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+from sqlalchemy import create_engine, Column, Integer, String, Boolean
+from sqlalchemy.orm import sessionmaker
+from sqlalchemy.ext.declarative import declarative_base
+
+# Initialize the database
+engine = create_engine("sqlite:///tempdb.sqlite")
+Base = declarative_base()
+Session = sessionmaker(bind=engine)
+
+class Member(Base):
+    __tablename__ = "members"
+
+    id = Column(Integer, primary_key=True)
+    username = Column(String, unique=True, nullable=False)
+    password = Column(String, nullable=False)
+    royal = Column(Boolean, nullable=False)
+
+Base.metadata.create_all(engine)