Census Amendments: Minister’s Plea, Edition: Revised

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Key Definitions
These definitions only apply for the duration of this bill.
Citizen — A Citizen is defined as Any human teenager, 13 years or older, who is a member of r/TeenGovernment or any official Discord. To be a citizen you must be a member of r/TeenGovernment, unless you have been banned or removed from Reddit, this is a requirement.Unregistered Person — Any human teenager, 13 years or older, who is a member of r/TeenGovernment or any official Discord, who does not possess a valid Citizen ID.Registered Citizen — Someone who is a citizen of TeenGovernment who possesses a valid Citizen ID.Senior Citizen — Someone who is a citizen of TeenGovernment older than 19 years.Government Employee — A citizen who has been elected, nominated, or appointed into a position which grants them responsibilities for the government.Prisoner — A citizen who is in the TG prison due to violating TG law and serving a sentence.Population — The number of Citizens.Census Minister — The person in charge of the Census Ministry and all things relating to the census.Census — The form used to renew citizen IDs for registered citizens, record demographics, and to make nice graphs.Census Response Period — The period of time, the 5th till the 19th of every month, when the census period of that time is accepting answers.Census Period — The period of time each month when a particular census was used as the count for the population.Voter Fraud — The act of lying or fabricating who you are in an official poll, census, or election to gain personal benefit, to achieve a goal, or to conduct an intentional mistake to play out a joke.Typo — A typo is defined as an obvious mistake or a clerical error.
Section I: Citizen IDs and Registration
Article I: A citizen ID may be obtained by any citizen via any of the following processes:
(i) With a direct message to the official allowed to issue IDs (Census Minister).(ii) By a redistribution done by the Census Minister after a case of voter fraud and/or Citizen ID Database leak.(iii) If a citizen requests a new one if they suspect theirs has been compromised.
Article II: A Citizen ID is a unique, pseudo-random numeric, six digit code used for the identification of citizens on the ARPD as well as being used to verify votes in the national general elections, census, and referendums. Other uses for Citizen IDs may be determined in amendments to this constitution.
Article III: Any citizen with a Citizen ID is considered a registered citizen. Any Citizen ID must be revoked if they do not fill out the census.
Article IV: IDs may be redistributed by the Census Minister if a referendum to do so occurs, if the Census Minister, Election Minister, and/or Referendum Minister suspects they have been compromised.
Article V: The valid issuers of Citizen IDs can not refuse to hand out a Citizen ID to someone who is a citizen of TeenGovernment eligible for an ID or who meets the conditions to be and is a citizen on the related official Discord.
Article VI: Citizen IDs must be kept in a spreadsheet, referred to as the Citizen ID Database or CIDD.
Article VII: Only the following positions may ever have access to the Citizen ID Database, this list may only be edited by a constitutional amendment:
(i) Census Minister(ii) Election Minister(iii) Referendum Minister(iv) A singular admin of the ARPD website to verify citizens on the ARPD website.(v) Ombudsman when pursuant to investigations.(vi) Acting Census Minister(vii) Acting Election Minister(viii) Acting Referendum Minister
Article VIII: The Census Minister or Acting Census Minister are the only people who may ever issue a Citizen ID.
Article IX: Having a valid Citizen ID grants its holder all the rights that are detailed in the constitution. Explicitly including but not limited to the right to vote and run for a political office. As well, not having an active Citizen ID strips any person of any rights detailed in the constitution, excluding the human rights bill.
Article X: Upon obtaining a Citizen ID, it is valid as long as you fill out each of the monthly censuses. All that is needed to revalidate a Citizen ID is for it to be used to fill out a census by the same account again. Citizen IDs are only to be used on elections, referendums, censuses, petitions, and ARPD website verification. Nothing else may require IDs unless future legislation permits it. The validity of Citizen IDs are updated by the Census Minister as responses to the Census come in.
Article XI: Government officials who are considered an Unregistered Person are to be immediately impeached, excluding if they are on a break in accordance with the Simplistic Announced Breaks amendment.
Article XII: If a prisoner possesses an ID, it only permits them to answer the census.
Article XIII: It is expressly illegal to share, post, or document multiple valid Citizen IDs for those not authorized access to the CIDD in any way, shape, or form. This excludes obvious cases of button mashing.
Article XIV: If someone shares, posts, or documents multiple valid Citizen IDs, and is not authorized access to the CIDD, they shall be impeached if they hold a position and be temporarily banned from the Subreddit Main Page and Discord Server for the following lengths:
Article XV: Punishments for leaking IDs shall be as follows:
(i) If a person leaks up to 10% of the valid IDs they shall be banned from the aforementioned places for 2 months.(ii) If a person leaks up to 11% or below 20% of the valid IDs they shall be banned from the aforementioned places for 3 months.(iii) If a person leaks up to 21% or below 30% of the valid IDs they shall be banned from the aforementioned places for 4 months.
(iv) If a person leaks up to 31% or below 40% of the valid IDs they shall be banned from the aforementioned places for 5 months.(v) If a person leaks up to 41% or below 50% of the valid IDs they shall be banned from the aforementioned places for 6 months.(vi) If a person leaks up to 51% or below 101% of the valid IDs they shall be banned from the aforementioned places for 12 months.
Article XVI: Any posting or sending of Citizen IDs may be immediately removed by moderators without repercussion so long as proof or a record of the incident is kept. For Reddit mods this doesn't do anything as "removed posts" can be re-approved later without losing anything; for any other context this means screenshotting or otherwise recording (e.g. via a api response capture) the message or post
Section II: Process of a Census
Article I: The census is to be held by the Census Minister  monthly, beginning on the 4th and ending on the 18th of every month.
Section III: Census Format
Article I: The following questions must be on the Census form and must be answered:
(i) What is your Citizen ID?(ii) What is your Reddit username, without the u/ at the front? (May be answered N/A which indicates that the respondent does not have an available Reddit account.)(iii) What is your Discord username? (May be answered with N/A which indicates that the respondent does not have an available Discord account.)(iv) What is your party? (May be answered as Independent which indicates that the respondent has no political affiliation.)(v) Are you a member of the official TeenGovernment Discord?(c) People who answer “I would like to.” are to be invited by the Census Minister, excluding prisoners, banned accounts, and banned accounts alt accounts.
Article II: The following questions must be on the Census and are optional to be answered but are used for roleplay purposes, they will be easily skippable:
(i) What province of TG do you have a residence in?(a) People may answer as Nomadic, but such an answer prevents them from participating in any regional politics.(ii) What town do you live in, in said province?(b) People can answer as Rural.(iii) In what nation were you born in?(iv) Are you a Prisoner, Senior Citizen, Registered Citizen, or Government Employee?(v) What is your occupation? Answer unemployed if you have no occupation.(vi) Are you a part of the military or have you served in the military?
Article III: The following questions must be on the Census and are optional to be answered and are used to collect demographic data, they will be easily skippable:
(i) What is your religious association?(ii) What is your ethnicity?(iii) What is your identified gender?(iv) What is your age?(v) what is your native language?
Article IV: Additional questions may be added either by constitutional amendment, Census Minister, Presidential Decree, or Executive Chicanery Order. However if the question is added by the Census Minister, Presidential Decree, or Executive Chicanery Order the council must come to a consensus of whether the question will be optional or required.
Section IV: Census Results
Article I: The results of the census must be posted on the 19th of every month.
Article II: In the census results, the following information must be displayed:
(i) A pie chart of the composition of the status of each respondent (ie, president or government employee).(ii) The number of members in each party.(iii) A pie chart of the party composition of TeenGovernment.(iv) A list of who is registered with each party, listing their Reddit username, if the Reddit username is unavailable, a Discord username is required.(v) A pie chart of composition of what provinces the citizens inhabit.(vi) A pie chart of the employment status of TeenGovernment citizens.
Article III: No information not listed in Article II of this subsection may be released without further legislation specifying such.
Article IV: A respondent to the census may have any answer on their response changed by reaching out via a response to a form issued by the Census Minister if one of their answers becomes outdated or if the form was filled out improperly.
Section V: Typos
Article I: Any typo discovered in the Census or Citizen ID sheets may not invalidate the easily interpreted intended meaning.
Article II: If a typo is discovered that was created by the Census Minister it may be immediately corrected. If a typo is discovered that was created by a respondent it may only be corrected with the consent of the respondent, excluding common sense errors such as a capitalization mistake.
Article III: If any Census Minister is found tampering with the results of the Census in any of the following ways, they must immediately be impeached and shamed to the ultimate degree, for tampering with the truth is an ungodly abomination.
(i) Changing a respondent's answers without consent.(ii) Falsifying the existence of people to gain benefit or further a personal goal.
Article IV: Removing improper census submissions may not be considered tampering with the census results. Although they will be required to ask the answerer to resubmit a proper census submission, unless they are ineligible to do the census for any reason. An improper census response is defined as a response with data that does not match reality. A proper census response is defined as a response with data that does match reality.
Article V: If a registered citizen’s main Reddit account is banned off of the Reddit platform or is unable to access, they may register a different account to use on r/TeenGovernment as their new main account. However the change in the main account used must be clearly communicated with the Census Minister so they may update the relevant Citizen ID.
Section VII: Census Immigration, Residency, and Customs Enforcement
Article I: A new subdepartment of the Census Department called the Census Immigration, Residency, and Customs Enforcement shall be created(i) Any person who is a member of CIRCE shall have the title of Census Officer.
Article II: Census Officers will be appointed by the Census Minister and can be removed at any time.
Article III: Census Officers and Census Workers shall not be considered a high office.
Article IV: Census Officers will be responsible for the following actions:
(i) Giving new arrivals to TeenGovernment the form to apply for a Citizen ID.(ii) LARPing as wholesome Border Patrol agents.
Article V: For easier streamlining of the implementation of Citizen IDs, a form will be created for the receiving of Citizen ID applications with the following questions:
(i) If applicable, what is your Reddit username?(ii) If applicable, what is your Discord username?(iii) Are you above age 13 and below age 19?(iv) Do you hold any positions in other political simulations, and if yes which ones?(v) Who referred you to this form? (Not Required to answer)
Section VI: Random Stuff
Article I: The following titles and departments shall be created or renamed:
(i) The group of people responsible for the Census shall be renamed to the Census Ministry.(ii) The leader of the Census Department shall be called the Census Minister.(iii) Any other person working in the Census Ministry who is not the Census Minister shall be called a Census Worker.
Section VII: Duties and Regulations of the Census Minister
Article I: The Census Minister is responsible for the creation of the monthly census, issuing and upkeeping Citizen IDs, correcting Census Responses, and posting notices asking for the completion, opening, closing, and results of a census period.
(i) If notices to complete the census, notices of the opening of a census, notices of the closing of a census, and notices of the results of a census are not posted within a week of when one of the events is scheduled, the Census Minister is to be shamed and be given a strike, if a Census Minister gains a total of 3 strikes within a 30 day period they must be impeached.(ii) The Census Minister must post at least three calls to complete the census during any Census Response Period. Failing to complete the needed total of notices they will gain a strike. Notices to complete the census posted within less or equal to 72 hours of each other may not be counted to fill the requirement for the amount of reminder posts.(iii) The Census Minister will not gain a strike if they are on break or have encountered an emergency that trumps the duties of TeenGovernment (ie. Family, Friends, or Injury).(iv) The Census Minister must remind moderators to pin notices relating to the census.(v) Moderators of both the r/TeenGovernment subreddit and the related official Discord must pin the listed posts, and on Discord post them in #announcements and ping the role containing the most people, excluding the u/everyone and u/verified role.
Article IV: The Census Minister may create Citizen IDs for new members or re-issue IDs in the event that the IDs are leaked or compromised.
Article V: The Census Minister has access, editing permissions, and ownership to the Citizen ID Database as long as they are doing so in a manner consistent with their duties.
Article VI: Legislation made by the Census Minister during their term that entirely  concerns the census bypasses the council waiting period.
Section VIII: Conflicting Legislation
Article I: Any legislation, or clauses of any clause, that directly conflicts with the dealings of this bill will be rendered void of being an enforceable law. No previously passed legislation shall be seen to repeal, overturn, or overrule this legislation.
Article II: Any legislation previously being dependent on Voter Codes, Citizen IDs, the Census Ministry, or the Census shall furthermore be dependent on the replacements outlined in this piece of legislation.
Article III: This piece of legislation is explicitly keeping the following legislation repealed to allow for the full implementation of this bill’s contents.
(i) Census and Citizen ID Amendments by Ptoke8ARock(ii) Fix the Census and Citizen ID Amendments amendments by Zeedith(iii) Amendment to the Census amendments (so we can stop freaking out) by Ptoke8ARock(iv) Fixed\^2 Consolidated census \& citizen IDs amendment by Zeedith(v) The Holy Amendments to the Census (THAC) by Ptoke8ARock(vi) Census Minister's Plea Amendments by Ptoke8ARock(vii) Census Minister's Plea Amendments (2) by Ptoke8ARock
This piece of legislation explicitly repeals the following legislation:
(i) Census Amendments: Minister’s Plea by Ptoke8ARock.(ii) Census Results Constitutional Amendment (C.R.C.A.) by Then\_Train8542
Section IX: Enactment
Article I: This piece of legislation shall immediately amend the constitution immediately upon passing the council’s vote.