NationStates Jolt Archive

Background: The UCPA is currently Hiroshiko's "prime directive." Anyone can join and support this act. The main goal of the UCPA is to prevent unnecessary contact with UCs due of an increased risk of contaminating their native technology. Technological contamination may lead to the destruction of a technologically inferior civilization. The UCPA is stated below.

The Underdeveloped Civilization Protection Act (UCPA)

Article 1: The prime characteristic of an advanced civilization
a. Advanced civilizations have incorporated the use of lightspeed technology or other general equivalents to travel through interstellar space.

Article 2: The prime characteristic of an underdeveloped civilization
a. Underdeveloped civilizations have not technologically progressed to a point where it uses lightspeed technology and other general equivalents to travel through interstellar space.

Article 3: The protection of underdeveloped civilizations
a. Advanced civilizations may not in any way interfere with technological progress in an underdeveloped civilization.
b. Advanced civilizations cannot colonize planets with underdeveloped civilizations already thriving on it.
c. Advanced civilizations are prohited to conquer and enslave a planet that contains underdeveloped civilizations.

Article 4: Rights of advanced civilizations
a. Advanced civilizations may traverse through sol systems containing planets thriving with underdeveloped civilizations.
b. Contact with an underdeveloped civilization is strongly ill advised, but not illegal. Refer to Article 4c, 4d, 4e, and 4f for further exceptions.
c. In an event of an emergency, any ship belonging to an advanced civilization may land on a planet designated as underdeveloped. Contact with locals may be achieved. AdvCs may not, however, interfere with technological progress as stated in Article 3a.
d. Contact with an underdeveloped civilization may be established if an advanced civilization wishes to obtain cultural and historical knowledge of that particular underdeveloped civilization. However, they cannot interfere with technological progress as stated in Article 3a.
e. An advanced civilization whose economy partly or wholly relies on trading with technologically inferior civilizations may do so. Thus, contact may be established. They may trade so as they do not interfere with technological progress as stated in Article 3a.
f. If Article 3c is broken by an advanced civilization, any advanced civilization in support of this act acquires the right to stop that advanced civilization from achieving total control or enslavement. Thus, in this situation, contact with underdeveloped civilizations is inevitable. However, interference with an underdeveloped civilization's technological progress is prohibited as stated in Article 3a.

Article 5: Punishment in violation of the Act
a. Violators will be sent to the Galactic Court. Punishment will vary due to the strength of the violation.

Article 6: Exceptions to the Act
a. If an advanced civilization already uses a set of laws similar to the UCPA, then those laws can be executed and then be assimilated with or take the place of Article 3 and Article 4. However, the local laws must be approved by the majority before they are used.

Article 7: Right to modify
a. The UCPA can be modified and changed. A majority must call for reform before any article in this act can be edited.

Prime Minister Wolfwood looks up at the hologram display. He says to the nations, "Welcome all to the Hiroshikite Convention. Today, before you lies our refined work, the UCPA. Anybody can join this pact so as long as they agree to it. Please...please comment on the work."

Alethria would like to go under the protection of this. Our nation is based on Venus, and travle between there and our earth colonies are done, but we are yet to master Lightspeed Technology. To travle between one and the other can take a while, months, even a few years, depending on where earth is.

OOC Ok, Tsuranis puppet, I hate the idea, but since this nation is classified as a undeveloped nation, I will protect it.

OOC: Ok, then thats settled. I'll take note of your colony.

~Electronic Communication to Hiroshiko~
I would like to know if my laws are good enough to be an exception. Part of our economy relies on trade with less-advanced cultures, as they often have goods we have not developed and we have natural materials they can't find normally.
-Dictator Enigma
~End communication~

P.M. Wolfwood responds to Enigma's question. He says,

"Under this act, contact with lesser technological civilizations is strongly ill advised but not illegal. If your economy relies on trade with such peoples, then there is nothing to hold you back. You may trade with underdeveloped civilizations so as long as you don't in anyway, disrupt their current technological progress. Sending raw materials isn't illegal."

- Prime Minister Wolfwood

OOC: Just updated the act; thank you DemonLordEnigma for pinpointing a situation that requires clarity. Also, I'd like to thank Weyr for the "Earthbound Contract" as Article 1 and 2 were inspired by it.

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We've got something like this in the GEDRA charter.

Damn, well anyway, can this be considered as a brother / sister pact?

Well heck, I'm not the one you should ask. Tekania runs the gig. You could even join GEDRA and dedicate your forces to eradicating any attempts by an FT nation to impinge upon the sovereignty of an MT nation.

That's Gedra's big thing. Anybody who tries to clunk an Earth-Based civilization that's still using aircraft carriers and solid fuel rockets over the head with an imperial star destroyer will have about seven fleets converging on the star destroyer's position with guns blazing.

High tech weapons of destruction can devastate entire countries in but a few hours, so we only pay attention to whether the MT nation provoked its more technologically advanced antagonist.

Hmm...thats interesting, I'll see if I can join.

Then again, this is our prime directive; I might just make this our own, rather than people supporting it.