AGORAN WEEKLY JOURNAL - SPECIAL EDITION
A Separation of Money, but Not of Powers
August 29, 1999

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1.  General
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* All Players may Vote and Propose.
* Amoeba are Repealed.
* An entity's Expected Holdings of a Currency equals
    (holdings + credits - debits).
* Crime and Infraction penalties are defined as Class N Crime/Infraction,
    where N is a number of Indulgences.
* Speaker's Patronage may be split between multiple Players.

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2.  Basic Currencies
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* A Player may change eir Associated Basic Currency (ABC) once every three
    months, or immediately to a Currency that became a Basic Currency since
    eir last change.
* The Payroll Clerk reports each Player's ABC, if any.

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3.  Stems
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* Stems may only go from the Bank to a Player, or vice versa.
* A Player may transfer Stems to the Bank to receive an equal quantity of
    eir ABC, but not vice versa.
* Rule-specified amounts of VTs or P-Notes are converted to Stems (about
    20 Stems per VT, 30 Stems per P-Note).

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4.  Voting Tokens
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* +VTs and -VTs are separate Currencies.
* Everyone who had VTs gets em back as half +VTs, half -VTs.
* Only one Persistent Indebtedness bill per week for any sort of VTs.
* Expected VTs equals (Expected +VTs plus Expected -VTs).
* Casting N Votes on a Proposal costs (N^2) VTs.
* An entity's Maximum Votes per Proposal equals trunc(sqrt(N)+3), where N
    is eir Expected VTs most recently reported by the Assessor.  This limit
    is 2 if N is negative, or 5 if N has never been reported.
* Assessor's Commission is repealed.

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5.  Proposal Notes
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* Priorities are integers.
* Each Proposal has a Priority Cost, by default 1 (higher for Sane or
Urgent).
* Raising a Proposal's Priority by N costs (N*Priority Cost) P-Notes.
* Priority Bar is repealed; any Proposals with Priority greater than zero
may
    be distributed, up to the Batch Size.
* Batch Size is between one and three.
* After a batch is distributed, all other Proposals have their Priorities
    halved (rounding fractions down).
* Promotor's Commission is repealed.

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6.  Indulgences
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* Indulgence Auction Tokens (IATs, MUQ 0.01, Recordkeepor the Priest)
    are defined.
* MUQ of Indulgences is now 0.1.
* Default Auction Rule is amended:
    - No default Currency (it was VTs)
    - Multiple identical items may be auctioned at once; for the rest
        of the Rule, N is the number of such items
    - Bids may be cancelled
    - Auction ends after 14 days, or when the Nth-highest Bid is not
        overbid for 24 hours
    - Each winner pays the Nth-highest Bid (or, if there are too few
        Bids, the Starting Bid)
    - Multiple winners are billed multiple times, and these POs can't
        be combined
* Each month, the Priest Auctions Indulgences equal to
    (number of Players)
    minus (Expected Indulgences of all entities but the Bank, per the
      latest Herald's Report)
    minus (number of outstanding Indulgence Auction POs).
  Winners' bills are Indulgence Auction POs.  When satisfied, the Payor
    receives an Indulgence.  If unsatisfied for three weeks, they are
    vacated.

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7.  Taxes
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* Taxes may have an Effective Time, between the time the tax is announced
    and four weeks later.
* Currency Recordkeepors may tax eir Currency Without 5 Objections.  All
    specifications required of the levy must be stated when intent is
    stated.  Effective Time must be at least two weeks after statement of
    intent, and at least one month after the last such levy.  While one
    intent to levy is pending, another one for the same Currency cannot
    be made.