Also OOC: Chancery is embassy grounds, as an HAI video mentioned at least once.
All chanceries are to be located in the city of Prosperidad. We can currently guarantee multiple locations less than a kilometer walk North of downtown and less than a kilometer walk Northeast of Capitol Hill. Said locations will most likely be less than six stories tall and will have, at most, two layers of basement, but vary in size as necessary to meet local needs. Despite sharing walls with other buildings, the inter-unit walls are rienforced and soundproofed.
Ambassadors-at-large may utilise residential units in Downtown or elsewhere in the city, although said suite won't count as a chancery. Particularly small embassies may also rent office space in Downtown, and will enjoy the protections of a chancery while doing so, but they will not be permitted to have automobiles at the embassy site.
Diplomatic immunity rules:Spouses and children of an ambassador have diplomatic immunity extended to them. Our databases are unable to recognise marriages with more than 256 total participants, and we refuse to recognise involuntary marriages, but we'll recognise any other foreign marriages of diplomatic/consular personell, and diplomatic immunity will be extended to spouses. In addition, children of an Ambassador or Consular-General will have immunity extended to them until eighteen years of age.
Subject May be arrested/detained Residence may be entered with warrant May be issued traffic ticket/driver sanctions May be subpoenaed as witness May be prosecuted Ambassador or equivelant Only for vehicle offenses No Yes No Only for Vehicle offenses Member of embassy administrative or technical staff Only for vehicle offenses No Yes No Only for vehicle offenses Member of embassy service staff Yes Yes Yes Yes Only for nonofficial acts and vehicle offenses Career consular officers Yes, for felonies and vehicle offenses yes yes Not for official acts, otherwise yes Only for nonofficial acts and vehicle offenses Honorary consular officers Yes Yes Yes Not for official acts, otherwise yes Only for nonofficial acts and vehicle offenses Consular Employee Yes Yes Yes Not for official acts, otherwise yes Only for nonofficial acts and vehicle offenses
While we can't force you to waive immunity, we urge you to do so in the case of incidents involving a motor vehicle causing injury or death. Being arrested will save you from lynch mobs, and it will minimise public hatred of the country you represent.
Failure to be present for a trial pertaining to murder or vehicle offenses will likely result in persona non grata status.
Juansonian forces will not enter a chancery or consular office unless invited or allowed entry by the nation which controls said embassy or consulate.
All weapons and vehicles must be declared in an embassy application form, unless you are hiring local security forces.
Security staff limited to 60, and may not exceed the total amount of non-security personnel. However, those limits can be waived on a case-by-case basis, usually in exchange for something else.
Security is permitted the following weapons types with only standard restrictions:
- knives, under 1 foot in length. May be fixed-blade, manual pocketknife, automatic, or a gravity/inertia opening system.
- Batons (collapsible or fixed)
- Swords, sabres, and rapiers, which can be wielded somewhat effectively with one hand
- spears, staff, taiaha, and similar weapons
- archery gear which can easily be carried
- TASER X-26 or equivalent
- Pepper spray or gel equivalent
- firearms with a caliber less than or equal to 12.7 mm (includes automatics, ask about anything belt-fed)
- Shotguns (includes automatics)
The following types of weapons are prohibited:
- nuclear and radiological weapons of any sort
- biological weapons of any sort
- chemical weapons, with the exception of irritants normally used for police purposes
- any fixed emplacements designed so the weapon can be fired while anchored into the ground or onto a vehicle
- Any gun or cannon with a caliber larger than 40mm
Ask about any weapons not on either list.
Vehicles: Juansonia has regulated personal automobiles in a manner comparable to a ban. An exemption will be granted for ambassadors, consul-general, and security vehicles, but all other staff must use non-automobile transportation. Said drivers must apply for, and earn, a Juansonian driver's license. Even with an exemption, driving may be very inconvenient, so it is recommended that embassies and consulates keep bicycles on site for official use. All ambassadors, Consular officers, and embassy staff/employees will receive unlimited-use transit passes for the city their office is located in. Automobile and security parking will, in most arrangements, use shared parking protected by Guardia Civil Prosperidad.
vehicles may be lightly armored, but obvious heavy armor is likely to be denied. Turrets are right out.
Juansonia may deny an embassy request for any or no reason, and is obliged only to indicate denial after evaluation is complete.
If an ambassador, officer, or staff member is declared persona non grata, if a chancery or consular office is deemed unwelcome, or if diplomatic relations are deemed unwelcome, immunity and location soveriegnty will remain for the following durations, assuming near-instant communication and multiple flights per day:
- One Persona Non Grata - 24 hours
- Over half of diplomatic staff (total or in one chancery or office) deemed persona non grata - 48 hours
- Full staff of one location deemed persona non grata - 60 hours
- Full dissolution of diplomatic relations - 72 hours
from the office of Patrica Manuelita Rivas-Meléndez, Secretary of State
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[u]Diplomatic Information[/u]
[b]Full name of nation(as you want it to be listed):[/b]
[b]Head of State:[/b]
[b]Head of Government(if not head of state):[/b]
[b]Minister of foreign affairs or equivelant:[/b]
[b]Ideology(optional):[/b]
[b]Economic System(optional):[/b]
[b]State religion(optional)L[/b]
[u]Ambassadorial Information[/u]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]gender(optional)[/b]
[b]Spose(s):[/b]
[b]Child(ren) under 18:[/b]
[b]medical or security issues:[/b]
[b]Will the ambassador apply for a Juansonian automobile license?:[/b]
[u]Staff information[/u]
[b]Amount of administrative staff:[/b]
[b]Amount of service staff:[/b]
[b]Amount of security staff(brought or hired):[/b]
[b]Estimated amount of security contractor staff:[/b]
[b]Number and type of weapons(not including PSCs):[/b]
[b]Number and type of vehicles:[/b]
[u]Miscellany[/u]
[b]Do you request a full chancery, in-downtown offices, or to simply have an ambassador-at-large?:[/b]
[b]Any special requests concerning the chancery:[/b]
[b]Any other special requests:[/b]
[b]Do you want Juansonia to apply for an embassy in return?:[/b]
[b]Declare all plants and animals that will enter Juansonia upon establishment of this embassy:[/b]
[b]Does your nation have a policy of harming or killing visitors on the basis of race, religion, sex, gender, species, sexual orientation, political beliefs, or any other arbitrary or reductive charicteristic?[/b]
[b]If so, do said policies apply to those who visit an embassy of your nation?[/b]
