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1. This act is to be cited as the Prohibition on Citizenship within the New Pacific Order.

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2. Section 2.1 of the Citizenship and Demonym Act is amended to read as follows:

Citizens are required to keep the nation which they gained citizenship with within the region unless they inform the person (or government agency) empowered to accept or reject citizenship applications in accordance with relevant law of a change in Citizenship Nation, with the new nation they wish to designate as their Citizenship nation. Citizens that have made five posts on the Wintreath forums during the previous calendar month, after their second month of citizenship, are exempted from this requirement. Any individual wishing to obtain citizenship must have a nation within the region in order to qualify for citizenship. No citizen of the New Pacific Order is eligible for Citizenship within the realm.

I introduce this act as a last-minute act to discuss this, recently the New Pacific Order has been revealed to have infiltrated multiple regions including Lazarus (pre-Civil War and during the Civil War), TRR, Osiris and other regions. This was overseen and ran by the Pacific government, with knowledge of the Emperor, and as such at this time it is in the best interests for regional security to prohibit dual citizenship.

What is the consensus among other regions about this (especially GCRs)?

Osiris is declaring, or has declared, war. Lazarus is considering war. TWP has pulled treaties with the NPO. TSP, TNP, TEP, TRR, and Balder have not exactly done much at this time that I know of.

Osiris is declaring, or has declared, war. Lazarus is considering war. TWP has pulled treaties with the NPO. TSP, TNP, TEP, TRR, and Balder have not exactly done much at this time that I know of.

I would highly recommend holding off until we know the consensus among the GCRs. We don't want anyone to be able to use this against us.

I can tell you that the consensus among most regions is against the NPO. TNP has denounced the NPO and Balder has closed its embassy with TP.

Additionally the following regions are at war with the NPO:
- The Black Hawks (declared by the NPO)
- Hartfelden (Declared by themselves)
- The Midnight Order (Declared by themselves)
- Canterlot (Declared by themselves also against TBH)
- A GCR

The following regions have denounced and penalized the NPO But not officially declare War.
- TRF (with something that is effectively a DoW)
- TNP (with potential DoW later)
- TRR

Additionally it seems like TWP has strongly taken a stance against the NPO internally.

As it seems most GCRs have little faith in the NPO and current attitude is against the NPO.

Additionally the matter of Citizenship is largely an internal measure. The NPO has shown themselves to be untrustable and is a potential security threat. They are also generally to be considered enemies of the realm due to repeated statements by (albeit now former) Consul Pergamon against the region and our king.

I'm sorry, I've been kinda busy, what happened in the NPO?

I don't know if I should be allowed to discuss this here or if my perms weren't removed, but considering the potential urgency of the matter, I must interject. Should we be handling this in a public forum as it is a matter pertaining to national security?

I don't know if I should be allowed to discuss this here or if my perms weren't removed, but considering the potential urgency of the matter, I must interject. Should we be handling this in a public forum as it is a matter pertaining to national security?

Possibly not. We could move this to the Private Storting Forum if you wish.

Or we could post a sister topic in the citizen's platform.

Or we could post a sister topic in the citizen's platform.

Yeah but that's even more public than this forum. The concern is that we shouldn't be doing this in the open.

I think moving the conversation to the PSA would be for the best.

There is no security concern to speak of. We have a very active founder.

If this is declared again, it would be a moral stand at best, just like last time. I fail to see why we should care about gameplay in the slightest, as we do not even possess an active military.

Perhaps it would be best to leave this to the next UH? Our mandate is about to run out anyway.

First off I would HEAVILY like to state that if you are not a member of the Underhusen, or the Monarch, do not comment here without being invited. It is procedural incorrect and is disrespectful to the Underhusen and our rules.

In any case, there is no security concern. First off, all the information I have relayed is public information, it is not privileged in any form. As such there is no security risks for discussing this in a public forum. As the Honourable Laurentus also said, we have an active founder and thus have less issues concerning security.

Next I would like to state that I am highly uncomfortable with privately discussing an act which would effect current and future citizens, and the ability to gain or keep citizenship in private. Such discussions belong in the public, so that we can have the response of the citizens available. This act would, potentially, strip citizenship from someone who otherwise would be eligible for citizenship, and bar others. As such we owe it to the populace to discuss this in the clear, and not just pass it out of nowhere with little public debate.

As to waiting until the next term, we still have roughly two weeks left, additionally this is a somewhat time-sensitive issue in that failing to do this quickly will likely reflect badly upon us if the rest of the GCRs were to look at this, especially with potential information that I do have that is privileged involving other GCRs, which is partially why I have introduced this measure, next is the fact that it will be roughly two weeks and four days until we can debate this once more, assuming we have a Speaker election and that the session isn't shortened due to run-offs.

As to why we should care, we are tied to NS, and we do have to interact with them. Many of our members are from other NS regions as well, as such we do have to have some GP presence. Finally is that we need to be involved in Gameplay for our own sake, as otherwise people will spread malicious rumors that we can not know of, or combat, as was displayed with Lazarus.

I am in favour of this. As an way to keep allies, considering we do not do R/D, we need to show we don't support what NPO have done.