Second Draft of the Treaty of Curacao

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I have inserted the explicit specification that the IMG should receive money for unauthorised docking on Freeport 4, as requested.

In response to your second point, sir, the Liberty Navy and myself feel that counterfeit software is a special case, as all known routes involving its transport pass from Liberty where it is sourced into Bretonia where it is sold. Consequently, any vessel found carrying counterfeit software in Magellan can be safely assumed to have already committed a crime against Liberty, and to be about to commit a crime against Bretonia. Therefore it is legally acceptable for us to extend our juristictions against them in this way.

Other contraband items, such as slaves or cardamine, are harder to trace, and many of them may be brought in via the so-called "barrier pass" which is beleived to enable them to enter Cortez without having passed through either Liberty or Bretonia. Other reasons why we have not specified restrictions against these items include their differing legal statuses in Liberty and Bretonia; whilst all cardamine traces are illegal in Liberty, 5 units or less for personal consumption have legal status in Bretonia. Similarly synthetic marijuana is only classed as "limited contraband" in Bretonia, whilst Orbital Spa and Cruise have already expressed their objections to any restrictions on narcotics use in Cortez, which they feel would be harmful to their commercial interests, as they currently fully legalise use of such substances in their resort.

That said, if our conter-software smuggling strategy proves particularly successful, we may well consider extending it to other contraband items at a later date. Naturally this would be done in accordance with the Treaty Amendment provisions as laid out in Article I Clauses 3 and 4.

Hoping that you are satisfied with my response,

Commodore Stanley Nelson
BAF Diplomatic Officer
5th Fleet - HMS Suffolk

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>