Ruleset 91

Core Rules

Ruleset and Gamestate

This is the Ruleset for BlogNomic; all Investors shall obey it. Section One consists of the "core rules" of BlogNomic, covering basic proposal mechanics; Section Two contains the rules of the current dynasty; and Section Three contains the glossary, which exists solely to clarify the remainder of the ruleset.

The Ruleset and Gamestate can only be altered in manners specified by the Ruleset.

Admins may correct obvious spelling and typographical mistakes in the Ruleset at any time, including replacing Spivak and gender-specific pronouns with the singular "they".

Investors

Anybody may apply to join BlogNomic (if they are not already playing) by registering at http://blognomic.com via the Register link in the sidebar, and then making a post announcing their arrival. An Admin shall add them to the roster in the sidebar and the GNDT, at which moment they become an Investor.

An Investor may leave the game at any time by posting an entry to the BlogNomic weblog requesting such an action. An Investor may only change their name as a result of a proposal approving the change.

Some Investors are Admins, responsible for updating the site and the Ruleset, and are signified as such in the sidebar. Investors who wish to become Admins may sign up with a username for the Ruleset Wiki, and submit a Proposal to make themselves Admins. Existing Admins may be removed from their posts by Proposal, CfJ, or voluntary resignation. New admins shall be given the GNDT configuration password when they become admins.

Some Investors are Idle, and shall be marked as such in the sidebar. For the purposes of the Ruleset, excluding Rules 1.1, 1.2, 1.8 and 1.10, Idle Investors are not counted as Investors. Admins may render an Investor Idle if that Investor has asked to become Idle or if that Investor has not posted an entry or comment in the last seven days. In the latter case, the Admin must announce the idling in a blog post. Admins may render themselves Idle at any time by announcing that they have done so in a blog post. Admins may de-Idle an Investor at their request, and Idle Admins may de-idle themselves at any time, unless the idle Investor in question asked to become (or rendered themselves) Idle within the previous 4 days, and within the current dynasty. The Investor’s personal gamestate retains the values it had immediately prior to their going Idle. If one or more values would be undefined, it is set to the value new Investors receive, if such a value exists.

Proposals

Any Investor may submit a Proposal to change the Ruleset or Gamestate, by posting an entry in the “Proposal” category that describes those changes (unless the Investor already has 2 Proposals pending, or has already made 3 Proposals that day).

Proposals can either be Pending, Enacted, or Failed. When a Proposal is first put forward, it is considered Pending. A Proposal may not also be a Call for Judgment.

Voting

Any Investor may cast their Vote on a Votable Matter by making a comment to the official post that comprises that Votable Matter using a voting icon of FOR, AGAINST, DEFERENTIAL (only if the Votable Matter is a Proposal), or VETO (only if the Votable Matter is a Proposal and the Investor is the Market).

If the Investor who authored a Votable Matter has not cast a Vote on it, their Vote is counted as FOR. If an Investor uses more than one Voting Icon in comments on a Votable Matter, their Vote is the last voting icon they use. If an Investor leaves the game or goes Idle, their Vote is no longer valid. If an Investor Votes against their own Proposal, this renders the Proposal self-killed and that Vote may not be changed.

A Vote of DEFERENTIAL is a Vote of no opinion, or of faith in the decision of the Market. The Vote will count as the same as the Market’s Vote. If the Market casts a Vote of DEFERENTIAL on a Proposal, it serves the purpose of cancelling any previous Vote on that Proposal that was cast by the Market and counts as an explicit Vote of abstention. If there is no Market, or the Vote is made by the proposal’s author on their own proposal and the Market does not Vote on it, a Vote of DEFERENTIAL counts as an explicit Vote of abstention, and has no effect except possibly to void earlier voting icons by that voter on that proposal.

If no Market has Voted on a Proposal, a Vote of DEFERENTIAL on that proposal does not count as a Vote for the purposes of rule 1.5.

Resolution of Proposals

The oldest pending Proposal may be enacted by any Admin (and the Ruleset and/or Gamestate updated to include the specified effects of that Proposal) if either of the following is true:-

• It has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum, has been open for voting for at least 12 hours, and has not been vetoed or self-killed.
• It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, it has continuously been a proposal for that time, it has more than 1 valid Vote, more than half of its Votes are FOR, and it has not been vetoed or self-killed.

The oldest pending Proposal may be failed by any Admin, if any of the following are true:-

• It has enough AGAINST Votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those Votes being changed.
• It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and half or fewer of its Votes are FOR.
• It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and has fewer than 2 valid Votes.
• The Investor who proposed it has Voted AGAINST it.
• The Market has Voted to VETO it.

Whenever an Admin marks a proposal, CfJ, or DoV as enacted or failed, they must also mark their name, and report the final tally of Votes (or the fact that it was self-killed or vetoed).

Proposals the Market has Voted to VETO are considered vetoed, and such a Vote cannot be changed. Proposals the author has Voted against are considered self-killed unless the Market has Voted VETO on them, or they have fulfilled one of the other requirements to fail a proposal before the author’s self-kill Vote is placed. Immediately after enacting a proposal that causes a rule with no name to be added to the ruleset, unless the proposal specifically states that the rule should have no name, the enacting admin can change the rule’s title to give it a name, so long as doing so does not change the meaning of any part of the ruleset, nor change any properties of the rule (such as specific words in the title) that the ruleset specifically cares about.

If a proposal somehow ends up being pending for more than 7 days, it is ignored for the purpose of calculating the oldest pending proposal, and can be failed by any Admin.

Calls for Judgment

If two or more Investors actively disagree as to the interpretation of the Ruleset, or if an Investor feels that an aspect of the game needs urgent attention, then any Investor may raise a Call for Judgment (abbreviated CfJ) by posting an entry in the “Call for Judgment” category. The post shall go on to describe the issue, and measures that shall be taken to resolve it.

All Investors may cast Votes on that CfJ to indicate agreement or disagreement with the position taken in that CfJ. Unfailed CfJs continue until they reach a Quorum of FOR Votes, a Quorum of AGAINST Votes, or if there is no hiatus going on, until four days have passed since they were posted, and if there is a hiatus going on until two days have passed since they were posted. After this time, if more than half the cast Votes are FOR Votes, the CfJ may be enacted by any Admin by updating or correcting the Gamestate and Ruleset as specified. Otherwise, the CfJ fails. A Failed CfJ has no further effect.

Any CfJ that has no effect on the ruleset or gamestate may be automatically failed by any admin.

Gamestate Tracking

Proposals, Calls for Judgment, and other official posts, as well as specific gamestate information, shall be tracked by the BlogNomic blog at http://blognomic.com. Any Investor may post to the blog at any time, but may only make official posts to the blog when the Ruleset allows it. Posts following the format specified by a rule are considered official posts. A proposal, call for judgment, or declaration of victory cannot simultaneously be any other type of official post unless otherwise specified by dynastic rules.

If no Investor has commented on it, an official post may be altered or removed by its author; otherwise this can only be done as allowed by the Ruleset. However, despite this, official posts can never be changed from one category to another, or changed to be a different sort of official post, if they have been posted for more than fifteen minutes. The Admin processing an official post is allowed to append to the post to reflect its new status. Anything appended to a post in this way must be placed in the Admin field of the post, and the post's Status must be changed to reflect its status.

A non-official post may not, through editing of the blog or otherwise, be changed into an official post, with the following exception: Whilst a non-official post has been posted for less than fifteen minutes and has no comments, the author may change the categories as they wish.

Voting and comments are accessible through the link at the bottom of every post.

Specific parts of the Gamestate data shall be tracked by the Generic Nomic Data Tracker at http://blognomic.com/gndt/generic.cgi?nomic=blog. Any Investor may update any Investor's data via the GNDT, whenever the Ruleset permits it.

All updates to the GNDT are logged. Actions that change gamestate directly (defined in other rules) can normally be performed simply by applying their effects to the GNDT, which updates the gamestate accordingly, unless another rule specifies some other method of performing them; one GNDT update may contain one or more actions, or one action may be split over multiple GNDT updates, as long as it’s clear what is happening and the actions are otherwise legal. The GNDT merely represents the Gamestate, and is not the same thing. In the event that the Gamestate and the GNDT are different, any Investor may correct the GNDT to comply with the Gamestate.

If an Investor feels that the GNDT was altered such that it no longer matches the gamestate (such as by performing an action which was against the Rules (as they were at the time of the alteration), or by any other means), they may simply undo the effects of that alteration. Instead of repeatedly reverting and re-reverting a disputed GNDT update, Investors are encouraged to raise a Call for Judgment instead. Investors shall be assigned a password for the GNDT when they join the Nomic.

Dynasties

BlogNomic is divided into a number of Dynasties. Each Dynasty is headed by a single Investor, known as the Market.

The Market may Vote to VETO any Proposal.

Victory and Ascension

If an Investor (other than the Market) believes that they have achieved victory in the current Dynasty, they may make a post to the Blognomic weblog in the Declaration of Victory category, detailing this.

Upon doing so, the game immediately goes into Hiatus, if it hasn’t already. During this time, the only game actions that may be taken are those covered by Rules “Investors”, “Voting”, “Calls for Judgment”, “Gamestate Tracking” and “Victory and Ascension”.

Every Investor may cast Votes on that DoV to indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposition that the poster has achieved victory in the current Dynasty.

A DoV may be enacted if any of the following is true:

• It has been open for voting for 12 hours, has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum, and either the Market has Voted FOR it or it has no AGAINST Votes.
• It has been open for voting for at least 24 hours, has a number of FOR Votes that exceed or equal Quorum, and has a number of against Votes fewer than half of Quorum, rounded down.
• It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours, at least Quorum Investors have Voted on it, and more than half of its Votes are FOR.

A DoV may be failed if any of the following are true:

• It has been open for voting for 12 hours and has enough AGAINST Votes that it could not be Enacted without one of those Votes being changed.
• It has been open for voting for at least 48 hours and cannot be legally enacted.

When a DoV fails and there are no pending DoVs, Hiatus ends.

When a DoV is enacted, all other active DoVs are failed, and a new Dynasty begins with the Investor who made the DoV as its Market. That Investor may pass this role to another Investor at this point by making a post to that effect, if they wish. The Hiatus continues until the new Market makes an Ascension Address by posting an entry in the “Ascension Address” category - this should specify the Market’s chosen theme for the new Dynasty, and may optionally specify that the terms Investor and Market will be replaced with theme-specific terms throughout the entire ruleset, and/or a number of dynastic rules to keep. Upon posting such an Ascension Address, the ruleset is updated to reflect any changed terms, and any dynastic rules which were not listed to be kept are repealed.

A DoV may not be started in the period between an enacted DoV and that DoV’s Ascension Address. When a DoV is failed, if it has a number of AGAINST Votes that exceed Quorum, the Investor who posted it cannot make another DoV until after 120 hours (5 days) have passed since the time their DoV was failed.

A Declaration of Victory may not also be any other type of Official Post unless the rules concerning that type of Official Post explicitly state otherwise.

Fair Play

The following are BlogNomic’s rules of fair play. If any of these rules are found to have been broken, or if an Investor’s behaviour or actions are otherwise deemed unacceptable (socially or otherwise), a proposal or CfJ may be made to reprimand or punish the perpetrator or, in cases of extreme or repeated violations, remove them from the game and bar them from rejoining.

• A single person should not control more than one Investor within BlogNomic.
• An Investor should not “spam” the BlogNomic blog. What counts as spamming is subjective, but would typically include posting more than ten blog entries in a day, more than ten blog comments in a row, or posting a blog entry of more than 1000 words.
• An Investor should not deliberately exploit bugs or unexpected behaviours in the software running the game (ExpressionEngine, MediaWiki or the GNDT).
• An Investor should not edit their own blog comments once posted, nor those of any other Investor.
• An Investor should not edit the "Entry Date" field of a blog post.
• An Investor should not make a DoV primarily to delay the game by putting it into Hiatus.
• An Investor should not do any action meant to make the game unplayable (for example, changing multiple keywords to the same word in an ascension address).

Seasonal Downtime

Blognomic goes into hiatus every year on December 24th, and remains in hiatus until December 27th. During this time no game actions may be taken except those described in the rules entitled “Voting,” “Gamestate Tracking” and “Call for Judgement”.

Dynastic Rules

Currency

All Investors have a Currency value measured in Credits which may hold any integer value larger than or equal to -1000 and is tracked in the GNDT. New Investors start with 1,000 Credits. Investors with negative Currency are said to be In Debt. Investors with less than -500 Credits are said to be Bankrupt (and are In Debt as well). No Investor may take any action that involves decreasing their Currency if they are Bankrupt, or if that action would cause them to become Bankrupt.

As a weekly action, only if no Investor has done so that week and only if at least one Investor has negative Currency, any Investor may multiply the Currency of each Investor who is In Debt by 1.10.

Corporations

There exist entities called Corporations which are listed on the BN Index on the wiki. The contents of the BN Index are part of the gamestate.

All Corporations have 100 Shares, which may belong to the Market, to Investors or to Idle Investors. All shares of new Corporations belong to the Market.

Each Corporation has a unique Ticker Symbol, which is a string of upper-case letters, which is listed on the BN Index on the wiki.

All Corporations have Worth, which is an integer value which may be negative. If a Corporation’s Worth is not defined, it’s Worth is 0. Worth is tracked on the BN Index.

Business Plans

Each Corporation has a Business Plan which is tracked on the BN Index. A Business Plan is the amount which is added to the Worth of the Corporation to which it belongs during each Quarterly Report.

If no Investor has made a Quarterly Report within the past 48 hours, any Investor may do so. To make a Quarterly Report, An Investor must first Make a Comment in the GNDT stating that they are doing so, then they must compute the new Worth of each Corporation, by adding each Business Plan to its corresponding Corporation’s Worth, and update the BN Index to reflect this.

If a Business Plan would be changed by any means other than by Proposal, the new Business Plan is placed in parenthesis below the current Business plan, and has no effect on Quarterly Reports until The Market Signs Off on it by removing the parenthesis and removing the old Business Plan from the BN Index. The Market may also veto a plan that is in parenthesis by removing it from the BN Index and keeping the current Business Plan, but should explain their reason for doing so in a blog post or comment. If the Market vetoes a plan that was created by a Shareholder Meeting, they shall increase the Worth of the corresponding Corporation by 100.

The market may rewrite any Business Plan to a mathematically equivalent one at any time if they deem the new plan shorter or easier to read.

Startups

As a weekly action, an Investor may attempt to start up a new Corporation by making a post with the title "Startup: NAME (XXX)", where NAME is the name of the new Corporation, XXX is its Ticker Symbol and neither may be identical to those of an existing Corporation or pending Venture. They are encouraged to describe the new Corporation in the body of the post. This post is a Venture, and starts out as pending. All Investors may Join this Venture by making a comment with a FOR icon and a single number (their Limit) which must be equal to or less than their Currency. If an Investor Joins a single Venture more than once, only the last is taken into account.

When 72 hours have passed since the post was made, the Venture ceases to be pending. As long as a Venture is still pending, the Investor who posted it may resolve it as follows: they must decrease their Currency by any multiple of 15, but at least 300, and may optionally decrease the Currency of one or more Investors by any multiple of 15, but no more than each Investor's Limit. If the total Currency hereby decreased is exactly 1500 the Venture is successful and ceases to be pending, and the Corporation is created with the Name and Ticker Symbol specified in the Venture's title. This new Corporation shall start with a Worth of 500 and a Business Plan of “((1DICE4) - 2) * 50”, and each Investor who lost Currency to this Venture will gain shares equal to the amount of Credits lost divided by 15. This overrides the usual division of Shares for new Corporations.

Market Orders

For the purpose of this rule and its subrules, the Market is considered to be an Investor. Each Investor has an Order, tracked in the GNDT. Its starting value is blank. Each Investor may set their own Order to any string of text at any time.

The Market may have any number of Orders at a time, tracked in the GNDT and separated by slashes. When one of the Market’s Orders is Executed, the actions involved in executing that order do not affect the Market’s other Orders.

Sell Orders

An Order that has the form ‘SELL X ABC @ $Y’ where X and Y are positive integers and ABC is the Ticker Symbol of a Corporation is a Sell Order. At any time, any Investor may execute any Sell Order according to the following rules:

Definitions

For the purposes of this rule’s siblings:

• ‘Seller’ means the Investor that owns the Sell Order that is being executed
• ‘Buyer’ means the Investor that is executing the Sell Order
• ‘X’ and ‘Y’ refer to the corresponding integers in the Sell Order
• Z is a positive integer of the Executing Investor’s choice, which may not be greater than X
• ‘ABC’ refers to the Corporation that has the same Ticker Symbol as the one listed in the Sell Order

Restrictions

A Sell Order may not be executed unless the following conditions are met:

• The Buyer has at least Z * (Y+1) - 500 Credits of Currency
• The Seller has at least Z shares of ABC
• The Buyer and the Seller are not the same Investor
• Neither the Buyer nor the Seller is in the process of executing any other Order

Execution

To execute a Sell Order, the Buyer performs the following actions in this order:

• Replace X in the Seller’s Order by X-Z. If X-Z is zero, set it to blank instead.
• Decrease the Buyer’s Currency by Z * (Y+1) Credits
• Increase the Market’s Currency by Z Credits
• Increase the Seller’s Currency by Z * Y Credits
• Decrease the Seller’s shares of ABC by Z
• Increase the Buyer’s shares of ABC by Z

Buy Orders

An Order that has the form ‘BUY X ABC @ $Y’ where X and Y are positive integers and ABC is the Ticker Symbol of a Corporation is a Buy Order. At any time, any Investor may execute any Buy Order according to the following rules:

Definitions

For the purposes of this rule’s siblings:

• ‘Buyer’ means the Investor that owns the Buy Order that is being executed
• ‘Seller’ means the Investor that is executing the Buy Order
• ‘X’ and ‘Y’ refer to the corresponding integers in the Buy Order
• Z is a positive integer of the Executing Investor’s choice, which may not be greater than X
• ‘ABC’ refers to the Corporation that has the same Ticker Symbol as the one listed in the Buy Order

Restrictions

A Buy Order may not be executed unless the following conditions are met:

• The Buyer has at least Z * (Y+1) Credits of Currency
• The Seller has at least Z shares of ABC
• The Buyer and the Seller are not the same Investor
• Neither the Buyer nor the Seller is in the process of executing any other Order

Execution

To execute a Buy Order, the Seller performs the following actions in this order:

• Replace X in the Buyers’s Order by X-Z. If X-Z is zero, set it to blank instead.
• Decrease the Seller’s shares of ABC by Z
• Increase the Buyer’s shares of ABC by Z
• Decrease the Buyer’s Currency by Z * (Y+1) Credits
• Increase the Market’s Currency by Z Credits
• Increase the Seller’s Currency by Z * Y Credits

Bankruptcy

If a Corporation's Worth is less than -500, its assets are frozen and its stocks cannot change ownership except by proposal, CfJ or as explicitly allowed by this rule's subrules.

Shareholder Meetings

At any time, an Investor who has at least 5 Shares in a Corporation may make a Shareholder Meeting post for that Corporation with the title “CORP - Shareholder Meeting: X”. Here, CORP is the name of the Corporation and X must correspond to the title of a subrule to this rule. The body of the post must specify which Investors (including the Market) have Shares in the Corporation and how many (this is the “Record Date Information”), and must fulfill any other requirements specified in the corresponding rule.

A Shareholder Meeting starts out as pending, and ceases to be pending if it is approved or if 72 hours have passed since it was posted. Each Investor with at least one Share in the Corporation may support a Shareholder Meeting by making a comment to it with a FOR icon accompanied with the number of Shares they have of the Corporation according to the Record Date Information. They may stop supporting it at any time by making a comment with an AGAINST icon to the Shareholder Meeting post. If the number of Shares held by the Investors (and/or the Market) who support a pending Shareholder Meeting exceeds 50 (again, according to the Record Date Information), the Investor who made the post may approve it by making a comment to it to that extent and by carrying out its effect as specified in the corresponding subrule.

Take Off Market

This Shareholder Meeting may only be called if the Market owns no more than 10 Shares of this Corporation. When this Shareholder Meeting is approved, all shares for this Corporation shall be marked as Frozen in the BN Index. While this is in effect, no Shares of this Corporation may be bought or sold.

Go Public

When this Shareholder Meeting is approved, all shares for this Corporation cease to be frozen, and shall no longer be marked as such in the BN Index.

Chairman of the Board

When this Shareholder Meeting is approved, the Investor who is specified in this Shareholder Meeting as standing for election as Chairman of the Board of this Corporation is elected, and becomes, the Chairman of the Board of this Corporation, to hold that office until he idles or is replaced by a subsequently elected Chairman of the Board. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Ruleset, if the Chairman of the Board makes a comment with an AGAINST icon to any Shareholder Meeting of this Corporation (other than a Shareholder Meeting to elect a Chairman of the Board of this Corporation), that Shareholder Meeting cannot be approved.

Declaration of a Dividend

When this Shareholder Meeting is approved, take the following steps in the following order:

• Let “D” be the positive integer amount specified in this Shareholder Meeting as the dividend amount (provided that D may not exceed this Corporation’s Worth as of the time immediately prior to the approval of this Shareholder Meeting”
• Reduce this Corporation’s Worth by D
• Increase the number of Credits of Currency held by each Investor who holds Shares of this Corporation per the Record Date Information by an Amount equal to (D * (A/100)), rounded down to the nearest integer, where A is the number of Shares of this Corporation held by that Investor per the Record Date Information.

Liquidation

When this Shareholder Meeting is approved, take the following steps in the following order:

• Increase the number of Credits of Currency held by each Investor who holds Shares of this Corporation per the Record Date information by an amount equal to (W * (A/100)), rounded down to the nearest integer, where W is the Worth of this Corporation and A is the number of Shares of this Corporation held by that Investor per the Record Date Information.
• Reduce the number of Shares of this Corporation held by all Investors to zero
• Remove all references to this Corporation from the BN Index in light of the fact that this Corporation has ceased to exist.

Replace Management

The body of this Shareholder Meeting must specify a legal Business Plan. This Business Plan must be able to produce negative numbers, and its expected value should not exceed 200, or 25% of the Corporation’s Worth at the time of posting, whichever is larger.

If this Shareholder Meeting is approved, the Business Plan of this Corporation is changed to the specified new Business Plan, and its Worth is decreased by 50 to reflect the costs of such an overhaul.

Merger Offer

A Shareholder Meeting post for a “Merger Offer” shareholder Meeting must include:

• An identification of the Corporation that is the Target (which must be a different Corporation than the Merger Offer was called for)
• A specification of whether the merger is a cash deal or a stock deal.
  • If the merger is a cash deal, the Shareholder Meeting post must specify an amount of Currency (which may be referred to as the “Cash Price”).
  • If the merger is a stock deal, the Shareholder Meeting post must specify two positive percentage amounts that sum to 100% (for example, 85% and 15%) and specify which of those percentages is the “Offeror Percentage” and which of those percentages is the “Target Percentage”
• The deadline for the Corporation that is the Target Corporation to pass a “Merger Acceptance” Shareholder Meeting to close the merger.

This Corporation may be refered to as the “Offeror”.

If an Offeror passes a “Merger Offer” with respect to a particular target Corporation, that “Merger Offer” supersedes any previous “Merger Offer” that had previously been passed by that Offeror with respect to that target Corporation.

Merger Acceptance

This Shareholder Meeting may only be called if an Offeror Corporation passed a “Merger Offer” Shareholder Meeting identifying this Corporation as the Target Corporation, and if the deadline stated in that Merger Offer has not yet passed. A Shareholder Meeting post for a “Merger Acceptance” Shareholder Meeting must reasonably specify which “Merger Offer” is being accepted, and should re-state the terms of the Merger Offer. If the Merger Offer is a stock deal then the Merger Acceptance must specify the Record Date information for the Offeror as well as the Target.

Whin this Shareholder Meeting is approved, take the following steps in the following order: If the Merger Offer is a cash deal:

1. Increase the Offeror’s Worth by an amount equal to the Target’s Worth, then reduce the Target’s Worth to zero.
2. If the Offeror’s Worth is less than the stated Cash Price of the Merger Offer, then the approval of this Merger Acceptance has no effect (and step 1, if already taken, must be undone).
3. If the Offeror’s Worth is equal to or greater then the stated Cash Price, then:
   1. Subtract an amount equal to the stated Cash Price of the Merger Offer from the Offeror’s Worth.
   2. Increase the number of Credits of Currency held by each Investor who holds Shares of the Target Corporation by an amount equal to (the stated Cash Price * (A/100)), rounded down to the nearest integer, where A is the number of Shares of the Target Corporation held by that Investor per the Record Date information of the Merger Acceptance.
4. Add the Target’s Business Plan to the Offeror’s Business plan.
5. Reduce the number of Shares of the Target Corporation held by all Investors to zero, and remove all references to the Target Corporation from the BN Index in light of the fact that the Target Corporation has ceased to exist.

If the Merger Offer is a stock deal:

1. Increase the Offeror’s Worth by an amount equal to the Target’s Worth, then reduce the Target’s Worth to zero.
2. Multiply the number of Shares of the Offeror held by each Investor who holds Shares of the Offeror per the Merger Acceptance Record Date Information by the Offeror Percentage stated in the Merger Offer, rounded down to the nearest integer.
3. Award to each Investor who holds Shares of the Target per the Merger Acceptance Record Date Information a number of shares of Offeror equal to (S * the Target Percentage), rounded down to the nearest integer, where S equals the number of Shares of the Target held by that Investor per the Merger Acceptance Record Date Information.
4. If the application of steps 2 and 3 result in fewer than 100 Shares of Offeror being outstanding, award a number of shares of Offeror to the Market such that the Offeror has exactly 100 Shares outstanding.
5. Add the Target’s Business Plan to the Offeror’s Business plan.
6. Reduce the number of Shares of the Target Corporation held by all Investors to zero, and remove all references to the Target Corporation from the BN Index in light of the fact that the Target Corporation has ceased to exist.

Market Fluctuations

At any time, but only if this action has not been performed since the last Fluctuation, the Market may secretly determine A = 300 - X (where X is a random number between 1 and 600, inclusive) for each Corporation. If, for any reason, no value of A has been determined for an existing Corporation, the Market may do so at any time. As a weekly action, the Market may Fluctuate by adding each value of A to the Worth of the corresponding Corporation. They are encouraged to perform this action each Friday.

At any time, an Investor may spend 25 Credits to privately ask the Market for a Tip on a Corporation, or may spend 50 Credits to privately ask the Market for Inside Information on a Corporation. The Market shall respond at their earliest convenience. If asked for a Tip, they shall give the requesting Investor the sign of A for that Corporation (positive, negative or zero). If asked for Inside Information, they shall instead give the requesting Investor the exact number of A for that Corporation.

Economic Stimulus

When a non-Trivial Proposal passes, the enacting Admin shall add 50 to the Currency of the author of the Proposal. A Trivial Proposal is defined as a Proposal where at least half of the EVCs contain the word "trivial".

Victory Conditions

If a particular Investor simultaneously has at least 1000 Credits and is the Chairman of the Board of more than half of the Corporations in existence, that Investor has achieved Victory.

Glossary

Keywords

A keyword defined by a rule supersedes the normal English usage of the word. A keyword defined in this glossary supersedes that defined by a rule. (eg. A rule specifying "bananas are blue" cannot be overruled by posting a dictionary definition or a photo of a banana, and a rule specifying "every day is Sunday" will be overruled by the glossary entry below.)

Can

"is able to"

Comment

A blog comment published to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com

Core Proposal

A Proposal whose changes are limited to the creation, deletion, and/or amendment of core rules and/or the glossary, and/or renaming, banning, and/or the granting or removing of admin status from one or more Investors.

Daily Action

If a game action is a Daily Action, each Investor able to perform it may take that action once each day, but not more than once every six hours.

Day

References to a “day” as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. “Sunday”, “The day after performing this action”, or “August 2nd”), unless otherwise stated, refer to a day beginning at and including 00:00:00 GMT, ending when the next day begins. It can never be 2 different days at the same instant.

Dice

References to "YDICEX" refer to Y X-sided dice, rolled within the GNDT. To roll dice, post DICEX in the comments field of the GNDT, replacing X with the number of sides on the die you wish to roll.

Dynastic Proposal

A Proposal whose only changes are the creation, deletion, and/or amendment of dynastic rules and/or gamestate defined by dynastic rules.

Effective Vote Comment (EVC)

An Investor's Effective Vote Comment with respect to a given Proposal means that Investor’s Comment to that Proposal (if any) that contains that Investor’s Vote on the Proposal that is given effect in accordance with Rule 1.4 when the Proposal is Resolved, not including explicit Votes of abstention..

Flavour Text

When posting a blog entry, an Investor may use the “Commentary or flavour text” field of the blog publishing form to add their own comments or description of their post. For the purposes of all other rules, such text is not considered to be part of the post.

Gamestate

Any information which the Ruleset regulates the alteration of.

IRC Channel

The Blognomic IRC channel is located at #nomic on the slashnet network (irc.slashnet.org).

May

"is permitted to"

Post

A blog post published to the BlogNomic weblog at blognomic.com

Quorum

Quorum of a subset of Investors is half the number of Investors in that subset, rounded down, plus one. If the word Quorum is used without qualifying which subset of Investors it is referring to, it is referring to a Quorum of all Investors.

Resolve/Resolution

If used in a context of Proposals, Call for Judgements or Declarations of Victory, the world “Resolve” means to perform the act, as an Admin, of enacting or failing a Proposal, a Call for Judgement or a Declaration of Victory. The world “Resolution” means then the act of doing so. If used in another context, the meaning of both “Resolve” and “Resolution” is the standard English meaning of these words.

Shall

"is required to"

Should

"is recommended that"

Sibling Rule

Two rules are “siblings” of each other if they are both direct subrules of the same rule.

Story Post

A Story Post is an Official Post that is not a member of any specific category of Official Posts mentioned or defined in a Core Rule (excluding Official Post).

Subject

The "subject" of a blog entry is the part of the Title of an entry which is after the first colon. If the Title does not contain a colon, then the whole Title is the subject. Any entry whose subject is "" (i.e. an empty string) is not valid.

Votable Matter

The word “Votable Matter”, means a Proposal, a CFJ or a DoV.

Vote

The word “Vote”, used as a noun, means a Vote that is cast in accordance with Rule 1.4 “Voting”. The word “Vote”, used as a verb, means the act of casting such a Vote.

Voting Icons

For use in voting, a check box http://blognomic.com/images/vote/for.gif shall represent a Vote FOR, an X http://blognomic.com/images/vote/against.gif shall represent a Vote AGAINST, an IMP http://blognomic.com/images/vote/imperial.gif shall represent a Vote of DEFERENTIAL, and an Imperial Seal http://blognomic.com/images/vote/seal.gif shall represent the Imperial Veto.

Week

References to a week as an entity rather than as a duration (e.g. “At the beginning of each week”, or “already happened this week”), unless otherwise stated, refer to a period of time between the beginning of a Monday and the end of the following Sunday.

Weekly Action

If a game action is a Weekly Action, each Investor able to perform it may take that action once each week, but not more than once every twenty-four hours.

Wiki

The BlogNomic Wiki at http://blognomic.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Clarifications

Numbers and Variables

• Unless otherwise specified, game variables defined to hold numeric values can hold only non-negative integers, and any action that would set those values below zero is an illegal action unless explicitly otherwise stated in the ruleset. Any situation which would require a roll of DiceX when X is zero or lower always yields a value of 0 unless stated otherwise.
• Unless otherwise specified, a new Dynastic rule shall be placed at the end of the Dynastic Rules.
• All numbers, unless stated otherwise by a rule, are in base ten.
• Unless otherwise specified, when “X” is a number, to spend X of a numeric value “V” means to subtract X from V (i.e. replace V with V-X); to gain X of a numeric value “V” means to add X to V; and to transfer X of a numeric value “V” from A to B means to subtract X from A's V and add the amount A's V was reduced by to B's V. Unless otherwise specified, a rule that allows Investors to transfer a numeric value only allows them to transfer that value from themselves to another Investor (of their choice unless otherwise stated).
• An Investor who has a choice in whether to take an action defined by a dynastic rule may not take that action if both of the following conditions are true: a) the action's effects are limited to changing values tracked in the GNDT and/or similar gamestate-tracking entities (such as a wiki page), and b) the action would change one or more of those values to an illegal value.
• If a rule implies that the result of any calculation should be an integer (for instance, by attempting to store that result in, or add it to, a gamestate variable that can only hold integers), the result of the calculation is instead the result rounded towards 0.
• If a number or other game variable is selected 'at random' or 'randomly' from a range of possible values, its value shall always be taken from a uniform probability distribution over the entire range of possible values, unless otherwise specified.
• If a game variable has no defined starting value for new Investors, or for existing Investors upon the variable’s creation, then that starting value is zero (for numerical variables) or blank (for a text string or list).

Rules and Proposals

• If a new rule is created by a proposal and its location is not noted in that proposal, that new rule is to be placed in the Dynastic Rules.
• Where a Proposal would amend the effects of Proposal Enactment, this does not apply to its own enactment unless explicitly stated (eg. a proposal proposing that enacted proposals earn their author a banana when enacted would not earn a banana for its own author, when enacted).
• Rules which trigger upon the Enactment or Failure of a Proposal are the responsibility of the Admin who Enacts or Fails it.

Time

• For the purpose of all rules, time in Blognomic is in GMT.
• All references to time must be either specific or defined within the ruleset to be considered achievable in the gamestate. Abstract concepts of time (e.g. "dinnertime", "twilight") cannot be achieved until they fulfil one of these criteria.
• Where the month, day and/or year of a calendar date are ambiguous (eg. "04/10/09"), it shall be assumed that the date is in a day/month/year format.

Spelling

• Superficial differences between the spelling of geographic versions of English, e.g, British English, American English and Australian English shall be construed as irrelevant for the purposes of play.

Names

• Within the ruleset, a word only refers to the name of an Investor if it is explicitly stated that it refers to an Investor's name.