Southern Defense Pact (Dawn of War Map Game)

Overview
The Southern Defense Pact is an organization founded in early 1948. It serves as an alliance between its members, but also an international government system which votes on resolutions. Each country has an equal vote on all resolutions, including agreed upon military actions and whether or not to accept certain countries as member states.

Current Members

 * Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
 * Second Mexican Empire
 * Federation of American States
 * Republic of Turkey
 * Spain
 * South Africa
 * Federation of India
 * Kingdom of Yemen
 * Republic of Malaya

Saudi Proposal:

 * All countries will politically support independence movements British Malaya, British India.
 * Member nations will make an effort to fund independence movements in those nations.
 * Should armed conflict occur in Malaya or India, member nations are encouraged to send military weaponry and ammunition.

Federation Proposal

 * Federation wishes to propose one amendment to this. That we only support the first two colonies in this way and approach every other colony with a vote. Any action taken outside of the vote will incur penalties of acting alone.
 * Saudi Arabia recognizes this and changed the proposal.

Voting
In Favor Against
 * Saudi Arabia
 * Federation of the Americas
 * México

In Favor

 * Saudi Arabia
 * Federation of the Americas
 * México

Saudi Proposal:

 * Should any foreign nation embargo a member nation of the Southern Defense Pact, all member nations will embargo that hostile nation.
 * Should any foreign nation declare war on a member nation of the Southern Defense Pact, all member nations will declare war on that hostile nation.
 * All new member nations, by applying agree to this pact, and must abide if accepted into the Southern Defense Pact.

Voting
In Favor Against
 * Saudi Arabia
 * Federation of the Americas
 * México
 * Republic of Turkey

In Favor

 * Saudi Arabia
 * Federation of the Americas
 * México

For

 * Federation of the Americas
 * Saudi Arabia
 * Spain
 * México

Union of South Africa Application (Membership Approved)
This is the application for the inclusion of the Union of South Africa into the Southern Defence Pact.

For

 * Federation of the Americas
 * Saudi Arabia
 * México

For

 * Saudi Arabia (We strongly suggest it. It doesn't actually affect us much, and Communism is the main issue. This proves our hatred of Communism to NATO).
 * México (Those damn commies killed my troops, LOL.)

Against

 * Turkey (even though we are against Communism, and even though Turkey is in the NAC, we should not fan any flames further, as we are an organization against decolonization foremost)
 * Spain (A position of neutrality is better)

Basis
The Charter states that the leaders of the SDP convene every other year to discuss the future of the alliance. We believe that the odd number years should hold these conventions, suggesting the first one in 1951.0. We can also lay out multiple host cities for the future.

Host City Proposals
Maximum of one city application per nation. Saudi Arabia proposes an easier way to do this: The host will be a cycle through the member nations, based on order of when they joined. This will start with the Federation, then be Saudi Arabia, then Mexico, then Turkey, then Spain, the South Africa, then India. Any countries which later join will be added on at the end, and when all nations have hosted, we'll go back to the top of the lineup.
 * Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 * Adana, Turkey
 * San Salvador, México
 * Madrid, Spain

Saudi Proposal for Convention issue
Since this hasn't been voted on yet, the first convention will be held in 1952 (this will pass in 1951.5)

Votes For
Votes Against
 * Spain
 * Turkey: Cookiedamage (talk) 00:39, October 9, 2015 (UTC)
 * Saudi Arabia

Resolution to Change the SDP Flag (Introduced: 1950)

 * Turkish Proposal:
 * The SDP should introduce a flag that visualizes the core tenets of our organizations, and those include democracy, freedom, cooperation, and self-reliance.
 * This flag should also in some way incorporate colors and/or symbols that are inclusive of the majority of SDP members.
 * Note: This resolution does not introduce a single flag design, but authorizes the SDP to at least consider designing and implenting a new flag in the near future.

Votes For

 * Turkey

Federation Proposal
This is a resolution dealing with the United Nations, All current and future members of the SDP will join the United Nations as an opportunity to legitimize the alliance, provide better diplomatic arrays to enemies and allies alike, and push for other issues within the UN that require SDP attention. This will also remove the seemingly rogue status of the SDP and promote a more powerful act of co-operation with the world.

Voting
In Favor Against
 * Saudi Arabia
 * Federation of the Americas
 * México

Article I

 * The Southern Defense Pact is an alliance, economic partnership, and government body.
 * The Southern Defense Pact ultimately seeks peace, but will protect itself in case of intrusion of borders or ideals.
 * Should a foreign nation declare war on a member of the Southern Defense Pact, all member nations must declare war on that foreign nation.
 * The Southern Defense Pact seeks an autarky within our alliance, where we will only need to trade with members and can be isolated from the rest of the world.
 * Between 2-3% of GDP is required to be spent on your military to maintain it up to a modern standard.

Article II

 * The Headquarters of the Southern Defense Pact shall be located in Rio de Janeiro, so long as that city is controlled by a member nation of the Southern Defense Pact, unless the headquarters should be, for any reason, destroyed beyond repair.
 * Every other year, all leaders of the member nations shall convene in a city controlled by a member nation to discuss the future of the Alliance.

Article III

 * All member nations shall receive one vote in the Southern Defense Pact Congress.
 * Any member nation may propose a resolution.
 * Resolutions may address international affairs, human rights issues, or the organization of the Southern Defense Pact.
 * Member nations may vote on the Resolution, in terms of Yea or Nay.
 * In order for a resolution to be enacted, a majority of the member nations must have voted in favor of the resolution.
 * Should, after one year (two turns), a resolution not have achieved a majority of the vote in favor or against, the votes shall be tallied, and if the votes in favor of the resolution exceeds the votes against it, then the resolution is enacted.
 * No nation, which becomes a member after the proposal of a resolution but before the voting period has concluded, shall vote on such a resolution.

Article IV

 * Nations may apply for membership by alerting the members of their application.
 * Membership applications are voted as if they were regular resolutions.
 * All applicant nations, by becoming a member, accept this charter.
 * No Communist nation may be a member of the Southern Defense Pact.

Article V

 * In order for any amendments to be made to this charter, two-thirds of the members must approve of the amendment.
 * This charter may be passed as a normal resolution.

In Favor

 * Saudi Arabia
 * Spain
 * Federation of the Americas
 * México
 * Turkey

Ethiopian Question

 * Ethiopia is a brutal absolute hereditary monarchy which is a combination of various ethnic and religious groups. We feel that even though they are de-colonized, we should be able to turn this brutal state into a proper democracy. Even though we did some sly movements the nation of Spain believes, we are doing this for the better. Spain will withhold our actions but instead ask the question; What do we do with Ethiopia?
 * Saudi Arabia believes that we should let them be. They are not being communist, and not hostile to us. It is not worth it to start conflicts we don't need to, when we should be focused on Greece, Cuba, and the Middle East, with possibility of adding in Thailand or Vietnam to our focus.

For

 * Saudi Arabia
 * Spain
 * Turkey
 * Federation of India
 * Federation of the Americas

Saudi Proposal

 * All members will sell oil to all non-communist nations, for the following reasons:
 * We'll get rich, and be able to invest that money in becoming more industrialized
 * The economies of Kurdistan and Iran immediately collapse
 * We have more leverage in negotiations with NATO and the EU
 * Saudi Arabia will become the regional powerhouse, and be able to force Britain out of the Middle East
 * This resolution may be repealed as a normal bill, but not for another 5 turns after this passes.

For

 * Saudi Arabia
 * México
 * Federation of the Americas
 * Spain
 * Federation of India

Against

 * Turkey

Saudi Proposal

 * All SDP member nations must send at least 1% of their tax income to aid Egypt in securing the Suez Canal, which may be paid through military presence.
 * Should Egypt be invaded by any of Britain, France, and Israel, all SDP members will embargo the invading nation and send an increased amount of monetary support or military support.

For

 * Yemen
 * Spain
 * Saudi Arabia
 * México

Against

 * Turkey
 * Federation of India (We oppose provision 1 to send at least 1% of our tax income to aid Egypt but we agree to provision 2.)

For

 * Saudi Arabia
 * Spain
 * Federation of India
 * Yemen
 * México

Saudi Proposal
In order to get ourselves closer to an autarky, Saudi Arabia proposes the following plan:


 * Make an SDP stock exchange, based in Sao Paulo but with branches in Johannesburg, Riyadh, Istanbul, Mexico City, Madrid, and Delhi.
 * The Stock exchange will allow trading of only companies which sell exclusively to the SDP.
 * The SDP will levy a corporate tax of 7.5% on companies. This tax will double if the company is headquartered in a non-SDP country, and all SDP-only companies will be exempt.
 * The SDP will levy a 5% tariff on all imports from non-SDP nations.
 * The money made by the SDP will go into industrialization, military, foreign aid, and economic projects, and will be administrated by the SDP government.
 * The SDP will try to improve industrial output, with the first year's worth of money from the corporate tax going to industrialization projects so that we will have enough industrial output so that we can be self-sufficient.

For

 * Saudi Arabia
 * Federation of the Americas
 * Republic of Malaya

Against

 * Yemen. We rely on selling oil internationally and foreign investment and we don't wish to drive away money moving into our country.

Explanation
This passes under article 3, Clause 6 of the charter.

Saudi Proposal

 * The SDP declares neutrality in the current World War.
 * Nuclear weapons will be stationed in India, South Africa, and Mexico.
 * Should war be declared, or a military attack occur against any SDP member nation, all member nations will declare war on that nation.
 * No member of the SDP shall declare war without a vote of more than two thirds of the members (at this point, seven of nine), unless a country is attacked in a major manner.
 * Any country that declares war without being invaded or a vote in the SDP, or any country that refuses to declare war should the SDP vote in favor of war, shall be removed from the SDP.

For

 * Saudi Arabia
 * México
 * Yemen
 * Federation of India

Against

 * Spain (We want to keep our options open, to all instantaneous action limited by these meanings. I might attack nations and you guys should kick me out if you don't want war. But allow me to rejoin when the war ends)

For

 * Saudi Arabia
 * Federation of India

Against

 * México (One does not simply leave the SDP and get back in.)