The Pennington Protocols for Economic Cooperation and Free Trade, colloquially known alternatively as the Valle Crucis Free Trade Agreement or simply The Pennington Protocols, is a standing bilateral agreement between the City-State Valle Crucis and the many signatory states bound through international law to the recognition of the mandate contained therein.
It was the product of five years' worth of negotiations and legislation in the city's parliament, the National Council of Valle Crucis (NCVC), led by Councilmember John Pennington (1897 - 1979). The Protocols became binding law on January 1st, 1975 CE.
The Protocols govern the parameters for participation in the Valle Crucis Free Trade Zone.
THEPROTOCOLS
1.) The sovereignty of the City-State Valle Crucis shall be recognized henceforth by all signatories. The sponsorship of this Protocol in the legal tradition of the signatory party or state requires the signing body to recognize the legal claim of sovereignty initiated by the governing body of the City-State Valle Crucis. Signatories will agree to recognize the Government of the City-State Valle Crucis as the legitimate ruling body of the territorial purview adjoined to its custody, and will further acknowledge the right of the Government of the City-State Valle Crucis to exercise legal authority over said purview in accordance with standing international law.
2.) The purview of the City-State Valle Crucis shall not be infringed upon via punitive action. The sponsorship of this Protocol in the legal tradition of the signatory party or state requires the signing body to refrain from any activity of an economic, military or otherwise-political nature that is implicitly designed to cause punitive damage to the territory under the authority of the sovereign Government of the City-State Valle Crucis. This measure shall prescribe the following activities as a violation of the Protocol, and a forfeiture of any benefits granted therein:
4.) The materiel interests of the City-State Valle Crucis shall not be subjected to extrajudicial action. The sponsorship of this Protocol in the legal tradition of the signatory party or state requires the signing body to refrain from unlawfully detaining or injuring Valle Crucian nationals, or otherwise-impeding their free and legal movement through the territorial purview of the signatory party (in accordance with the laws and customs of said signatory party) via extrajudicial means. This provision shall be extended to include the full and customary diplomatic rights of marked diplomats of the Government of the City-State Valle Crucis, in accordance with recognized international law on the treatment of state actors exercising agency on behalf of their respective governments.
5.) Concurring signatory parties shall be granted immediate access to the Valle Crucis Free Trade Zone. The acknowledgement of the signatory party to enact legal remedies in concordance with the Protocols stated hitherto shall grant said party immediate access to the Valle Crucis Free Trade Zone. Access to this special economic zone shall encompass the following parameters, as established in the canon of commercial and financial law by the Pennington Act of 1973 through the legislative efforts of the National Council of Valle Crucis:
7.) These protocols shall take full legal effect at 12:01 AM VST on January 1st, 1975 CE. Signatories to the Protocols shall be afforded full rights and privileges acknowledged hitherto under the 1975 agreement, unless otherwise amended prior to the accordance struck between the City-State Valle Crucis and the signatory party.
2.) The purview of the City-State Valle Crucis shall not be infringed upon via punitive action. The sponsorship of this Protocol in the legal tradition of the signatory party or state requires the signing body to refrain from any activity of an economic, military or otherwise-political nature that is implicitly designed to cause punitive damage to the territory under the authority of the sovereign Government of the City-State Valle Crucis. This measure shall prescribe the following activities as a violation of the Protocol, and a forfeiture of any benefits granted therein:
- Any hostile incursion into the territorial waters or sovereign airspace of the city-state's legal purview.
- Any attempt to gain illicit access to the infrastructure or flagged interests of the city-state electronically.
- Any unduly levied diplomatic, economic or political sanctions against the city-state or its citizenry.
- Any measure to blockade, which obstructs the free flow of people and goods to and from the city-state.
- Any faculty offered to other nations or entities in support of the above-listed conditions.
4.) The materiel interests of the City-State Valle Crucis shall not be subjected to extrajudicial action. The sponsorship of this Protocol in the legal tradition of the signatory party or state requires the signing body to refrain from unlawfully detaining or injuring Valle Crucian nationals, or otherwise-impeding their free and legal movement through the territorial purview of the signatory party (in accordance with the laws and customs of said signatory party) via extrajudicial means. This provision shall be extended to include the full and customary diplomatic rights of marked diplomats of the Government of the City-State Valle Crucis, in accordance with recognized international law on the treatment of state actors exercising agency on behalf of their respective governments.
5.) Concurring signatory parties shall be granted immediate access to the Valle Crucis Free Trade Zone. The acknowledgement of the signatory party to enact legal remedies in concordance with the Protocols stated hitherto shall grant said party immediate access to the Valle Crucis Free Trade Zone. Access to this special economic zone shall encompass the following parameters, as established in the canon of commercial and financial law by the Pennington Act of 1973 through the legislative efforts of the National Council of Valle Crucis:
- All duties and associated fees shall be waived for commercial vessels berthing at marked seaports owned and operated by the Government of the City-State Valle Crucis. The movement of commercial planes in and out of marked airports owned and operated by the Government of the City-State Valle Crucis shall not be impeded.
- Commercial goods and associated materiel lawfully allowed within the territorial purview of the City-State Valle Crucis shall not be subjected to tariffs or other levies upon entering or leaving the country.
- Citizens or other marked nationals of the signatory party shall be granted automatic work visas and temporary residency status when contracted or hired to fulfill employment within the purview of the city-state.
- Preferential treatment shall be extended to signatory parties when engaging in commercial activities with any business that is owned or in likewise manner subsidized by the Government of the City-State Valle Crucis.
7.) These protocols shall take full legal effect at 12:01 AM VST on January 1st, 1975 CE. Signatories to the Protocols shall be afforded full rights and privileges acknowledged hitherto under the 1975 agreement, unless otherwise amended prior to the accordance struck between the City-State Valle Crucis and the signatory party.
THESIGNATORIES
The Honorable Councilmember Edward J. Symmes
Chancellor of the National Council of Valle Crucis
The Honorable Councilmember Eryn S. Cadan
Vice Chancellor of the National Council of Valle Crucis
The Honorable Representative John M. Lorenzen
Commerce Minister of the City-State Valle Crucis
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