Journey to the Centre of the Ruleset

The "core ruleset" of BlogNomic is becoming more and more important to the game - we (almost) always revert to it when a new Dynasty begins, and it's becoming rarer and rarer that we need to make any changes to it. As such (and as Squirrel was doing last week), I think it's worth taking some time to snip off any dangling appendices from earlier Dynasties, and to tidy up the wording for the benefit of new players (trivial proposals, for example, are a mess, as the original concept was introduced in a very piecemeal fashion).

I've rewritten the whole eleven rules, cutting them down to ten and posting them here - it also includes a summary of major changes and removals. Post your thoughts in comment; once I've got some feedback I'll make suggested changes (including anything that happens in the mean time; I see we're attacking the flaws in the Time Out rule) and submit a proposal to paste them into the ruleset.