[The Panther]

Actually, I foresaw the Chief Justice having the role to verify conflicting claims inside the game. For example, if Marignon had claimed no spies were found by Caelum, then looking at the old turn files would clearly indicate whether or not Marignon was actually causing unrest in Caelum territory and spies were truly caught. After all, it is possible that Caelum might have killed the wrong spies. Not likely in this particular instance, but you get the general idea.

Simply having a Chief Justice who can view your private turns makes situations like the current one easy to resolve. Without that, it could easily be "His word against mine!", or "I tell you, he is lying!!!"

In other words, the Chief Justice rules only on things which can be verified by using the master password to look at the turn files. As for poorly worded propositions, well, then the proposer can just sleep in the bed he/she makes. This is how lawyers get rich, right Pasha?

Finally, just supposing that Sak had proposed asking the Chief Justice to look into the turn files to see which nation was spying on him, then that would have been unwyrmly in the extreme and probably would not have passed. No way would I have voted for such a cheap trick as that! But, because Sak was acting quite wrymly, his proposition passed.

After all, as someone eloquently said in the proposition comments, Sak had the responsibility to unmask the spy himself to enforce his own ruling; Spying is definitely NOT against any rules.