NomicWiki - Nomicide Abridged Rules

An unofficial list of current rules for Nomicide, excluding historical information - last updated 3 July 2009. The full ruleset may be found at http://community.livejournal.com/nomicide/90219.html.

Immutable Rules

101

All players must always abide by all the rules then in effect, in the form in which they are then in effect. The rules in the Initial Set are in effect whenever a game begins. The Initial Set consists of Rules 101-115 (immutable) and 201-215 (mutable).

102

Initially, rules in the 100s are immutable and rules in the 200s are mutable. Rules subsequently enacted or transmuted (that is, changed from immutable to mutable or vice versa) may be immutable or mutable regardless of their numbers, and rules in the Initial Set may be transmuted regardless of their numbers.

103

A rule-change is any of the following: (1) the enactment, repeal, or amendment of a mutable rule; (2) the enactment, repeal, or amendment of an amendment to a mutable rule; or (3) the transmutation of an immutable rule into a mutable rule, or vice versa.

Note: This definition implies that, at least initially, all new rules are mutable; immutable rules, as long as they are immutable, may not be amended or repealed; mutable rules, as long as they are mutable, may be amended or repealed; any rule of any status may be transmuted; no rule is absolutely immune to change.

104

All rule-changes proposed in the proper way shall be voted on. They will be adopted if and only if they receive the required number of votes as judged by the maintainers at the time that voting was closed.

105

Every player is an eligible voter.

Note: This definition should be taken to mean that non-players are not eligible to vote. This is administratively enforced through moderated membership and members-only voting for polls.

106

All proposed rule-changes shall be posted to the nomicide community before they are voted on. If they are adopted, they shall guide play in the form in which they were voted on.

107

No rule-change may take effect earlier than the moment of the completion and closure of the vote that adopted it, even if its wording explicitly states otherwise. No rule-change may have retroactive application.

108

Each proposed rule-change shall be given a number for reference. The numbers shall begin with 301, and each rule-change proposed in the proper way shall receive the next successive integer, whether or not the proposal is adopted.

If a rule is repealed and subsequently reenacted, it receives the number of the proposal to reenact it. If a rule is amended or transmuted, it receives the number of the proposal to amend or transmute it. If an amendment is amended or repealed, the entire rule of which it is a part receives the number of the proposal to amend or repeal the amendment.

109

Rule-changes that transmute immutable rules into mutable rules may be adopted if and only if the vote is unanimous among the eligible voters. Transmutation shall not be implied, and must be stated explicitly in a proposal to take effect.

110

In a conflict between a mutable and an immutable rule, the immutable rule takes precedence and the mutable rule shall be entirely void. For the purposes of this rule, a proposal to transmute an immutable rule does not "conflict" with that immutable rule.

112

A player always has the option to forfeit the game rather than continue to play or incur a game penalty. No penalty worse than losing, in the judgment of the player to incur it, may be imposed.

113

There must always be at least one mutable rule. If, at any point, there are no mutable rules in effect, a poll lasting not more than one interval shall be taken with the numbers of all rules in effect. The rule(s) receiving the most votes shall be immediately transmuted.

114

Rule-changes that affect rules needed to allow or apply rule-changes are as permissible as other rule-changes. Even rule-changes that amend or repeal their own authority are permissible. No rule-change or type of move is impermissible solely on account of the self-reference or self-application of a rule.

115

Whatever is not prohibited or regulated by a rule is permitted and unregulated, with the sole exception of changing the rules, which is permitted only when a rule or set of rules explicitly or implicitly permits it.

Mutable Rules

202

The basic unit of time shall be the interval. Each interval shall be seven days long, beginning and ending at 1200 UTC. Wherever a rule refers to a period of time not beginning at 1200 UTC, it shall refer to a period of time ending at 1200 UTC and comprising not less than 156 hours, nor more than 180.

Note: In effect, this rounds the end of an interval not beginning at 1200 UTC to the nearest midday seven days later, which will always be within 12 hours of the 168-hour period normally defined by the rules.

204

Where a poll of eligible voters is required by the rules, it shall be posted to the nomicide community by the maintainers with the 'votes' tag attached. Except where otherwise required by the rules, players shall be given the option to support or oppose the matter at vote, or to officially abstain from the vote.

Except where otherwise noted, players who fail to vote or abstain in a given poll are not counted as abstentions.

207

A rule change is adopted if and only if it receives an 80% supermajority in favour, with less than 20% abstentions. If this rule is not amended by the end of session 5, it automatically changes to require only a simple majority with less than 50% abstentions.

209

An adopted rule-change takes full effect at the moment of the completion and closure of the vote that adopted it.

210

Each player always has exactly one vote.

213

If two or more mutable rules conflict with one another, or if two or more immutable rules conflict with one another, then the rule with the lowest ordinal number takes precedence to the extent of the conflict.

If at least one of the rules in conflict explicitly says of itself that it defers to another rule (or type of rule) or takes precedence over another rule (or type of rule), then such provisions shall supersede the numerical method for determining precedence.

If two or more rules claim to take precedence over one another or to defer to one another, then the numerical method again governs.

215

If the rules are changed so that further play is impossible, or if the legality of a move cannot be determined with finality, or if, by vote of all current players, a move is determined to be equally legal and illegal, then the first player unable to complete some action required by the rules is the winner.

This rule takes precedence over every other rule determining the winner.

303

Whenever a poll is opened to determine passage of a proposal, a copy of the text shall be included in the same post in the form to be used if the proposal becomes a rule.

304

Whenever a poll is opened in nomicide for any purpose governed or required by the rules then in effect, all players must register their vote(s) or abstention(s) for that poll, and for all questions contained therein, prior to the scheduled closure of that poll.

Players who fail to vote in a poll shall have a number of points equal to the mathematical square of the number of consecutive polls in which the player has failed to vote, deducted from their score for each poll question upon which they have failed to vote.

308

Whenever voting concludes on a proposal that does not use the letter 'e' (upper- or lower-case) in its final text, its score shall be calculated as though it had received one additional supporting vote.

Substitutes may be used for game terms provided they are valid English-language synonyms or phrases, demonstrable by reference to a dictionary or thesaurus, or defined elsewhere in the rules.

315

During each session, each player may propose one or more rule changes by posting a discussion post to the nomicide community. Each rule change proposal shall be contained in its own post.

316

The office of Diplomat is the official representative of nomicide to all outside parties. All communications through this office with external Nomics are to be conducted according to any and all Diplomatic Directives then in effect; whatever is not explicitly allowed, required or regulated by a Directive is prohibited. Exceptions may be made in extraordinary circumstances if a motion to that effect is successful.

When at the opening of a session the office of Diplomat is vacant, nominations shall be taken in the vote post. Nominees are voted upon in the session poll ending that session, and must receive a majority (>50%) of the vote to be elected Diplomat. If none of the nominees receives the necessary votes, the nominee(s) with the fewest votes are eliminated, and a subsequent vote is held for the remaining nominees. Only players of nomicide are eligible for nomination.

If a procedure is later enacted for the election of an office of nomicide, that procedure shall be used in place of that given in the preceding paragraph.

Once properly elected, the office of Diplomat is held until:

the Diplomat resigns the office;
the Diplomat ceases to be a player of nomicide; or
the Diplomat is found by a successful motion to be in violation of the Diplomatic Directives then in effect.

If at any time the office of Diplomat is vacant, its duties revert to the maintainers, according to all relevant rules and Directives, until a new Diplomat is elected.

Diplomatic Directives may be proposed by any player, with a limit of one per player per session. Any Directives so proposed are voted on in the session poll, and are adopted if and only if they receive at least a two-thirds majority in favour. If a Directive is adopted, its proposer shall receive five points; no other rules regarding the award of points for proposals of any kind shall apply.

Proposing a Directive does not count towards any limit on the proposing player's proposals other than that described in the previous paragraph. All proposed Directives shall be given a number for reference; these numbers shall begin with D101, with each proposed Directive receiving the next successive integer, whether it is adopted or not.

Instead of proposing a Directive in a session, a player may propose to void a Directive. This will be treated identically to proposing a new Directive, save that success will cause the voided Directive to be invalidated and no longer binding. In any situation where two Directives are in conflict, the Directive with the lower number will take precedence unless otherwise stated.

Players not authorised by the rules are prohibited from representing themselves by act or omission as an official representative of nomicide, and any player found by a successful motion to have done so shall lose the sum of fifteen points for each violation cited in said motion. No player may lose points more than once for a single violation.

318

Any player whose score at the beginning of a session is both less than -20 and less than -M, where M is the larger of the median and mean scores, shall immediately forfeit the game. This shall not prevent them from rejoining the game at a later date.

This rule defers to all other rules.

320

Where a player disagrees with the interpretation of a rule or a point of procedure, they may file a motion in the open thread to have a solution to, or interpretation of, the matter put to a vote. When such a motion is filed, a suspension poll lasting one day will be opened immediately (except as below) to determine whether play will be suspended during consideration of the motion. During this period, when other players may file additional motions on the same point of interpretation or procedure, additional suspension polls shall not be opened. The result of the suspension poll shall be decided by a simple majority.

At the closing of the suspension poll, the solution poll will open listing the solution of the original motion and all others filed on the same point during the suspension poll. The solution poll will last for a period of one interval and will be decided by a simple majority of votes in support or opposition. In the event that no solution receives a simple majority, all solutions receiving fewer than the median number of votes shall be eliminated and a new poll opened, lasting one half as long as the previous or one day, whichever is longer.

When there remain no points under consideration for which the suspension poll required a suspension, play will resume.

324

Players may offer amendments to proposals by posting a comment to the discussion post with the word 'Amendment', 'Amend', 'Revise' or any other synonym in the subject. Amendments to proposals are subject to a 'voice vote', by posting reply comments including a directive indicating their support or opposition in the subject. Amendments with a majority in favour are adopted when the proposal goes to vote. Amendments to proposals may be rejected or adopted by the proposer, by posting a reply comment to the amendment in question, including a directive indicating adoption or rejection in the subject; this option overrides any and all votes on the amendment.

Where two amendments on a proposal are in conflict, precedence goes first to the amendment with the greatest proportion of votes in favour; second, to the amendment with the greatest number of supporting votes; and lastly, to the amendment with the later timestamp.

When an amendment is adopted, the initial entry shall be edited by the original proposer to reflect the current state of the Proposal, with a note indicating the date and time of the edit. Amendments which have not yet been adopted or have already been rejected shall not be parsed when determining the current state before the session is closed; instead, links to each such amendment shall be listed following the propsal text in the post. When the next session is opened, the initial entry shall be edited accounting for each such amendments receiving sufficient support to affect the text. A copy of the original proposal text, clearly labelled, shall be maintained separate from and below the body of the current, edited proposal text.

In the event a comment contains multiple non-identical directives, such as 'Support' as well as 'Oppose', said comment is rendered null and void.

A directive is any single word that clearly indicates the desired course of action. Directives include, but are not limited to; 'Support', 'Oppose', 'Accept', 'Reject', 'Sponsored', 'Denied', 'Agreed' or any other common synonym of these words. For the purposes of this rule, the words 'Yes' and 'No' will not be considered directives.

325

All proposal discussion posts must include a quote, preferably of an amusing or inspirational nature, in italicized text after the body of the proposal. Citation is encouraged but optional and should not be italicized. This quote, and its optional citation, is not considered to be part of the proposal and is not to be included when the proposal is later voted on and/or added to the list of game rules.

Any proposal lacking a quote but otherwise ready to be voted on shall not be voted on until it gains a quote, and will instead be delayed for three sessions. When a proposal so-delayed receives its quote, it will be added to the next ballot. If the proposal is delayed for three sessions only because of this rule, then the proposal is immediately discarded.

330

During each session, each player may make up to one office motion by posting entries to nomicide titled "Approval - X" where X is the name of the particular office. If the motion receives at least one second, denoted by a reply to the motion containing the word 'Seconded' in the subject line, then the moderators shall include the motion in the next session poll, and it will pass if it receives a simple majority with less than 50% abstentions. If an office is eliminated by such a motion, the current office holder is removed from the position.

Offices may only be created or destroyed by motions according to this rule. If a motion creating an Office includes a description of the duties and powers of that Office, and the motion is successful, that description shall be enacted as Directive 101 for that Office.

All Offices of Nomicide shall be governed by a set of Directives which may be proposed by any player, with a limit of one per player per session per Office. Any Directives so proposed are voted on in the session poll, and are adopted if and only if they receive at least a two-thirds majority in favour. If a Directive is adopted, its proposer shall receive five points; no other rules regarding the award of points for proposals of any kind shall apply.

Proposing a Directive does not count towards any limit on the proposing player's proposals other than that described in the previous paragraph. All proposed Directives shall be given a number for reference; these numbers shall begin with the initial(s) of the Office name and the number 101, with each proposed Directive receiving the next successive integer, whether it is adopted or not. Where the initial(s) of an Office are not sufficient to uniquely identify it, additional letters required to uniquely identify it may be added.

Instead of proposing a Directive in a session, a player may propose to void a Directive. This will be treated identically to proposing a new Directive, save that success will cause the voided Directive to be invalidated and no longer binding. In any situation where two Directives are in conflict, the Directive with the lower number will take precedence unless otherwise stated.

At the beginning of any session where one or more defined offices lie empty, the administrators will open a poll for each such office listing all Nomicide players. The answers in these polls will be the list of Nomicide's players. Each player may vote for as many players as they wish for each office. The player receiving the highest percentage of votes at the end of that session will assume the office in question. If there is a tie for the highest percentage, then a new poll containing only the tieing players will be created during the next session. Players may occupy multiples offices.

If at any time a player wishes to resign as an officeholder, they must make a post to Nomicide to that effect, indicating exactly what office they are resigning from and when that resignation takes effect. At the beginning of the first session since the filing of this resignation, a poll will be held as in the second paragraph of this rule to fill the position. If the new officeholder is chosen before the current holder's resignation date, then the new officeholder will be entered into the office at that date instead.

Only players can hold offices.

335

Whenever voting concludes on a proposal that conforms to a recognised poetic form it shall be considered to have received one additional supporting vote. Short forms (10 lines or less) must have a restrictive structure, meter or rhyming scheme. Prose, in any form, is not a recognised poetic form. Recognised poetic forms are: Acrostic, Carmina Figurata, Ghazal, Haiku, Iambic Meters, Jintishi, Limerick, Ode, Pantoum, Palindrome, Rondeau, Ruba'i, Tanka, Sestina, Sonnet and Villanelle.

337

The game will proceed by sessions, with each session lasting one interval and beginning at the conclusion of the previous except where otherwise stated. Sessions will be given a number for reference, beginning with 0. Each session consists of four parts, as follows:

At the opening of each session, the session poll will be opened. This poll shall allow all eligible voters to vote on each rule change proposed in the previous session, in the form in which they were proposed at the close of the previous session.
During each session, players may propose rule changes according to the rules then in effect.
The community maintainers will post a reminder entry before 72 hours prior to the close of the session, and again between 29 and 19 hours prior to the close of the session. These posts shall include details for each proposal posted during that session, including at least the proposals name and number, along with a summary of the proposal's contents.
At the end of each session, first, all current proposals shall be closed; second, all rule changes receiving sufficient votes will be enacted; and third, all score changes resulting from that session shall be effected.

340

The community maintainers have the responsibility of maintaining a weekly backup of all posts and comments on nomicide through the use of the LJDump utility.

A backup must be made once per week. The backup will be initiated immediately following the posting of the session poll, by the maintainer who posted the session poll. Backups shall be kept on the personal computers of the maintainers. Backups must be provided to current players on request. A maintainer has 48 hours to respond to an archive request.

342

If a nomicide vote post is late by a period of time in excess of twelve hours, any and all persons empowered by the rules to have posted the delayed vote post shall lose one point for each hour or part thereof, in total, that the vote post is delayed.

343

Any community maintainer or office bearer maintaining an official copy of the nomicide ruleset is required to update the rule set with a frequency of no less than once per session.

At the conclusion of a session, if an official copy of the nomicide ruleset has not been updated in that session, the person responsible for its maintenance shall lose five points.

345

A person will be considered a "player" if the following conditions are met.

The person has answered the "Players Poll" found here.
The person is listed as a member of the nomicide community.
The person's LiveJournal account is active.

Once a member meets all the above requirements, they will be considered a "player" and to have "joined the game."

If a member fails to meet one or more of the above requirements after they have officially "joined the game", they will have a period of 30 days in which to correct the situation. During the 30 day period, the player may continue to play as normal. If the lapse is corrected before the end of the 30 day period, there shall be no effect.

If, on the 31st day following the failure to meet the requirements, the person will be removed from the game. A person may also choose to be immediately removed from the game at any time by expressing their desire in the open thread.

To be removed from the game will involve:

Being removed from the member list of nomicide
Being removed from the players list.
Forfeiting all points accumulated.

If a player is removed, any votes or proposals they have made prior to being removed shall stand and have full legitimacy. However, any points they may earn for a proposal passed after their removal shall also be forfeit.

347

a) Every player shall receives 5 points for each of the following events:

The player's Birthday
Christmas
The anniversary of the game beginning (5 Oct)
Easter
The player's local national day(eg 4th July for US players, 6 Feb for NZ players)

b) Players may only receive points for each event once per calender year. Points shall be awarded to players at the end of the session in which the event occurs.

c)Players should notify the maintainers, by replying to a vote post, of events which may not apply to all players and for which they wish to receive points.

d) Should an event not apply to any player(eg local national day), that player may choose the date for which they receives the points for that event by notifying the maintainers at least one session prior to the nominated date.

348

Each time a session passes with no new proposals, each player shall lose 10% of their score (rounded away from zero).

e.g.: 144 would lose 15 point to become 129. -32 would lose -4 points to become -28.

351

Five extra points are
Gained for new rules that do not
Alter points awards

355

Play shall continue regardless of the number of players who become winners, or the number of times any player has won.

Whenever any player becomes a winner according to any rule, they shall gain a title corresponding to the victory condition they have satisfied. No victory condition is valid that does not have a corresponding title. Each title must have an official abbreviation.

A player who wins purely by achieving or exceeding a specified score shall gain the title "High Scorer", abbreviated "H.S.".

Any officeholder shall have the title corresponding to their office for the duration of their tenure. "Diplomat" shall be abbreviated "Dt.", "Herald" "Hd.", and "Magistrate" "Mt.".

357

All players joining the game at its start shall begin with zero points.

Players re-joining the game, before scores have been reset, who left with a positive score shall (re)begin with their previous score.

New players joining the game after its commencement shall begin play with the lower of the median or the mean of all other players' scores.

358

At any time during a session, players may propose Contests. If a single player proposes multiple Contests during a single session, only the last such proposal not withdrawn shall be considered. Only Contest proposals meeting the criteria described in this rule shall be considered. Restrictions on Contest proposals shall not apply to any other kind of proposal, nor vice-versa.

Proposed Contests must receive at least one second denoted by a reply to the proposal containing the word 'Seconded' in the subject line. At the end of the session in which Contests were proposed and seconded, two questions shall be included in the session poll regarding each Contest. The first shall allow players to vote in support or oppostion of Contest proposals, or to abstain. The second shall allow players to enter the Contest, becoming Contestants, or refrain from doing so. If the first question for any Contest receives more votes in support than opposition at the end of a session, that Contest shall begin with the proposer as Host and the players entering via the second question as Contestants.

Each Contest proposal shall include the following:

The name of the Contest.
The prize budget of the Contest, if any, comprising up to three parts:
- An amount 'from the house', not exceeding 10+S points, where S is the number of the session. These points shall not be deducted from any player's score.
- An amount from the Host. These points shall be deducted from the Host's score when the prize budget is allocated. This amount may not exceed the proposer's positive score at the time the Contest is proposed.
- An amount from the Contestants, as defined by the rules. This may take the form of an entry fee, of bets, or of any other source as described in the rules. The amount from any given Contestant other than the Host may not exceed that Contestant's score at the time the Contest began; the amount from the Host may not exceed the Host's score minus the amount previously allocated.
None of these three parts may be negative.
An explicit description of the rules, complete enough to allow play and completion of the Contest with minimal chance of confusion. The Host shall be responsible for executing the rules.
An explicit description of the allocation of the prize budget, if any, at the end of the Contest. All points from the prize budget must be allocated to Contestants or the Host, and no other points may be allocated by a Contest.

Whenever an interpretation motion is filed regarding the execution of a Contest, suspension shall occur by default.

359

At any time any player may make a proposal for the good of Nomicide. Proposals FtGoN must be clearly indicated as such by the inclusion of the phrase "for the good of Nomicide" or an unambiguous equivalent in the proposal post (not necessarily in the proposal text). Except as regards numbering and criteria for enactment (i.e. the votes required to have the proposal adopted), proposals FtGoN shall not be considered proposals for purposes of any rule. Unless withdrawn, proposals FtGoN shall be voted on within eight days (where 'day' is defined as per the International System of Units) of their proposal in a poll lasting no longer than eight days and open to all players of nomicide. If it receives sufficient support in said poll, it shall be enacted immediately. Players do not gain or lose points for proposals FtGoN. This rule supercedes all mutable rules.

360

Whenever nomicide is a player of InterNomic II - the nomic which, at the time of the proposal of this rule, was hosted at http://internomic2.wikidot.com/ - the Diplomat shall be the liaison to InterNomic II. In the event that the Diplomat is nonexistent or otherwise unable to perform the duties of liaison, the community maintainers shall appoint one of their number to the position. In the event that neither the Diplomat nor any community maintainer is able to perform the duties of liaison, a liaison shall be selected from among the eligible players by an appropriate method. In the event that no player is eligible, nomicide shall leave InterNomic II.

The liaison to InterNomic II shall be responsible for summarizing nomicide's activities as a player of InterNomic II to the community, and likewise responsible for notifying the community of events occurring or impending which are of interest to the community.

364

If, in a given Session, only one Player has Proposals up for vote, said Players' score for each Proposal in that Session shall be doubled.

365

If at any point while nomicide is a member of InterNomic II, it is found that nomicide will cease to be a member of InterNomic II if specific changes to the rules are not enacted within a time T, not exceeding two weeks, the liaison to InterNomic II may make an InterNomic II Proposal containing a set of rule-changes to this effect. This set must be such that the failure to enact any subset of these rule-changes would also result in the cessation of membership in InterNomic II. When making such proposals, the liaison will specify a time by which the proposal should go to vote and the duration of the vote, within the following limits:

If the time T is greater than 60 hours:*
- The proposal must go to vote no sooner than 24 hours after its proposal,
- The voting period must be as long or longer than the period until it goes to vote, and
- The sum of these two periods must be less than or equal to T - 12 hours.
If the time T is between 30 and 60 hours, inclusive:*
- The proposal must go to vote no sooner than 12 hours after its proposal,
- The voting period must be as long or longer than the period until it goes to vote, and
- The sum of these two periods must be less than or equal to T - 6 hours.
If the time T is less than 30 hours:*
- The proposal must go to vote immediately,
- The voting period must be between T/2 and T.

Such proposals will be numbered starting with IN101 and incrementing normally. Such proposals shall pass if and only if, first, every rule-change therein would pass as a normal proposal under the same vote, and second, the proposal receives at least two votes in support.

367

When any player reaches 500 positive points, they shall gain the title High Scorer, all others shall lose that title, and all scores - present and pending - shall be divided by three.

368

When voting on a proposal concludes, the proposer shall receive P points. P shall be given by this formula:: P = (60 x (F / V)) - (A x (12 / E))

Where F is the number of favourable votes, V is the total number of votes on the proposal, including abstentions, A is the number of votes cast against the proposal, and E is the number of eligible voters.

Players who successfully amend an adopted proposal shall gain 10 points; the same value shall be deducted from players who successfully amend a failed proposal. If a player makes multiple amendments to a proposal, these points shall be awarded or deducted only once.

369

There shall exist such items known as Game Objects.

Game Objects may be created by any player through the standard proposal mechanism. Such Proposals should include the proposed Object's name, function (if any), point value (if any), and any other information deemed necessary by the Object's creator.

Any so created Game Object shall earn its creator a Creation Bonus of one-third the score received for the Proposal in which the Object is created.

The Creator of any Object shall have no ownership rights to the object per se; rather, the Object will then belong to the Nomicide Community as a whole.

370

There shall be an object called the piggy bank. The piggy bank stores points and has no value beyond the points it has stored in it. The piggy bank is pink, has beedy eyes and a slot in its back. Once per session, each player may place points from their score into the piggy bank by commenting said intention on a vote post.

372

The nomicide community shall keep two official copies of the nomicide ruleset. Each copy shall be the responsibility of the maintainer who posted the most recent version save where an office is specifically charged with the duty; in the latter case the officer in question is responsible. No individual shall be responsible for the maintenance more than one official copy of the ruleset; in a case where the above criteria would suggest that they are, they shall be considered responsible only for the ruleset they most recently updated.

The two official copies of the ruleset shall be as follows:

The Archival Ruleset: This ruleset shall record all changes to the ruleset, organized by kind and serial number. The nomicide Game 1 and Game 2 Rulesets - currently available at http://community.livejournal.com/nomicide/926.html and http://community.livejournal.com/nomicide/39342.html - are examples of rulesets of this kind.
The Reference Ruleset: This ruleset shall record all rule-text currently in effect, organized by content. (Thus, for example, the rules describing victory conditions and results thereof might be collected under a "Winning the Game" header.) Where ambiguity and conflict exist within the rules, addition of clarifying notes (with references) is strongly encouraged.

374

No player with a negative score shall be allowed to hold any office. If an office holding player's score becomes negative they immediately and automatically give up any offices they hold.

Offices & Office Directives

Note: the first directive for each office defines that office, except for the Diplomat - that is defined by Rule 316.

Diplomat

Current Officeholder: packbat.

D101

The Diplomat shall be responsible for maintaining a page of nomicide information on NomicWiki. At minimum, this involves keeping Nomicide's database page reasonably up to date as per the DatabaseTemplate, but the Diplomat shall be permitted, within reason, to add additional factual data about the Nomic to that or other pages so long as they follow the NomicWiki Moderation Policy.

Should NomicWiki or any of the NomicWiki pages listed above move, this Directive shall refer to the current locations. This Directive shall only apply while NomicWiki remains operational and continues to host the Nomic Database.

D103

The Diplomat may, at their discretion, converse in any fashion with any representative of another Nomic in their official capacity, subject to the following restrictions:

The Diplomat shall in a timely fashion inform the community of all conversations held and provide transcripts to any player on request. (Note: this requires that all official conversations held under this Directive be recorded so that said transcripts may be produced.)
The Diplomat shall not misrepresent the powers of their Office.

Herald

Current Officeholder: None.

H101

The Herald shall have the power to make any general announcement as if they were a community maintainer, where a "general announcement" is:

An item to be posted to nomicide,
Mandated by the rules,
Required to be posted by a community maintainer, but
Not a session poll.

The Herald shall receive a salary of 5 points at the end of each session during which the Herald made a general announcement.

The Herald shall be penalized 10 points for each reminder entry that is not posted by a maintainer or other authorized person within 12 hours of the scheduled time.

No community maintainer may become the Herald. If the Herald becomes a community maintainer, they shall be removed from office.

Magistrate

Current Officeholder: gible

M101

The Magistrate is empowered by the rules to execute any and all processes set forth for all motions, other than office motions, made by players, including but not limited to the opening, closing and adjudication of suspension polls and solution polls.

Magistrates may not ordinarily vote on solution polls, and are not required to for the purposes of any rule creating or enforcing a system of compulsory voting. However, if, at the time of closure of a poll, a quorum of players is equally divided between two remaining solutions, the Magistrate shall cast the deciding vote.

The Magistrate is awarded five points for each motion for which they execute the appropriate processes in full or in part. No community maintainer may, at any time, hold the office of Magistrate.

Game Objects

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The Piggy Bank

The piggy bank currently contains 0 points.

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