If an Officeholder forfeits or goes into Limbo, e automatically resigns from the Office at that time.

In the absence of a current Officeholder for an Office, the Administrator holds the Office until a new Officeholder is selected pursuant to the rules for filling the Office.

The set of Offices is defined as {Administrator, Foreign Minister, Treasury Minister, Lower Court Judge, Justice}. Upon the passage of a Proposal altering this set, the set shall amend itself to reflect the changes.

Entities holding Offices are Officeholders.

Players may resign from any Offices they hold at any time.

This Rule takes precedence over all other Rules or portions of Rules dealing with Offices.

The Administrator shall be defined as a game entity who is represented by one and only one real, living human being who consents to said representation. The Administrator shall be identified by the word "Administrator" followed by his or her corresponding real human name. The duties of the Administrator are vote collection, dispatching official notices, updating the web page, judge selecting, vote counting, and all other miscellaneous administrative duties.

Due to these duties, the Administrator shall possess privileged information. He or she may not share this information with any Player, directly or indirectly, until the information becomes officially public.

The Administrator is Joel Uckelman.

The Foreign Minister is an elected Official whose duties consist of:

1. Representing Berserker Nomic in dealings with other nomics and in metanomics and nomic organizations of which Berserker Nomic is a member.
2. Submitting a turnly report on relevant matters to the mailing list.
3. Proposing treaties and agreements as necessary.

The Foreign Minister shall receive the standard salary for each full turn he/she holds Office.

Upon the closure of a Case, the Lower Court Judge on the Case receives 3 points iff the final ruling on the Statement is TRUE or FALSE.

Upon an election being initiated, the following procedure is executed:

1. Nominations open for the elected Office.

2. Nominations are accepted.

3. Nominations are closed. If no nominations are received, the current Officeholder is named the Officeholder-elect and the process skips to step 6.

4. Voting for the elected Office begins.

5. Voting ends and an Officeholder-elect is named.

6. The Officeholder-elect becomes the Officeholder upon the expiration of the erstwhile Officeholder’s term.

This Rule takes precedence over all other Rules dealing with elected Offices.

Nominations for regular elections open 48 hours before the beginning of the voting period in which the current term expires. Nominations for special elections open immediately upon any such event triggering a special election.

During the 48-hour period prior to voting to fill an elected Office, any Player may publicly nominate any number of consenting eligible Players, including emself, as candidates for the Office.

A term of an elected Office spans the period from the conclusion of one regular election to the conclusion of the next. Terms for elected Offices are five turns long. Officeholders elected through special elections serve partial terms.

Whenever a term of an elected Office ends, a regular election shall be held to fill said Office. Whenever an elected Officeholder resigns or loses a vote of confidence, or the Administrator calls for a special election on a position e holds by virtue of eir being Administrator, a special election shall be held to fill said Office.

The following voting procedure is to be followed when filling elected Offices, unless an alternate voting procedure is required by applicable rules:

The voting period for an election shall be equal in duration to, and in the case of a regular election, concurrent with a proposal voting period.

All eligible voters may submit during the voting period a ballot ranking nominees for the Office using, only once, each of the integers from 1 to n, where n is the number of nominees and smaller ranks are considered better. The nominee receiving the best aggregate ranking over all ballots submitted during the voting period is, at the close of the period, designated the Officeholder-elect and will succeed the current Officeholder upon the expiration of eir term. In the case of a tie for the best ranking, the tied nominee with the highest score becomes the Officeholder-elect.

Any player may call for a Vote of Confidence on any elected Official at any time except a) during an election to fill the Office in question, and b) during another Vote of Confidence on the same Official. Votes of Confidence are conducted using standard Proposal voting procedures.

If a simple majority of votes cast are negative, the Players have lost confidence in the Officeholder and an election is immediately called to fill the elected Office.

The Treasury Minister is an elected Official whose duties consist of:

1. Paying Official's salaries from the Treasury.
2. Preventing the Treasury from going into debt.
3. Submitting a turnly report on relevant matters to the mailing list.

The Treasury Minister, at eir discretion, but no more than once per turn, may:

1. Mint new Subers in an amount not to exceed 20% of the total Subers already in play, to be placed in the Treasury.
2. Authorize the destruction of Subers, to be removed from the Treasury.

The Treasury Minister shall receive the standard salary for each full turn e holds Office.