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Following is a repository of the current version of various Commonwealth treaties that nations may sign.
Treaty of General Membership to the Small Commonwealth

1. There is a commonwealth, called the Small Commonwealth, which shall consist of all signatory members of this Treaty. All member nations may send one representative to the Commonwealth Assembly.

2. Nations wishing to join the commonwealth must be approved by the Commonwealth Assembly with at least a 1/3rd plurality. If rejected, a nation may reapply in 3 months.

3. The commonwealth's day to day operations are headed and overseen by a chairman known as the Primate which shall be a permanent position once appointed by the Commonwealth Assembly. The Primate oversees the Commonwealth Assembly.

3b. The Commonwealth Assembly may elect an official known as the Secundus, subject to all the same election and removal procedures as the Primate, whom shall be vested with the responsibility of assisting the Primate. Should the Primate be unavailable or unable to fulfill his/her duties the Secundus shall stand in for the Primate, until available, or a new one is elected.

4. At any time the Commonwealth Assembly may hold a vote of no confidence and remove the current Primate. A simple majority (50%+1) is needed to remove a Primate and elect a new one. This vote is managed by the representative who proposed it.

5. Nations may leave at any time, but must give public notice of their intent to leave this treaty for it to be recognized. Upon leaving this treaty the departing nation is removed from all other treaties dependent upon this one.

6. This treaty may be amended by the Commonwealth Assembly with a 3/4th (75.0%) majority.
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Small Convention on Forum Based Weapons

1. Any nation who has signed the General Membership Treaty may sign this Small Convention on Forum Based Weapons.

2. All signatory nations agree to refrain from and condemn the use of Forum Based Weapons.

3. Forum Based Weapons include any weapon meant to disrupted, prohibit or undermine the operation of a nation's forum or other means of public communications.

3a. Known Forum Weapons include, but are not limited to, Smiley Bombs, Spam Cannons, Posts with disruptive embedded scripts, and manual spamming of forums.

4. The use of Forum Based Weapons against a nation is considered a hostile and aggressive act of malevolent intent, intended to inflict harm upon said nation.

5. Upon giving notice, any signatory nation may exit this treaty.

6. This treaty may be amended by a 3/4ths majority of signatory nations.

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Small Treaty of Non-Aggression

1. Any nation who has signed the General Membership Treaty of the Small Commonwealth may sign this treaty at any time, provided they are not currently in a state of open conflict with any current signatory.

2. All signatory nations shall not engage in any hostile or aggressive action toward any other signatory nation.

3. If there is a dispute between signatory nations they will bring it before an agreed upon neutral third party for arbitration. If no third party can be agreed upon the matter shall be arbitrated by the General Assembly.

4. This treaty does not include Recreational Wars that are considered friendly by the nations involved at the initiation of the recreational war.

5. Upon giving notice, any signatory nation may exit this treaty.

6. This treaty may be amended by a 3/4ths majority of signatory nations.
Dutch Translation
Kleine Verdrag van non-agressie

1. Elke natie die het Verdrag van de Kleine Gemenebest heeft ondertekend kan dit verdrag te allen tijde ondertekenen, mits men momenteel niet in staat van een conflict is met een huidige ondertekenaar.

2. Alle ondertekenende landen moeten zich niet inlaten met een vijandige of agressieve actie richting andere ondertekenende naties.

3. Wanneer een geschil is tussen de ondertekenende landen, zal de zaak overgebracht worden aan een neutrale derde partij voor arbitrage. Als er geen derde partij kan worden overeengekomen komt de zaak voor de Algemene Vergadering.

4. Dit verdrag bevat geen Recreatieve Wars die als vriendelijk gezien worden door de volkeren die betrokken zijn bij een Recwar-oorlog.

5. Na de ondertekening, kan een ondertekende natie zich altijd terugtrekken uit dit verdrag.

6. Dit verdrag kan worden gewijzigd onder de verschillende ondertekenaars met een drievierdemeerderheid.

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The Small, Rational Mutual Defense Treaty

1. Any member nation of the Small Commonwealth may sign this treaty as long as they have also signed the Small Non-Aggression Treaty, and have the consent of 1/3rd of current signatory nations.

2. All signatory nations vow to give military aid to any other signatory nation that has been attacked by an aggressor state.

3. If the conflict above was created by the fulfillment of the signatory nation of another military treaty or alliance, this treaty is not invoked.

4. A Recreational War, deemed friendly by the nations involved at the initiation of the war, shall not invoke this treaty.

5. Upon giving notice, any signatory nation may leave this treaty within 24 hours of the notice.

6. This treaty may be amended by a 3/4th majority of signatory nations.

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Small Commonwealth Unified Currency Treaty

1. Any nation who has signed the General Membership Treaty may sign this Small Commonwealth Unified Currency Treaty, provided they gain approval from existing signatories.

2. An applicant to this treaty shall be considered by existing signatories. If, within a week, no existing signatory objects, the new nation shall be able to sign this treaty and issued starting currency as explained below.

3. All signatories to this treaty have a unified currency, and share a unified bank. Any participant in the economy of a signatory nation may make economic transactions with participants of any other signatory nations without restrictions, fees or tariffs.

4. Each signatory nations reserves the right to refer to the currency by whatever name they want. This does not make their currency different from the unified currency, and all the names are assumed to have a 1:1 exchange ratio.

5. Participants within this unified currency shall register their accounts in a particular signatory nation, or region thereof. By registering with that nation, participants' accounts are subject to any economic regulation or taxation of that nation, but not of any other nation.

6. The initial-initial distribution shall be as follows: Shireroth shall retain all its current currency. Gralus shall retain all its current currency.

7. After the initial-initial distribution, no currency can be created or destroyed by the signatory nations. However, each new signatory nation is entitled to create currency for an initial distribution among citizens of that country, under the following conditions:
a. They shall count how many citizens they have who do not currently hold accounts via any existing signatory nation.
b. They shall be entitled to 7,500 units of currency per citizen counted in this manner, to be distributed as they see fit.

8. There shall be an administrator of the bank, with the power to change the region of accounts as required; to create currency for new signatory nations; and to enforce taxation.

9. This administrator shall be elected by the signatory nations. At any time the administrator may be removed by a 2/3 vote of no confidence in the administrator, at which time a new administrator shall be elected by the signatory nations.

10. Should a signatory nation withdraw from this treaty, due to death or otherwise, all currency held in accounts registered in that nation shall be removed.

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Small Commonwealth Ongoing recWar League Treaty

1. Any nation who has signed the General Membership Treaty may sign this Small Commonwealth Ongoing recWar League Treaty.

2. Upon the signing of this treaty, the signatory nation must nominate which subforum their SCOWL business will be handled in. If this subforum is not one belonging to an existing nation, they must also nominate a SCOWL judge from among their citizenry to be the judge for that subforum.

3. Signatory nations can only withdraw from this treaty if they also control all their land (as indicated on the MCS map) in SCOWL. When they leave, their land will no longer be valid for SCOWL purposes, though their citizens may continue to participate in SCOWL from the other signatory nations if they wish.

4. An overall judge shall be elected from those currently acting as SCOWL judges by the signatory nation. The overall judge shall have the final word in all disputes, and the responsibility to amend the rules where necessary.

5. The overall judge may be removed by a no-confidence vote of 2/3 of the signatory nations. At this time, a new overall judge shall be elected.

6. If the overall judge ceases to be a SCOWL judge, a new judge shall be elected by the signatory nations.

7. The full and authoritative rules for SCOWL will be held in the Small Commonwealth forum. All signatory nations must link to this authoritative version of the rules. These rules may only be amended as outlined within them.

8. This treaty may be modified by the agreement of 3/4s of signatory nations.
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Convention on the Establishment of a Commonwealth Court.

1.Any State who has signed and ratified the General Membership Treaty and been accepted into the Commonwealth, may sign and ratify, in accordance with its own constitutional procedure, the present Convention on the Commonwealth Court

2.The Parties to this Convention hereby establish the Commonwealth Court (“CC”, “the Court”) as an independent and free court of justice and law.

3.The Court shall have jurisdiction over matters pertaining to international dispute between signatory nations.

4.The Court shall have the power to interpret the Treaties and Conventions of the Commonwealth, subject to the Treaties and Conventions themselves.

5.The Court shall consist of a panel of three jurists independent of the government of the participatory States, elected by the signatory nations of this treaty. The election shall be overseen by the Primate of the Commonwealth. The Jurists of the Commonwealth Court need not be national representatives.

6. Disputes within a nation about a treaty or convention are dealt with by the concerning nations established court.

7. A signatory nation may grant, through the legal processes of that nation, additional powers to the Commonwealth Court, within the Jurisdiction of that signatory nation. The Commonwealth Court is not required to hear cases stemming from this clause.

8.This Convention may be amended by a qualified majority of the State Parties exceeding three fourths of the votes cast.

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Small Commonwealth Intellectual Property Protection Act (SCIPPA)

1. Any nation who has signed the Convention on the Establishment of a Commonwealth Court may sign this treaty.

2. Trademarks
a. Definition – a name, slogan, motto, or piece of art that a company associates with a product, line of products, business plan, or the company at large.
b. Trademarks cannot be modified and still retain their protection under SCIPPA. This includes changing the spelling of a name, the words in a motto or slogan, or the graphic or colors of an image. If a change is made a new trademark is created and proof of ownership of the new trademark is required independently of the original.
i. Extremely minor changes may be exempt to this rule. The Small Commonwealth Court will determine if a change counts as extremely minor.
c. The owner(s) of a trademark, being by default its creator(s), may, at any time, choose to abandon the trademark, or to transfer full ownership of it to another entity.

3. Intellectual Property
a. Definition – any creative effort that can be claimed by a single individual or a group with known, discrete members. Creative efforts include songs, poems, works of art, stories, essays, editorials, or any other media that can reasonably be inferred as to being appropriate for this protection.
b. Intellectual property is protected under the SCIPPA and the Commonwealth Court for all citizens of all nations in the Small Commonwealth. It is not necessary to apply for or register intellectual property – only be able to prove ownership if the need arises.
c. The owner(s) of the intellectual property, being by default its creator(s), has the right to sell or give their property to any individual or organization they choose. However, once they have relinquished control, they are no longer the owner in any legal sense.

4. Copyright
a. Copyright refers to the Small Commonwealth Court's protection over trademarks and intellectual property.
b. The copyright protection includes:
i. No other individual or group may take credit for the content’s creation.
ii. No other individual or group may use the content without permission.
iii. No other individual or group may reproduce or alter the content without permission.
iv. No other individual or group may make profit, including any reasonably inferred form of indirect profit, from use of the content.
c. At any point, the owner(s) of the creative effort may voluntarily waive copyright protection for whatever purposes they desire, either to a certain individual or group, or to the general public at large. They may also cease waiving copyright protection at any time.

5. Violations
a. Any citizen, group of individuals, or corporate entity may file a claim of copyright infringement to the Commonwealth Court. This will start an investigation hearing to determine if the claim holds merit.
b. Claims will be judged by the Small Commonwealth Court on the following criteria:
i. Original creation of material (date and evidence)
ii. Proof of a transfer of ownership, if the owner(s) is not the original creator(s).
c. Copyright infringement claims must be filed for any action to occur. Claims not filed with result in no legal action even if the copyright law is clearly being violated.
d. Signers of this treaty are obligated to accepting the court's ruling in a copyright violation claim by making sure any at fault parties in their citizen bases comply with the court's rulings and cease use of copyrighted materials. There is no mandatory criminal or economic penalty for violating copyright claim, though nations can handle any domestic penalties they wish under their own law systems.

6. Any trademarks intellectual property created before the passage of this act shall automatically be considered under Small Commonwealth Court copyright protection.

7. This Convention may be amended by a qualified majority of the State Parties exceeding three fourths of the votes cast.

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