These are the rules which came into effect when the game was first acknowledged to exist, on 22 September 2004.
These rules describe the behaviour of a Nomic game. The game and all entities existing within it have a persistent state which can only change as described by the rules.
The rules may change in the course of the game as specified here. A change to the rules must and may only take place when a Consensus of Opinion, as defined by the rules, exists with respect to that particular change to the rules.
The game shall contain a list of names which refer to specific entities in the real (extranomic) world. At the start of the game, this list shall contain the names of Adam Biltcliffe, Carrie Oliver, David Birch, John-Joseph Wilks, Jonathan Amery, Martin O'Leary, Martin Lester, Michael Cripps and Stuart Moore.
A Consensus of Opinion on a particular change to the rules exists when one entity named on the List of Voters proposes the change to all other entities named on the List of Voters and obtains unambiguous consent to that change from each such entity.