Every country in Lawmaker has a constitution. Starting this week, some of them have someone to enforce it. Countries whose constitutions recognise a Supreme Court — switched on country by country as the feature rolls out — now have a final arbiter of the law, sitting as the Supreme Court of that country: the Supreme Court of Broadlands, the Supreme Court of Avalon. Its rulings take direct effect, and they cannot be appealed. There is nowhere higher to go.
The court decides questions of law, not questions of taste. "We oppose this law" is politics — take it to the legislature. "This law is unconstitutional, for reasons a, b and c" is a case. Every appeal has to say what rule was broken, by whom or by what, and why — and an appeal that pleads no legal grounds should expect to be denied. There are four things you can ask the court to do:
| Your claim | If the court agrees |
|---|---|
| A law in force is unconstitutional | The law is changed to the option you asked for |
| A minister is acting illegally | The minister is removed from office |
| A president is acting illegally | Impeachment — an early election for that office |
| An amendment cannot stand | The amendment is struck from the constitution |
Notice what's on that list and what isn't. The court can strike down an amendment, but it won't redesign your constitution's deeper structure — who holds which power, how the legislature is shaped, whether there's a monarchy. Those have their own constitutional-change machinery, fought out in politics where they belong. The court polices the rules; it doesn't rewrite the rulebook.
Filing is the commitment
Any live party in a country with a court can file an appeal, for 60 political power. Only one case runs at a time in each country, so if the court is already sitting, you wait your turn. And here's the part to read twice before you press the button: there is no draft stage and no withdrawal. Once the case is entered it runs its course, and the fee is not returned. Your written case becomes the opening submission of the public record — so make it argue something.
Once a case is filed, every other party in the country gets its say. During the pleading phase, each party may enter one submission — supporting or opposing the appeal, with reasons. One shot, permanent the moment it's posted, and carrying no mechanical weight whatsoever. So why bother? Because the justices read the thread before they vote. A well-argued submission is the only way to put your country's view in front of the bench — and a lazy one sits on the public record forever.
Then the court deliberates, and this is where it gets interesting. Each justice votes to uphold or deny, with a written rationale — and every vote is secret until the ruling publishes. Not just from you: from the other justices too. Nobody on the bench is voting with a tally in front of them, and no vote can be changed once cast. When the ruling lands, everything is revealed at once — every seat's choice, every seat's full reasoning, and the result. A majority of votes cast upholds the appeal; a tie is a denial. The court presumes the thing you're attacking is lawful until a majority says otherwise.
The bench never reveals who sits on it. You are arguing to Justice #3, and Justice #3 is all you will ever know.
An anonymous bench
So who are these justices? Hand-picked, high-trust roleplayers, appointed by the game's administrators — one bench serving the whole world. But you'll never know which players they are. Justices are known only by their seat number — "Justice #3" — on every page, in every ruling, forever. No lobbying the judge over Discord. No guessing whether the bench owes your rival a favour. Just the arguments on the record and the reasoning in the ruling.
Justices keep playing their own parties completely normally, and one clean rule handles the conflict of interest: a justice is recused from any case in a country where they own a live party. Their party plays on — it can plead, it can even be the appellant — but the seat steps back, and the case page shows it as "Recused". And if no justice at all can hear your case, it's dismissed for want of a quorum and your full filing fee comes back — you were failed by the institution, not defeated by it.
Court is in session
The case page is the whole record: the appellant's argument, the pleading thread, and the bench — showing only who has voted while the case is live, and everything once it's decided. Your country's court lives under Justice → Supreme Court on the country page, and you can follow every case in the world from the Supreme Court Docket in the World menu.
The legislature has always answered to the voters. Now it answers to the law as well. If your country's constitution has a court, someone in your legislature is one bad law away from finding out what that means — and if you've been on the losing end of a vote you're sure was unconstitutional, you know exactly where to go.