace. There were draft riots in Chawopolis City as well as the rural villages of the Chawalliankalitan Empire. The Chawosaurians lost the war in 1905 and the draft expired.

#### World War I

Prime Minister Garfield Webster proposed a draft to World War I when the war broke out in 1914, but the draft wasn't popular enough and the draft was successfully filibustered by anti-war politicians, effectively preventing Chawosauria from joining the war.

#### War in Russia

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The Russian Civil War broke out in 1917, and Prime Minister Webster felt discouraged from issuing a draft because he failed to get a WWI draft issued the last time he proposed it. From 1917 to 1921, Chawosauria was neutral from the war until Prime Minister Theodore McClellan comes to office in 1920, causing a drastic foreign policy change on the Russian Civil War.

McClellan proposed and had military conscription enacted into force to merge Chawosauria into the Russian Civil War against Chawosaurians who supported the Bolsheviks, this became known as the **War in Russia**. The war lasted from 1921 to 1923, and it was a passionately unpopular war, there were countless military defeats with no victory in sight. The war was so badly unpopular that draft evasion was widespread and difficult to control, war taxes were evaded and burned, and there were angry anti-war protests that often get out of control. The Chawosaurian government revoked the draft because it was too clear that Russia will fall to communism, Chawosauria leaves the war in defeat in 1923 and the Soviet Union rose to existence.

#### World War II

When World War II broke out in 1939, a draft was discussed but there was no action. But a law was passed instead to require Chawosaurian men who live in allied nations to register for conscription or enlist into allied militaries to fight in the war. Chawosaurians who live in Axis nations could not register.

### Pandemics

A vaccine draft, or a pandemic draft to a vaccine, was thought up by Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster during the 1918 flu pandemic.

#### Spanish Flu

The Spanish Flu was one of the worst pandemics in human history. It was the first pandemic that a vaccine draft was issued. Theodore McClellan was the first Prime Minister to preside over a vaccine draft lottery.

## Types of Conscription

In Chawosauria, there are four types of conscription, a **war draft**, a **vaccine draft**, a **proxy draft**, and an **operation draft**.

### War Draft

A war draft works similar to war drafts around the world. They are given to those the Chawosaurian government deems qualified to be conscripted for military service during a war that Chawosauria is directly involved.

A draft may be issued for the Chawo-Uralic War in the near future due to SL Order No. I-2021.

### Operation Draft

Recently used in Chawosauria's involvement into the 2020 U.S. presidential election, an operation draft is a government/military draft of Chawosaurians to nonviolent government service to support the Chawosaurian Imperial Government when they are involved in another country's political environment either by supporting or opposing what is going on in that country.

### Proxy Draft

Recently used in World War II and is rumored to be used again in the future in the War on Terror or a future or ongoing conflict except the Mexican Drug War, a proxy draft is a Chawosaurian law that strictly requires Chawosaurians with dual or multiple citizenship to register for conscription or enlist into an armed forces of the country outside the Chawosaurian world that they presently live and that Chawosauria supports in wartime.

Proxy drafts were proposed during the Soviet-Afghan War, the Second Congo War and the War in Afghanistan, no proxy draft was enacted during either war.

### Vaccine Draft

A Vaccine Draft is conscription imposed by the Chawosaurian government on all Chawosaurians whose birthdays are selected to be vaccinated against a viral disease, and an infectious disease during a pandemic, epidemic, and a global outbreak. The most recent pandemic a vaccine draft was used was the COVID-19 pandemic. Unlike the three other drafts, there is no excuse from a vaccine draft except for death.

Compared to military conscription, a vaccine draft is the hardest to get exempt from because of the rules, but they can be evaded, which is illegal under Chawosaurian law. The success rate of those who did get exempt from the vaccine draft is under 1% of those draftees who tried, and those who illegally dodged the vaccine draft but got caught face an unfortunate fate, the guillotine.

Because getting out of a vaccine draft is so hard, the easiest way to get disqualified from a vaccine draft or just vaccination is death, so some vaccine draftees who don't want to be vaccinated commit suicide on very few occasions.

## Women

Traditionally, males are called for military service, but the rules were changed in 1991. Today, women are welcomed to military service and their gender no longer excuses them from conscription.

## Non-Cisgender

Non-Cisgenders are recognized by the Chawosaurian Imperial Government and their gender identity no longer excuses them from conscription since 2001.

## Conscription Evasion

Conscription evasion, also known as draft evasion or draft dodging, is the eluding of conscription and it is illegal even in Chawosauria. Evading a war draft is penalized in Chawosauria with prison time, but evading a vaccine draft is a capital offense.

Evading a vaccine draft is the hardest to do compared to evading a war draft. The only way to be exempted from a vaccine draft is if you're dead, that is how hard it is to get out of a vaccine draft. A war draft in comparison, disqualifying factors in Chawosauria involves being religious, being unhealthy, being psychologically or intellectually impaired, and being old or being under 21.

The easiest way to elude a vaccine draft without facing consequences is committing suicide, so does with a war draft. In 1968, during the Vietnam War, future Chawosaurian Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII attempted suicide by wrecking his 1958 Dodge into the Mississippi River to get out of a United States war draft to the Vietnam War, while MacAlasdair did not successfully killed himself, his injuries were enough to get him excused from military service.

## Chawosaurian Figures and the Draft

Chawosaurian Prime Ministers were drafted before: Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII, Leonid Ivan Bzovsky, Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII, and Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX, three out of four conscripted for military service during the Vietnam War, however, only one actually fought in Vietnam: it was Leonid Ivan Bzovsky. MacAlasdair and Boleslaus got out of the draft. Supreme Leaders such as Timothy Max Roosevelt have fought in wars but unclear if they were conscripted, Degotoga K. Atagulkalu flat out committed draft evasion when he was conscripted to the Vietnam War in 1968. Prime Minister Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III had a draft deferment in 1968, his brother Chris MacCarthy evaded his draft and served prison time.

Former Prime Minister and sitting Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker signed into law the Caspian Sea Resolution, which called Chawosaurians ages 21 to 45 for the draft for military service during the Chawo-Uralic War, but an emerging controversy have been circulating a question as to weather Shang Parker was eligible for conscription by the Chinese government for military service, was there an active draft in China at the time of Parker's youth, and if such existed, was Parker drafted or did he get a draft deferment? If all questions were true, then it would in many ways make Parker look hypocritical. The Beijing Inquiry has been established to investigate the matter, Supreme Leader Parker himself approved the inquiry.

Pre-World War II figures of Chawosauria such as Garfield Lucas Webster, Theodore McClellan, and Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X, were and still are the topics of conscription discussions, Garfield Webster lived in the United Kingdom during his teens, there were inquiries into weather he was eligible for conscription or was there even an active draft during Webster's time in the UK, the UK didn't had a draft until World War I, and the fact that Webster was rich and had suffered a clubbed foot disorder, he could escape from eligibility for the draft, Webster moved to the United States in 1883, and the US too didn't had a draft until World War I, however before WWI, the last time the United States had a draft was the American Civil War. Theodore McClellan, same age as Webster, was a young boy when he witnessed the American Civil War as a young child living in New England, and McClellan was too never been drafted at all. Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X was 30-years younger than both Webster and McClellan, and Bismarck was drafted to fight in World War I when the US entered the conflict in 1917, but Bismarck performed draft evasion.

During the Second Balkan War and World War I, Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII was drafted twice by the Romanian government, but he never complied with these two drafts, and due to Bismarck's wealth and power, he was able to escape legal prosecution.