Treaty

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Treaties

Diplomatic treaties are bilateral agreements between two countries. They contain one or more articles – commitments from either party – which are binding for a specified period of time. Parties to a treaty can also renegotiate or withdraw from it after it is initially ratified. When an offer is received, it is possible to send a counter-offer. When signed, it will be agreed how long the treaty is binding for.

The possible options are 5, 10, 15, 25 or 99 years. It is possible to withdraw from a treaty, before the binding period has expired, but doing so incur infamy, loss of relations and establish a truce between the two countries. Once the binding period has run out, either party can withdraw freely. If neither party chooses to do so, the agreement will continue until one part does. Alternatively, a treaty can be enforced by the enforce treaty war goal.

When a treaty is signed, a party can propose to change the content, which if the other party agrees to it, then takes effect instead. If the other party declines the renegotiated treaty, the existing treaty will continue uninterrupted. When a renegotiated treaty is signed, a new binding period will be agreed upon, which takes precedence. This can potentially also lower the binding period of an existing treaty.

Obligations can be used to sway the other side or be demanded for signing a treaty.

Articles

Articles are the core part of treaties that define what they actually do. Articles have a few different classifications. On a fundamental level, articles can be either mutual or directional. This indicates whether the article is something that affects both sides equally or not. An example mutual article is an alliance: both sides are involved equally. On the other hand, transfer goods is a directional article: one side (the source) is sending the goods and the other (the target) is receiving them. Directional articles can be proposed by either party, specifying either themself or the other country as the source or target of the article.

Most articles have an  influence cost for one or both of the parties.

Some articles have required inputs and others do not. Transfer goods requires specifiying the actual transferred goods as well as the amount transferred.

Non-fulfillment

When a treaty is broken, one of two things happens depending on what articles are not being fulfilled: if it is a serious breach, like not answering the call of an alliance, that breaks the whole treaty and the party at fault receives all the penalties tied to an early withdrawal – if the treaty is binding.

For less serious breaches, the other side of the treaty is inactive until the breach is addressed, at which point the treaty resumes as usual.

AI acceptance

Each proposed article has an acceptance score, depending on if the AI Country actually wants said article or not. The exact same article can, depending on circumstances, result in both a positive or negative acceptance score. If the total acceptance score of the entire treaty is above +30, the AI always accepts the treaty. If it is at 0 or below, the AI always declines. If the acceptance score is between 0 and 29, acceptance is chance based.

Offering or calling in an obligation increases the acceptance by +30. Demanding an obligation reduces the acceptance by −40.

List of articles

Mutual articles

Mutual treaty articles

Name	Requirements	Effect	Upkeep	Relations
Alliance	International Relations Mutually exclusive with defensive pact and guarantee independence	An alliance is formed between the two countries	150	+1 every 66 days up to 80
Defensive Pact	International Relations Mutually exclusive with alliance and guarantee independence	An defensive pact is formed between the two countries	100	+1 every 100 days up to 80

Directional articles

Directional articles have a source, the country "giving" the article's effects, and often a target, the country "receiving" the article's effects.

Directional treaty articles

Name	Requirements	Effect	Requires input	Upkeep		Relations
				Source	Target
Guarantee Independence	International Relations Mutually exclusive with alliance and defensive pact	The target is guaranteed by the source		50	0	+1 every 100 days up to 80
Investment Rights	Sphere of Influence or  Charters of Commerce Stock Exchange	The target gets investment rights in the source		0	50	+1 every 200 days up to 50
Military Assistance	General Staff	The target gets military assistance from the source		25	0	+1 every 200 days up to 50
Money Transfer	Central Banking	The source transfers the specified amount of money from its budget to the target's budget		0	50	+1 every 200 days up to 20
State Transfer	Target has more than 1 state	The source transfers the specified state to the target on entry into force		0	0	—
Treaty Port	Colonization	The source transfers the treaty port in the specified state to the target on entry into force		0	0	−1 every 400 days down to 0
Power Bloc Embassy	International Relations Is not in the same power bloc Source is not a power bloc leader Target is a power bloc leader	The target establishes a power bloc embassy in the source		0	0	+1 every 200 days up to 25
Join Power Bloc	Source is not a subject or power bloc leader Source has less prestige or lower rank than target Is not in the same power bloc	The target joins the power bloc of the source on entry into force		0	0	—
Military Access	International Relations	The target gets military access through the source's states		0	25	+1 every 200 days up to 25
Trade Privileges	International Relations Does not have Isolationism	The target gets trade privileges from the source		0	50	+1 every 200 days up to 25
Transit Rights	International Relations Is not a junior country in a customs union	The target can access the world market through the source's states		0	50	+1 every 200 days up to 20
Goods Transfer	International Trade	The source buys an amount of a specific good on their own market and sells it on the targets market		10	0	—
Support Independence	International Relations	The source pledges to support the target in diplomatic plays for independence, increase autonomy or annex subject		50	0	+1 every 100 days up to 80
Take on Debt	Central Banking Target has debt	The debt of the target is transferred to the source on entry into force		0	0	+1 every 100 days
Law Commitment	International Relations	The source pledges to implement the specified law		0	25	+1 every 200 days up to 25
Non-Colonization Agreement	Charters of Commerce Civilizing Mission	The source cannot start colonies in the specified strategic region		0	10	+1 every 200 days up to 25
Company Monopoly	Charters of Commerce Stock Exchange	The source grants a monopoly to target's specified company		0	25	—
Prohibit Trade with World Market	Charters of Commerce International Trade	The source cannot trade the specified goods on the world market		0	50	−1 every 200 days down to 0
No Tariffs	Charters of Commerce International Trade Is not a junior country in a customs union	The source cannot impose tariffs on the specified goods		0	10	−1 every 400 days down to 0
No Subventions	Charters of Commerce International Trade Is not a junior country in a customs union	The source cannot use subventions on the specified goods		0	10	−1 every 400 days down to 0

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