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Who, What, When, Where, Why, How?

Table of Contents

1. What are the Different Types of National Actions?
2. How do People Vote?
3. What's A Tax Certificate?
4. How do Presidential Elections Work?
5. What's a Municipality, What's a County, and What's a State Government?
6. What are the Different Parts of an Action Transcript?
7. How Much is a Zoop Worth?
8. How do Congressional Elections Work?

What are the Different Types of National Actions?

Action Name

What The Action Is

How The Action Gets Passed

Standard Action

Legislation that creates new law, including repealing previous Standard Actions

Approval of the President and of a majority in the House and 60 Senators or Approval of a majority in the House and 75 Senators

Executive Order

Legislation that issues a Presidential Proclamation (appoints a Judge to the Supreme Court, confirms a Cabinet, creates/issues a President medal, declares a National Holiday), repeals a previous Executive Order, or clarifies wording in Standard Actions

Approval of the President

Constitutional Amendment

Legislation that repeals a previous Amendment, adds or removes a new Statement or Statements (with exceptions), or ratifies a Standard Action into the Constitution

Approval of President and of at least 75% of Congresspeople in both houses

Judicial Order

An order issued by the Supreme Court that rules for or against legislation or decides a case appealed to their level

Approval of 4+ Supreme Court Judges

How do People Vote?

People have to be at least 18 years old to vote. The local county postal service mails ballots 30 days pre-election. Filled ballots need to be sent in at least 7 days before Election Day. Unidalanians are automatically registered when they turn 18 or when they become a Unidalanian citizen.

What's A Tax Certificate?

A Tax Certificate is a book that the government has with all of a person's tax records. Tax Certificates are kept completely private from the public. Starting the first year that a person pays taxes (at age 18), because the Department of the Treasury and Taxes knows the income of all Unidalanians, the Department will automatically fill out everyone's taxes in that year's Certificate Section.

How do Presidential Elections Work?

Presidential Elections are made up of 3 parts. Part 1 is made up of Presidential Caucuses, Part 2 is made up of the three Presidential Conventions, and Part 3 is the General Presidential Election.
How do Presidential Caucuses Work?
Presidential Caucuses are party-by-party caucuses that take place a few months before that party's Presidential Convention and all states hold their Caucus on the same day. In a party's Presidential Caucus, voters go to their Municipality's caucus location (usually the local Mayoral Hall). Then, at 6:00 PM local time for Democrats and 7:00 PM local time for Conservatives, the caucus officially begins. The Mayor starts the caucus by dividing the area up into sections (one section per candidate of that party). Then, all supports of each candidate go to their section. If a candidate's supporters amount to under 20% of all of those present, they have to go to another group. Once all candidates have 20%+ of the caucusgoers, each 25% of support (rounded) gives them 1 Convention Delegates (CDs). Whichever of the candidates within a party that wins the majority of delegates becomes that party's Presumptive Nominee.
How do Presidential Conventions Work?
Each party has their own Presidential Convention, which lasts 4 days (usually Monday through Thursday) and takes place in June and/or July. The Conservative Party has their convention first (last week with days in June) followed by the Democratic Party (two weeks after the Conservative Presidential Convention). The main attendees of a convention are the speakers, the Convention Head, each state's Convention Representative, and each state's CDs. In total, there are 8,000 CDs that attend each Convention (4 CDs per Municipality). CDs are chosen by a state's Convention Representative. During a Presidential Convention, there is a roll call in which each state's Convention Representative reports their state's vote distribution. Whichever candidate gets a majority of CDs wins the nomination, and if there is no majority, CDs can vote for any of the candidates. The Convention Head officially nominates a Presidential Candidate, party members/nominee supporters give speeches, and more. The main purpose of the convention is for the Nominee-Elect of a party to accept their nomination for President and announce their Vice Presidential Nominee-Elect, who will also accept their nomination for Vice President.
How does the General Election Work?
The General Election takes place on the first Sunday of November. Voters have 3 votes: their 1st Choice Vote (or Vote1), their 2nd Choice Vote (or Vote2), and their 3rd Choice Vote (or Vote3). Voters rank the 3 Presidential candidates, with Vote1 being their most preferred candidate, Vote2 being their 2nd most preferred candidate, and Vote3 being their least preferred candidate. When counting votes in each state, a Vote1 counts as 3 votes, a Vote2 counts as 2 votes, and a Vote3 counts as 1 vote, and the candidate that gets the most votes wins the General Election and becomes President-Elect. The President and Vice President take office on January 3 the next year.

What's a Municipality, What's a County, and What's a State Government?

There are 20 states, each of which has counties, and within those counties there are Municipalities.
What's a Municipality?
A Municipality is the lowest level of administrative division in the nation, with counties, states and national being the higher levels. Each state has at least 50 Municipalities, with the exact number depending on the state's population (50 Municipalities to start, with 1 more Municipality added for every 0.1% of the nation population in that state). All Municipalities in a state have the same amount of people, give or take a maximum of 5%. Municipality borders change every 10 years after Census data is collected and used. Municipalities are led by their Mayor (elections take place every even year), but individual Municipal governments have no Legislative or Judicial branch. In total, there are 2,000 Municipalities.
What's a County?
A County is the second-lowest level of administrative division in the nation, with states and national being the higher levels and Municipalities the lower level. Each state has at least 5 counties, with the exact number depending on the state's population (5 counties to start, with 1 more county added for every 1% of the nation's population in that state). All counties (sometimes except one) in a state have 10 Municipalities; a county can have 1 to 9 Municipalities in it if a state has an uneven number of Municipalities. Counties have no individual government. In total, there are 200 counties.
What's a State Government?
A State Government is the state-level form of government and is made up of the Governor and the State Court. A Governor's job is to appoint State Court Judges and to execute federal laws passed in their state. In total, there are 20 states.

What are the Different Parts of an Action Transcript?

An Action Transcript has 2 parts. The first part is the Actor, it consists of the words "This Action Will:", and it starts the Action Transcript. The second part, the Act, is the main part of the Action, and it explains what the Action will do.

How Much is a Zoop Worth?

1 Ounce of Platinum = 590 Zoops
1 Zoop = 100 Zoop Cents

How do Congressional Elections Work?

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES - There are 435 House seats, with each seat representing its District. Since there are usually more than 2 parties running for a seat, instant runoff voting is used to determine the winner.
SENATE - There are 100 Senatorial seats, with each seat representing its District. Since there are only 2 parties running for a seat, First-Past-the-Post is used.

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