The Public Registry Agency
- There is a statutory corporation called as the Public Registry Agency, which keeps the Public Registry of entities. This is their charter.
- The Agency must securely store the Public Registry, as per the requirements of the Constitution and Law, and make it available to anybody who wishes to see it.
- In order to enable entities to prove that they hold licences without needing to disclose their identity, the Agency will also issue timestamped digital certificates. Any entity holding a licence may, upon adequately proving their identity to the Agency, then request that the Agency sign a public key provided by the holding entity (which need not be a public key from their public registry entry) along with a statement that the owner of the key held the requested licence at that point in time. The request must be signed with the public key that is being certified, to prove ownership of it.
- DETAIL: A board of paid directors who can make decisions on behalf of the Agency, with a chief executive appointed by Parliament who appoints the other directors and delegates powers to them.
The Court Agency
- There is a statutory corporation call the Court Agency. This is its charter.
- The Agency exists to fairly judge claims of crimes and other rights violations.
- When a claim is made to the court, they must contact all involved entities (including the claimants, the alleged perpetrators, and any witnesses) to notify them that they are parties to the case, including a copy of the claim.
- Once notified that they are parties to a case, entities are required to acknowledge receipt an provide all evidence requested by the court, as well as any other evidence that they reasonably deem potentially relevant. Failure to do so is a crime, defined in law.
- Once the court has obtained replies from all the parties, it sets a date for a trial. All parties to the trial may be required to attend the trial in order to be cross-examined.
- DETAIL: Declare the procedure for a trial. Allow appeals within a timeframe. Allow retrials if further evidence appears.
- DETAIL: A board of paid directors who can make decisions on behalf of the Agency, with a chief executive appointed by Parliament who appoints the other directors and delegates powers to them.
The Citizenship Agency
- There is a statutory corporation call the Citizenship Agency. This is its charter.
- People may apply to the Agency for a citizenship licence.
- The Agency must apply tests described in the Law to decide if citizenship should be granted.
- If, after granting a citizenship licence, the Agency finds cause to believe that the information it used to make that decision may not have been correct, it will investigate. If the licence is found to have been issued in error, it can be revoked.
- DETAIL: A board of paid directors who can make decisions on behalf of the Agency, with a chief executive appointed by Parliament who appoints the other directors and delegates powers to them.
The Welfare Agency
- There is a statutory corporation called the Welfare Agency. This is its charter.
- The Agency must ensure that all people within the territory of the nation have the resources needed to live safely and happily and productively, and are healthy; and that all guardians of self-aware beings within the territory of the nation have the resources needed to ensure that the beings they are guardians of live safely and happily and are healthy.
- Guardians are responsible for ensuring that all self-aware beings within the territory that have the potential to become people should become so through education. The Agency is responsible for providing Guardians with the resources to do that, such as schools.
- The Agency is also responsible for providing people with the means to increase their productivity and happiness through further education.
- Any property held by the Welfare Agency that is surplus to requirements, other than reasonable reserves kept in case of contingency or stockpiled for future use, will be distributed equally between all citizens.
- Any property held by any other statutory corporation that is surplus to requirements, other than reasonable reserves and stockpiles, will be given to the Welfare Agency.
- DETAIL: A board of paid directors who can make decisions on behalf of the Agency, with a chief executive appointed by Parliament who appoints the other directors and delegates powers to them.
The Natural Resources Agency
- There is a statutory corporation called the Natural Resources Agency. This is its charter.
- The Agency is responsible for managing the natural resources within the nation's territory.
- The Agency must study, monitor, maintain, and promote the use of the natural resources.
- The Agency must administer the issuing and revocation of resource usage licences, which are defined in law.
- The Agency must collect usage fees as per the requirements of resource usage licences in law.
- DETAIL: A board of paid directors who can make decisions on behalf of the Agency, with a chief executive appointed by Parliament who appoints the other directors and delegates powers to them.
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By Faré, Fri 8th Jan 2016 @ 8:42 am
The big mistake many engineers make is to believe they as philosophers are somehow outside and above society and government is a magical tool that can mold society whichever way they want, for free.
The one thing libertarians understand is that, no, nobody is either outside or above society, that government is not the tool of philosophers above, and not the tool of people below, but is a natural phenomenon with laws of its own, derived from its principle of unaccountable violence; and before to dream of what it "could" or "should" do, realize that not only its action isn't free (as in, it has a dear price), its action isn't free either (as in, it's constrained in what it WILL do — if it doesn't propagate its own survival through domination, it doesn't survive and is replaced by a conqueror that will do what it takes).
See e.g. "The Calculus of Consent" by Buchanan & Tulloch on how democracy does work in practice (though with very favorable hypotheses), or "The Myth of the Rational Voter" by Caplan on how these favorable hypotheses do not even hold.
Once you understand what government is, a lot of things change as to how you approach social engineering (if at all).
By alaric, Fri 8th Jan 2016 @ 12:27 pm
I'm approaching the design of a government as a collective body to handle collective issues; I do agree that governments which become entities in their own right, whose interests may not align with the interests of the populace, then You Have A Problem.
I've yet to see a convincing blueprint for how humanity can manage collective issues (dealing with emergencies, managing shared resources, dealing with disputes about stuff, etc) without forming some kind of forum to discuss it and agreeing to go along with the outcome of those agreements even if you don't like them - and making those agreements useful even if some people refuse to go along with them. Perhaps I am being too broad in labeling that as a "government" of sorts, and damning the whole concept by association with stagnant Western democracies...
No, I'm not convinced my "second society" wouldn't also fall foul to the attractor of a power-hungry government propagating its own existence at all costs; I have merely tried to discourage it from going down paths I can think of that lead to that. It is my best stab at a model for a government in the traditional-nation-state sense; I would really like a few of those to be competing for citizens with each other, along with an ocean full of seasteads evolving their own forms of little micro-nation and competing with each other for citizens, and we get to see what wins out... As long as there's enough overall consensus that people should be very free to move to a different society, it should be hard for any despots to do a North Korea and lock their populace up without anybody noticing and doing something about it...
By Faré, Sat 9th Jan 2016 @ 6:16 am
But that's the thing: the notional "government" that you're talking about has nothing to do with the institution of territorial monopoly of violence usually known as "government". If you define it as whichever "kind of forum to discuss it and agreeing to go along with the outcome of those agreements even if you don't like them" — then the closest common notion is market, not government.
And yes, competition between "governing" entities via free association is the one and only force capable of preventing the otherwise non-competed entity from turning into tyranny.
In any case, a lot of criticism against libertarianism boils down to confusion between these opposite notions, whichever names you use to denote them (society, government, market, etc.)
By alaric, Mon 11th Jan 2016 @ 10:45 am
I do worry about how to stop "governing entities" from (a) absorbing each other, not necessarily through traditional military expansionism but maybe even just through all signing treaties with each other that make them interchangeable in the name of "standardising for the benefit of free trade", or through simple cultural hegemony; and (b) going North Korea and inhibiting flight of disaffected citizens!
By Faré, Tue 12th Jan 2016 @ 5:04 am
(a) Indeed the Habsburg gained power through alliances and weddings (and ended up highly inbred for it). As long as citizens and landowners have an "exit" option, it doesn't matter how much the entities merge. If they don't then it's indeed guaranteed eventual doom as empires merge together and/or collapse.
(b) All governments have already reserved the right to inhibit the flight of disaffected citizens: that's what border controls and passports are for. It's the other bad aspects of North Korea that they happily haven't copied (yet). "Citizen" control is precisely what government monopoly consists in.
The idea that "governing entities" should NOT have a monopoly on either territory or citizens is what libertarianism is about.
By alaric, Wed 11th Oct 2017 @ 7:43 am
Here's some more interesting insights into the problem of government: http://www.drmaciver.com/2017/10/the-politics-of-i-dont-know/