National Security Act (2013)

The following is the full text of the National Security Act of the Free State of Renasia. It became law on May 5 2013.

SECTION 1 – Legal Provisions

Article 1 – Short Title

This Act may be cited as the National Security Act 2013.

Article 2 – Definitions

Within the context of this act,

• CASE shall refer to “a certain matter of national security that is being investigated by the Renasian Government”;
• COVERT OPERATIONS shall refer to “actions carried out by Renasian Government officials which are not made public through the media and/or announced to all involved parties”;
• SURVEILLANCE shall refer to “the gathering of information pertaining to matters of national security”;
• INTELLIGENCE shall refer to “information obtained through surveillance and/or covert operations”;

SECTION 2 – General Provisions

Article 4 – The Territories

4.1

The SAR (local) governments are hereby barred from carrying out any action that may compromise the national security of the Free State of Renasia, including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) selling or giving away classified information to non-authorised individuals and/or entities within or outside of the Free State,
(b) officially condemning the Renasian Free State Government in its legislatively, executively or judicially reached decisions,
(c) aiding any inside or outside party in an infraction of Renasian sovereignty and/or national security and/or capacity to function as a state.

4.2

If territorial governments and/or police and/or armed force(s) have the slightest of suspicions that someone either within their own SAR or elsewhere in the Renasian Free State, they are obligated to report this immediately to the Directorate of National Security.

4.3

In the case that SARs secede, they must destroy any federal classified information any of their citizens hold before they do so, and they may not share any federal classified information with any other micronation whatsoever for the remainder of their existence as states. Any infraction is liable to be intermicronationally prosecuted.

Article 5 – Classified Documents

5.1

The Security classification levels shall function according to the following specification:
(a) The Security classification designator shall consist of: <Level>-<Designators>-<Document type>-<Validity>. (b) The Level may be:

• i. Achilles (A) – For matters of utmost vital importance to national security. These may never be automatically declassified and must be declassified manually by the issuing agency or another agency with given authorisation, meaning the <Validity> section does not apply to these documents. They are also never accessible to foreign powers. Copies, apart from the central renasian government copy, must be destroyed immediately.
• ii. Top Secret (TS) – For matters of very grave importance to national security. These may only be accessible to foreign powers by order issued by an authorised agency on a case-by-case basis by the issuing agency, not generally made accessible via international regulations such as treaties. Must remain under this classification for at least 4 months.
• iii. Secret (S) – For matters of grave importance to national security. Must remain under this classification for at least 2 months.
• iv. Confidential (C) – For matters of importance to national security.
• v. Restricted (R) – For matters of minor importance to national security. Is in general not to be distributed to foreign powers, and N2K is a given. May be issued by any citizen.
• vi. Unrestricted (U) – Not privy to classification.

(c) Designators may be:

• i. N2K – To be distributed on a need-to-know basis.
• ii. NOFORN – Not to be distributed to foreign entities and/or individuals.
• iii. DNKC – Do not keep copy: After reading/viewing files, destroy immediately.
• iv. FOROG[<class><3c>] – Some or all of this document has been shared with the Renasian Free State Government by a foreign government agency. <class> is the classification level in the nation of origin, <3c> is the 3-letter country code. These codes are determined and kept in a central list by the Chancellor.
• v. ISREG – Dissemination is regulated by the agency issuing the classification.
• vi. PROPIN – Contains proprietary (copyrighted, patented, trademarked et al) information.
• vii. ONLAG[<agencies>] – Only meant for the agencies listed. Official abbreviations must be used. Such abbreviations are mentioned for in this act, other legislation and/or by regulation of the Guntanu’tl.
• viii. ADMONLY – Used for the “Unrestricted” classification only. This signifies that the document is for internal administrative use and should not be distributed unless necessary.
• ix. ILGL – Signifies that some of the content was illegally obtained and might thus not qualify for use as evidence in a judicial procedure.

(d) The document type can be:

• i. CRYPT – Cryptological information, including ciphers and passwords.
• ii. INTEL – Intelligence or investigative information gathered.
• iii. OPS – Information, orders, specifications and/or regulations concerning a classified operation or action with a national security relevance, such as covert operations.
• iv. OTHER – Any other type of document.
• v. MISC – A combination of any of the above.

(e) <Validity> refers to the date the information loses its classification level in the format <year><month><signifier>. Regarding the signifiers, ‘D’ indicates that on the given date, the classification does not disappear completely, but is only downgraded one level. An ‘X’ indicates that the declassification must, on that date, by either confirmed or rejected by the issuing agency. The first 4 characters are the year, the next 2 the month and the next one or two are the signifier.

5.2

Classifications up to Restricted may be issued by any Renasian citizen and are binding insofar any documents to which this classification applies are clearly marked as such. Designators may not be added by citizens, and NOFORN and N2K are automatically part of this classification level.

5.3

Classifications up to Confidential may be issued by SAR governments and any minor institutions of the Free State Government.

5.4

Classifications up to Top Secret may be issued by major institutions of the Free State Government, including Guntanu’tl Members, nonsubsidiary departments, special institutions and the Renasian Council of the Militaries and Polices.

5.5

Classifications up to Achilles may only be issued by the Directorate of Intelligence, the Chancellor or the Meritarch.

Article 6 – Regulations on the Storage and Distribution of Classified Materials

6.1

All Classified materials must be stored:
(a) within password-protected ZIP files arranged by case/matter,
(b) centrally within the Free State Security Archives (FSA),
(c) As a backup on the Chancellor and Meritarch’s hard drives.

6.2

Classified materials with the DNKC mark may not be stored anywhere except the locations provided for in provisions §6.1b&c.

6.3

All ZIP archive files within the FSA must adhere to the filename structure “<type>_<name>.zip”, where:
(a) <type> is comprised of <сode>-<designator>, where <сode> is the letter code for the classification level as per §5.2b, and <designator> are any of the designators as per §5.2c, themselves separated by exclamation marks. If the documents contained have several different codes and/or designators, “VAR” is to be used instead.
(b) <name> is the official name of the document collection.

6.4

Files may not contain any control characters (characters 0x00 to 0x1F and character 0x7F of ASCII) or the characters " * : < > ? \ / | in order to ensure compatibility of the files with all common filesystems. They may also be no longer than 255 characters in total, excluding the filepath.

6.5

The Meritarch and Chancellor must have access to all classified documents at all times, unless the classified information contains an ongoing investigation against either, in which case only the other is to be notified.

Article 7 – Infractions against this act

Any infraction of any of the articles and provisions contained in this Act, and/or the illicit dissemination of classified materials, are to be considered High Treason and are punishable not only by judicial but also by executive action. The Guntanu’tl reserves the right to immediately expel any citizens and/or territories from the Free State if such an infraction is committed. This decision may not be overturned by any institution other than the Guntanu’tl or Supreme Court itself.

SECTION 2 – Institutions and Positions

Article 9 – Purpose of the Institutions

The Institutions established in this act are created to:
(a) ensure the persistence of Renasia and the Renasian Free State Government,
(b) eliminate threats against the Renasian nation and people by any means,
(c) Strengthen and maintain the national security of the Renasian Free State.

Article 10 – The Director of National Security

10.1

The Office of the Director of National Security is appointed by the Guntanu’tl. Each year after a new Guntanu’tl is chosen; the 5 discuss and then appoint a new director or choose to keep the old one.

10.2

The responsibilities of the Director of National Security include the co-ordination of national security and leadership of the Directorate of National Security. The Director of National Security is to be considered a non-voting member of the Guntanu’tl.

10.3

The Director of National Security must be granted access to all classified materials within the Free State regardless of any circumstances whatsoever.

Article 11 – The Vice Director of National Security

11.1

The Vice Director of National Security is ordinarily the Chancellor of the Free State, though the Guntanu’tl may reassign this position.

11.2

The responsibility of the Vice Director of National Security is the exercise of the responsibilities of the Director of National Security in case the latter is incapacitated, as well as to provide input and advice to the Director on matters of National Security. He reports to the Director of National Security.

11.3

The Vice Director of National Security must be granted access to all classified materials within the Free State regardless of any circumstances whatsoever.

Article 12 – The Directorate of National Security

The Directorate of National Security (NatSec) is the supreme body in charge of all matters and bodies of national security. Its Commander-in-Chief is the Director of National Security. It acts as the regulatory body for procedures within the scope of national security and may make authoritative decisions on matters of national security unless stated explicitly otherwise by this or another act, the constitution or a motion of the Guntanu’tl or ruling of the Supreme Judge in specific cases.

Article 13 – The Criminal Investigative Department

The Criminal Investigative Department (CrimInvest) shall handle all criminal cases of federal law. The CID is henceforth to act as the Free State-wide police force and may be called upon by local police forces to assist in any cases involving extensive amounts of specialist investigation. It answers to the Directorate of National Security and is to replace local Law Enforcement Groups.

Article 14 – The Department for Intelligence Gathering

The Department for Intelligence Gathering (IntelGat) is in charge of gathering intelligence with regards to foreign nations that is of relevance to National Security. It answers to the Directorate of National Security.

Article 15 – The Special Operations Department

15.1

The Special Operations Department (SpecOps) is in charge of planning, executing and reporting on any covert operations as ordered by the Directorate of National Security. It answers to the Directorate of National Security.

15.2

Information about its agents and operations is classified as Achilles without exception, a classification which at no point may be terminated by any institution (including the Guntanu'tl and Supreme Court).

Article 16 – The Joint Cryptology Committee

The Joint Cryptology Committee (JointCrypt) is a committee on the encryption, transmission and distribution of classified materials.

Article 17 – The Renasian Council of the Militaries and Polices

The Renasian Council of the Militaries and Polices (MiliPol) is hereby established in order to co-ordinate joint interregional police and/or military action within the Free State, as well as joint police and/or military action with other nations. It is comprised of the military commanders of each regional military and/or police, the Director and Vice-Director of the DNS, the Meritarch and the Chancellor.
(a) MiliPol has the power to change the state-wide DEFCON level by approval of the Meritarch, Chancellor and the Director of the DNS.

• a. DEFCON 5 – Represented by the colour Blue, is the lowest state of readiness and is considered business as usual.
• b. DEFCON 4 – Represented by the colour Green, is considered above normal readiness and entails Increased Intelligence watch and a heightening of Security throughout the nation
• c. DEFCON 3 – Represented by the colour Yellow, is considered a heightened state of readiness with all Security Forces on High Alert and entails all Guntanu’tl members being given a Security Detail, Drones Launched and all forces ready to mobilize in under 5 hours.
• d. DEFCON 2 – Represented by the colour Red, instituted when War is Imminent, all Senior Government Officials are given a security detail and all forces are mobilized immediately.
• e. DEFCON 1 – Represented by the colour White, instituted in Times of War.