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List of Bylaws [LE]

Last updated on Wednesday, November 7, 2023. If you find this dispatch helpful, please upvote.


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This page contains a list of Company bylaws. Please direct any questions to CLO Hooseria Magna.



Asserting that the goal of Lands End regarding the CEO is to find the best nation for the job;
Understanding that many of those nations are in lower governmental offices;
Hereby states:

  1. All shareholders, except for the WA delegate and Founder, are eligible to run for CEO without resigning from their Board or Senior Management position, if they have one.

  2. If a member of the Board or Senior Management is elected CEO, they have twenty-four(24) additional hours in their Board or Senior Management position before they are required to vacate their Board or Senior Management position.

  3. CEO privileges shall not be assigned to the elected CEO until and after they have vacated their previous Board or Senior Management position.

Q2 2017

Recognizing that involvement of multiple shareholders is essential in a growing region,
Observing that presently, and often in the past, a full complement of nations involved in the Board of Directors is difficult to maintain,
Seeking to provide shareholders with options as they seek to follow bylaws and fill senior management positions with competent leaders,
The Lands End company amends all prior bylaws to allow a sitting delegate to run as CEO, and, if elected, to hold both positions simultaneously.
June 24, 2019

Noticing it possible that a single shareholder may have the capability to hold the office of CEO and other non-board positions within Lands End, the Board of Directors finds it necessary to amend the "CEO Eligibility" bylaw:

  • The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) may hold a Senior Management position while also filling the position of CEO.

  • Should the CEO also hold the position of World Assembly Delegate, they will not receive a vote on bylaws, only the standard CEO veto.

January 28, 2022
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The leadership of Lands End,
Recognizing that the RMB is not the only means of communication associated with the region,
and realizing that these other forms of communication fall into a grey area with regards to NS rules and policies,
Hereby seeks to clarify that:
Any breach of NationStates site policy, on NS or on any platform associated with the region, is grounds for immediate banning and ejection from Lands End at the discretion of the Board.
Furthermore, any guidelines written for communication on the RMB are hereby assumed to apply to offsite communications affiliated with the region as well.
Q1 2018

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We, the management of Lands End, in order to codify and preserve the integrity of our election process, here do set out to set guidelines and procedure for the aforementioned process.

  1. Procedure:

    1. Elections are to be held every three calendar months for the positions of Chief Operating Officer (COO), Chief Legal Officer (CLO), Chief Communications Officer (CCO), and Chief Personnel Officer (CPO).

    2. Elections for the office of Chief Executive Officer are to be held every six calendar months.

    3. Voting is to be a seven day period preceded by at least seven days notice on the RMB. All Shareholder nations are eligible to vote; they will receive a ballot via telegram at the beginning of the voting period.

    4. Ballots for election of ordinary board members (COO, CLO, CCO, and CPO)are to be telegrammed to the World Assembly delegate; should the title of WA delegate transfer mid-election, the votes are still to be handled by the incumbent at the beginning of the voting period.

    5. At the conclusion of the voting period, the receiver of the ballots is to tally the results and announce them via RMB. Additionally, regional offices are to be updated to reflect any changes that might have occurred in the Officer lineup.

    6. The CEO is elected by the board via closed ballot during the four day period immediately following board elections. These votes are to be sent to and tallied by the COO; announcement of the victor occurs either at the end of the voting period or when all board votes are received, whichever should occur first.

  2. Regulation:

    1. The following rules have been laid out to ensure that the election process of fair to all.

      1. Slander of other candidates or former office holders is prohibited, either via telegram, RMB, or any other means of communication associated with the region.

      2. Candidates are not permitted to make use of the Regional Telegram function to sent campaign messages.

December 19, 2018

Understanding the “Secretary of the Board” bylaw, the Board of Directors finds it necessary to amend the Election Process:
Votes for all elected positions in Lands End will be sent to and counted by the Secretary of the Board.
January 12, 2022

Recognizing the "Secretary of the Board" bylaw, the Board amends the Election Process:

  • The election for CEO will be handled by the Secretary of the Board, not by the Chief Operations Officer.

Recognizing "CEO Eligibility" and the necessity to codify the current precedent that the bylaw sets:

  • A person may only hold one position on the Board of Directors at one time and must vacate any additional positions within 24 hours of being elected.

January 28, 2022

3. Elector Operator Succession:

Recognizing the need to clarify election procedures in the case of a vacancy in the office of the Secretary of the Board, the Board of Directors of Lands End hereby amends the Election Process Bylaw:

  1. Should the Secretary of the Board position be vacant or the holder be unable to dispense the powers and duties of the office, the World Assembly Delegate shall be designated as the election operator.

  2. Should the World Assembly Delegate be barred from or unable to operate the election, the duties of the election operator shall follow this line of succession: Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Personnel Officer, Chief Legal Officer, Chief Information Officer, and finally Chief Communications Officer.

4. Snap Election Procedure:

Recognizing the need to clarify snap election procedures, the Board of Directors of Lands End hereby amends the Election Process Bylaw:

  1. Following the removal of a member of the Board of Directors due to their violation of a bylaw, the invocation of the Employee Demotion Bylaw, or their resignation, the election operator shall announce a snap election for the now vacant position within 24 hours of the official's removal from office.

  2. The prospective candidates in the snap election will have a period of 72 hours to campaign and submit a notice of their candidacy & optional campaign dispatch to the election operator, from the time of the announcement.

    1. The removed official is not permitted to run in the snap election.

  3. At the end of the 72 hour period, or within 24 hours proceeding, the election operator shall release the election ballots to all shareholders, pursuant to section 3.

  4. The election ballots shall be open for 72 hours for shareholders to vote following their release.

  5. The election results shall be released within 48 hours of the end of the vote.

5. Election Ballots:

The Board, recognizing the problem of blind voting and the uncertainty surrounding snap elections, hereby amends the Election Process bylaw.

  1. Ballots shall not contain any form of marking, words or otherwise, which indicate the current or former office of any of the candidates, excluding links to campaign dispatches.

  2. Ballots shall not provide any other unfair advantage to a candidate, including but not limited to: making a candidate's name more prominent than others, maliciously excluding a candidate's campaign dispatch which was sent to the election operator through NationStates telegram prior to the release of ballots, etc.

  3. The invocation of point II shall occur through a 2/3 majority vote of the board.

  4. Should the election operator be found in violation of subsection II, they will be immediately stripped of their current position, with the exception of the World Assembly Delegate.

  5. Should the election operator be formerly a member of the Board of Directors, a snap election shall be invoked pursuant to Article II.

  6. Should the election operator be the World Assembly Delegate, the individual is stripped of all future election-operating and governmental-voting powers.

    May 1, 2023

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All Regional Officers and Vice Presidents must have Discord to ensure quick and efficient communications offsite. Any Officers and VPs who were in office prior to the bylaw being instated is grandfathered in.
Nations that are grandfathered in: Mercantana and TESDAI.
January 19, 2020

Any nation grandfathered in will lose their grandfather status upon their departure from the Lands End government, whether through removal or by election.
September 1, 2020

This requirement is clarified to include access to the channel known as "the_boardroom" or the Lands End Government Channel. Henceforth, an inability to access that channel will be considered by this bylaw the same as an inability to access the Discord Server as a whole.
January 20, 2022
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The Board of Directors, recognizing the need for a dedicated personage to handle all official regional documentation and dispatches, hereby orders the creation of the Office of the Secretary of the Board. The duties of the Secretary are as follows:

  1. To maintain regional dispatches, ensuring they are updated

  2. To aid the board in the writing of any treaties or other such official documents as should be required in the operation of the company

The Secretary of the Board shall be appointed by the Board of Directors (majority vote); there shall be no set term for this appointment, however, the Secretary may be removed from office at the discretion of the Board (majority vote).

The Secretary of the Board does not hold a position on the Board of Directors, but is instead a Senior Management position; the Secretary of the Board is a Tier Two position in reference to the Augustin Alliance Hierarchy. Seeing as how the Secretary is a termless appointment, the board authorizes the holder of this position to hold additional official positions as long as it coincides with all other company bylaws.

Furthermore, seeing that there is now no further need for a Vice-President of Accounting (VP-A) due to both the creation of this new position and the significant automation of the VP-A's duties, the board will no longer employ a VP-A following the current VP-A's resignation or removal.
January 21, 2020

The Board of Directors, recognizing the role and responsibilities of the Secretary of the Board and their relationship with the Board of Directors, enact the following:

  1. Votes for all elected positions in Lands End will be sent to and counted by the Secretary of the Board.

  2. The position of the Secretary of the Board cannot be elevated to a position on the Board of Directors.

  3. The Secretary of the Board cannot hold a position on the Board of Directors, with the exception of World Assembly Delegate, while holding the position of Secretary of the Board.

January 12, 2022

The Board of Directors, recognizing a previous oversight and the changes made by the Role of the World Assembly Delegate bylaw, hereby amends the Secretary of the Board bylaw:

  1. The Secretary of the Board may not concurrently hold the position of Chief Executive Officer.

  2. The phrase “with the exception of World Assembly Delegate,” is removed from Amendment 1, §3

February 8, 2023
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The Board of Directors, deciding that renaming some of the offices on the board may more aptly describe them, has decided to formalize the renaming of said offices.

  1. The Chief Recruitment Officer shall be renamed the Chief Personnel Officer.

  2. The Building Manager shall be renamed the Head Surveyor.

  3. The Chief Trade Officer shall be renamed the Chief Communications Officer.

May 11, 2020

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All shareholders are required to vote during elections. Writing in "No Vote" is acceptable.

The first violation will result in a warning,

The second violation will result in that nation’s shareholder status being revoked.
May 11, 2020

In the case a nation's Shareholder status is revoked, the nation will be on a 4 month probation list before being allowed to become a Shareholder again.
September 1, 2020

Finding it necessary for there to be an official procedure following violation of Shareholder Participation, the Board of Directors mandates the Chief Operating Officer:

  1. Notify via telegram any nation that has Shareholder status revoked through Shareholder Participation.

  2. Notify via telegram any nation still applicable for Shareholder status once the probation period has concluded.

Understanding necessity of record keeping, the Board of Directors mandates the Secretary of the Board maintains a registry of nations that have had Shareholder status revoked via Shareholder Participation.
February 14, 2023

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Lands End's Board of Directors and Senior Management, in hope of spurring activity and begin an active roleplay have decided to produce a map.

  1. The Map will be modern tech and each nation will operate as a city-state.

  2. The Map shall be the ones found here.

  3. Only Shareholders may claim space on the map.

  4. Map claims may be as large, but shall be no larger than 50,000 pixels on the official map, this is comparable to Bonnie Blue Republic's claim.

  5. Map claims shall be sent to the Head Surveyor and will then be approved by them.

  6. Map claims shall be removed upon loss of Shareholder Status or by executive order of the CEO. Executive order may be ruled null by a 2/3 majority vote of the Board.

  7. One shall obtain consent to use other nations in their own roleplay.

June 15, 2020

This bylaw has been amended by Lands End Roleplay & Map Clarification.
December 8, 2020

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Noticing a severe lack of activity in roleplay within the region, hoping to spur roleplay activity, and make the region more accessible to everyone, the Board of Directors enacts the following:

  1. Place the roleplay rules directly on the Roleplay Dispatch.

  2. Close The Breakroom and contain roleplay to the RMB and Discord channels.

  3. Rule that Discord RP posts must be posted on the RMB as well.

  4. Open a new channel on the Discord for Worldbuilding.

December 6, 2020

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Finding it necessary to increase retention of new and existing members, along with developments within the Augustin Alliance, the Board of Directors establishes the Personnel Office. The duties of the Personnel Office are as follows:

  • Attempt to make new employees feel welcome to Lands End.

  • Assist new employees integrating into the region and community.

  • Attempt to receive feedback from recently departed employees.

  • Pass any feedback from employees, past or present, onto the Chief Personnel Officer and the Board as a whole.

The Personnel Office shall be appointed by and operate under the Chief Personnel Officer.

The Personnel Office may be filled with as many officers, and each officer as long, as seen fit by the Chief Personnel Officer. The Personnel Office shall not be an official position in the Augustin Alliance Hierarchy. The Board authorizes Personnel Officers to hold additional official positions as long as it coincides with all other company bylaws.

Furthermore, due to increased responsibilities listed above, the Chief Personnel Officer of the Board of Directors in The Board of Directors section of the Government dispatch will be amended to state "appointing officers to the Personnel Office".
December 6, 2020

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Recognizing confusion about current roleplay rules and regulations, the Board of Directors has determined to post the roleplay rules and regulations in the Official Roleplay Dispatch and have developed a more in-depth document:

  1. Lands End roleplay will be strictly modern tech:

    1. If an item is existent in real life, it can exist in Lands End roleplay.

    2. Items currently in the Prototyping Development Process are permitted on a prototype basis in Lands End roleplay.

  2. Only the maps posted in the Official Map Dispatch will be recognized as official:

    1. This includes the Political, Geographical, and Blank maps.

    2. Map claims may be as large, but shall be no larger than 50,000 pixels, on the official map; this is comparable to Bonnie Blue Republic's claim.

    3. The scale of the map is 1 pixel:1 sq mi(2.59km^2). This means that a 50,000 pixel claim is 50,000 sq mi (129500 km^2).

    4. Claims on the map are meant to represent city-states (Singapore), supercities (Jing-Jin-Ji), or small countries (Greece).

    5. The maps shall be updated and approved by the Head Surveyor.

    6. The maps shall be updated in the dispatches by the Secretary.

  3. Only Shareholders may claim space on the official map:

    1. Map claims shall be removed upon loss of Shareholder Status.

    2. Map claims may be removed by executive order of the Chief Executive Officer.

      1. Executive order may be ruled null by a 2/3 majority vote of the Board of Directors.

  4. One shall obtain consent to use or involve others in their own roleplay.

  5. Roleplay will be regulated to comply with the rules above:

    1. The Chief Executive Officer has oversight of the roleplay.

    2. The Chief Legal Officer is to interpret the rules and regulations of the roleplay.

    3. The Head Surveyor is to ensure map claims are legal and reasonable.

    4. The Secretary is to ensure the rules and regulations are current and accurate.

    5. Any rulings on the roleplay are open to appeal to the Board of Directors by request of the aggrieved party.

      1. Appeals must be decided by a 2/3 majority vote of the Board of Directors.

December 8, 2020

Realizing the need to accommodate both news-feed style and discussion style roleplay, the Board of Directors has determined it necessary to amend Lands End Roleplay & Map Clarification:

  1. Add a new channel to the Discord named #ic_diplomacy.

  2. Rename the Discord channel #ic_roleplay to #ic_news.

  3. Determine all posts in #ic_news must be posted on the Regional Message Board.

  4. Determine posts in #ic_diplomacy must be summarized in an #ic_news post or placed in a dispatch to be posted on the Regional Message Board.

December 26, 2020

Realizing that Lands End is using a new map for Roleplay and a statistical error existed in the process of creation of the bylaws regarding the map, the Board of Directors has determined it necessary to amend Lands End Roleplay & Map Clarification:

  1. Map claims may be as large, but shall be no larger than 20,000 pixels, on the official map; this is comparable to Bonnie Blue Republic's claim.

  2. The Head Surveyor may use discretion to allow exceptions to the limits set forth on the size of map claims.

  3. The scale of the map is 1 pixel:25 sq mi. This translates that a 20,000 pixel claim is 500,000 sq mi.

May 24, 2021

Recognizing an error in the Lands End Roleplay & Map Clarification bylaw by creation of a new map, the Board of Directors repeals Section 3.4 of Lands End Roleplay & Map Clarification:

  1. Claims on the map are meant to represent city-states (Singapore), supercities (Jing-Jin-Ji), or small countries (Greece).

May 25, 2021

Understanding an oversight error on behalf of the Board during the original creation of the Lands End Roleplay & Map Clarification, the Board of Directors amends Lands End Roleplay & Map Clarification with Section 1.3:

  1. Roleplay is limited to those animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc. (lifeforms) that exist on Earth and their abilities on Earth. The creation of new lifeforms and alteration of current lifeforms is strictly prohibited.

November 14, 2021

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Recognizing a need for the ability to demote an employee unfit to hold their position for any means, the Board of Directors enact the following:

Any Board member may call for a vote to demote an employee; the vote must pass with 2/3 majority vote within the Board, excluding the vote of the accused official.

Upon passage of a 2/3 majority vote of the Board, the accused official is stripped of their position, and the runner-up of the previous election will act in the interim. In the event that a runner-up is not able to fill the position, a special election will take place.

A special election will be conducted by the sitting Delegate through telegram to all Shareholders which will take place over the course of 3 days. Shareholder Participation does not apply to this special election.

Understanding that there are systems in place that accomplish a similar goal, Employee Demotion falls under any otherwise stated abilities or functions to demote an employee or remove an official.
January 31, 2021

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In order to assure consistency and quality in the RP, the Board of Directors of Lands End asserts:

  1. Claims:

    1. All claims of real-life designs, products, or technology must be approved by an RP moderator and subsequently logged on the respective dispatch for ease of reference.

    2. All claims of cultural artifacts from real-life, such as songs, books, other forms of entertainment, etc., must have said claim reviewed by an RP moderator and demonstrate a significant level of effort put into adapting said claim to the world of Lands End Role-play. The claim will be subsequently logged on the respective dispatch for ease of reference.

    3. Any claim of the origination of an idea, genre, etc. must be agreed upon by all RP moderators. Most claims of this variety will be denied unless the claimer presents a strong reason for the necessity of the claim. The claim will be subsequently logged on the respective dispatch for ease of reference (found here).

  2. Designs:

    1. All designs, real-life or otherwise, must be submitted to the RP moderators along with a detailed description and a list of nations that worked on the project, separated by in-character and out-of-character. The information will then be logged in the appropriate dispatch.

    2. Should an RP moderator find any flaw in the realism of the design, they have the power to remove the design and request the individual(s) involved with the design to fix the observed problems.

    3. Said presenting individual may, if they believe their request was denied in error, request review of such by all RP moderators who, collectively, shall either uphold or strike down the previous decision. The ruling of the appeal will be final.

September 21, 2021

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Finding the Process of Proposing a Bylaw to be dated, it shall be changed to coincide with the following, in which the Board codify and update the role of the World Assembly Delegate:

  1. The World Assembly Delegate (WAD) shall always maintain Executive authority.

  2. The WAD will no longer be considered a member of the Lands End Board of Directors (BoD).

  3. The WAD will receive one vote on all bylaws.

    1. In accordance with CEO Eligibility, should the Chief Executive Officer also hold the position of WAD, they will not receive a vote on bylaws, only the standard CEO veto power.

  4. Should the WAD also hold a position on the BoD, they will only receive one vote on bylaws.

January 28, 2022

Understanding the intent of the Role of the World Assembly Delegate bylaw, the Board of Directors amends Section 3 of Role of the World Assembly Delegate bylaw:

  1. In the event of a tie on a non-bylaw Board vote, the WAD will act as the tiebreaker.

February 21, 2023

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In order to address potential conflicts of interest:

  1. The Chief Legal Officer may not hear appeals if the problem in question is directly connected to them.

  2. Should the Chief Legal Officer be directly related to the appeal, the appeal is made to the Chief Executive Officer.

  3. Should the Chief Executive Officer also be directly related to the appeal, the appeal must be made to the Secretary of the Board.

  4. No regional moderator may vote on a problem in which they are directly involved.

May 01, 2022

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In order to prevent conflict and confusion within the Lands End roleplay community:

  1. War declarations must have a valid in-universe Casus Belli, subject to roleplay moderator discretion.

  2. All wars, with the exception of surprise assaults, which must be approved by the roleplay moderators, and wars of mutual defense, must have a minimum of three roleplay events, defined as in-character diplomacy/roleplay (such as International Council meetings) or in-character news reports, building up to the declaration of war.

  3. The result of a war must be decided prior to its incipient.

    1. Should a new nation join the conflict, the outcome may be changed.

    2. A change to the outcome requires the consent of the majority of the involved parties.

    3. All nations who would be on the losing side of the new outcome (as determined by roleplay moderators) must consent to any change in outcome.

  4. An outline of the war and its outcome must be submitted to roleplay moderators prior to its incipient.

    1. Roleplay moderators may request further plans be submitted as the war progresses.

  5. In order for a nation to participate in a war, they must have resided in the region of Lands End continuously for at least one month prior to the war’s incipient unless an exception is made by roleplay moderators.

  6. The consent of all of the defending parties in a war is required for a nation to participate in said war.

  7. The roleplay moderators have the ultimate decision on any facet of a war and maintain the right to retcon it, in part or in full, should they deem it necessary.

July 21, 2022

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The Board of Directors, recognizing the need for a dedicated personage to handle all official regional events and other cultural plannings, hereby amends the duties of the Office of the Chief Personnel Officer as follows:

  1. The duties of the CPO will now include the following clause: In charge of managing regional events and communicating with alliance officials to plan and organize inter-regional events.

November 07, 2023

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