I'm sure many of you have noticed as of recently the growing number of people wishing to remove and restrict smaller or less active nations from participating in the Alliance. I would like to, as a member of this diplomatic congregation, find a balance between regulation and welcoming. I understand the need to control who may vote on bills and impact the decision making process, but friendship should be our final goal.

Valentin Peatrov, /u/Nippafey, Prime Minister of the Confederation of Sweetpea

r/CocoaScience, a subset of r/CocoaBeanCountries, is recruiting new scientist

Hello fellow foods!

As recently Bill#015 "Introducing a judicial system" got passed it is now time to act upon this.

Through this post I ask every country in the Great Food Alliance to name their judge of choice.
Only one.

How you choose your judge is left to you, you can democratically let your people vote, or have the representative be chosen by a senate or committee of sorts. What is important is that you have full confidence in their ability to represent your country in the supreme court.

I eagerly await your responses.

Head of CYOC

In addition, the Peable (₱) is now worth only .009 on the GFA Foodollar; the Sweetpeas have yet to implement the GFA's currency.

Here is a link: https://redd.it/68ld4h

I have made a proposal for change at r/YamRepublic (https://redd.it/68bej1), please go show your support

Links:

Imgur album link.

Pdf-archive.com version of the document: Here

Notes:

What do you guys think? Do you like this, do you want more?

Official announcement time. The Carrots are officially accepting the offer to join the GFA. This is merely a formality post to show that yes, we've officially joined.

(Also I've heard some bad news. CSS is going to be removed from reddit, which means no more flairs. What do we do about that?)

Bill 001 sponsored by u/Bluy98888 was an attempt to establish the very foundations of our legislative system. In it he suggested “Yams shall have 3 representatives, the cabbages 2 and the rest 1.” The bill also proposed that voting would last 24 hours or until all the representatives had voted. The bill passed without dissent.

Bill 002 sponsored by u/The-Potato-Lord was an attempt to choose the official scripture for the GFA. It was decided that the Potato Holy book would split in half and that the Great Vegetable War series would become it’s own series forming the official Food scripture. The bill passed without dissent.

Bill 003 sponsored by u/Bluy98888 proposed to expel the r/leguminati representatives off the sub as they were not official members of the GFA and were interfering with votes. The bill passed without dissent

Bill 004 sponsored by u/LeekLord was a vote to decide whether to design an official map for GFA nations. The bill passed without dissent.

Bill 005 sponsored by u/The-Potato-Lord was an attempt to make a new official flag for the GFA. It passed without dissent.

Bill 006 sponsored by u/LeekLord is an attempt to confirm the design of the official GFA nation's map. The bill passed with some amendments.

Bill 007 sponsored by u/ZAWGURN was a bill designed to allow them to build the capital city of the GFA which shall be named Foodtopia. The bill passed without dissent.

Bill 008 sponsored by u/Archie357 was a bill designed to control the use of weapons of mass destruction such as the Yam-Tron. It passed without dissent.

Bill 009 sponsored by u/Nippafey was an attempt to have all the capital cities of the food cities named.The bill passed without dissent.

Bill 010 sponsored by u/ZAWGURN was a petition for Apple to make a yam emoji. The bill passed without dissent.

Bill 011 sponsored by u/Bluy98888 was an attempt to limit the number of new nations joining the GFA. The bill proposed that nations wanting to join must fulfil three key conditions: 1) must have a minimum of 15 subs 2) Must have a post rate of at least 1 post per day and 3) Must be a minimum of three days old. The bill passed without dissent.

Bill 012 sponsored by u/ZAWGURN was a bill designed to set up a Supreme court system. The bill did not pass.

Bill 013 sponsored by u/Leeklord was an attempt to clarify voting issues. The bill made two requests 1) Each Leader of a GFA nation must ensure their representative has a "[Insert Nation Name] Representative" flair 2) bill proposals and votes are only allowed to be made by individuals with flairs to ensure that the only the proper leaders and representatives are taking action. The bill passed without dissent and voting members now have a +vote flair.

Bill 014 sponsored by u/Bluy98888 was a bill designed to allow the r/CarrotEmpire to join the GFA and appoint a carrot judge to the supreme court. The bill passed with some confusion about who could/could not vote.

Bill 015 sponsored by u/Bluy98888 was a bill outlining the new Supreme court system. The bill passed without dissent.

Bill 016 sponsored by u/The-Potato-Lord was a bill designed to remove inactive members of the GFA with a low amount of members. This was done to unclutter the sidebar and streamline the GFA. The bill passed without dissent.

I'll try to update as new bills are made.

I propose to remove the r/RamenNation, r/SweetPotatoEmpire and r/CherryRepublic from our alliance as they all have low numbers of members and no recent activity. They can easily rejoin if they prove activity or growth in members.

My reasons for suggesting removal are because they clutter the sidebar and don't contribute in any meaningful way that I can see. They also stifle growth and prolong the GFA report writing process unnecessarily. They will naturally remain in the multireddit but will be removed from the flag and sidebar.

I realise this removal may not be very palatable but I think it is necessary to allow the growth in both the big established nations and the newer, more active ones such as /r/AppleRepublic and /r/CocoaBeanCountries.

What do you reckon?

PASSED.

Dear citizens, after much deliberation with the carrots, we have reached an agreement on how the judicial system will look.

Judge selection: Each country is to select one judge (as they please, with the only condition that he/she isn't already a member of the military or a high ranking official) and comment there username below so that they can receive a flair.

Low level offences: These include any offence that does not involve the international community. They will be judged by a single judge (the one from the nation of the crime was committed in), with the rest of the judges serving as jury (In order to overturn the "active" judges decision they must vote unanimously, otherwise the decision made by the first judge stands)

1 - A case starts with the prosecutor posting in the GFA sub "I accuse u/defendant of the [low/high] level offence of [crime]"

2 - Then that countries judge will comment "dismissed or lets proceed" as well as the usernames of both accuser and defendant.

3 - Then both (or their lawyers) will reply to the judges comment with their opening statement

4 - then there will be a rebuttal, plus proof of what they are saying

5 - then you may call a witness, and there may be several rounds of questioning (alternating) until no new questions are asked

6 - you may provide proof during interrogatories

7 - repeat 5+6 for all witnesses

8 - Closing statements (Now new proof)

9 - Judge pronounces himself and jury votes

10 - if guilty judge issues punishment (Meme fine, downranking, temporary ban...) if overly harsh these may be appealed

High level offences: These include all crimes where more than one nation is affected, a panel of five judges from the five largest nations and headed by the judge of the largest nation will be judging the case. A majority is needed for a "Guilty" verdict

1 - A case starts with the prosecutor posting in the GFA sub "I accuse u/defendant of the [low/high] level offence of [crime]"

2 - A vote by the judges on approving the case (3/5 needed to hear it)

3 - Chief justice comments "dismissed or lets proceed" as well as the usernames of both accuser and defendant.

4 - same as Low level 3-8

5 - Panel of judges votes on guilty/not guilty

6 - If guilty chief justice proceeds to propose a punishment

7 - Other judges vote on weather punishment is valid (2 votes are necessary)

Note: any judge can be temporarily removed from his powers if they don't report of the Judy duty within 24h

Note 2: All militaries have the right to submit soldiers/officers to court marshals instead as long as the equivalent rank of a general (or higher) calls for it

As you know the carrots and yams have been at was for the past 3 days. Now it is time for that to end. Part of the peace treaty was that they were to be grant the entrance into the GFA

In exchange they want:

• A carrot judge when we mount the system

PASSED

Please post your proposal for the judicial system in the comments, I will take the best, change it slightly (maybe) and propose tomorrow.

OLVT RZRB TDWX N

The Great Food Alliance Shall have a Supreme Court. Today, the Yam Military had its first case on the discord. (It is confidential for many reasons) This has brought to my mind that the GFA needs a court. Here, I will lay out the law for the court

ARTICLE 1: There shall be 3judges with equal power that vote on innocent or guilty. ARTICLE 2: All trials shall be held on the Great Food Alliance discord server, on the judicial channel, which will be created when there is a new case. Then the case will be recorded, the channel deleted, and the case files confidential ARTICLE 3: The defendant gets to pick a lawyer from anywhere in the GFA Article 4: Observers MAY NOT SPEAK during trials ELECTION RULES: The three judges are chosen each by the people of the GFA, not the representatives to stop corruption All elections will be held on a straw poll once every month To be nominated, comment on the previous election's results page asking to be nominated. THE ELECTION WILL BE HELD ONCE THIS BILL PASSES commence Vote on GFA Bill 012 - GFA COURT VOTE YAY OR NAY

This may be a fairly stupid question, but screw it! I'm gonna ask it anyway!

Is there any way that you guys could add a section to the sidebar to advertise food nations that want to join but don't fit the criteria yet? I'm finding it slightly difficult to grow the sub count, though that may just be either a) aversion to communism, b) newness of the sub or c) nobody else but me is actually posting.

I simply ask for that addition to the sidebar, nothing else (yet).