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Embassy/Consulate requirements
Apply here.All embassies are to be located in the city of Prosperidad. We can currently guarantee multiple locations less than half a kilometer walk East of downtown and less than a kilometer walk Northeast of Capitol Hill.
Colsulates may rent out or purchase office space in any other city. (OOC: such requests will be ignored due to the lack of cities named by my worldbuilding efforts.)
Diplomatic immunity rules
Subject | May be arrested/detained | Residence may be entered with warrant | May be issued traffic ticket/driver sanctions | May be subpoenaed as witness | May be prosecuted |
Ambassador or equivelant | Only for vehicle offenses | No | Yes | No | Only for Vehicle offenses |
Member of embassy administrative or technical staff | Only for vehicle offenses | No | Yes | No | Only for vehicle offenses |
Member of embassy service staff | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Only for nonofficial acts and vehicle offenses |
Career consular officers | Yes, for felonies and vehicle offenses | yes | yes | Not for official acts, otherwise yes | Only for nonofficial acts and vehicle offenses |
Honorary consular officers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not for official acts, otherwise yes | Only for nonofficial acts and vehicle offenses |
Consular Employee | Yes | Yes | Yes | Not for official acts, otherwise yes | Only for nonofficial acts and vehicle offenses |
While we can't force you to waive immunity, we urge you to do so in the case of incidents involving a motor vehicle causing injury or death. Being arrested will save you from lynch mobs, and it will minimise public hatred of the country you represent.
Failure to be present for a trial pertaining to murder or vehicle offenses will almost always result in persona non grata status.
Juansonian forces will not enter a chancery or consular office unless invited or allowed entry by the nation which controlls said embassy or consulate.
All weapons and vehicles must be declared in an embassy application form.
Security staff limited to 60, and may not exceed the total amount of non-security personnel
Security is permitted the following weapons types with only standard restrictions:
- knives, under 1 foot in length. May be fixed-blade, manual pocketknife, automatic, or a gravity/inertia opening system.
- Batons (collapsible or fixed)
- Swords, sabres, and rapiers, which can be wielded somewhat effectively with one hand
- archery gear which can easily be carried
- TASER X-26 or equivalent
- Pepper spray or gel equivalent
- firearms with a caliber less than or equal to 12.7 mm (includes automatics)
- Shotguns (includes automatics)
Ask about any weapons not on this list.
Vehicles: Juansonia has regulated personal automobiles in a manner comparable to a ban. An exemption will be granted for ambassadors, consul-general, and security vehicles, but all other staff must use non-automobile transportation. Said drivers must apply for, and earn, a Juansonian driver's license. Even with an exemption, driving may be very inconvenient, so it is recommended that embassies and consulates keep bicycles on site for official use. All ambassadors, Consular officers, and embassy staff/employees will receive unlimited-use transit passes for the city their office is located in. Automobile and security parking will, in most arrangements, use a shared lot protected by Departamento de Policía de Prosperidad.
Juansonia may deny an embassy request for any or no reason, and is obliged only to indicate denial after evaluation is complete.
If an ambassador, officer, or staff member is declared persona non grata, if a chancery or consular office is deemed unwelcome, or if diplomatic relations are deemed unwelcome, immunity and location soveriegnty will remain for the following durations, assuming near-instant communication and multiple flights per day:
- One Persona Non Grata - 24 hours
- Over half of diplomatic staff (total or in one chancery or office) deemed persona non grata - 48 hours
- Full staff of one location deemed persona non grata - 60 hours
- Full dissolution of diplomatic relations - 72 hours
Sincerely,
Patrica Manuelita Rivas-Meléndez, Secretary of State