Open Source · Pre-Alpha · Playable
World of Statecraft
Participatory democracy as running software, from a neighborhood to the planet. A game on the surface. A working constitutional engine underneath.
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A First Look at World of Statecraft
A short introduction to the project. For a deeper look, the guided tour inside the demo walks through the whole system at your own pace.
A constitution is a document, and a document depends on the officials who administer it. Administration is where fairness is most often lost: an election postponed, a count that cannot be checked, a record that goes missing, a boundary drawn to favor whoever holds the pen.
World of Statecraft is the working title of the Cosmopolitan Governance App, an open source implementation of A Fair Constitution, the Cosmopolitan Template. It performs the procedural work directly, so that no administrator is left to capture. People keep the part that only people can do.
Every Schedule, Count, and Record
Election triggers and term clocks. Tabulation and seat apportionment. District maps from real geography. Conversions between office types. Record keeping and publication. Every threshold and every deadline the constitution sets.
Everything That Requires Judgment
Debate and persuasion. Hearings and testimony. Negotiation. The vote itself. Nothing else is required of them, and no software decides anything on their behalf.
Decision Rights, Not Advisory Roles
Residents elect real seats, file real petitions, and vote in binding referendums. Participation here ends in a decision, entered on a public record.
Standing Infrastructure
Elections, petitions, referendums, committees, juries, and public budgets are permanent procedures, open every day. They do not end when a project or a grant does.
Participation Follows Residence
Living in a place is the only qualification to vote or to stand there. Cities are full of people who live there without formal standing. Here, living there is the standing.
Every Level at Once
Neighborhood, city, region, country, planet. One nested structure gives local voices a structural path to global deliberation instead of a one-off venue.
Your Hardware, Your Data
A council or a community group can host its own instance with one command, on anything from a Raspberry Pi to a cloud server. No licence fee and no vendor.
Alongside the Tools You Already Use
Platforms such as Consul Democracy and Decidim run proposals, budgets, and consultations inside existing institutions. This engine runs the institutions themselves. Layers, not rivals.
Arrive Through an Invitation, Not a Manual
The public face is a game. A launchpad, a guided tour, journeys through real civic processes, and achievements for completing them. It reaches people who would never attend a council meeting.
Underneath, every rule is real constitutional machinery. Play a legislative session, an election, or a court case from start to finish, and every step is the actual procedure.
The launchpad of the live demo.
The living map in the Atlas. Positions are approximate by design.
One Public Dashboard for Every Place
The Atlas shows the vital signs of representation, justice, organizations, and the economy for the entire world on one screen.
It is built as a gauge and never a lever. Nothing on it can change a vote, a seat, or a right.
Living There Is the Standing
Residency is established from a sustained pattern of presence, and the number of days required is a setting the community itself can change. Once residency verifies, the engine associates the person with every level they live in, and the right to vote and the right to stand unlock automatically. No formal status, no paperwork, no fee.
The civic home then gathers everything live in those places. You can watch everything. You act where you reside.
A resident's home screen: residency verified at four levels, four elections open for approval.
Map Quality Standards
The measurable rules every district map must meet, and the public scorecard each map carries.
How the Maps Are Drawn
Open boundary and population data, combined into first-draft districts for the whole planet.
Polymorphic Voting
An election that is always open: approvals, public endorsements, then a proportional ranked count.
The Live Civic Room
One meeting surface where the agenda, the vote, the record, and the live conversation share a screen.
Journeys and Learning
Guided journeys, role training, and short films in 77 languages, built into every screen.
Run a Node
Host your own instance on your own hardware, and join a federation with no center.
The Civic Economy
A public ledger, a resident stipend, budgets, and a marketplace under one rulebook.
The Constitutional Engine
One gate for every civic act, a tamper-evident public record, and rules no administrator can bend.
This is pre-alpha software. It has not been security-audited and has not been validated in real-world use. It is for evaluation, development, and contribution. It must not be used for real elections, real governance decisions, or real personal data.
The next steps are an independent security audit, native-reader review of the translations, and a public-host rehearsal. Development support and funding would take it from working parts to a fielded system.
The Launchpad
The front door of the game: journeys, roles, and the tour.
The Guided Tour
A first-visit preview of the main screens, one stop at a time.
The Constitutional Clocks
Every deadline the constitution sets, counting down in public.
The Invitation
Help Take It From Working Parts to a Fielded System
Municipalities can host a pilot instance as a laboratory, on their own hardware with their own data. Platform communities can help define how these layers connect. Scholars and rights organizations can review the hardened rules and the privacy model and tell us where we are wrong. Practitioners can bring theatre, role-play, and assemblies into the game. Readers of any language can correct the drafts.