The Defense Mobilization Act

REALIZING that no official protocol is established for mobilization of our people,

UNDERSTANDING that the recent removal of conscription has lowered our defenses,

SIGNIFYING our universal need to build up military might quickly in times of war,

I, Emperor Conall Solis, officially enact THE DEFENSE MOBILIZATION ACT and enforce it immediately with the following provisions.

SECTION I - CALL TO ARMS

ARTICLE I - Under this legislation, the Minister Of Defense in agreement with the Emperor may call a general mobilization, or a 'call to arms', as seen fit.

ARTICLE II - All citizens, irrespective of gender, must respond to the call to arms. Refusal to do so may lead to prosecution.

ARTICLE III - Foreigners on our soil may be exempted from a call to arms as defined by the Minister Of Defense.

SECTION II - BUSINESS SURVIVAL FUND

ARTICLE IV - Under this legislation, the business survival fund shall be established by the WAS (Welfare Administration Service) and is to be activated and authorized upon a call to arms.

ARTICLE V - The business survival fund shall be designated as for any business deemed to be severely impacted by a call to arms and is meant to keep businesses and their operations alive during times of war.

ARTICLE VI - Government agencies and departments are unauthorized to take part in the business survival fund, and shall be funded via wartime survival budgets established under the Administration as seen fit. Government-established and owned companies and corporations are exempted from this article and may as such, make use of the Business Survival Fund.

SECTION III - CALL TO ARMS ELIGIBILITY

ARTICLE VII - Call to arms shall not intake any disabled individual, or any such individual deemed to be a threat to the nation's military.

ARTICLE VIII - Should an individual be deemed not eligible to partake in a call to arms, the individual in question shall work for the state in a non-military capacity until such time that the call to arms is deactivated.

ARTICLE IX - Government agents and employees, including the Emperor and cabinet ministers, shall be excluded from all calls to arms and is to be excluded from Article VIII.

SECTION IV - CODIFIED POWERS

ARTICLE X - Under this here legislation, the Ministry Of Defense shall officially be granted the authority to establish, setup and manage the systems and procedures used in the draft as defined within the bounds of enacted legislation.

ARTICLE XI - The Ministry Of Defense shall be mandated to make any and all procedures for the draft publicly available and viewable.

ARTICLE XII - The Ministry Of Defense shall have the authority to run test drafts, wherein all established procedures and systems are followed and used as if a real draft was occurring.

SECTION V - PRIORITY ESTABLISHMENT

ARTICLE XIII - This section shall officially establish a priorities system that the Ministry Of Defense is mandated to follow in all procedures and systems. The Ministry Of Defense may establish and manage said system, setting it up with whatever priorities designated, classified as a policy.

ARTICLE XIX - The Ministry Of Defense is to set it up in a fashion similar, if not exact, to a lottery.

ARTICLE XX - Different systems may be used as seen fit by the Minister Of Defense, per approval of the Emperor.

ARTICLE XXI - No discrimination is to occur in any drafting procedures or processes, as outlined in codified legislation.

SECTION VI - DESIGNATED CRIMES

ARTICLE XXII - Under this legislation, the following shall be designated as crimes under the state's criminal code.

ARTICLE XXII.A - Refusal to respond and comply with a call to arms is officially designated as a crime under this here subarticle.

ARTICLE XXIII - All crimes stipulated under this here legislation are to be tried in military tribunals unless otherwise specified by an authorized government individual.

ARTICLE XXIV - No limitations on punishments shall be imposed upon any crime stipulated under this here legislation. All punishments, little or big, shall be authorized for use on all of these here crimes under this legislation. The death penalty is also authorized under this here article for these crimes.