Ministries
From B Nomic
| Ministry | Nickname | Current Minister | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ministry of Law | Rulekeeper | w1nst0n | 47 |
| Ministry of Change | Chairman | Ivan Hope | 90 |
| Ministry of Questions | Oracle | Tyler | 90 |
| Ministry of Society | Registrar | 0x44 | 100 |
| Ministry of Ministry | Kurt Gödel, MetaMin | J | 90 |
| Ministry of Fauna | Ranger | Billy Pilgrim | 50 |
| Ministry of Grid | 100 | ||
| Ministry of Mad Science | Mad Scientist, Frankenstein | 20 | |
| Ministry of Warfare | Comex | 20 | |
| Ministry of Business | Charles | 100 |
Contents |
Ministerial Responsibilities
All responsibilities should be included here, but some things included here are not technically responsibilities. Make sure to read the rules for clarity.
Law (Rule 8)
When a new rule is created, the Minister of Law is obligated to assign it a number, and shall assign a number not already used by a rule in this era, to avoid confusion. Each rule number shall be prefixed with the notation "5E" (for Fifth Era) to distinguish it from past rules in previous eras of B Nomic.
There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Law. The Minister of Law, also known as the Rulekeeper, is responsible for maintaining a Public Display of the current Rules and Victory Conditions.
Change (Rule 14, 32, 33)
At the beginning of each Voting Period, the Clock becomes Off, and until the Clock next becomes On, the Chairman does not violate the rules by changing the clock to be On, provided he has first published a Ballot.
There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Change. The Minister of Change, also known as the Chairman or Barack Obama, is responsible for maintaining a Public Display of the current Decisions and their attributes.
At the end of the nday prior to the beginning of Ballotday, the Minister of Change is obligated to publish a Game Document known as a ballot. Such a document should list all Decisions to be voted on.
When a new proposal is submitted, it is assigned the Proposal Number null. The Chairman is obligated to assign a new Proposal Number that is greater than all previously used Proposal Numbers to each proposal with a number of null.
Questions (Rule 36)
There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Questions. The Minister of Questions, also known as the Oracle, is responsible for maintaining a Public Display of the current Consultations. There exists an Object called the staff of ZOT. The Oracle holds the staff of ZOT.
Consultations are given a Consultation Number by the Oracle when assigned to a Priest. For each new Consultation, the Consultation number is usually equal to 1 or, if such Number is already in use, to the greatest existing Consultation Number incremented by one. The Oracle may arbitrarily override the normal assignment of Consultation numbers, and choose a number of his liking for a new Consultation.
Whenever there exists a Consultation which has no priest assigned, the Oracle is obligated to either assign a priest to that Consultation or ZOT it.
Upon submission of a Consultation the Oracle shall as a Game Action select a Priest for that Consultation. Alternatively the Oracle may wield the staff of ZOT and cause the Consultation to be ZOTTED, if in his insight he considers the contained Question to be malformed, ambiguous, irrelevant or otherwise unworthy. ZOTTED consultations have no further effect.
The Oracle may also ZOT a Waiting Consultation if has not been Answered yet and its assigned Priest requests him to do so. In this case the Oracle is required to grant the request or immediately reassign the Consultation to a new Priest instead.
If a Consultation is ZOTTED by the Oracle before he assigns it to a Priest, the Oracle is not required to record the Consultation in the Public Display.
Whenever a Priest is to be selected for a Consultation, the Oracle shall select a random one between the eligible Players. All Ordained Players, except the Supplicant, the Unbeliever if the Consultation names one, the Oracle and Players that have already been selected as Priests for that Consultation, are eligible for selection as Priests. If no Player is eligible, the Oracle is automatically selected as Priest.
A Jiffy after the Answer has been submitted the Oracle shall tally any such Claims. If there exist more Claims of Inconsistency than claims of Consistency, the consultation ceases to be Answered and becomes Waiting. The Oracle shall then assign a new Priest to the Consultation. The previous Priest's answer (if any) is discarded.
Society (Rule 18)
There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Society. The Minister of Society, also known as the Registrar, is responsible for maintaining a Public Display of the current Players and their Rule-defined attributes, as well as a Public Display of the current Public and Discussion Fora.
Ministry (Rule 14, 25, 0)
The MoM does not violate the rules by changing the clock from On to Off.
If the Clock is Off, there are no Vacant Ministries and there are no outstanding Ministerial obligations, the MoM is obligated to turn the Clock On, and fulfilling this obligation does not violate the rules.
There exists a Ministry called the Ministry of Ministry, also known as the MetaMinistry. The Minister of Ministry may be referred to as the MoM, the MetaMin, or Kurt Gödel.
The MetaMin is responsible for maintaining a Public Display of all existing Ministries, showing their names, responsibilities, retainers, and current holders.
If at least four PEPs are Paranoid, B Nomic becomes in a State Of Emergency. When this occurs, the following Procedure happens:
2. The PEP who most recently held the Minister of Ministries becomes the Emergency Coordinator.
Fauna (Rule 50)
There exists a Ministry known as the Ministry of Fauna. The Minister of Fauna, also known as the Ranger, is responsible for maintaining a Public Display of the OCB's Rule-defined attributes and of all Tricks as well as their Attributes.
Whenever the OCB is scheduled to perform a Trick according to the Rules, the Ranger is obliged to randomly select a Trick to be performed, in accordance with the probabilities above and having previously announced the mode and modalities of this selection to the Public Forum. If the Ranger fails to do so within 1 rday, any Player who is the first to do so may carry out this selection, provided e respects all associated requirements.
The Ranger is presumed to have the power to talk to the Operantly Conditioned Beast. Any player obligated to send any communication to the Beast may fulfill this obligation by sending that communication to the Ranger instead.
Grid (Rule 48)
The Ministry of Grid is a Ministry responsible for keeping track of the Colours of Squares on the Grid, and the Players Resident in them.
Mad Science (Rule 51)
There exists a ministry known as the Ministry of Mad Science; the Minister of Mad Science, also known as the Mad Scientist or Frankenstein, is responsible for building the Monster. The Mad Scientist can, as a Game Action, cause the monster to do anything that the rules say it may or can do, and shall cause the monster to do anything that the rules say that it must or shall do.
The Mad Scientist must, every nweek, do the following tasks in order:
a) Randomly select exactly one rule. If the selected rule is either this rule or the rule "The Monster", then the villagers have shown up with torches and pitchforks; skip directly to proposal submission.
b) Select one or more contiguous sentences from the selected rule.
c) Select exactly one noun from the selected text, and replace each instance of that noun with "Monster" (including grammatical variations, e.g. replacing "<noun>'s" with "Monster's").
d) Submit a proposal to append the modified text to the rule "The Monster" (or, if the villagers have shown up with torches and pitchforks, to repeal both that rule and this one).
Warfare (Rule 49)
There is a Ministry called the Ministry of Warfare, responsible for keeping track of Weapons and their attributes, and the Health of Players.
