Whoever came up with the idea for this variant should be taken outside and shot in front of their family.

After a little bit of covert intel gathering, i have uncovered some evidence, It.Was.You!

http://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=834767&page-thread=1#threadPager

ok, maybe you said: "Gunboat is a truly dire varient of the game that takes the soul of Diplomacy and pisses all over it. The moves are painfully formulaic, the style of play is so different from the true game that most of what you learn in one form is useless or, even worse, highly misleading when applied to the other, and at the end of the day almost every game is decided by someone who doesn't know a damned thing about gunboat doing something really stupid.
The Gunboat varient is only one step more enjoyable that the infamous Pacifist varient, in which speaking is allowed but moving units is forbidden and the winner is the last player to lose the will to live."
--Octavious

and later (having been refered to as the great oracle, and arbiter of rules):

'Anyone asking the great oracle a damned thing will be fast tracked to the great oracle's list of people to be banned when he achieves modhood.

You're all stark raving mad! Mad, I tell you! Mad!!!

I expect royalties ;)'
--Octavious

Ah, classic stuff.

Though along with this: http://www.variantbank.org/results/rules/p/pacifist.htm
it gives me an idea for a variant.

Each year you don't take a supply center from a neutral or great power, you gain a 'UN' point. Once there are 18 'UN' points on the board the player(s) controlling them can declare a UN victory (like a draw, but excluding anyone who doesn't vote with them) unless you are eliminated - it take 18 , or a majority of the UN points (whichever is larger); so if there are 19 on the board, then 18 is larger than a majority of 10...

-Optional extra rule, trading UN points with other players for, well their promise to be nice...

-Problem, at a maximum of 7 per turn, it takes a minimum of 3 years to earn enough points to declare a UN mandated draw... that may make these points a largely pointless exercise (much like the UN) Perhaps the number of points earned should depend on the number of neutrals still neutral (so with a bounce in sweden, bel, and greece - with tunis empty, you could easily earn four points in 1901...) This needs some tweaking...

Completely irrelevant to any of this but the UN is quite clearly not a pacifist organization.

But the UN 'wins' if nobody else takes over... if there is peace and the UN does nothing...