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The Treaty of Saint Michael, so named because it was signed on top of the Archangel's tomb*, is the one piece of international law still standing and contains the things that the remaining world powers could agree on. It is written in Hebrew, English, Russian, Chinese, Spanish and Esperanto using only each language's 2000 most common words, and contains a few diagrams for clarity. In theory, all laws are subordinate to the Treaty; in practice, local communities tend to stick to what the local authority decides (or decide to stick it to the local authority). Extraterritorial areas are exempt to some degree, for example CATS technically has legal authority to execute anyone at Ground Minus One for reasonable suspicion of intending to disable the containment system.

Among its provisions are:

The reconstitution of the ten kingdoms into five commonwealths, and provisions for electing a commonwealth leader at least once every ten orbits.
Provisions to conduct a fair trial against war criminals on all sides of the Armageddon conflict, including Global Community personnel who abused their authority but also including Jesus and His Angels. The latter have largely been moot, in that the Angels were all executed trying to escape containment, and Jesus refuses to enter a plea or interact in any way with His lawyer.**
A series of basic human rights (noncausal thought, noncausal speech, association, departure, ownership of property, manumission, forage, fair trial, family, emergency care).
The change of CATS' charter from maintaining telecom infrastructure to maintaining the Grid and Ground Minus One.
Extraterritoriality for Ground Minus One, the Temple of Jerusalem (which was swallowed by a red zone anyway, making the point moot) and a handful of Academies backed by each commonwealth, CATS and the Remnant.
The lapsing of any and all patents and copyrights from before the Rapture, with the exception of Chaim Rozenweig's Eden fertilizer (a royalty for which would be paid to him from the commonwealth for 20 orbits) and, for historical reasons, the stage play rights to Peter Pan, which remain with the Ormond Street orphanage.***
The convention that legal documents shall use "years" to mean solar orbits, rather than sidereal years, and similar other provisions made necessary by the cosmic upheaval (such as the +X notation for the new calendar).
A formal declaration that any remaining nuclear warheads, including new ones that are found or constructed, are common patrimony of humanity and may only be deployed against alien or supernatural threats by a 5 out of 7 majority of the signatories.
A decision to meet once every solar orbit to vote on updated terms, necessitating a 5 out of 7 majority of the signatories.

A few amendments were added in later solar orbits, mostly to protect the rights of people whose imago had wrongly been declared "no longer human" by local authorities. Notably, the Eden royalties were extended from "20 years after the Rapture" to "20 years after the Snare".

The lack of an explicit mention of freedom of worship is intentional; after all that happened, it's generally presumed to be implicit within the freedom of association, but coming to an explicit "yes" or "no" agreement was impossible.

.*: Technically, it was on top an M104 deployable bridge, it just so happens that someone built a nice wooden skirt around it and the conference table was put on top of it because it was the least muddy outdoor flat surface available. Saint Michael was flying back up from the Lake of Fire after delivering Lucifer therein, but fell back in due to said deployable bridge being dropped on his head. He has not resurfaced, so he's presumed either dead or in Hell.

.**: This article was extremely contentious, given that the initial positions ranged from "Free Jesus and allow Him to be the judge" to "Let's just build a Helljar around Him and turn off the heat when He confesses", but an agreement was reached once the resident parlamentarian declared that no food or water would be served, and delegates could only leave the conference floor through the nearby dark zone. When a delegate protested this to be unfair, the parlamentarian noted that the rules applied to the parlamentarian as well, and concluded with "I'm not stuck up here with you. You're stuck up here with me!"

.***: This means that the orphanage technically also owns Neverland-alike liminalities, a provision which to date has come into consideration twice. The Ormond Street orphanage has been advertising for a trial-by-combat expert to be kept on retainer, pro bono of course.