UFT Treaty

**ABOUT**

The UFT
Treaty, also called the Treaty of Dralmsteig, is the document that officially
established the conventions and rules of the United Federation of Telrova
(UFT).

**Text**

**Preamble**

*We the*
people of the United Federation of Telrova have determined

To
improve the well-being of all the peoples and nations of the world.

To
provide smaller nations the ability to gain greater international recognition
and standing.

To
promote international peace and justice across Telrova.

*And for*
these ends we have resolved to combine our efforts to accomplish these aims

*Accordingly,*
our respective Governments, through representatives assembled in the city o*f*
*Dralmsteig,*
who have exhibited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have
agreed to the present Treaty and do hereby establish an international
organization to be known as the United Federation of Telrova.

**Article 1: Powers and Duties of the UFT**

***Section 1:***
The Council of Nations

To ensure
an equal voice for all states within the UFT, a Council of nations shall be
required.

The UFT shall possess a selection
of representatives from all UFT member states.

A) Each member state shall
possess one representative chosen at the nation's discretion.

B) Each member nation shall have
one vote on the Council.

The UFT Council shall have sole legislative authority within the UFT organization

A) To pass a motion or resolution, a vote must result in more than 50% in favour of said motion or resolution.

B) A vote of two-thirds majority in favour or against a motion or resolution shall be unable to be overridden by the Secretary-General.

C) The standard voting period for a proposal is forty-eight hours, however if a conclusion is reached prior to that time voting will cease immediately.

D) The UFT Council shall be the only body allowed to establish treaties and agreements between the UFT and non-member organizations, nations, and alliances,

E) No resolution or motion may be introduced without sufficient time for debate or discussion, and the endorsement of four members, two ministers, or two members and a minister.

The UFT has some restrictions on
its powers.

B) The UFT shall not mandate policies
contradictory to other clauses.

***Section 2:***
The Ministries

To ensure
that the UFT runs as a stable organization, a collection of executive positions
shall be required.

A Secretary-General, who shall enforce
the will of the Council, shall be required.

A) The Secretary-General shall have the
authority to enforce UFT Council decisions.

B) The Secretary-General shall have the
power to make the deciding vote in Council decisions that have resulted in a
tie.

C) A Vice-Secretary shall be
selected to act in situations where the Secretary-General is unreachable.

D) The Secretary-General shall have the
ability to override non-two-thirds votes in all resolutions and motions,
excepting those in terms of foreign affairs.

A Minister of Finance, who
manages the finances of the UFT, shall be required.

A) The Minister of Finance shall
manage the finances and the financial policies of the UFT.

A Minister of Foreign Affairs,
who manages the foreign affairs of the UFT, shall be required.

A) The Minister of Foreign
Affairs shall manage the foreign policies of the UFT.

B) The Minister of Foreign
Affairs shall manage the embassies and consulates of the UFT.

A Grand Marshal, who leads the
International Task Force, shall be required.

All Minister and Secretary-General
decisions made without a decision by the Council shall be considered void.

No Minister or Secretary-General may hold more than one executive position at a time, except during a state of emergency.

***Section 3:***
The Court

To ensure
the enforcement of this treaty, a Court shall be required.

A) The Court shall consist of at
least one judge.

i) The Judge may not preside over
trials and cases where a conflict of interest is present.

B) The Court shall have the power
to distribute punishment to those in violation of this treaty.

i) The Court shall have
jurisdiction over cases involving misuse of power.

ii) The Court shall have
jurisdiction over cases involving a violation of Article 4.

C) The Court shall have the power
to act as a Court of Appeals

i) This Court shall have
jurisdiction over appeals to court decisions or the decisions.

ii) This Court shall have
jurisdiction over appeals or challenges to UFT resolutions or decisions.

1) Challenges to UFT resolutions
may be challenged and appealed on grounds of corruption during a vote.

2) Challenges to UFT resolutions
may be challenged and appealed on grounds of unequal enforcement of a vote.

3) Challenges to UFT resolutions
may be challenged and appealed on grounds of a resolution or decision being
used to target a specific UFT member nation or group of member nations.

iii) This Court shall have
jurisdiction over appeals to national-level court decisions that violate UFT
resolutions, laws, or Article 4.

***Section 4***: The Challenge System

A) All ministers shall be chosen by a challenge system.

i) Any minister may be challenged by another UFT member for the position at any time.

ii) The challenger and incumbent may be allowed a period of time exceeding three days to debate and put forward their ideas.

iii)  A poll will decide whether to accept the challenger or incumbent at the end of the debate period.

iv) If there is no incumbent minister an election may be held for the position.

v) Challenges shall be overseen by the current Chancellor.

***Section 5:*** The International Task Force

The International Task Force (ITF) shall have jurisdiction over joint military operations and cooperation.

A) The ITF shall include a mutual defence pact.

i) ITF member nations shall be obligated to come to the defence of any ITF or UFT member nation being attacked by a non-member.

ii) ITF member nations shall be obligated to come to the defence of any ITF or UFT member nation being attacked by a member nation.

B) The ITF shall include all forces taking part in joint UFT operations.

i) Forces in joint operations shall be under the command of the Grand Marshall.

C) The ITF may seek the standardization of ITF member forces and the equipment used by ITF member forces.

i) ITF standardization may include calibre sizes, military equipment specs, and military weapons specs.

ii) ITF standardization may include military organizational sizes and groups, as well as officer ranks.

D) The ITF shall not have jurisdiction over national-level military policy.

E) The ITF may conduct jointly funded military projects, which will be managed by the Grand Marshal using an allocated budget.

***Section 6:*** States of Emergency

A) The UFT council may declare a state of emergency with a majority vote in response to international troubles or crises.

i) The state of emergency may be ended by a majority council vote.

B) In a state of emergency, the leaders of the UFT may gain more powers.

i)  Ministers may hold multiple positions concurrently.

ii) The Secretary-General may make foreign affairs decisions without a council vote, with the approval of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

iii) The Secretary-General may mobilise forces engaged in International Task Force operations without a council vote, with the approval of the Grand Marshal.

**Article 3: Membership Obligations**

***Section***
1: Requirements for New Members

New
Members must abide some requirements prior to being inducted as a new or
returning member.

A)No new member may be at war at
the time of application or acceptance into the UFT.

i) A War, for the purpose of this
provision shall refer to an active armed conflict, and shall exclude cold wars
or conflicts with foreign entities that are not nations.

B) All member nations must agree
to the terms of this treaty.

C) All member nations must agree
to allow the Rova as legal tender.

D) All potential new members must petition the UFT for membership, for which motion for membership must then be made and passed.

  i. The UFT Council shall be alerted of the petition, and then an admission vote shall take place between council members. The potential member shall only join if more than a two-thirds majority believe so.

ii. The council may not carry out admission votes during States of Emergency.

***Section***
2: Obligations for Existing Members

Existing
members must follow a number of requirements.

A)    All member states must contribute
at least 2% of its GDP to the UFT.

B)    All member states must allow free
trade with other members.

C) All member states must share scientific and technological research with the UFT.

D) All member states must abide
by the terms of this treaty.

E) All member states must abide
by any official resolution by the UFT Council.

Section 3: Expulsion Procedure:

A) If a member is found to be going against the laws set out by this treaty, or committed a questionable action, then the Secretary-General has the authority to call an expulsion vote against said member.

B) Anyone can petition the Secretary-General to call an expulsion vote. The Judge may be permitted to advise the Secretary-General to call one as the result of a court case.

C) After motioned by the Secretary-General, the vote will go to the UFT Council. If the vote passes by a two thirds majority, then the member shall be expelled from the UFT.

**Article 4: UFT Declaration of Personal Rights**

*Section 1: definition of person*

A person shall
be defined as a sapient biological organism.

***Section 2:***
Right to Life

All persons
have the right to life.

A) No person may be deprived of
life outside of the consequences of combat;

B) Life shall be defined as the
natural lifespan from birth and until natural death; and

C) The only exceptions to this
right shall be:

i) in the case of participation
in armed combat,

ii) in the case of capital
punishment for serious crimes, or,

iii) in the case of accidental
death from medical procedure.

D) This provision shall not be
interpreted as a prohibition of suicide as long as only the consenting person
dies.

***Section 3:***
Right to Non-Discrimination

All persons
have the right to live free from discrimination.

A) No person may be discriminated
against on the basis of appearance, sex, gender, age, nation of origin,
ethnicity, religious beliefs, or political views;

B) No person may be discriminated
based on place or time of birth, nor based on the actions of family or
associates; and

C) No person may be discriminated
against based on one’s activities or hobbies, except those which are illegal in
the nation it occurred in.

D) This right shall not protect
violent behaviours, beliefs, or affiliations from discrimination.

***Section 4:***
Right to Free Speech

All persons
have the right to freedom of speech.

A) No person may be prevented
from nor punished for expressing one’s thoughts, speech, or expressions.

i) Protected speech may be
through spoken, written, or published word.

ii) Protected expression includes
all forms of art, literature, body attire, tattoos, piercings, or any other
thing that can be interpreted as expressing one’s self or ones opinions.

iii) No person may be punished
based on what a person is assumed to, claims to, or actually does believe,
think.

iv)This provision shall not be
defined as protecting the avocation of violence.

***Section 5:***
Right to Religion

All persons
have the right to freedom of religion.

A) No person may be prevented
from practicing any peaceful religion.

i)This provision does not
prohibit nations from making lists of approved religions if new religions can
be added to that list.

ii)This provision does not
prohibit acting against or outlawing or restricting the practice of violent
religions.

B) No person may be forced to
practice any specific religion.

i) This provision does not
prohibit the establishing of a national or state religion.

***Section 6:***
Right to Assemble

All persons
have the right to peaceful assembly.

A) No person may be prevented
from gathering in groups either in person, online, or in mind when in peaceful
assembly.

B) No person may be prevented
from gathering in groups for peaceful protest.

i) This provision shall not be
interpreted as protecting those committing crimes and/or rioting.

This provision
shall not prohibit nations from limiting gatherings if those gatherings
threatening public health.

***Section 7:***
Right to Self and National Defence

All persons
shall have the right to come to the defence of oneself and others.

A) No person may be prohibited
from coming to the defence of oneself or to the defence of others.

i) This provision shall not
protect those who use disproportionate force.

B) All states shall be permitted
the right to perform any military action required for the defence of its
people.

C) No states shall be punished
for acts of self-defence performed against other nations, organizations,
groups, or people, except where otherwise unacceptable as defined by this
treaty.

***Section 8:***
Protection from Unreasonable Searches and Seizures

All persons
shall not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures.

A) No person may be deprived of
home and property unless the home or property is being used as evidence for a
crime.

i) All seized property and homes
must be fairly compensated at pre-seizure market prices.

ii) This protection shall not prohibit
a government from pressuring an owner of selling his or her home or property at
fair market prices.

B) If no crime has been committed
and a person is not under reasonable suspicion of having committed a crime, no
person may be subject to a search of his or her home or property.

i) The Reasonable Suspicion
standard requires that the person has to have committed a crime, match the
identity of a suspected criminal, have a likely or apparently illegal object,
substance, or activity within reasonable view from outside of the property or
home, or having illegally performed acts within or while using the home or
property in the past.

***Section 9:***
Right to Due Process

All persons
have the right to due process.

A) No Human may be put on trial
for a crime he or she has not been accused of.

B) No Human may be arrested
without being accused of a crime and formally informed of the accusation.

C) No person may be held for more
than 30 days without trial.

D) NO person may be charged twice
for the same instance of an offense.

i) This right does not prohibit
charging for each separate instance of an offense.

ii) This right does not prohibit
the escalation of a charge to a more serious charge, and courts may treat the
escalated charge as a separate offense as long as the un-escalated charge is
not included at the same time.

***Section 10:***
Right to Fair Trial

All persons
have the right to a fair trial.

A) All persons have the right to
legal representation at trial.

i) The legal representation must
perform due diligence.

ii)The legal representation must
work on the behalf of his or her represented defendant.

iii) The Legal representation
must be offered if the defendant can not afford his or her own legal
representation.

B) All trials must presume
innocence until guilt is proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

i) The Reasonable Doubt standard
requires that there be little doubt of a defendant's guilt before a guilty
verdict may be given.

ii) reasonable doubt can not be
based on character witnesses and victim testimony alone.

C) Both the prosecution and the defence
must be allowed to present evidence, but both sides must share that evidence in
order to provide a fair chance of rebuttal for either side.

D) A trial must provide a
reasonable amount of time for both the defence and prosecution to gather
evidence.

i) The collection of evidence may
not be used to artificially lengthen the amount of time a trial takes to reach
completion

E) The body responsible for determining the outcome of the trial must hold no bias or motive to rule in favour of any verdict.

***Section 11:***
Right to Defined Legality

All persons
have the right to be free from arbitrary arrest, detention, or punishment.

A) No person may be arrested or
detained unless told what crime he or she is accused of;

B) No person may be arrested,
detained, or subjected to punishment without having committed a act defined as
a crime in a nation's official legal code; and

C) No person may be subjected to
punishment that is not a standard or defined punishment fitting the crime
committed.

***Section 12:***
Right to Free Movement

Excluding
only those confined for medical or legal reasons, no person may be restricted
from movement in public spaces within any nation.

A) No person may be restricted
from moving through a public space, except those in medical detention or
imprisoned for a crime; and

B) This section shall not be
interpreted as giving persons access to private property or government or
military facilities.

***Section 13:***
Right to Freedom

All
Humans have the right to freedom.

A) No person may be owned by any
sentient or intelligent being.

B) No person may be forced to
perform unpaid labor or indentured servitude.

i) This provision shall not
prohibit the use of community service or hard labor as a punishment as part of
a criminal verdict.

**Article 5: Identifiers**

This
treaty shall set up series of identifiers for the UFT and ITF.

The emblem of the UFT shall
consist of recognizable symbols.

A) The UFT Emblem shall consist
of:

i) four concave geometric
deltoids arranged in the shape of a four-pointed star;

ii) each deltoid on the flag will
be split in two at the line of symmetry; and

iii) the clockwise section will
be blue and the counter-clockwise section red.

iv) This emblem will be known as
the UFT star.

B) The flag of the UFT shall
consist of the UFT star on an orange field.

C Individual government
departments may adopt alternate colour-based variants of the UFT star as their
individual emblems.

**Article 6: Amendments**

This
treaty may be amended by a two-thirds majority vote of all UFT member nations.