[Spoon-business] A New Societal Subgame

["Craig" <ragnarok@xxxxxxxxx>]

Because the Underground Society is a cool idea, I hereby create a society
called the Mercantile Society, with myself as a member. It exists for the
purpose of playing another society-based subgame, called Merchants. Our
charter is below. All players of B Nomic are encouraged to join.

{{
To join the Mercantile Society, a player must announce eir intent to join
and transfer one point to Teucer and one point to the Society for each
player who has already joined.

The member may then state in a private message to Teucer on which space on
the small map e wishes to build eir Capital City. E may not choose a space
containing only ocean; these are listed below the map.

   A B C D E F G H I K L M N

1  . . . . . f f f f . f . .
2  . . . . f f f j j . f . .
3  g m d d g g g g f . . . .
4  m d d g g g g r . . . . .
5  f g g . . . . . . . . . .
6  . . . . . . . . . . . . .

A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, C2, D1, D2, F6, G6, H6, I6, K5, K6, L4, L5, L6, M4, M5,
M6, N3, N4, N5, and N6 contain no land.

F represents Forest.
G represents Grassland.
J represents Jungle.
M represents Mountains.
R represents River.
D represents Desert.

At any point before the start of the game, a member may state on the Public
Forum that e wishes to close the society. If a majority of members agree to
close the society, all paragraphs in this charter which preceed this one are
removed and replaced with the text {{Players may not join the Mercantile
Society.}} and the game of Merchants will begin. It is described in the
following paragraphs. Although Teucer is a member of the Society, e does not
play in the game of Merchants described below. Instead, e is the moderator
of the game. If a majority of members other than Teucer agree to any change
to this charter, the charter is changed accordingly. Teucer has the power to
modify the charter at will.

A large map will then be posted showing the precise locations of the capital
cities and the boundaries between the nations. All points will belong to the
nation with the nearest capital city.

Each member will privately be informed what resources e has. These may
include any of the following:

Gold
Oil
Coal
Lumber
Fruit
Fish
Beef
Coffee
Rice
Bread
Electronics

Each player will have a total of fifteen resources. They will be chosen by
Teucer, partly at random and partly based on the player's territory.

At any time, a player may post a message to the public forum offering a
trade to another player. The offer stands until it is accepted or withdrawn.
If an offer is accepted, the goods in question are exchanged. No player may
accept an offer if it would require em to give away goods e does not have.

Every Checkpoint, one Gold is given to all players who have ten of each
other resource.

When the majority of members have ten of each resource other than gold, the
players who do have ten of each non-gold resource will each receive from the
Society one point per member with less gold than them who does have ten of
each non-gold resource and one point per member who does not have ten of
each non-gold resource. Each member who does not have ten of each resource
other than gold receives from the society one point per member who also does
not have ten of each resource other than gold and who has less gold than the
member in question.
}}

 -- Teucer

"Be vewwy vewwy quiet. We're getting mawwied."
 -clsn

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