Diplomatic Rank Guide
What is the Diplomatic Division?
The Diplomatic Division is the 14th Non-Elective division in HIA. As part of this division you will be expected to be a role model for lower ranks, and potentially volunteer time to help with the External Relations SU.
The Diplomatic Division has 9 ranks, and you must complete the division task in order to be promoted from Special Ambassador to the BOE Division.
Link to the Diplomatic Task: Diplomatic Task
The Diplomatic Division has 9 ranks, and you must complete the division task in order to be promoted from Special Ambassador to the BOE Division.
Link to the Diplomatic Task: Diplomatic Task
What are my duties as a Diplomatic Member?
As a diplomatic member you can now do the following:
As a Diplomatic member, your duty is to:
It is important that when attending events, you always follow and enforce the Code of Conduct.
- Promote up to Trial MOD
- Enforce Disciplinary Actions with approval of a BOE+ member
- Approve Disciplinaries of anyone ranked PS - MOD
- Receive a promotion every 12 hours
As a Diplomatic member, your duty is to:
- Help HIA maintain positive relations with External Agencies. This can vary from being polite towards External Agency members in base or visiting an External Agency for a friendly conversation.
- Attend ExR events.
- Act as role models during those events.
It is important that when attending events, you always follow and enforce the Code of Conduct.
How do I deal with Foreign Complaints?
As a diplomatic member you should never handle Foreign Complaints. They should be forwarded to ExR iC’s, or submitting an External Complaints form.
If an External member wants to submit a complaint about one of our members, ensure they have valid evidence and ask for a brief description about what has happened. Valid evidence must include:
Our Legal Diplomat is in charge of dealing with all staff and other complaints coming from foreign organisations. They are also in charge of handling sensitive and classified matters.
You can find the External Complaints form here: https://cutt.ly/meRIUhbR
If an External member wants to submit a complaint about one of our members, ensure they have valid evidence and ask for a brief description about what has happened. Valid evidence must include:
- Full screenshots of the incident
- Date/time stamps visible on all screenshots
- Offending member’s profile visible
- Full chat history for accurate context of the situation
If all is valid, then direct them to the External Complaints form, or an ExR iC.
Our Legal Diplomat is in charge of dealing with all staff and other complaints coming from foreign organisations. They are also in charge of handling sensitive and classified matters.
You can find the External Complaints form here: https://cutt.ly/meRIUhbR
What is the Expected Conduct when visiting other agencies?
You should be reminded that you must ALWAYS follow the Code of Conduct.
You must also abide by other agencies' rules, and never interfere with their daily operations.
This should stand as an important reminder that different agencies have different rules. Here are some quick reminders when visiting any External Agencies:
You can also view the External Agencies guide here - External Agencies Guide
You must also abide by other agencies' rules, and never interfere with their daily operations.
This should stand as an important reminder that different agencies have different rules. Here are some quick reminders when visiting any External Agencies:
- HIA Members must avoid controversial and sensitive topics such as politics and religion.
- HIA Members must not troll, raid, scam, degrade others or be affiliated with such activity towards any agency or user in any form.
- No Poaching. Members are prohibited from advertising HIA or encouraging others to join HIA while inside the premises of other organisations.
Failure to adhere to the CoC can result in Disciplinary Actions and/or removal at HIA depending on the severity.
You can also view the External Agencies guide here - External Agencies Guide
What is the Diplomatic Task?
The purpose of this task is to give all Diplomatic Division members the ability to learn about other agencies, and why our relations with them are so important.
This task has two sections which you must complete to be eligible to pass, and you must have a score of at least 19/25.
Section 1 consists of a multiple choice quiz, and some scenario questions.
Section 2 consists of 3 choices. You may choose ONE of these to complete:
You can assess your diplomatic task here: http://tiny.cc/diplomatictask
This task has two sections which you must complete to be eligible to pass, and you must have a score of at least 19/25.
Section 1 consists of a multiple choice quiz, and some scenario questions.
Section 2 consists of 3 choices. You may choose ONE of these to complete:
- Conducting an interview with a member of another agency
- Conducting a base report on another agency
- Conducting an interview with one of HIA’s External Relations members,then visiting another agency together.
You can assess your diplomatic task here: http://tiny.cc/diplomatictask
Where can I visit to conduct my interview or report?
You can visit one of the following agencies:
- Interpol (INT)
- United Nations (UN)
- United States Defense Force (USDF)
- Secret Service (SS)
- Ministry of Magic (MoM)
You may also decide to complete an agency report. An agency report consists of observing the activity of another base. What is happening around their base, are the members talkative with one another, do they have any ongoing events?
If you decide to do this option, you can use the helpful document template found here: http://tiny.cc/diplotaskreporttemplate
Ensure when sharing the document, you allow viewer access to those with the link.
- Interpol (INT)
- United Nations (UN)
- United States Defense Force (USDF)
- Secret Service (SS)
- Ministry of Magic (MoM)
You may also decide to complete an agency report. An agency report consists of observing the activity of another base. What is happening around their base, are the members talkative with one another, do they have any ongoing events?
If you decide to do this option, you can use the helpful document template found here: http://tiny.cc/diplotaskreporttemplate
Ensure when sharing the document, you allow viewer access to those with the link.
Who do I interview and what do I say?
External Relations Interview -
This will help you gather a broad knowledge about what the team does within our own agency, and how we form good relationships with other agencies. With this option, you will still need to visit one of the listed agencies, a tour/interview will not be necessary. You should just greet the agency members and take a screenshot!
You must visit the agency with the ExR member that you interviewed!
You can request to interview an ExR member by tagging @ExR Delegate and @ExR Diplomat in the #requests channel on HIA’s Discord.
You may also ask for a request on Habbo, if you see an ExR member you can politely whisper to them to ask if they’re available.
Please do not spam or pester the ExR team for an interview!
Prepare at least four questions that will give you the ability to understand why our External Relations team is so important, and why our relations with other agencies are paramount to keeping HIA the way it is.
Example Questions:
What is the difference between the Delegate wing and the Community Wing?
What is the External Relations SU?
Which External Agencies do you work with on events?
Why is strengthening bonds between External Agencies and HIA important?
Please do not be rude or disrespectful whilst conducting the interview.
If the interview is being conducted on Habbo, please whisper, or use another room.
Once your ExR interview has been conducted, head to one of the listed agencies with the ExR member, and have a chat with members of the agency to see how they are!
Don’t forget you MUST take a screenshot of your visit, and note the ExR member must be in the screenshot with you
You may find the list of External Relations members here: https://www.hiahabbo.com/external-relations.html
Agency Interview -
If you do decide to choose the agency interview, you should inquire about their pay system, events, special units, etc. This should give you a broad understanding of their agency.
You can approach any member within their agency, it doesn’t have to specifically be their own ExR team!
Example Questions:
How does the pay system work?
How often does pay occur?
What is the agency rank structure / Do they have a rank list?
How many Special Units do they have?
Do they have any future events coming up?
What makes their agency unique?
This will help you gather a broad knowledge about what the team does within our own agency, and how we form good relationships with other agencies. With this option, you will still need to visit one of the listed agencies, a tour/interview will not be necessary. You should just greet the agency members and take a screenshot!
You must visit the agency with the ExR member that you interviewed!
You can request to interview an ExR member by tagging @ExR Delegate and @ExR Diplomat in the #requests channel on HIA’s Discord.
You may also ask for a request on Habbo, if you see an ExR member you can politely whisper to them to ask if they’re available.
Please do not spam or pester the ExR team for an interview!
Prepare at least four questions that will give you the ability to understand why our External Relations team is so important, and why our relations with other agencies are paramount to keeping HIA the way it is.
Example Questions:
What is the difference between the Delegate wing and the Community Wing?
What is the External Relations SU?
Which External Agencies do you work with on events?
Why is strengthening bonds between External Agencies and HIA important?
Please do not be rude or disrespectful whilst conducting the interview.
If the interview is being conducted on Habbo, please whisper, or use another room.
Once your ExR interview has been conducted, head to one of the listed agencies with the ExR member, and have a chat with members of the agency to see how they are!
Don’t forget you MUST take a screenshot of your visit, and note the ExR member must be in the screenshot with you
You may find the list of External Relations members here: https://www.hiahabbo.com/external-relations.html
Agency Interview -
If you do decide to choose the agency interview, you should inquire about their pay system, events, special units, etc. This should give you a broad understanding of their agency.
You can approach any member within their agency, it doesn’t have to specifically be their own ExR team!
Example Questions:
How does the pay system work?
How often does pay occur?
What is the agency rank structure / Do they have a rank list?
How many Special Units do they have?
Do they have any future events coming up?
What makes their agency unique?
Who are our current allies?
To see if we have any current ongoing alliances, please direct yourself to the following page: Diplomacy
If you have any queries regarding alliances, please reach out to an ExR member.
If you have any queries regarding alliances, please reach out to an ExR member.
What is the Difference between the Diplomatic Division and ExR?
Whilst both the division and the Special Unit have close similarities, there are some differences and boundaries that set them both apart.
Diplomatic Division
External Relations SU
To summarize, Diplomatic Division members are encouraged to go visit External Agencies in a friendly manner and attend the ExR events. By saying that, members do not hold the authority or responsibilities of any ExR member’s duties. They are in charge of formally reaching out to these External Agencies and working with them or assisting them. Diplomatic division members can not!
Diplomatic Division
- Encouraged to help maintain positive relations with External Agencies.This is done through our Diplomatic Task.
- Attend ExR Events. This helps further boost our bonds with External Agencies.
- Act as a role model at these events.
External Relations SU
- Conduct tours for foreign organisation members
- Create collaborative events with External Agencies to help strengthen bonds
To summarize, Diplomatic Division members are encouraged to go visit External Agencies in a friendly manner and attend the ExR events. By saying that, members do not hold the authority or responsibilities of any ExR member’s duties. They are in charge of formally reaching out to these External Agencies and working with them or assisting them. Diplomatic division members can not!
What does our Recognition Agreement with USDF mean?
HIA and USDF have made an agreement that in terms means the following:
Whilst on the grounds of each other's premises, members must be treated with utmost respect while also following respective regulations and conducts at all times.
Parties agree to keep regular communication between External Affairs teams (HIA - ExR, USDF - OISA) to maintain healthy diplomatic relationships.
Members are permitted to enter each other's base of operations given that they have the proper credentials;
You can find the Full Recognition Agreement Document here - HIAxUSDF Diplomatic Recognition Agreement
Whilst on the grounds of each other's premises, members must be treated with utmost respect while also following respective regulations and conducts at all times.
Parties agree to keep regular communication between External Affairs teams (HIA - ExR, USDF - OISA) to maintain healthy diplomatic relationships.
Members are permitted to enter each other's base of operations given that they have the proper credentials;
- If HIA, being Assistant Leaders 5iC+ or part of ExR Unit
- If USDF, being Commissioned Officers O1+ or part of OISA.
You can find the Full Recognition Agreement Document here - HIAxUSDF Diplomatic Recognition Agreement
If you have any questions about the Diplomatic Guide please contact the respective leaders or a member of the CoS Team.