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−	===The Constitution of eBelgium ===	+	=== The Constitution ===
−		+
−	====Preamble ====	+
−	a – The Constitution is the fundamental charter of eBelgium and it is above any other law except for eRepublik's rules.	+
−	b – eBelgium is a democratic republic, and sovereignty belongs to the eBelgian citizens.	+
−	c – The official languages of eBelgium are English, French and Dutch, but the official language on the forum is English.	+
−	d – The official eBelgium forum is: http://www.erepbelgium.com/forum.htm	+
−	e – The official eBelgium IRC is #eBrussels	+
−	f – For forum purposes, a citizen of eBelgium is defined as any player who has in-game citizenship. The following exceptions will be made.	+
−	1. An honorary citizen, voted by a majority of Congress after normal debate, will have the same forum rights as an in-game citizen.	+
−	2. For forum purposes, citizenship can be removed under the following circumstances. These rights include rights to citizen programs, citizen, CP, government or CM masks and privileges.	+
−	a. An honorary citizen’s rights may be removed after a debate and majority vote of Congress.	+
−	b. An in-game citizen’s rights may be removed if:	+
−	*) it is proposed by one of the following: the current CP, the last known CP, any congress member in either the current term or the previous term.	+
−	*) it is voted by congress with a 2/3 majority	+
−	*) the motivation is a reasonable suspicion that the person has the intention to PTO or harm eBe.	+
−	*) It is approved before, during or after voting by a majority in the Supreme Court with regard to 'motivation' requirement	+
−	3. Citizenship rights may be restored if both the Supreme Court and Congress vote (with a normal majority) to reinstate the citizen to full rights.	+
−		+
−	==== Title I. The Legislative Branch: Congress ====	+
−		+
−	===== Art.I-1 Membership =====	+
−	a - Congress will be decided upon game mechanics; everyone with in-game rank of Congress Member or Country President is a member of Congress on the forum, as well.	+
−	b – Eligible voters for forum votes are the current President and current members of Congress who have received Congress member masks by signing in for the current term.	+
−		+
−		+
−	===== Art. I-2 Legislative Process =====	+
−	a - All in-game proposals will be proposed by Congress and will be voted by Congress in the game's Congress Module. In-game proposals are now called 'Congress-Module' proposals. All other proposals are non-Congress-module proposals.	+
−	b - All Congress-Module proposals will have a discussion topic.	+
−	c - All non-Congress-Module proposals will be proposed in a debate thread and will be voted by Congress in the national forum to be enacted as law.	+
−	d - A proposal will be debated (in the Debate Area) for a minimum of 24 hours and will be moved to the Voting Area or the Congress Module for voting.	+
−	e - Proposals can enter voting before the 24h of discussion are up if a motion of cloture is made by a Congress member and is seconded by two other Congress members, except for constitutional reforms which cannot be subject to a motion of cloture.	+
−	f - All non-Congress-Module votes will be manual by saying Yes, No, or Abstain unless otherwise specified before the vote begins.	+
−	g - Each vote will last a minimum of 24h.	+
−	h - The proposer can decide to raise the time limit up to a maximum of 72h for non-Congress-Module votes, but must state this at the beginning of voting.	+
−	i - All votes that reach their time limit without participation of at least 1/3 of the eligible voters will have their time limit increased by 6h, unless the (extended) time limit is 72h. This process is repeated until such a number is reached or the (extended) time limit is 72h.	+
−	j - All non-Congress-Module proposals that receive any majority vote in the national forum will become law.	+
−	k - All active non-Congress-Module votes without exception will be ended upon the end of the congress term.	+
−	l - All laws can be changed with a simple majority unless stated otherwise.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. I-3 Legislative Limits =====	+
−	a - A non-Congress-module proposal needs to follow the procedures required by this constitution and other laws, in order for it to become a law.	+
−	b - In case of contradiction between the constitution and a law, the constitution supersedes the law and the law will be nullified.	+
−	c - Any eBelgian citizen can ask the Supreme Court to rule whether a proposal or law is valid or not.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. I-4 Abilities of Congress =====	+
−	a - To have all abilities provided in the game's Congress Module.	+
−	b - To fire a cabinet member if he or she has violated game laws and constitutional regulations.	+
−	c - To start institutional reforms and amendments.	+
−	d - To make, pass, and overturn laws for the nation and for the government.	+
−	e - To elect Supreme Court Justices.	+
−	f - To impeach Supreme Court Justices for any of the reasons listed for the removal of a cabinet member in Article II-3.e or for abuse of power, with a 2/3 vote of participating members.	+
−	g - To ratify the eBelgian Budget.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. I-5 Limits of Congress =====	+
−	a - Congress will abide by the game rules and regulations.	+
−	b - For non-Congress-Module proposals, similar to the Congress Module, Congress cannot start any proposal similar to one that is in the voting process. Congress must wait for voting on one proposal to end before making a similar proposal.	+
−	d - Any Congress Member that gets an in-game permanent ban will lose his membership in forum Congress.	+
−		+
−	==== Title II. The Executive Branch: the President and his Cabinet ====	+
−		+
−	===== Art. II-1 The President =====	+
−	a – The President of eBelgium is the person elected through the game mechanics.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. II-2 Abilities of the President =====	+
−	a - The President will have all the abilities provided in the game module.	+
−	b - The President will be considered a full member of Congress for non-Congress-Module debates and votes.	+
−	c - The President will be the commander-in-chief of the eBelgian military and all its departments.	+
−	d - The President will appoint his cabinet and will establish his government through his cabinet.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. II-3 Abilities & Limits of the President and the President's Cabinet =====	+
−		+
−	a - The President's cabinet will have total control over their assigned sectors under the guidance of the President.	+
−	b - The President can fire any of his cabinet members at any time.	+
−	c - The President is solely responsible for appointing members to the President's cabinet.	+
−	d - Congress will have the ability to remove a cabinet member through a forum vote.	+
−	e - Congress can only propose to remove a cabinet member if the cabinet member received 3 suspensions or forfeit points in-game, received a permanent ban in-game or broke eBelgian laws	+
−		+
−	===== Art. II-4 Limits of the President =====	+
−	a - The President cannot veto any law.	+
−	b - The President cannot suspend Supreme Court Justices.	+
−	c - The President cannot be an Administrator or Moderator during his term and will automatically step-down from these functions for the duration of his term.	+
−		+
−		+
−	==== Title III. Judicial Branch: the Supreme Court ====	+
−		+
−	===== Art. III-1 The Supreme Court of eBelgium =====	+
−	a – The Supreme Court of eBelgium is made up of 3 justices.	+
−	b - The Supreme Court of eBelgium will serve as the judicial review committee for the Congress of eBelgium.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. III-2 Abilities of the Supreme Court of eBelgium =====	+
−	a - The Supreme Court can review both ongoing proposals and already voted laws.	+
−	b - The Supreme Court can nullify laws or ongoing proposals.	+
−	c - All three of the Supreme Court Justices must be present when voting to nullify a proposal or law. Majority is needed in order to nullify.	+
−	d – The Supreme Court will review cases brought to them by the public.	+
−	e – The Supreme Court’s ruling is final. Punishment or lack thereof, is to be dictated by them; however, the carrying out of such punishment will be by the Administration/Moderation.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. III-3 Limits of the Supreme Court =====	+
−	a - Justices can not nullify Congress-module Proposals.	+
−	b – Justices serve terms of 3 months, but have no maximum number of terms. There is no need of a break between terms.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. III-4 The "Justices" =====	+
−	a - A total of three Justices will be seated as elected by the Congress of eBelgium.	+
−	b – Justices must have and maintain eBelgian citizenship.	+
−	c - The three Justices may appoint a Chief Justice to maintain communication between the Justices and lead the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice will hold no extra abilities.	+
−	d - Justices will serve an individual maximum term of three months. Justices may resign their positions.	+
−	e - Justices cannot serve as President or a member of the President's Cabinet. A justice's term will be immediately ended if the justice is elected or appointed one of these jobs.	+
−	f – In any case involving a Justice, that Justice is not allowed to make a ruling. A temporary Justice has to be instated for that specific case, to replace the involved Justice.	+
−		+
−		+
−	==== Title IV. The Administration and Global Moderators ====	+
−		+
−	===== Art. IV-1 Administrators =====	+
−	a - Only 4 Administrators will be allowed	+
−	b – Administrators will be responsible for maintaining forum etiquette, masking citizens, ambassadors, congress members, etc.	+
−	c – Administrators will have full authority and responsibility in the national forums.	+
−	d – Administrators can appoint and remove both Administrators and Moderators	+
−	e - If there are no Administrators, people with access to the account 'Admin' can appoint a new Administrator.	+
−	f - All Administrators will have at least Full OP in the official IRC.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. IV-2 Moderators =====	+
−	a - There is no limit on the number of active Moderators.	+
−	b - Moderators are to assist Administrators in maintaining forum etiquette.	+
−	c - Administrators are responsible for the behavior of Moderators.	+
−	d - All Moderators will have at least Half OP in the official IRC.	+
−		+
−	===== Art. IV-3 Limitations of the Administrators and Mods =====	+
−	a - Administrators cannot lock voting threads unless time for voting has ended.	+
−	b – Administrators and Moderators can be voted out at any time, for any reason, by Congress.	+
−	c – Administrators and Moderators are to be held to the same standards of etiquette and basic law that all other members are.	+
−	d – Administration/Moderation are required to follow Article III-2e.	+
−		+
−	==== Title V. Amendments & Constitutional Reforms and Additions ====	+
−		+
−	===== Art. V-1 Process =====	+
−	a - Congress may propose amendments, reforms, and additions to this constitution.	+
−	b - The updated/changed portion of the constitution cannot be changed for at least 3 days, starting from the time of its adoption.	+
−	c - Any amendments, reforms, and additions will only pass with a 2/3 majority vote from all eligible voters.	+
		+	The constitution of Belgium can be found here: http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Constitution_of_Belgium

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Belgium (French: Belgique, Dutch: België, German: Belgien) is a small country in Western Europe. Belgium is currently in its third era of existence, having been part of two different unions, one with the UK and one with the Netherlands, called the United Netherlands. Belgium is a parliamentary democracy. It had maintained a neutral stance in the politics and wars surrounding it, until recently when it has declared it's support for the Circle of Trust (CoT) and is now a full member.

History

Main article: History of Belgium

Belgium was among the first countries in the beginning of eRepublik. Belgium's population grew slowly before they agreed to merge with the United Kingdom in April 2008. In February 2009, 10 months after Belgium merged with the United Kingdom, two resistance wars were launched to free Belgium, the first failed but the next succeeded. It wasn't until the 21st February 2009 before Belgium became a complete independent nation.

Society

Communication and Media

The main language in Belgium is English, however French, Dutch and to a lesser extent, German (as the national languages of Belgium) are also used.

Chat:

• Mibbit: eBelgium IRC Channel
• Server: irc.rizon.net
• Official Channel: #eBrussels

Official Forum:

• http://www.erepbelgium.com/

Official Facebookpage:

• http://www.facebook.com/erepbelgium

Official newspapers:

• Presidential newspaper, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, education and culture: Belgium.info
• Ministry of defence: eBelgium Military/Citizen Defence Orders
• Ministry of economy: NBB-BNB/eBE MoF News and Reports

Geography

Belgium borders the original territories of Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Through the years, as a result of military activity, Belgium has bordered other countries too - like Poland and United Kingdom.

Region	Occupier	Resources	Map
Flanders
Brussels
Wallonia

Current Neighbours

Neutral	Allied	Hostile
Netherlands France Poland United Kingdom

Economy

Taxes

Product Work Tax Import Tax VAT Food 0% 15% 5% Weapon 0% 10% 1% Aircraft weapon 0% 0% 0% Moving ticket 0% 0% 0% House 0% 10% 1%

Raw material Work Tax Import Tax VAT Food raw material 0% 35% - Weapon raw material 0% 20% - Aircraft weapon raw material 0% 0% - House raw material 0% 5% -

• Last update: 12 April 2016

Belgian Treasury

Information about the Belgian treasury can be found here.

Politics

The Constitution

The constitution of Belgium can be found here: http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Constitution_of_Belgium

Presidents

• See here to view the election results.

The following table lists Presidents of Belgium.

Name	Period	Party
Olv007 (De-Facto)	January 2010 - February 2010	Belgium for Belgians
Olv007	February 2010 - March 2010	Belgium for Belgians
Elynea	March 2010 - April 2010	Belgium for Belgians
Ragoth	April 2010 - May 2010	Res Belgica
Apotygma	May 2010 - June 2010	Belgium for Belgians
Apotygma	June 2010 - July 2010	Belgium for Belgians
AlphaMFPEFM_Z (Impeached)	July 2010 - July 2010	Belgium for Belgians
Thore Thoreson (De Facto)	July 2010 - August 2010	Free Belgium
Thore Thoreson	August 2010 - September 2010	Free Belgium
Theneka	September 2010 - October 2010	Belgian Communist Party
MaryamQ	October 2010 - November 2010	Res Belgica
ThomasRed	November 2010 - January 2011	Belgium for Belgians
Sammy Tanghe	January 2011 - February 2011	Res Belgica
LeValeureuxLiegeois	February 2011 - February 2011	Belgium for Belgians
Shadowukcs (De-Facto)	February 2011 - March 2011	Res Belgica
ThomasRed	March 2011 - April 2011	Belgium For Belgians
NLSP	April 2011 - May 2011	United Left Alliance
mittekemuis	May 2011 - July 2011	United Left Alliance
Fhaemita Malodorous	July 2011 - August 2011	United Left Alliance
Critically	August 2011 - September 2011	All TOgethers
Monsieur Guillontine	September 2011 - September 2011	Belgian Communist Party
Jofroi (De-Facto)	September 2011 - October 2011	All TOgethers
Jamster737	October 2011 - November 2011	Belgium for Belgians
Ward De Bever	November 2011 - December 2011	the Om party
MaryamQ	December 2011 - January 2012	Res Belgica
Nohjis	January 2012 - March 2012	Res Belgica
David Cnudde	March 2012 - March 2012	Belgium for Belgians
Goopypants (De-Facto)	March 2012 - April 2012	the Om party
BrunoCND	April 2012 - May 2012	All TOgethers
mittekemuis	May 2012 - June 2012	Res Belgica
Goopypants	June 2012 - July 2012	the Om party
Cooke4444	July 2012 - August 2012	H.O.P.E.
Requiem Domine	August 2012 - September 2012	the Om party
Nohjis	September 2012 - October 2012	the Om party
NLSP	October 2012 - November 2012	Res Belgica
Lily Jayne Summers	November 2012 - December 2012	Res Belgica
BrunoCND	December 2012 - January 2013	All TOgethers
BrunoCND	January 2013 - February 2013	All TOgethers
Tony Clifford	February 2013 - March 2013	All TOgethers
boer jan	March 2013 - April 2013	Res Belgica
Alexandross	April 2013 - present	All TOgethers

Government

The following table lists the current members of the Belgian cabinet:

Name	Position
Alexandross	President
Zangetsu-osan	Vice-President
JdlF	Minister of Finance
BrunoCND	Vice Minister of Finance
MisziPL	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Elynnie	Vice Minister of Immigration
Zangetsu-osan	Minister of Immigration
Mudduck95	Minister of Home Affairs
Nihil.sine.deo	Minister of Defense
Programme Tvvince & BelgiumGeneral	Vice Minister of Defence
Dardrew	Ministry of Intern Relations
Kiyonori Dragnier	Minister of Education
Dan/naD Wilshire	Minister of National Security
MCKitkat	Vice Minister of National Security
Jens Leupe	Ministry of FUN

A formal structure of the Belgian cabinet was specifically not included in the constitution when it was created. Although there have been several amendments proposed to include one, none have been successful to date, with few making it to a vote. The reason for this is to allow the president to structure his/her cabinet as they wish to maximize the efficiency of the government. As of yet, no two consecutive presidents have used the same cabinet structure.

An example of the advantages of this flexibility is Thore Thoreson's cabinet in July-August 2010 where the new position of Chief of Staff was created so that Medrolke could be a member of the cabinet without having to manage a ministry, which he wasn't able to do as he was serving in the US military at the time.

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Political Parties

The political parties of Belgium are listed below. They are the current parties of the Belgian Freedom Period, and may be subject to immediate change.

Logo	Party Name	Initials	Political Stance	Party President	Congress Seats	Members	Names of Congressmen/Congresswomen
	Res Belgica	RB	Center, Libertarian	Nihil.sine.deo	8 (26 %)	40	Kiyonori Dragnier, Jofroi, Stijn Puttemans, MaryamQ, Pieter557, Viridi, p0lluxx, Director9
50px	H.O.P.E.	H.O.P.E.	Far-left, Libertarian	Manneken Piss	8 (26 %)	40	ambarche, Pavlosk96, Kylero, wolf-stone, David Cnudde, thrasos1996, G.W.JUNIOR, Manneken Piss
50px	Babyboom	BB	Far-left, Libertarian	SwaqqCoryn	4 (13 %)	30	SwaqqCoryn, Gatsby18, Muhezain, ZePaylikon
	All TOgethers	ATO	Center-left, Libertarian	Alexandross	5 (16 %)	29	BelgiumGeneral, Cotarius, JdlF, NicknameFromRonny, MisziPL
50px	Union-Unie	UU	Center, Libertarian	Elynea	5 (16 %)	18	Olv007, BrunoCND, Elynea, Dan/naD Wilshire, DarkoDimovski1
50px	Belgian Coalition	BC	Center, Libertarian	Don DiegoF	0 (0 %)	10
50px	Diost Party of Belgium	DPB	Far-left, Authoritarian	M.Leviathin	0 (0 %)	4
File:Logo Belgian Labour Party.jpg	Belgian Labour Party	BLP	Far-right, Totalitarian	Jens Leupe	0 (0 %)	3
File:Logo Netherlands BE Back.jpg	FOR BELGIUM	FB	Center, Libertarian	Cruciatu	0 (0 %)	2
50px	Patriot Troll Order	PTO²	Center-right, Libertarian	Guyledur	0 (0)	2

26%

26%

16%

16%

13%

Key:

Res Belgica

H.O.P.E

All TOgethers

Union-Unie

Babyboom

Military

Main article: Belgian Army

The Belgian Army has three military unit:

• Under unclear circumstances the Belgian Armed Forces were sold by the back then leader to Shadowukcs. Not willing to give the MU back to the state, the Belgian National Army was created. Its MU leader is BrunoCND
• The Belgian Civilian Army (state-owned), open to all Belgian citizens and led by the Minister of Defence.
• The Awesome Boot Camp is the state supported army MU for new players. The current MU leader is alexandross.

State-owned Military Units	Commander
Belgian National Army	BrunoCND
Belgian Civilian Army	thrasos1996

Alliances

Through it's history and mainly through the wars with France and United Kingdom, Belgium has signed Mutual Protection Pacts (MPPs) with countries, members of ONE, mainly to defend its regions. The Belgian Congress approved recently the Charter of CoT and Belgium became a full member of Circle of Trust alliance in 10/13/2012 [1].

Belgium has mutual protection pacts with the following countries:

Chile, expires April 20th, 2013

Bulgaria, expires April 21st, 2013

Egypt, expires April 29th, 2013

Mexico, expires, May 4th, 2013

Switzerland, expires May 8th, 2013

Macedonia, expires May 11th, 2013

Poland, expires May 12th, 2013

Embargo List

This country doesn't have any trading embargoes at the moment.

External Links

• Belgium in eRepublik
• Official Forum
• Official announcement of the CoT Charter approval

eRepublik Countries

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Circle of Trust membership Belgium • Bulgaria • Canada • Chile • France • Germany • Indonesia • Japan • Lithuania • Mexico • New Zealand • Paraguay • Peru • Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) • Republic of Moldova • Russia • South Korea • Switzerland • USA

Regions of Belgium
Brussels · Wallonia