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Next Generation Network Alliance Officially Releases DAGK Protocol to the Public

VERINTENO - The NGNA, a joint committee of the Duxburian Central Bank and Federal Blockchain Alliance, has now launched their highly advanced DAGK 1.0 consensus protocol. Programmed by world-renowned computer science experts Grandmaster Brandeus Devoy, Grandmaster Andres Marian, and Master Kade Nelson, DAGK utilizes much higher mathematical algorithms than previous partially-synchronus, directed acrylic graph of blocks protocols such as LINK X and Ripple X.

The permissionless, paramaterless protocol's transaction ordering logic is agnostic to its network latency, enabling it to scale to the size of the hardware that runs it, rendering its transactions-per-second cap theoretically infinite. DAGK's capabilities are limited only by the speed, size, and power of the internet itself. The protocol can finalize some closer transactions at speeds under 50 milliseconds vs the 2-5 second window of the older Ripple X network.

DAGK is published as an open source specification that anyone may use free for any purpose. The Duxburian government and financial sector plan on implementing a closed-source version of the protocol for payments processing by the end of the year, while some smaller credit alliances may be up and running with it far sooner.

The FBA will now deprecate the LINK X network, although as a decentralized specification, any entity running it may continue to run it indefinitely.

The Union of Duxburian Dominions always welcomes more competition in payment processing. We tried this in the past with the Eurocard idea, but it didn't gain traction as councillors did not want to use a private contractor. In the time since then, payment processing has really advanced with mobile pay, direct ID card pay, Ripple X, BDAG, and now the cutting edge DAGK protocol. In order to be successful, EuroPay needs to have the flexibility to change and adapt with such massive leaps in technological sophistication. Payments, especially inter-bank, are no longer linear transmissions of money, they are massively parallel transmissions of asset-agnostic, platform-agnostic data. The idea of a consumer-facing retail bank itself is on the cusp of becoming obsolete.

Most of the proposed act does seem to account for changes in technology that would keep the network relevant. That said, I agree that the new technologies clause could be struck since it shouldn't limit itself to anything specific, plus if the network needs updating, it'll just get updated, enumerating such is unnecessary. Councillor Tilkanas holds a very outdated view of what the crypto world actually is these days, but that's a debate for some other act and some other time.

I agree with striking the sanctions clause. My government still holds sanctions as a step akin to declaring war with prejudice, and as it expects full military retaliation for any sanctions issued...it will simply never agree to issue any.

The Union of Duxburian Dominions lacks a conventional "chargeback" system since that would interfere with the infinite outbound scalability of the DAGK protocol, however, the clause allows for refunds to be issued as separate transactions so nothing needs to be amended there.

Chip and pin is far too antiquated to use, but again we don't need an amendment with how it's worded.

I do want to propose some minor amendments:

Amendment Four:
Change all references of "banks" to "financial institutions".

Amendment Five:
V.The network shall be funded by a percentage of transaction payment processing fee up to a cap and per card card issuing an origination fee charged to issuing financial institutions banks for every physical card tradeline number issued on the EuroPay network.

Physical cards aren't really a thing anymore and banks are not the only entities that may be authorized to originate cards, so these clauses should have more flexibility. It's important to note that a "tradeline number" does not include one-time use virtual privacy numbers or the user-changeable numbers on modern card accounts that don't have default card numbers baked in. A tradeline number is the overarching identifier for whatever form their core "card" takes and the fee only needs to be paid again when that overarching "card" needs to be re-issued.

Everything else about the act seems fine to me.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

Nik Asgard amte primo mani, Master-General of Land

Nik Asgard finally arrived in Europolis after sailing across the strait and then taking various public transit to reach the city. It took forever and made him arrive later than other dignitaries, but gotta practice what you preach, right? Of course, he had help from random people who recognized him not as a government official, but as a rare descendant of the first men of Azrekko. There was no hiding his visual heritage - the skin complexion of the greatest of all men who built the ancient Azrekkian world with nothing but their hands. Nik's heritage had already helped him become a huge hit among the rural Duxburians he needed to connect with as the new Master-General of Land, the Duxburian equivalent of a Ministry of Interior. Rural Duxburians, so hard for most government officials to reach and understand, practically revered the first men as the ultimate "masculine tough guys" of the desert, and thus they embraced Nik as one of their own despite being young and pretty ordinary all things considered. He alone could persuade them to do various things that liberal nanny men couldn't make them do, and that is why the government had decided to send him to the environmental conference over other, more well-known Duxburians.

However, Nik was far from any kind of tough guy in Europolis, shivering in the temperate air. Gawd, this place was soooooooooo fucking cold. Nik hailed from one of the hottest places on earth, the Valley of the Sun, which sat well below sea level in far southeastern Azrekko. According to legend, the Sun Kings of Azrekko built a forbidden city in the inhospitable valley for safely storing the gold reserve of their kingdom. While the forbidden city did indeed exist, and continues to exist due to an oasis (the invention of air conditioning helped too), the treasury was lost and never found, remaining one of the great mysteries of the country. Nik's Asgard bloodline never managed to leave this place, thus he was born to tolerate its scorching weather.

Layers, layers! Nik put on another jacket. One of the reasons he was here was concern that the climate was warming too rapidly, but now he wasn't so sure! He also didn't expect much from the conference. He was unlikely to see eye-to-eye with the rest of Europe on things like ICE vehicles (when gasoline still cost less than water), or preventing the spread of agriculture (with some of the largest food-producing regions of anywhere), and especially the continued lack of any real transition plan for workers and skills. However, the modern Duxburian Union wasn't all that far away from the European nanny libs in many categories like energy generation and recycling, so signing a deal was a very real possibility. Either way, it was worth his time. If nobody acted, his home of thousands of years would become uninhabitably hot, the desert could expand, and the food supply could be threatened.

Nik briefed his translator on what he planned to talk about. He could technically speak 4 languages fluently on his own, but his 2 best were ancient ones and his English came with an accent some thousands of years older than English itself that probably made it almost unintelligible to native speakers. Ah, the joys of coming from such an isolated time capsule of a place.

It would soon be time to meet the nanny libs and hear what wild ideas they have this go-around...

On behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote AGAINST thia act.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

On behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote AGAINST the act.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

On behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote as follows:

Nuclear Seat:
| Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of the United Kingdom
|| President Alberto Núñez Feijóo of the Kingdom of Spain

Non-Nuclear Seat:
| Prime Minister Elizabeth Íkrat of the Republic of Istkalen
|| Prime Minister John Peter Key of the United Duchies

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

Candidate Name: Vincent Drake am Weisshaupt
Home Nation: Union of Duxburian Dominions
Office(s) sought: Foreign Affairs Commissioner
Incumbent? (Y/N): No
Eurogroup Affiliation: None

Biography: Not much is known about Vincent Drake's early life, education, or civilian career, as most records are sealed under a national security court order.

He has served 7 years in the Order of the Grey Wardens, a military organization dedicated to defending vulnerable regions throughout the world from invasion. A true workhorse, his military career includes over 11,000 defenses and over 450 liberations. He has also been instrumental in protecting the European Union from external foes and holds the Order of Merit for these actions.

Drake has both political and military relationships with leadership and command in many of the world's most powerful and influential regions. He is known to be a linguistic polyglot with a deep understanding of numerous foreign cultures and their laws.

On behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote as follows:

For the Office of Premier Commissioner:
| Akem LINEK
|| Sofie ČIKAROVÁ
||| Ricarda SCHMITZ

For the Office of Internal Affairs Commissioner:
| Wirt HARLAND

For the Office of Foreign Affairs Commissioner:
| Tomáš KREJČÍ

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

On behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote AGAINST the amendment.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

On behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote AGAINST the act.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

On behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote FOR all amendments.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

The Duxburian government has issues with the act as written, but they are amendable, so here's a list of things that need to be reworked before we could support it:

Amendment 1:

I. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ): an area of the ocean, extending 200 nautical miles beyond a nation's territorial sea, within which a coastal nation has jurisdiction over both living and nonliving resources.

III. EU member states are required to share data about the sealife inside their EEZs and territorial waters.

Duxburian naval doctrine compels us to oppose the very concept of EEZs itself. These waters so far from a member state's land borders cannot be defended on a permanent and constant basis, thus nobody owns them. The EU however, is welcome to regulate such waters. Simply striking EEZs ensures Duxburian support for the act and avoids my government throwing a temper tantrum, which it has a literal exponentially greater capacity to throw compared to others out there. I'd love to just not have to deal with that.

Amendment 2:

I. Fishing Licenses

A) All individuals and companies commercial vessels of any length and recreational vessels over 6 meters in length engaged in fishing within the waters of the European Union must obtain a fishing license from the government. The license is required for all types of fishing, including commercial and recreational fishing.

In my country, vessels are licensed, not people. It's really the vessel that gets inspected, carries the equipment, does the fishing, has the quotas, etc..so it's the vessel that really needs the license, not the crew or owner. Individual licenses are impractical in an industry where crews may shift each trip and owners can have many different vessels flagged of different countries. The lack of an individual mandate does not stop a member state from imposing that on their own territorial waters, if they so desire, however.

The reason I added recreational over 6 meters is acknowledgment that large recreational boats are capable of a lot of fishing, but also that there is a threshold below which it's not worth the cost to regulate. The Duxburian government simply isn't going to demand personal fishing kayaks be licensed, nor will it go after 2 people casting off the stern of a sunfish craft, nor will it stop kids or one-off day trippers and demand to see their licenses. We don't have this level of control over our society, nor the funding, and it's silly and unrealistic to expect this.

Amendment 3:

III. Total Allowable Catches (TAC)

A) The EMO establishes quotas for each species of fish that can be caught within a certain time frame. The quota is based on scientific studies of the fish population and sustainability. The license holder licensed vessel is allowed to catch a specific amount of fish within the quota limit.
B) The TACs shall be divided into quotas that shall be allocated to license holders licensed vessels based on a fair and transparent process. The quotas shall be determined based on factors such as the size of the vessel, the fishing history of the license holder vessel, and the sustainable fishing practices employed.
C) Quotas may be transferred between licensed vessels if the following conditions are met:
1. The transfer is documented in writing between the original intended vessel and receiving vessel.
2. The EMO is formally notified by both parties of the transfer in writing.
3. The transfer would not bring the receiving vessel above its capacity limit.
4. The receiving vessel has the required gear and is capable of performing the required methods to catch the receiving species.
5. The receiving vessel's license is in good standing and is not restricted or otherwise sanctioned.

I share Councillor Mizrachi-Roscoe's concerns about bycatch waste - in an inflexible system, a quota-fearing captain will jettison otherwise good fish overboard dead. I thought about establishing quota ranges rather than hard quotas, but ended up leaving in hard quotas and going for a system that actual fishers use already - transferable quotas. If you have significant bycatch of a species you can't legally land, you just trade part of your unused quota for some other species with another boat for part of theirs. Fishing is a tight-knit industry, captains know each other and trade these quotas often to cover their bycatches. I set a bunch of conditions that prevent abuse of trading.

The rest of Councillor Mizrachi-Roscoe's amendment doesn't work, as there are legitimate reasons to get rid of dead fish, such as disease or contamination. Likewise, clause D is too broad and would ban all fishing for any species during any breeding season for any other species. Fish species breed at different times, there is always something breeding at any given time. Closed seasons should be very specifically targeted when possible and closures shouldn't affect other species when possible.

Amendment 4:

B) The government shall conduct regular inspections of all commercial fishing vessels boats and recreational fishing vessels over 6 meters in length to ensure compliance with the capacity limits. These inspections shall include checks on the boat's registration, equipment, and overall condition.

C) License holders Owners must report any changes in their boat's vessel's capacity, such as upgrades or modifications, to the government. Failure to do so may result in penalties.

Again, the Duxburian government is just not gonna inspect kayaks, canoes, personal cruisers, small center console powerboats, and other such small recreational craft.

Amendment 5:

II. If an individual or a company is found fishing without a valid fishing license, they shall be subject to fines. any commercial fishing vessel or recreational fishing vessel over 6 meters in length is found fishing without a valid fishing license onboard or on-file, it shall be subject to fines or penalties.
III. If any fishing gear is found to be non-compliant with the sustainable gear standards, the license holder owner must replace the gear with sustainable gear that meets the standards within a specified time frame.
IV. If a license holder licensed vessel uses non-compliant fishing gear, they shall be subject to penalties, including fines or suspension of the fishing license penalties. Repeat offenders may face more severe penalties, including suspension of or revocation of their fishing license.
V. If a license holder licensed vessel exceeds their allocated quota, inclusive of quotas obtained by transfer, they shall be subject to fines or penalties ,including fines or suspension of the fishing license. Repeat offenders may face more severe penalties, including suspension of or revocation of their fishing license.
VI. If a fishing boat licensed vessel is found to be operating above its capacity limit, the license holder licensed vessel shall be subject to fines or penalties ,including fines or suspension of the fishing license. Repeat offenders may face more severe penalties, including suspension of or revocation of their fishing license.
VII. If a license holder licensed vessel is found to be fishing within a closed area or during a closed season, inclusive of quotas obtained by transfer, they shall be subject to fines or penalties ,including fines or suspension of the fishing license. Repeat offenders may face more severe penalties, including suspension of or revocation of their fishing license.

This amendment reworks the section for licenses by vessel and applies better consistency to fines or penalties for first offenses, with suspension or revocation possible for repeat offenses. No one is getting suspended for a first offense, that's just silly.

This is another place where fishing licenses by individual doesn't work. If the gear doesn't meet standard, who has to replace it? "The license holder" you mean the owner? What if the owner is a public company? What if it's more than one company? A rental operator? The captain? Anyone on the crew? They're all license holders under the unamended act.

Amendment 6:

I. All member states of the European Union are required to harmonize their national law(s) with this Act within six months one year of time from its approval by the European Council.

This act needs more time for compliance. The required minimum gear is all in units of measurement my country does not use, so we will have to re-inspect literally every commercial and recreational ship of size to convert the gear. Marian and metric units are directly convertable base 10 to base 10, but it's still a pain in the ass when new limits are slight adjustments that have to be made everywhere. We are fine with this since units have to be in something and the rest of the world doesn't use ours, but we need time to do that.

Amendment 7:

Replace all mentions of "boat" or "fishing boat" with "vessel" and replace any uncaught mentions of "license holder" to "licensed vessel".

My predecessor was a stickler for consistency and I guess our legal system has caused me to become one as well. It's also worth noting that not everything that fishes is a "boat" and that does matter from a legal perspective. Duxburian courts go strictly by what's written and won't give you even a mark of wiggle room on intent.

Anything not addressed by an amendment is something the Union of Duxburian Dominions is otherwise fine with.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

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Councillor-General Wesley Greene's First European Act Passes Unanimously, Greene Sees Bump in Popularity

Councillor-General Greene's Harmonized Tariff Systems Code Act passed the European Council today by a unanimous vote of 7-0. The Act standardizes product codes for use in international trade. This popular Act was overwhelmingly supported by Customs inspectors, whose jobs may become easier and more seamless under the new system. Duxburian businesses also widely supported the Act, particularly in port cities.

The rare piece of legislation boosted Greene's approval rating from 54% to 59%. His approval ratings have mostly hovered in the 50s and 60s since appointment, but were on a gradual eroding trend recently. Greene has never dipped below 50%.

Now that Greene has succeeded in passing his first Act, some analysts believe he is primed to try another one sooner rather than later. "Success begets more success, especially when you've found wide, non-partisan support," said Petyr Alaan, a political analyst for Nemeiro. "I see this as a major leap of confidence for him on the European stage. He delayed introducing any bill for years due to youth and lack of confidence, but with that in the rear view window, he's likely to explore what's really possible."

Nemeiro polling also found that pro-European Union sentiment in Azrekko rose from 6% to 10% with the passage of the Act. While a whopping 90% of the city still opposes the EU, this is a significant trend reversal and the only positive increase there in many years.

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Federal Blockchain Alliance Unveils Next Generation LINK X Network

The Federal Blockchain Alliance led by Kade Nelson am Azrekko officially launched its brand new LINK X network at a press conference in the City of Verinteno today.

LINK X is a cutting edge, oracle network capable of securely onboarding and offboarding assets between different blockchains and payment networks.

"LINK X applies GHOSTDAG block parallelization principles to chains themselves, resulting in absolutely stupid scaling potential at-speed. This is now easily the highest throughput payment network on earth, capable of millions of transactions per second," explained Nelson. "Where you used to have to hook up to a bunch of different solutions for asset transfers, and of varying speeds, now you can hook up to the LINK X API and send anything anywhere in massive volume."

Verinteno will be the home of the FBA and its LINK X engineers going forward. "There are a lot of attractive places we could have homeported the network, especially out in Azrekko where they are making serious moves in blockchain. However, Verinteno is the heart and soul of the Duxburian financial system, so it makes the most sense to set up shop there," Nelson said. "Having LINK X will make Verinteno the most competitively forward-looking financial center in Europe. I am excited to keep innovating in this space!"

With the implementation of LINK X, the older Ripple X protocol is scheduled to be sunset by the Duxburian government and financial system by the end of the year. Current users of Ripple X will continue to be able to use the old protocol indefinitely, as it is decentralized and can't be shutdown.

On behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote FOR the act.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

Duxburian sentiment is split, so on behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions, I vote FOR Amendments I and III regardless of their contradictory nature, and against Amendment II.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

I vote on behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions as follows:

For the Office of Premier Commissioner
I Jean-Claude JUNCKER

For the Office of Internal Affairs Commissioner
I Wirt HARLAND

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

Statement on European Elections

The Domain of Elections regrets to announce that European Commission elections in the Union of Duxburian Dominions are temporarily suspended due to catastrophic drops in turnout below 5% in the previous election and below 5% projected in the current cycle.

The cost to hold a nationwide election can exceed half a billion kaels and the Domain of Elections cannot justify the expense for this type of election at these turnout levels.

Until projected turnout returns to acceptable levels above 5%, the Councillor-General is hereby empowered to cast European Commission votes on behalf of the Union of Duxburian Dominions.

All funds not spent during the suspension will be applied to future elections. In accordance with the Duxburian Constitution, all other types of nationwide elections will continue to be held regardless of turnout considerations.

Signed

Ian Demonevs
Master-General of Elections

Erik Drammen am Rike
Master-General of State

With approval of

Dante Maximillian
Steward of the Duxburian Union

Councillor Miwako, yes, when classifications overlap, that would be arbitrated with the ETSO. The master schedule is really just a big database with the HS codes as primary keys, so a lot of data can be associated with them, including multiple national codes. Some conflicts involving member states might not need arbitration, instructions on how they handle various code situations could be added to the code entry itself.

Councillor James Mizrachi-Roscoe, since national standards for accessibility can vary wildly, I intentionally made that section about outcomes rather than processes. The text doesn't care how a member state makes the things accessible as long as they do. Whether your own implementation complies is up to your own courts. As for moving to 8 digits over 6, I don't really see a need since the origin of goods is not always a clear-cut decision and isn't necessary for every single good. Imagine having a giant cargo ship enter a port - its manifest can tell you where all of its goods came from. There could be hundreds of thousands or even millions of items on that ship - each one needing to include origin would just be a waste of time.

Councillor Čikarová, I'm hesitant to declare a hard count of executive staff because it could end up being too many or too little people. International trade gets complicated in a hurry and the body would have a better understanding of its needs than I ever could. As far as how staff end up there, the IAC is envisioned to fill out the executive ranks with appointments and then they hire the rest of the team from there. I come from a common law country where once you vest appointment authority in a person, they are naturally understood to also have the power to modify and terminate such employment, it need not be stated. The IAC would decide when executives should be replaced and country of origin was not a consideration to me since it's not a political/representative institution, but a meritocratic one. If you still want to make an amendment specifying term limits and national representation, I wouldn't oppose it though.

In Section III.4, it's implied that since those resources are all developed and maintained by the ETSO, the ETSO would be providing them.

My apologizies for the lack of consistency in Section IV, that was lifted off a previous act late at night and not checked for consistency. They should all be member states, although I don't understand the difference between having a hyphen or not. That's something I'm unfamiliar with as English is not my native language.

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union

Harmonized Tariff System Codes Act

Written by Councillor-General Wesley Greene

Preamble:
This Act establishes a standardized, numerical product classification system to faciliate international trade.

This act does not:
-Establish or mandate any trade policies or trade zones
-Change the status of any national tariffs, taxes, duties, or other fees.
-Modify the legal or illegal status of any goods
-Require completely replacing national classification systems

Section I: Harmonized Tariff System Codes

1. All types of goods for import and/or export from European member-states shall be classified on a Master Schedule of Goods (MSG), sorted into chapters, sections, and sub-sections.
2. Each good shall be assigned a universal 6 digit Harmonized System (HS) code number.
3. Each HS code number shall consist of 2 digits denoting its chapter, 2 digits denoting its section, and 2 digits denoting its sub-section.
   a. Member States may append additional digits to HS code numbers for internal purposes.
   b. Member States may add their own existing national classification code numbers into the MSG, to be used, referenced, and generated alongside HS code numbers.
4. It may be possible for a single type of good to have multiple valid HS code number options.
   a. Member States shall decide how multiple valid matches are to be treated within their jurisdictions.
   b. Member States shall decide how mixed derivative goods, unclassified goods, and other special/unusual circumstances are to be treated within their jurisdictions.

Section II: European Trade Standards Organization

1. This act creates the European Trade Standards Organization (ETSO) for the purposes of operating the Harmonized Tariff System Code system. The ETSO shall:
   a. Manage HS code numbers classifications and the Master Schedule of Goods.
   b. Develop, maintain, update, host, and disseminate software and hardware for manual and automated uses of HS code numbers.
   c. Assist, educate, and train system users.
   c. Arbitrate user disputes involving HS code number classifications.

2. The European Trade Standards Organization shall be comprised of:
   a. Executive staff, appointed by the European Internal Affairs Commissioner (IAC).
   b. Classification staff, whom must be qualified legal experts
   c. Programming staff, whom must be qualified technical experts
   d. Arbitration staff, whom must be qualified legal experts

Section III: Accessibility

1. Harmonized System code numbers shall be encodable and decodable as bar codes, QR codes, and other standard formats.
   a. Encoding and decoding devices shall support vision-impaired and hearing-impaired users
   b. Member States may use their own pre-existing equipment if it can support encoding/decoding the HS code numbers.
2. The Master Schedule of Goods and HS code numbers shall be uploadable/downloadable and/or importable/exportable to/from national customs and border control systems, shipping software, shipping manifests, tax software, and other systems of trade, using manual and automated methods.
3. HS code numbers shall be seamlessly convertable to and from major national languages and numeric systems, by automated and electronic methods where feasible.
4. The MSG, HS code numbers, and associated software shall be provided to users free of charge.

Section IV: Implementation

1. All Member States of the European Union are required to harmonize their national law(s) with this act within 1 year from its approval by the European Council.

Members of the European Council, I come before you today with my vision for a harmonized tariff code system that standardizes how we classify goods in the EU. Like the European Highway Numbering Act, this system is designed to be minimally intrusive, making it easier to trade without stepping on any nation's sovereignty to regulate their own imports and exports. Having standardized codes helps shippers, customs agents, brokers, and all manner of other trading partners quickly identify what kind of goods they are dealing with, so they can apply the correct tariffs, taxes, duties, or lack thereof on the goods.

Ideally, this system could be so seamless that local importers and exporters don't even have to know that they are generating European standard codes when they label goods. I envision a shipper typing the manifest in their own native language, even their own native numeric system, as software automatically converts it into European standards for customs inspectors. Likewise, the end party need not understand the label, only scan it to convert the information to their national standards in their own language. When it comes to the desire for standards and sovereignty, this implementation lets us have our proverbial cake and eat it, too.

This is a very well-thought out system that took a lot of constitutent feedback to create. However, there could always be some concern I may have overlooked, so please let me know what you think!

Wesley Greene
Councillor-General of the Duxburian Union