This bill establishes several items of common terminology for use across the Comintern by official agencies and documentation by that body.

1. In order to allow adequate time for adoption and regularization of terms, changes in this bill will remain in effect for a minimum of five years before further changes shall be considered.

2. In Directive W-55-1981, it was decided that this body shall be renamed to the Communist Interplanetary. To be frank, this name-change has not stuck; its shortenings are awkward (either ending with a “P” or taking four syllables and thus not being that short at all) and its use even in official documents has remained inconsistent despite five years of earnest attempts. Furthermore, the alliance remains international, even if some of the nations are not on the same planetary body. Therefore, Article 2 would repeal W-55-1981, reverting the name of the alliance for official purposes to the Communist International or “Comintern”, for a minimum duration of five years as discussed in Article 1.

3. There has been much confusion over the name of our aquatic naval service, as it definitionally cannot be Interplanetary as the army is. This bill proposes that the service adopt the name of the International People’s Navy, or IPN. This puts it in line with the naming conventions of several Comintern member states, namely China, Korea, Vietnam, and Germany, among others. As we only have one planet with bodies of water that can have craft built on them, distinguishing it as Earth-exclusive is probably not important at this time, and can be revisited should that situation change.

3a. This may require a renaming/rationalization of our spacecraft fleet, but as this is currently still under MOSA’s jurisdiction, that can probably wait until we more fully develop our space navy.

4. In keeping with the space theme, it is recommended that the Soviet/Russian-style prefix of “cosmo-” be adopted as standard. Thus our current collection of launch facilities and spaceship staging grounds would be referred to as “cosmodrome” by standard, space-borne workers, sailors and soldiers as “cosmonauts”, et cetera. This would establish a consistent, internationally-recognizable standard in language, culture, and documentation.

This bill establishes that the following administrative bodies will be created, arranged, or reorganized to add to the capability of the international Comintern bureaucracy:

The first five Ministries listed are organizations which already exist under the Comintern bureaucratic structure, and would undergo no or minimal bureaucratic changes except for interfacing with other, new elements.

-Ministry of Health: Already extant. The Ministry of Health is responsible for the physical, medical, and mental health of the people of the world, from cancer to the common cold. It has already put in astonishing work and is set to do even more going forward.

There are no formal changes proposed to the Ministry of Health; it is included on this list for completion purposes.

-Ministry of Socialist Sciences: Effectively a ministry and already extant, the Bureau of Socialist Sciences is currently subordinate to the Ministry of Education but is large enough and rapidly becoming different enough to warrant being its own full ministry. This proposal would do so, splitting MoSS off from Education into its own top-level organization. MoSS and MoE would remain closely connected and share particular jurisdictions, such as research universities. MoSS is responsible for scientific research, direction, and development, in everything from military technology to antigravity to genetics, both in operating and overseeing the Comintern’s own laboratory network and in coordinating output and operations between member nations.

-Ministry of Education: Already extant. The Ministry of Education is responsible for setting educational standards and guidelines across the planet and ensuring that the Comintern’s interconnected nature can produce equality of access, use, and outcome of education for everyone on the planet.

Apart from the aforementioned splitting-off of MoSS, this proposal would make no substantial changes to the Ministry of Education; it is included on this list for completion purposes.

-Ministry of the Environment: Fully known as the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Conservation, and Restoration; formerly the Bureau of the same name. Already extant; responsible for restoring the planetary environment from the ravages of nuclear war and ensuring that future human development interacts with the ecosystem in a manageable and, hopefully, sustainable way.

Apart from increasing its size and importance to Ministry-level, there are no formal changes proposed to the Ministry of the Environment; it is included on this list for completion purposes.

-Ministry of Space Affairs: Already extant. MOSA is in charge of all operations in outer space and on planets not currently organized into Comintern member polities, such as the outpost on Mars and the planned one on Venus. When and how MOSA’s operations break off from MOSA and become their own thing is going to have to be handled case-by-case. Most likely, once a sizable population is present on Mars, this entire system will require revision to account for having a second entire planetary system (Luna being so close-in to Earth’s orbit by modern spacecraft to be able to effectively participate in Earthbound systems).

There are no formal changes proposed to the Ministry of Space Affairs; it is included on this list for completion purposes.


More substantially, we propose significant changes to the existing Cybersyn program, which has become essential to the function of the Comintern and has gained additional elements of scope and control as a result of the rise of the Internetwork. We also propose a new Ministry and Bureau to encompass our many existing infrastructure projects.

-Ministry of Archives and Information: Technically extant. While currently part of the highly successful Comintern Cybersyn economic management system, Cybersyn has picked up a vast amount of information management and data processing capacities as the Internetwork and its role in Comintern society have grown and evolved in complexity and scale. This should be split off into its own department, to be named the Ministry of Archives and Information, also known as MinArch or MAI. MAI is to be responsible for information management and standards across the Comintern. It is in charge of archiving, record-keeping, source preservation, and generally maintaining the collective memory of the socialist world, with contribution and two-way oversight from countless academic institutions and groups across the planet. It would be a major contributor to the activities of every other Ministry as a result.

MAI is also the top-level organization in charge of the Comintern's intelligence-gathering and information security organizations, including SPECTRE, FESTER, and DOROTHY. The intel oversight organization MISTIC is technically within MAI's realm, but answers directly to the Comintern Congress and acts as an oversight organ for MAI as well.

This change was supposed to have occurred alongside last year’s Information and Signals Intelligence Oversight Act, and unfortunately got bumped to 1987 due to the already-busy 1986 slate. Hopefully this will end any confusion produced by that bill.

-Ministry of Production and Resources, “Cybersyn”: Currently extant. Developed by the Chileans in the 1970s, the Cybersyn program has evolved to become an indispensable part of the Comintern’s global economic engine. While commonly still known as Cybersyn, MoPaR makes the economic engine roar that makes the better future possible. MoPaR is responsible for coordinating international industrial production, shipping, and logistics, ensuring a hundred thousand different cooperatives and agencies interface effectively and efficiently, and setting goods standards on everything from hammers to headphones to motor trucks.

The only real changes to Cybersyn in this proposal are splitting off elements of information management and Internetwork control that it has picked up into their own Ministry, and formally designating it as a Comintern Ministry for the sake of the paperwork. Beyond that, Cybersyn is doing great work and we have no complaints.

-Ministry of Infrastructure: This organization effectively exists already, in that we have created dozens of oversight and operating committees for a wide variety of industrial, transportation, and construction projects, and they have been talking to each other to not get in each others' way. This will formalize a Ministry of Infrastructure to take these groups from a room full of people all talking at once to a proper council committee meeting. MinInf will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing essential the construction and maintenance of planetary infrastructure such as the COMRAIL network, the COMPORT program, the Panama and Suez Canals, and the international telecommunications network, along with major individual construction projects such as stadiums.

Direct operational oversight of COMRAIL, COMPORT, the Panama and Suez Canals, and other transportation elements will be handled by the Bureau of Transportation, a new sub-unit to be installed underneath Infrastructure.


Finally, this proposal calls for the creation of three entirely new ministries, for the purpose of setting standards and coordinating actions to ensure a truly socialist standard of living for all citizens under the Comintern alliance. We have been referring to these as “the Triangle”, for they cover the three key points of a comfortable life – sustenance, shelter, and satisfaction.

-Ministry of Agriculture and Food: The Ministry of Agriculture and Food is to be responsible for ensuring that no human being under a Comintern flag goes hungry or thirsty ever again. This includes coordinating food production, farm management, shipping and logistics, along with setting health and consumption standards for food production (farms etc.), distribution (supermarkets etc.), and restaurants, working with MoCaL on recipes and culinary culture, and everything else that ensures no shortages of food, effectively taking over continuity efforts from the food aid side of the Socialist Aid Program. MinAg will also feature a major subordinate organization, the Bureau of Water Management, which has the same job but with regards to fresh water instead, including the thorny, ancient job of managing water rights.

-Ministry of Housing: Fully titled the Ministry of Housing, Civil Engineering, and Urban Planning, and the second point of the Triangle, the Ministry of Housing is responsible for ensuring that no person who lives under a Comintern flag will ever be without shelter. This includes directly designing and setting standards for housing, along with working with member nations’ respective government agencies to ensure they are put into practice, but it also includes working with Cybersyn and MinInf to provide coordinated global resources to help towns, cities, and polities improve the design of their streets, neighborhoods, and districts to give their citizens a better life. MinHous will take over continuity efforts of the housing side of the Socialist Aid Program.

-Ministry of Culture and Leisure: A wrapper for several extant international projects such as the Socialist World Exhibition and the third point of the Triangle, MoCaL is responsible for ensuring that life is more than survival. MoCaL ensures funding, protection, and promotion of all elements of culture in the Comintern states, from classical realms like painting, sculpture, dance and theater, to modern sports (via the Committee for Sports and Athletics, ComSporAth), pop music, and arcade games. MoCaL is also responsible for ensuring that every person who lives under a Comintern flag has ready and equal access to leisure and luxuries in life, including world tourism, resorts, and even the fair distribution of parks and playgrounds.

The NOMAD Speaker for Civil and Human Rights proposes the creation of a Comintern Judiciary (JUCOM) with judicial power over all international and interplanetary legislation. The purpose of this is to generate a strong legal corpus with the legitimacy to enact Comintern Law while respecting each polities judiciary framework.

At the same time, NOMAD proposes the creation under JUCOM of the General Inspectorate, tasked with investigating and reporting on omissions, delays or crimes regarding Comintern Law. The operatives would be called General Inspectorate Judicial Operatives and Enforcers or GIJOEs and they would be a multidisciplinary civilian taskforce. Although, for obvious reasons it can include former security or military personnel.

Comrades, it is a bit embarrassing that we didn't see the recently-reported baby boom coming, so we'll need to work hard to catch up and make sure everything is ready. The recent efforts in Health and Education will handle the childbirths and when they've reached school age, but I'm concerned we're lacking in support for the first few years. Therefore we'd like to propose the Childcare bill.

This bill have two parts, the first is to create a working group to design and prototype a children's creche facility. A pre-fab facility with built-in modularity that allows it to be built alongside the socialist aid housing blocks, scaled up and down in size and adjusted for local conditions. Once designed and prototyped off-world variants will then be designed for low-, high-, and zero-gravity conditions to assist current and future colonization efforts. A complete facility designed with safety, fun and education in mind where any comrade can drop off their child knowing they'll be taken good care of.

While that happens a Bureau of Child Care will be created, a joint effort between multiple Ministries including Health, Education and Infrastructure. It takes a village to raise a child, as they say, and while child care should be performed by the local community this Bureau will assist where needed. Among these needs are constructing and maintaining facilities, providing supplies, screen and train local personnel, provide support personnel where and when needed, study and revise policies and techniques around child care, and related tasks.

It occurs to me we never bothered properly naming the moons of Minerva, which seems like an oversight given the place's importance. I formally propose that Minerva 7 (the largest moon) be named Medusa, as it is a myth with a (admittedly unflattering) connection with Minerva, and also that it is currently populated by jellyfish-people.

Operation Pegasus, a proper diplomatic envoy to the Minervans. This will require a ship ideally capable of actually landing on the moon's surface to allow in-person contact (inasmuch as sealed environmental suits can allow) with the Minervans, done by a team of our best exo-linguists, sociologists and diplomats, in an attempt to gain a better understanding of our interplanetary neighbors and possibly establish deeper diplomatic ties. I'm sure we have things to offer each other, and the furthering of our mutual understanding will be greatly accelerated if we can talk face-to-face instead of over morse code with a several light-hour delay with our experts.

The REMUS (Research and Exploration of Mars for Useful Settlement) Act aims to determine the viability of permanent human settlement on Mars, by performing:
-theoretical research into low gravity habitation, artificial planetary magnetic fields, martian soil construction, and other possible technologies to aid in human habitation of Mars' alien environment
-surveying of surface and subsurface regolith to locate useful resources, such as TNE's, frozen water, deposits of conventional minerals and materials, and radiation-protected lava tubes and caves for the purposes of early settlement sites
-studying of life support structures of the Cydonia facility for adaptation into our own technology
-initial exploration into the possibility of long-term terraforming of Mars into a habitable planet, including constructed atmosphere, deliberate global warming, introduction of liquid water, and creation of artificial biospheres

The HELIOS (Hypothetical ELevator Intended for Outer Space) Act aims to determine the viability of a permanent Space Elevator construction, for the purposes of transport of people and goods between Earth and Low Earth Orbit, by performing:
-surveys for viable surface locations of a permanent tether facility, taking into account factors such as access to international transport links and local political stability and security
-initial engineering and planning for the construction of a Low Earth Orbit space station in geosynchronous orbit, as well as a planetside surface-to-orbit tether structure
-research into TNE-reinforced materials that fit the specifications needed for a surface-to-orbit tether

The UPFA mandates the establishment of a commission by the Ministry of Economics to identify and work with underdeveloped comintern members with extraction-dependant economies, through the regional forums. The aim of this commission is to build up a modern industrial base within these member nations and transition away from the exploitative relationships formed by histories of imperialism.

This act mandates the move towards rationalization and efficiency of the comintern's energy sectors. A vast project that will likely take years, it essentially ask for us to start combing local and national grids to move towards the creation of an international electric grid, thus creating vast economies of scale in energy efficiency.

This bill is made up of three amendments

First is the clean air and water amendment, stipulating the creation of a task force within the ministry of the environment dedicated to the identification of sites with outsized levels of pollution and granting them the authority to work with member nations to eradicate this pollution through pollution standards enforcement, industrial modernization, infrastructural development and whatever other means are necessary alongside provisions for cross-industry cooperation with the Ministry of Economics and any commissions dedicated to the development of industrialization so as to ensure that the productive forces are developed without compromising the health and safety of workers and the land they live on.

Second is the agricultural development amendment. This one creates a broad-spectrum, long-term initiative involving the economics, research and environmental ministries based around securing the food supply of the comintern in perpetuity. The goal of this task force is to investigate agricultural systems around the world, as well as Lunagrad's hydroponics initiatives and aiming to gain understanding of as many techniques and systems as possible before the creation and implementing of comintern-wide agricultural policy. We are aiming for three outcomes here: first is sustainability. Particularly in the wake of soil irradiation, we must discover ways that do not damage the ground we use. Second is utility, We are looking for mass deployable methods, nothing that won't scale up to help feed a world of billions. Third is applicability. We are not aiming to create a universal, bland diet here. Instead, we must aim to understand the specific circumstances in which agricultural practices work and where they can be implemented. This combines with the second for the latter half of the project: comintern-wide agricultural reformation, acting with the economics ministry's work in developing members of the comintern to create a global agricultural system based around feeding the nations instead of cash crops.

Finally is the biological resources and heritage amendment, granting broad-scale powers to the ministry of environment in working with governments to craft and implement policy relating to the conservation of biodiversity, as well as water, soil and other natural resources that are necessary for sustaining terrestrial life with the goal of ensuring that none of these are compromised. Particular provisions relate to the protection of endangered species.

Daedalus Crater is located very close to the Lunar antiopdal point, the point directly opposed to Earth. Specifically Daedalus M (8° 6′ 0″ S, 179° 30′ 0″ E) is of general interest to my proposed project.
The crater is a nearly perfect hemispherical shape with a diameter of 13 km, and thus ideal for the construction of a massively inproved and enlarged Arecibo-style telescope. The telescope could, in fact, be gradually enlarged by covering additional area of the crater floor with lunar-sourced aluminium-panels. The location is currently the most radio-silent region in easy reach to us, and a radio-telescope mounted there would be of unpredecended sensitivity and resolution. With the bulk of the lunar mass shielding the facility from solar interference, observations could be made during the lunar night and twilight, with the lunar day reserved for construction, deliveries, ect; where the emissions by this equipment would not interfere with observations. These observations could be made at a 'campus', buried deeply into the lunar soil and encased with TEMPEST-style shielding.
Since we know, that we are not alone in the universe, it stands to reason that we can dedect radio-emissions of these species over interstellar distances. for this, I propose both an extremely-high-gain antenna at the main-antenna, as well as a two phased arrays at a right angle for low-gain scanning of the sky in the 21cm-band, composed of a field of indvidual low-gain antennae.
This would again be complemented by several optical/infrared telescopes, which could be build with substantially larger mirrors, due to the lower lunar gravity, as long as temperature is maintained. Sensitivity in the infrared band is further enhanced by the deeply cryogenic temperatures of the lunar night.

By this we would gain the finest astronomical set of instruments ever constructed, a valuable tool for the furthering of our understanding of nature and our exploration of the cosmos.


in-game this would be the construction of a Deep space tracking array of at least size 4 and, somewhere in the future, a laboratory complex