A RESPONSE TO FAUNA’S PEACE TREATY

GENERAL MATTERS

The document is refers to itself as a “peace treaty”. However, while it spends the majority of its length – the blank pages notwithstanding – making demands, there is embarrassingly little written concerning the peace its title alludes to. For one, the whole assumption that there is still peace to be made seems dubious. No action of Ceres Fauna in recent weeks has emanated any kind of serious hostility. It may thus be reasonably argued that there is no – perhaps never was – any situation justifying a “peace treaty” in the first place. Even if we were to assume that the war had not been tacitly concluded, it certainly seems obvious that Ceres Fauna is artificially conjuring up conflict by making arbitrary demands which are no more than a collection of grave misunderstandings at best. Thus, there remains no room for any kind of peace treaty in the first place for there is no state of conflict. Even if there was a conflict, the resolution promised by the treaty is highly questionable: “If these demands are met.[sic] We have no doubt that serverwide peace and prosperity can be achieved.” Attention should be paid to the phrase “can be achieved.” This implies that there Ceres Fauna has no intention to actually achieve peace; rather, this treaty is a list of demands for her own benefit for which she wants to concede nothing.
Ceres Fauna opens the peace treaty with a poem and then continuing with the first demand as follows: “My associates and I have been […].” It is baffling that in the very first sentence, there is already a grave misrepresentation of the facts. Fauna Ceres is acting in her own capacity without any backing; there are no associates. The treaty then concludes with a signature of “Fauna, Piglins, and Saplings”. Leaving aside the question of whether this kind of non-handwritten signature fulfills the formal requirements of a peace treaty to begin with, it may be noted that neither piglins nor saplings have been shown to exhibit any sign of human-like intelligence.
The poor quality of writing betrays the quality of the treaty itself. Several major mistakes in grammar and spelling have been made that would not have come to pass if a reasonable attempt at drawing up the treaty had been made. It may thus be inferred that the treaty may be treated as a draft in the first place and thus is not binding, even if the Bunkeronii company might have made unintentional statements or behaviors that might appear to have conceded in whole or in part to any “demand” as outlined in the treaty.

ON DEMAND #1 (“Mumei’s Independence”)

Ceres Fauna alleges that there is “insidious exploitation” of Nanashi Mumei. However, Nanashi Mumei is participating in the Bunkeronii company out of her own free will. Despite Ceres Fauna’s baseless accusations, she fails to present any relevant evidence or even a substantiated allegation. She not only fails to corroborate her claims, but she also implies that the working conditions in the Bunkeronii company fail to meet the ill-defined criterion of being able to “work with dignity and respect”. This nebulous language already makes clear that Ceres Fauna has no intention of reaching a peaceful state – if there was any conflict to begin with: By systematically using poorly defined language, she tacitly and unfairly reserves in a one-sided manner the ability to claim violation of the peace treaty on virtually any grounds. No reasonable person would draft a treaty in this manner; it is thus obvious that malicious intent guided its creation.
Moreover, the Bunkeronii company has met and continues to meet any and all requests that Nanashi Mumei makes. Not only can there be no mention of her being deprived of her freedom as the passage “demand […] the freedom to spread her wings” appears to imply, the Bunkeronii company asserts that it has provided Nanashi Mumei with a berry farm at her request. Please refer to Exhibit A regarding how this request was met despite business targets for Q4 2021 having no plans for creation of a berry farm.
Finally, Nanashi Mumei is free to quit employment at any time. No such notice has been given to the present day; there is no expectation for it to follow anytime soon, either. The Bunkeronii company disputes any and all allegations that workers are unable to leave on fair and reasonable conditions.

ON DEMAND #2 (“Rights of Piglins”)

Disregarding the outrageously obvious grammatical mistake of using “further” as a substitute for “furthermore”, Ceres Fauna continues to allege in the treaty that piglins are “mistreated and even subjected to violence”.
It is notorious at this point that the Nether is considered unclaimed and uncharted territory. As such, it is is neither bound by the laws of this land nor is it prohibited to pass new ones applying to the Nether. The Bunkeronii company and its subsidiary, the Netheronii company, assert that it has laid rightful claim in a timely manner upon the respective patches of land and the inhabitants thereon. It is therefore free to treat the piglins in any lawful way. Ceres Fauna fails to make any substantiated claim how this treatment of piglins violates the law pertaining to the land in which they live. Furthermore, the Bunkeronii company notes and observes that there have been no complaints from the piglins.
As Ceres Fauna continues to make egregious grammatical and spelling mistakes (this time confusing “corporeal punishment” with corporal punishment and “ex employees” over “ex-employees”), she goes on to demand “compensation for all ex Netheronii employees who were wrongfully terminated”. In doing so, she not only fails to substantiate why any termination was supposed to be wrongful, but also makes a demand that is impossible to meet. By omitting both the form and amount of compensation, it is entirely unclear what Ceres Fauna is demanding, once more demonstrating bad faith by making an overly nebulous demand that is undeniably engineered to enable fraudulent claims of violation of the treaty regardless of what efforts the Bunkeronii company may make. It bears repeating once more that there have been no complaints from the pignlins.

ON DEMAND #3

Ceres Fauna fails to list a third demand and skips straight to the fourth.

ON DEMAND #4 (“Adequate pay for all current and future Bunkeronii employees”)

Ceres Fauna alleges further that employees are “paid only in the supplies needed to complete their work (i.e. diamond pickaxes)”. However, this makes the crass assumption that providing supplies counts as payment. It is known that providing the materials for the work required is a traditional element of any labor contract. Moreover, the Bunkeronii company – as Ceres Fauna admits herself – provides diamond pickaxes. These are working materials of far greater quality than would be ordinarily required for the jobs that Bunkeronii employees are meant to perform; if anything, providing the material of this quality shows good faith on behalf of the Bunkeronii company. Employees are not even required to return their tools and are free to use them in their time off the clock. The Bunkeronii company further asserts and notes that there have been no complaints of unfair pay.
This section of the treaty is by far the most unclear. It is demanded that “all employees will receive […] a daily 1 hour lunch break.” It should be obvious that this statement is most nebulous for there are two equally plausible interpretations: in-game time and real time. Once more, this is clearly intended as a backhanded tool to ensure no matter what the Bunkeronii company were to do to fulfill the demands outlined in the treaty, Ceres Fauna retains the ability to claim infringement upon the treaty.

ON DEMAND #5 (“Fox welfare”)

Ceres Fauna goes on to claim that “our animal experts” have determined inadequate living conditions of the foxes dwelling in the Bunkeronii. It is entirely unclear what animal experts Ceres Fauna might be referring to – much less their qualifications. The existence of any animal experts is disputed and so are their qualifications.
The treats demands four grass blocks per fox. In doing so, it ignores that foxes in Minecraft have no bodily needs in the first place and are highly social animals. A fox will always follow another fox in its line of sight. Under no natural circumstances would two foxes maintain a distance of four grass blocks between each other. This demand is thus obviously unreasonable.
Similarly, a natural light is supposedly a requirement, yet this requirement is baffling and arbitrary twofold: It is explicitly stated that glowstone is acceptable; this overlooks that animals have a natural sleep cycle that is disturbed by light, such that a glowstone leads to light levels that ultimately prevent sleep entirely. Additionally, lanterns are not listed as exceptions in spite of the fact that lanterns contain natural light in the form of fire contained therein.

ON DEMAND #6 (“Break room accomodations”)

The behavior of Ceres Fauna is contradictory: She alleges that the bench provided in the bench room is “too hot” – despite her having built it herself. The Bunkeronii company therefore raises an estoppel. It cannot be that the Bunkeronii company is asked to accommodate for individual employees’ personal failures and responsibilities.
Ceres Fauna’s repeated failure to correctly use the word “furthermore” notwithstanding, demand #6 asks for milk and cookies in the break room. The Bunkeronii company takes its employees’ health very seriously. A healthier alternative to cookies in the form of bread is provided instead.

IN CONCLUSION

The “peace treaty” is non-binding document that fails to resolve a non-existent state of conflict. There is no merit to hearing any cases that arise therefrom.