Commend and Condemn

Commend and Condemn (also called C&Cs) are proposal/resolution types within the World Assembly Security Council. They were introduced in 2009, amid a fractious controversy about whether the new categories violated existing rules for traditional WA proposals. When admins eventually decided they did, the WA was split into the General Assembly and the Security Council, with the SC taking up the new categories. Commendations and Condemnations mark specific nations or regions for recognition by the WA, cemented by a special WA symbol affixed to either the nation or region page if the resolution passes. If the C&C is ever repealed, the symbol is removed. The resolutions themselves have no effect beyond the simple attaching and removing of the symbols. And as WA authors are no strangers to irony, Commendations aren't always letters of praise, and Condemnations not always articles of rebuke, either. In fact, the first Condemnation of a nation, issued to Omigodtheykilledkenny, was a tongue-in-cheek "Commendation" of the nation's humorous take on exploiting loopholes in WA laws. More commonly, C&Cs are a serious tool for expressing the SC's opinion of a nation's or region's actions. They are not always in-character, nor are they required to be. However, C&Cs must use in-game language ("nations" instead of "players"; "world" instead of "game"; etc.), even when attempting to describe a player's, and not necessarily a nation's, attributes. This provision of SC rules is commonly referred to as "Rule 4."