Title 5 of the AIN Code

Title 5 of the AIN Code (abbreviated 5 A.I.N.C.) is the fifth official title of the Code of Laws of the Alliance of Independent Nations. It contains all current laws concerning the union's roleplay government, as organized into the Alliance Council.

Section 1: Alliance Council
1. The Alliance Council serves as the roleplay leadership of the Alliance, and is responsible for overseeing all roleplay and union events between member states.

2. The Vice President of the Alliance serves as the Director General of the Alliance Council, and bears ultimate responsibility for the effective management and operation of all of the activities of the Council’s other members.

3. In addition to the Vice President, the Speaker of the Union is a member of the Alliance Council in his role as overseer of the General Assembly, and so are the directors of the union’s four Agencies, defined in the next section.
 * a. Any commissioners who serve under a given director are represented by that director on the Alliance Council, and it shall be that director’s responsibility to ensure that he updates the Council on all the official activities of any commissioners under him and brings their concerns to the Council in a timely manner.

4. In order to ensure the effective running of all roleplay and events, the Alliance Council shall meet no less than twice per month, in a place, time, and manner that is most convenient to its members. Such meetings shall include discussions of ongoing and upcoming events, and may also include other related topics, such as ideas for new events and reviews of recent events.

5. The Alliance Council is operated separately from the Executive Council, and its structure may be modified by an Act of the Senate if a majority of voting Alliance members so desire.

Section 2: Alliance Agencies
1. The four Alliance Agencies are defined as follows:
 * a. The Alliance Cultural Agency (hereafter “ACA”; formerly the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Sport) is responsible for all roleplay focused on the arts, culture, and sports. It is headed by the Director of Culture.
 * b. The Alliance Public Services Agency (hereafter “APSA”; formerly the Ministry of Education, Health and Infrastructure) is responsible for all roleplay focused on education, health, and safety. It is headed by the Director of Public Services.
 * c. The Alliance Infrastructure Agency (hereafter “AIA”; formerly the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture and Transport) is responsible for all roleplay focused on transportation and utilities (including energy, water, and waste). It is headed by the Director of Infrastructure.
 * d. The Alliance Economic Agency (hereafter “AEA”; formerly the Ministry of Finance and Information) is responsible for all roleplay focused on trade and communication. It is headed by the Director of Economics.

2. Each agency is limited to coordinating international roleplay in its respective area of influence, and agency directors may propose only voluntary agreements between member states, although the exact form of those agreements (and the method of their formulation) shall be left to individual directors.
 * a. Such voluntary agreements include, but are not limited to: treaties, cooperative ventures between member states, programs dedicated to particular areas of an agency’s remit, and other such programs.

3. Agencies (or their subunits) may also organize unionwide events. All such events shall be governed by the provisions of section 5 of this Title.

4. All agency directors shall be directly elected from among the members of the Alliance by the membership at large, according to the election procedures contained in 2 A.I.N.C. Directors shall serve terms no longer than six (6) months, and shall not be bound by any term limits.

Section 3: Subunits of Agencies
1. Agencies may contain such subunits as are deemed useful or necessary for their operation. The following specific agency subunits are recognized:
 * a. The Alliance Games Federation (“AGF”), headed by the AGF Commissioner, is responsible for organizing the Alliance Games. It is a subunit of the ACA.
 * b. All sports leagues, both present and future, are subunits of the ACA, and share forum space within the Sports Commission.
 * c. AINESCO is a subunit of the APSA, and is responsible for all union-wide educational and scientific exchange and collaboration programs.
 * d. AINPOL is a subunit of the APSA, and is responsible for coordinating public safety and international law enforcement across the Alliance’s member states.
 * e. The AIN Statistics Institute (“AINSI”), headed by the AINSI Commissioner, is responsible for compiling statistics and demographical data on the member states of the Alliance. It is a subunit of the AEA.
 * f. The Alliance Trade Organization (“ATO”) is a subunit of the AEA, and is responsible for coordinating trade between member states and any corporations based therein. It also facilitates corporate activity, globalization, and cooperation with the Alliance Bank to support economic development and growth across the world.
 * g. The Bank of the Alliance (also “Alliance Bank”) is a subunit of the AEA, and serves as a global support bank akin to a Development Bank and the IMF. It provides emergency loans and financial support for countries in need, including providing restructuring support and funding to increase economic growth, among other related services.

2. Agency subunits may be headed by commissioners, who are responsible to the director of the agency to which their subunit belongs, and shall be appointed by the responsible director on the advice and consent of the President.
 * a. All commissioners shall be responsible for maintaining their respective subunits and ensuring that any events managed by the same are run effectively and in a timely manner. They shall have the assistance and oversight of their responsible director when necessary.
 * b. Immediately after a general election has ended, all commissioner offices shall be open to new appointments. If an incumbent commissioner wishes to retain his office, and no other members express a desire to take said office, the responsible director may simply reappoint the incumbent without opening applications for said office. Otherwise, an application thread shall be posted for that office, and the President and the responsible director shall appoint whichever applicant they believe to be the best for that office.

3. Agency directors may propose new subunits of their respective agencies through bills in the Senate, outlining the purpose of said subunits, and specifying whether they will have commissioners or not.

4. Any agency subunits which are not headed by commissioners are directly managed by their responsible director, unless said director decides to appoint a commissioner.

Section 4: General Assembly
1. The General Assembly is a hub for member states to cooperate, establish diplomatic ties, create economic zones and military agreements and serves as a meeting place for governments.

2. The General Assembly has no roleplay leadership. The Speaker of the Union oversees it in a strictly non-roleplay capacity as a dedicated moderator and administrator.

3. All member states have equal membership in the General Assembly, and new member states are automatically granted membership therein upon the approval of their applications to join the union.

4. The General Assembly has no legislative powers and cannot pass any laws, treaties, or resolutions which are binding on all member states.
 * a. Any treaties or other agreements proposed in the General Assembly must be strictly voluntary, but may be proposed by any single member state, or by a group of several member states.
 * b. In accordance with the ban on roleplay with real-life countries, the General Assembly is prohibited from debating and/or voting on possible reactions to real-life events.

5. Directors of agencies may exhibit inter-agency projects in the General Assembly.

Section 5: Events
1. With the exception of any events organized by individual member states, all unionwide events are organized by agencies of the Alliance or their subunits, and the organization and running thereof are the responsibility of the director(s) responsible for the relevant agency/agencies or the commissioner(s) of the relevant subunit(s) (hereafter referred to as the “event organizer”).

2. All events which are hosted by a specific member state shall have their host selected by a bidding committee, composed of an odd number of members and chaired by the event organizer, after the end of a bidding period of a reasonable length, wherein any member states interested in hosting the event may post bids for said event. The requirements for valid bids, and the length of the bidding period, shall be decided by the event organizer in advance and posted in whichever forum is most appropriate for said event.
 * a. Events whose host is automatically decided, such as by being awarded to the previous winner, are exempt from the requirements of this paragraph.
 * b. The exact size and composition of a bidding committee shall be decided in advance by the event organizer, and shall conform to the above requirements.

3. Either the event organizer or the event’s host may take responsibility for any background work required for an event (such as simulating results), provided that such work is completed in a timely manner. The event organizer and the host shall decide between them who will take responsibility for said work in advance.
 * a. Event organizers and hosts are highly recommended (but not required by law) to store copies of their event-related files on a cloud storage service, such as Dropbox or Google Drive, to prevent the irrecoverable loss of said files and the delay of events.

4. It shall be the host’s responsibility to post all details and results of his event, so as to take full creative control over its presentation, unless he does not wish to post said event. In the latter case, the event organizer shall be responsible for posting the event details and results.

5. Member states do not need to propose ideas for new events in the Senate, although they may do so if desired. All such proposals, if made, should be presented formally as proposals (as defined in 4 A.I.N.C. §5.1(b)), not as bills or motions.

Source
Roleplay Government Reform Act