NationStates Jolt Archive

WA Casino Act

Category: Gambling (Promote)
Strength : Mild
Creator: Stash Kroh (me)


The World Assembly…

Recognizing the importance of continuing the funding to our humble institution,

Noting that the WA General Fund is funded entirely with charitable donations,

Acknowledging the limits of charitable capacities in the hearts of NGOs and Governments,

Reminding that the General Accounting Office (GAO) is forbidden from running a deficit,

Further Acknowledging that a second, steady stream of income to the General Fund would be helpful to the GAO, and the WA programs relying on funding,

Hereby

Institutes the WA Gambling Commission (WAGC) which shall acquire the adequate land necessary for a series of casinos to be made on neutral territories similar to the WAHQ.

Describes the WA Casinos as classy establishments which shall serve its international guests with gambling entertainment, food, drink and accommodations.

Requires the WAGC to hire the staff necessary to operate, and maintain their casinos in pristine order as well as provide the necessary provisions of the buildings’ security.

Mandates that all profits from the WA Casinos be acquired by the WA General Fund.

Prohibits the WA Casinos from operating with their gambling activities while offering no probability for a player to profit.

Further Prohibits players from using criminal tactics such as “slot rigging” to further the probability of their winnings to incontestability.

Reminds that though anyone in these neutral territories is exempt from their nation’s laws on gambling – that does not mean nation’s that consider it a moral wrong cannot merely prohibit national tourism to these territories.

Thank you for proving my point.

:eek: The nations of the world come together to form casinos? ummmm can't say I'm for this one.

Thank you for proving my point.

Ha, well I tried .... :)

Yay! Blackjack!

I'll support this. I think it's a creative and efficient way to provide funding for a body that really does need it.

OOC: I live in Delaware... a small state in the US, and we didn't have casinos up until recently. It really helped the economy. For one thing... Delaware now gets tourists for the first time, lol.

Must I really explain how the General Fund works, again? What's with all the paranoia of a fund specifically designed to be virtually limitless being depleted at this point in the WA's existence? When we reach WAR #100, then maybe we can start considering a second funding operation. So, obviously, I don't think you should continue in drafting.

(Off the record, of course... I would support a blackjack table being installed in the Strangers' Bar.)

Dr. Bradford Castro
Chief Ambassador, Foreign Affairs Agency
Regional Delegate, Jordia

Further Prohibits players from using criminal tactics such as “card counting”

Card counting is NOT a crime, casinos will kick out anyone they catch doing it but it's not illegal.

Bob Flibble
WA Representative

Card counting is NOT a crime, casinos will kick out anyone they catch doing it but it's not illegal.

Yes, but considering it is a tactic to undermine the system - and therefore cheat the WA out of their money, its should be illegal in this instance.

There has the be a probability that either side, the WA or the player could win.

Yes, but considering it is a tactic to undermine the system - and therefore cheat the WA out of their money, its should be illegal in this instance. Oh please, card counting is to Blackjack as bluffing ability is to Poker.

There has the be a probability that either side, the WA or the player could win.

Card counting doesn't eliminate the house's edge, it merely lessens it.

Bob Flibble
WA Representative

Okay Bob. Just for you, I removed the card-counting jab.


Yours
Commander Zhildigo

Um, using gambling to fund the WA? Okay, I have no qualms with it. The only ambassadors I see having issues are those from theocracies who wish gambling banned in its entirety across the world.

Um, using gambling to fund the WA? Okay, I have no qualms with it. The only ambassadors I see having issues are those from theocracies who wish gambling banned in its entirety across the world.

That's already covered.

Reminds that though anyone in these neutral territories is exempt from their nation’s laws on gambling – that does not mean nation’s that consider it a moral wrong cannot merely prohibit national tourism to these territories.

I am not in for this resolution at all!
I will prohibit it, I hate Gambling, and will not tolerate it.

Is the ambassador for Stash Kroh entirely determined to convince us that he is a waste of perfectly good oxygen? We ask merely for information.

Is the ambassador for Stash Kroh entirely determined to convince us that he is a waste of perfectly good oxygen?

Commander Zhildigo turned his head to the Gobbannium ambassador apparently insulted, pulling out his sword.

"Did someone insult the legacy of Heir in his house of self-immolation!? Beseech to me for your forgiveness - or the disfigured skeleton of a great man, the honourable Hythlodaeus, Eduard Heir, who sits in a hospital at this very moment breathing oxygen from a tube shall rein upon you with a lively incarnation from the tip of thy sword! Heir believed in the freedoms of his perfect amoral polyleritae - and it is my job as his successor to uphold such grand ideologies!"

Commander Zhildigo turned his head to the Gobbannium ambassador apparently insulted, pulling out his sword.

"Did someone insult the legacy of Heir in his house of self-immolation!? Beseech to me for your forgiveness - or the disfigured skeleton of a great man, the honourable Hythlodaeus, Eduard Heir, who sits in a hospital at this very moment breathing oxygen from a tube shall rein upon you with a lively incarnation from the tip of thy sword! Heir believed in the freedoms of his perfect amoral polyleritae - and it is my job as his successor to uphold such grand ideologies!"
We were unaware that the honoured ambassador for Unibot also held that post for the nation of Stash Kroh, and from his hospital bed, no less. We admire his extreme action in protest against the recent ill-advised repeal, though it would have been both pointless and tasteless for us to ruin a perfectly good set of robes in emulation of him.

We regret, however, that we find ourself utterly unable to take this proposal seriously. If it is indeed being submitted in Ambassador Eduard's name, we find ourself wondering if that name has been taken in vain.

We hardly think the General Fund is so in need of funding that the WA should be set into competition with our own domestic gambling industry. Opposed.

-Irina Misheli, Deputy Ambassador

We are opposed. While casino operation is highly regulated in Philimbesi we have found that there is too much chance for corruption and cheating, and as Ambassador Misheli stated, the General Fund is not in that much peril.

Nigel S Youlkin
WA Ambassador.