[Rules 1-100] [Rules 101-200] [Rules 201-300] [Rules 301-400] [Rules 401-500] [Rules 501-600]


Rule 101/1(i) : Binding Nature of Rules
All Players must always abide by all the rules then in effect, in the form in which they are then in effect. This rule takes precedence over all other rules.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
1. Split into Rules 4/0 and 101/1 by Administrative Review, 21 July 1998
1. Clarified by Judgment 47, 15 December 1998

Rule 102/0(i) : Immutable and Mutable Rules
Initially rules in the 100's are immutable and rules in the 200's 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.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
Rule 103/0(i) : Definition of Rule Change
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 of 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at least initially, all new rules are mutable; immutable rules, as long as they are immutable, may not be amended or repealed; mutable rules, as long as they are mutable, may be amended or repealed; any rule of any status may be transmuted; no rule is absolutely immune to change.)

0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
Rule 104/0(i) : Voting and Adoption of Rules
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.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
Rule 105/2(i) : Franchise
Every Player not in Limbo is an eligible voter.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
1. Altered by Administrative Review, 21 July 1998
2. Altered by Administrative Review, 26 October 1998

Rule 106/1(i) : Public Nature of and Effects of Proposals
All proposed rule-changes shall be posted to nomic@iastate.edu before they are voted on. If they are adopted, they shall guide play in the form on which they were voted.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
1. Altered by Administrative Review, 21 July, 1998

Rule 107/0(i) : Retroactive Application of Rules
No rule-change may take effect earlier than the moment of the completion of the vote that adopted it, even if its wording explicitly states otherwise. No rule-change may have retroactive application.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 2, 14 March 1998

Rule 108/4(m) : Numbering of Proposals
Each Proposal submitted in the proper way shall be given a number for reference. The number assigned to a Proposal shall be the least integer greater than 300 that has never before been assigned, whether in this game or its antecedents, to another Proposal or Rule, whether active or inactive.

Proposals to create multiple new Rules must specify a legal Rule number for each new rule to be created. Rules created by Proposals creating only one new Rule receive the number of their corresponding Proposal unless otherwise specified in said Proposal.

A Rule may have as a number any positive integer not held by any other Rule.

0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 3, 25 March 1998
0. Transmuted by Proposal 302 to Rule 302/0, 27 March 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 5 as Rule 302/0, 6 April 1998
1. Amended and renumbered from Rule 302/0 by Proposal 303, 11 April 1998
2. Amended by Rule 315/0, 26 September 1998
3. Altered by Administrative Review, 26 October 1998
4. Amended by Proposal 475, 23 April 1999

Rule 109/2(i) : Transmutation of Rules
Rule-changes that transmute immutable rules into mutable rules, or mutable rules into immutable rules, may be adopted if and only if the vote is unanimous among the non-neutral voters. Transmutation shall not be implied, but must be stated explicitly in a proposal to take effect.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 7, 4 May 1998
1. Altered by Administrative Review, 21 July 1998
2. Altered by Administrative Review, 26 October 1998

Rule 110/0(i) : Primacy of Immutable Rules
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.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
Rule 111/1(i) : Debate and Alteration of Proposals
Players may debate a Proposal before the vote. The Proposer decides the final form in which the Proposal is to be voted on.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 1, 12 March 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 13, 25 August 1998
1. Altered by Administrative Review, 26 October 1998

Rule 112/0(i) : Winning
The state of affairs that constitutes winning may not be altered from achieving n points to any other state of affairs. The magnitude of n and the means of earning points may be changed, and rules that establish a winner when play cannot continue may be enacted and (while they are mutable) be amended or repealed.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
Rule 113/0(i) : Forfeit
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.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
Rule 114/0(i) : Existence of Mutable Rules
There must always be at least one mutable rule. The adoption of rule-changes must never become completely impermissible.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
Rule 115/0(i) : Self-reference or Self-application
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.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
Rule 116/0(i) : Permissibility of the Unprohibited
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.
0. Initial Immutable Rule, 12 March 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 6, 28 April 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 7, 4 May 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 8, 4 May 1998
0. Clarified by Judgment 10, 7 May 1998

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