Demarquía Planetaria/en
An invitation to a new civilization
Have you ever wondered why the world seems broken? Why life feels like an endless race, drained by bureaucracy and debt? The truth is uncomfortable: the problem isn't you or your neighbor. It's the outdated design of the system we live in.
We've accepted the rules as if they were laws of physics—immutable, inevitable. But they are just that: human agreements. And everything that was agreed upon can be rewritten.
Planetary Demarchy is based on a premise: the rules that govern our lives can be collectively redesigned. Just as they were created one day, they can be transformed today so that no one is left out. This is not utopia; it is recognizing that systems are tools, not destinations.
This is not a solitary dream. It is a shared dream that, repeated in the imagination of millions, ceases to be speculation and becomes the architecture of change.
If this resonates with you, amplify the message. An idea isn't measured in armies or budgets: it's measured in how many minds share it simultaneously.
To paraphrase Victor Hugo, "There is nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come." The question is not whether this can be done today, but whether we are going in the right direction.
Planetary Demarchy is not an ideology but a social engineering blueprint designed for the age of automation and abundance. Its goal is to replace the current system, based on debt and scarcity, with a structure that aligns your personal benefit with the well-being of all humanity.
Below, we explain what life would be like in this new system and the direct benefits you would obtain with this change.
10 Radical Ideas to Restart the World
What if democracy, taxes, and retirement were nothing more than obsolete social technologies on the verge of being replaced? Dissatisfaction with current political and economic systems is an almost universal feeling. From partisan paralysis to systemic inequality, it seems the rules of the game are broken. Although solutions may seem distant, there are drafts of radically different futures that challenge our deepest assumptions. This article is not a political proposal, but a mental exercise. An invitation to explore 10 of the most provocative ideas drawn from a planetary constitution project called “Planetary Demarchy”, aiming to force us to question the very rules of the game.
1. Goodbye to Taxes: You Are a 50% Partner of the Planet
Reimagining how a society is financed is the most important strategic move that can be made. Taxes are a constant source of conflict, complexity, evasion, and resentment. They create a predator–prey relationship between the state and the citizen. The alternative proposed in this manifesto is the “Universal 50% Partnership” (AU50), a total paradigm shift.
Instead of coercive taxes (VAT, income tax, corporate tax), the system is financed because humanity, as a collective, is an automatic 50% partner in the profits and the risks of all economic activity. It is not a wealth extraction, but the participation of a partner. In return, the collective acts as your universal partner, providing up to 50% of the initial capital for any venture and the full support ecosystem: infrastructure, collective knowledge, and a safety net. This 50% does not go to a state bureaucracy, but becomes the main source of a universal income for all citizens called the Planetary Dividend.
The most immediate and transformative consequence is the total elimination of tax bureaucracy and the structural impossibility of tax evasion. The system is designed so that the “shadow economy” is conceptually impossible, since every transaction is transparent. This completely realigns incentives: effort is no longer devoted to tax optimization or finding legal loopholes, but to the creation of real value.
“In Demarchy, you do not pay taxes because you are not a subject to be squeezed. You are co‑owner of the largest company that exists: human civilization. And like any owner, you receive the return on your investment. Not as charity. As a right.
An economy without taxes requires, of course, a completely different politics.
2. End of Professional Politics: Power Returns to Citizens (by Sortition)
The crisis of representative democracy is, to a large extent, a crisis of trust in a professional political class that often seems more interested in its own perpetuation than in the common good. The demarchic proposal is a direct attack on this concentration of power and on the logic of political careers.
In this system, political parties, lobbies, and career politicians are abolished. Sovereignty lies in the “Sovereign Citizens’ Assembly”. This body, present at all levels (local, bioregional, planetary), is made up of a large number of citizens (ideally a thousand or more) chosen by lot for “ultra‑short, rotating” terms, often of just one month
This system is designed to be “anti‑fragile” and capture‑proof. Its robustness comes from constant rotation and the large size of the statistical sample of citizens, which prevents entrenched power structures from forming and makes the system resistant to capture by any interest group. The function of the Assembly (defining the “what”: the major goals and values) is radically separated from that of the “Professional Managers” (executing the “how”). These managers are selected on merit and, crucially, are liable with their personal assets in cases of malpractice, ensuring real and tangible accountability.
This new distribution of political power rests on an economic logic that redefines human motivation.
3. Enlightened Self‑Interest: The Most Selfish Strategy Is to Be Extraordinarily Generous
Our society is built on the dichotomy between altruism (seen as noble but impractical) and self‑interest (seen as practical but selfish). The principle of “Enlightened Self‑Interest” does not try to change human nature, but to channel it, designing a system where personal benefit and the common good are aligned in a mathematically precise way.
The logic follows directly from AU50. Since 50% of all profits from any economic activity flow into a Common Fund that is distributed to everyone as a “Planetary Dividend”, the success of any person in the world directly increases your personal income. Helping others succeed is not an act of charity; it is the smartest investment you can make.
This principle reverses traditional economic logic and is designed so that justice becomes a mathematical consequence, not a moral aspiration. Economic envy becomes irrational, since others’ success is literally your own benefit. Destructive competition is replaced by collaboration as the smartest financial strategy
| Traditional System | AU50 System |
| Zero‑sum (I win, you lose) | Positive‑sum (we win together) |
| Others’ success = threat | Others’ success = personal benefit |
| Accumulate to survive | Share to thrive |
| Fierce competition | Natural collaboration |
This total interdependence is described in the manifesto with a metaphor as strange as it is powerful.
4. Planetary Marriage: You Are Inevitably Married to 8 Billion People
To describe the depth of the AU50 bond, the system uses the metaphor of a “universal marriage” or, more provocatively, a “metastatic polygamy”. This idea goes beyond economics to redefine solidarity as an inescapable structural reality.
As in marriage vows, you commit “for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health” to everyone else. The success of your Japanese partner manufacturing semiconductors increases your dividends; the drought that ruins your Kenyan partner’s harvest is shared with you as a loss. It is described as “metastatic” for four key reasons: it inevitably expands with every new birth, it permeates everything by being present in every transaction, it is irreversible once established, and it grows organically with each new venture that strengthens the network.
The moral implications of this bond are profound. Concepts such as racism, xenophobia, or extreme nationalism become economically suicidal. Sabotaging another human group is literally sabotaging your own investment portfolio and reducing your Planetary Dividend. Solidarity ceases to be an optional virtue and becomes an inevitable consequence of the system’s design.
This “marriage”, however, is involuntary. You were born into it. This raises a crucial philosophical question about consent, which leads to the next radical idea.
5. The Right to Total Disconnection: “Island Mode”
Modern nation‑states demand compulsory membership. You are born in a territory and subject to its laws, whether you like it or not. Demarchy introduces a radical solution to this problem of consent and dissent: “Island Mode”.
The “Right to Island Mode” (Article 14) establishes that any individual or group can choose not to participate in the demarchic system. The consequences are clear: they renounce all benefits of the system (such as the Planetary Dividend or access to the Common Fund), but are completely free to live under their own rules and social structures, while always retaining the right to rejoin whenever they wish.
This idea has immense philosophical importance. It functions as a “safety valve” for social pressure and ensures that the system is fundamentally based on voluntary participation and not coercion. It recognizes that the true legitimacy of a system lies not in its capacity to force, but in its capacity to attract.
“Demarchy is not a wall; it is an oasis to which everyone is invited, but where no one is chained.”
This fundamental freedom extends to how the system redefines collective security.
6. Security Comes Not from Armies, but from Abundance
The current security paradigm is based on military power, borders, and control. Demarchy proposes a fundamental shift: true security is not achieved through coercion, but by eliminating the causes of insecurity.
The proposal is the abolition of all national armies and the conversion of the military industry (Articles 34 and 38). In their place, a minimal “Planetary Protection Force” is created, with a mandate strictly limited to protecting humanity from common existential threats, such as asteroids or large‑scale pandemics. Its mandate explicitly excludes war between humans.
The system redefines security as a consequence of dignity and abundance. Crime and violence are treated as symptoms of an unjust system based on artificial scarcity and need. By guaranteeing universal material well‑being through the Planetary Dividend, the causes of insecurity are attacked, not just its effects. The basic assumption is that no one resorts to violence out of necessity if their survival is covered.
“True security does not derive from police controls but from abundance, dignity, and the elimination of artificial scarcity.”
This vision of security based on well‑being extends to protection from everyday risks such as illness or accidents.
7. The End of Private Insurance: A System that Mutualizes Risk, Not Fear
The manifesto describes the private insurance industry as a “cancer” whose business model rests on a perverse contradiction: charging as much as possible in premiums while paying as little as possible in claims, profiting from insecurity and denial of coverage.
The demarchic system completely eliminates private insurance and replaces it with two universal, automatic funds: the “Common Health Fund (FSC)” for everything related to healthcare, and the “Solidarity Risk Fund (FSR)” for everything else (property, civil liability, accidents, etc.). These funds are automatically financed from the Common Fund, with no individual premiums or contracts in fine print.
The change in incentives is total. With no profit motive, the system focuses on prevention and real coverage. The goal is to minimize claims and maximize well‑being, not maximize returns for shareholders. This would generate a “massive benign deflation”, since the hidden cost of insurance premiums, currently embedded in the price of almost all goods and services, would disappear entirely.
The Common Health Fund, in particular, promises one of the system’s most profound revolutions.
8. Old Age Is a Curable Disease (and We Will Eliminate It)
Perhaps the most provocative idea of the Common Health Fund is its ultimate goal: to treat aging not as an inevitable fate, but as a disease that can and must be cured.
The logic is simple. The current healthcare system thrives on managing chronic illness, not curing it. A cured patient is a lost customer. By eliminating this business model, the FSC frees an immense amount of resources and incentives to pursue definitive cures. Aging— a set of specific biochemical processes already identified by science (accumulation of senescent cells, telomere shortening, epigenetic disorder)— becomes the main target of research.
The existential implications are monumental. A human life extended to centuries would completely transform our relationship with knowledge, intergenerational responsibility, and life cycles. The manifesto projects that, with the help of Artificial General Intelligence and Superintelligence (AGI/ASI), this milestone could be reached in decades, not centuries.
To sustain this level of investment and prosperity, the system must be immune to the mathematical error that, according to the manifesto, condemns our current economy to cyclical collapse.
9. Compound Interest Is a Mathematical Error: Idle Money Evaporates
Compound interest is often celebrated as the eighth wonder of the world. This manifesto presents it as a “mathematical tyranny”, a formula of exponential growth that inevitably collides with the finite reality of the physical world, acting as the root cause of cyclical economic crises.
The demarchic solution is the abolition of compound interest as the engine of the economy and its replacement with “Selective Oxidation” (or demurrage). This mechanism is simple: liquid capital that remains idle (not invested in the real economy) undergoes a constant, automatic depreciation, for example, of 1% per month.
Its purpose is not only to prevent debt crises. Its true genius is social: it forces capital to flow constantly. Out of sheer self‑interest, the wealthiest become the largest investors in the next generation, creating a “rain of capital” that prevents the ossification of power and wealth. Hoarding becomes the worst possible financial strategy. Money must move to preserve its value, which perpetually vitalizes the economy.
This rule, like all the others, is not a moralistic imposition, but the application of a fundamental physical principle.
10. Designing Society with a Law of Physics: The Principle of Least Action
If there is one idea that functions as the “genetic code” of the entire system, it is this one. The Principle of Least Action is a fundamental law of the universe: light, water, and planets always follow the path of least resistance to get from one point to another. A well‑designed society should do the same.
The principle means designing systems where personal benefit and the collective good are naturally aligned, making cooperation always more advantageous and easier than conflict. The task of social design is not to force people to go “uphill” through morality or coercion, but to redesign the landscape of incentives so that the desirable path is the easiest and most natural to follow.
This principle is key to understanding why all the previous mechanisms are designed as they are. AU50, Enlightened Self‑Interest, or Selective Oxidation are not moral rules imposed to create perfect citizens. Their genius lies in being carefully designed “channels” that direct predictable human self‑interest towards positive‑sum outcomes. Virtue is achieved without constant heroic effort, because the system is aligned with human nature, not at war with it.
“The best‑conceived system is one where doing the right thing feels as natural as walking down a gentle slope— a movement that happens almost by itself, without constant friction or resistance.”
This is the unifying philosophy that turns ten radical ideas into a coherent system.
Conclusion
These ten ideas, although they may seem drawn from science fiction, form an integrated and coherent system designed to tackle at the root some of the most fundamental problems of our time: inequality, corruption, conflict, and political paralysis. Their value does not lie in their immediate viability, but in their ability to expand our political imagination and show that the institutional architectures we take for granted are not the only ones possible. After all, what if the problems we face are not unsolvable, but simply demand that we dare to change the rules of the game altogether?
1. End of Economic Slavery: The Planetary Dividend (DP)
The deepest and most transformative benefit of Demarchy is the eradication of existential blackmail—the mechanism that forces you to work under any conditions in order to avoid hunger or illness.
This is achieved through the re-founding of property:
• You are a Co-owner of the Planet: The Earth and its resources (minerals, water, electromagnetic spectrum) belong to no one, and therefore are the equitable and inalienable property of every living human being. You are born as a legitimate shareholder of the world.
• Your Income by Right: From this co-ownership arises the Planetary Dividend (DP), a guaranteed monthly income that more than covers your basic needs. The PD is not charity nor a Universal Basic Income (UBI) dependent on political will, but rather the profit that corresponds to you for the use others make of your common patrimony.
• Vocational Freedom: With your livelihood guaranteed, work ceases to be a sentence and becomes an expression of your purpose and vocation. You are free to dedicate yourself to creativity, science or community care. The Homo Socius (the collaborative human) emerges, freed from fear and anxiety.
2. Goodbye to Inflation and Taxes: Your Money Will Be Worth More
Demarchy reverses the economic burdens that today inflate the cost of living. The current system is described as a "parasitic cancer" because it imposes useless frictions, making everything cost between 80% and 95% more than it really should.
Structural Deflation by Design:
- End of Taxes: Taxes such as VAT, income tax and corporate tax disappear completely. The community is financed through automatic mechanisms of societal participation (AU50) and usage royalties (RUAC), without fiscal coercion.
- Abolition of Compound Interest: The tyranny of compound interest is eliminated, because it makes abstract debt grow faster than real wealth, guaranteeing cyclical crises. The elimination of bank interest by itself reduces the final cost of any product or service by between 20% and 40%.
- Death of Bureaucracy and Insurance: The automation of the Administration of the Commons (AdC) by ASI (Artificial Superintelligence) and the replacement of private insurance companies with the Solidarity Risk Fund (FSR) remove layers of parasitic cost, freeing up billions of hours of human energy.
The result of eliminating these extractions is that your purchasing power skyrockets.
3. The Selfishness that Builds Paradise: Mutual Interdependence
Demarchy channels individual ambition so that it works in favour of the collective, a concept called Intelligent Selfishness.
- Universal 50% Partnership (AU50): If you have an idea, humanity becomes your automatic 50% partner. The Common Fund capitalizes you, giving you access to robots and advanced AI. You keep 50% of the profits, tax-free, and the other 50% returns to the Common Fund.
- End of Catastrophic Risk: If your project fails honestly, the FSR and the Common Fund absorb most of the loss, turning failure into a "lesson learned collectively".
- High Tide Effect: Your personal wealth increases automatically when the planet prospers. This happens because the number of UVUs (Universal Value Unit, the single currency) is fixed. When innovation, ecological restoration, or your neighbour’s success increase the Total Planetary Value, your fraction (your UVU) is worth more.
Your smartest financial strategy is to make sure your neighbour and the community are doing well.
4. Governance without Tyranny: Citizens in Command
The political system is designed for civilizational survival by ensuring that no one can capture AI technology.
- End of Professional Politicians: The political caste is replaced by Citizens’ Assemblies selected by sortition. Ordinary citizens, randomly chosen for short terms (one month), define the ethical and strategic WHAT.
- Expert Execution: Professional Managers (hired on merit) execute the technical HOW, assisted by an ASI (Artificial Superintelligence). AI is a neutral tool, not a master.
- Anti-Capture Architecture: The combination of sortition, mandatory rotation, and Radical Transparency (every decision and economic flow is visible on the blockchain) makes corruption structurally impossible. No one can bribe someone who has not yet been selected.
- Final Shield: Extended longevity (projected with the Longevity Revolution) turns fraud into a strategic suicide, since the person responsible would live for centuries to face the consequences of their destroyed reputation (Trust Capital).
5. The Liberation of Your Existence
Demarchy is not just economy or politics; it is an existential transformation.
- Your Time Reclaimed: The elimination of bureaucracy, the end of mortgage slavery (housing will cost the equivalent of 1–3 years of PD, with no interest), and the eradication of forced labour free up decades of your life to dedicate to purpose, creation, science or family.
- Universal Perfect Health: Priority investment in the Common Health Fund (FSC) removes patents and accelerates science to defeat disease and old age, making optimal health a universal and free right.
- Structural Peace: Demarchy eliminates the causes of war (nationalisms, scarcity, extraction), turning conflict into an obsolete pathology of the Homo Debitum.
Demarchy is like changing your civilization’s operating system from an old piece of software, full of bugs and viruses (blackmail, interest, corruption), to an open-source, transparent and self-optimizing code, where every user is a co-developer and errors become systemic learning.
Explore Demarchy by Thematic Areas
Philosophical Foundations
Understand why Demarchy is necessary and how it is grounded:
- Classical Athens – The inspiration for Planetary Demarchy
- Theoretical Foundations – Theoretical foundations of Planetary Demarchy
- Systemic Change Strategy – Process of gradual, peaceful and organic transformation
- Green Ribbon – Strategic tool for social transformation
- Glossary of Key Terms – Core terms regularly used in Demarchy
- History of Demarchy – A journey through the history of demarchy up to the present day
- Planetary Demarchic Constitution – Draft constitutional text for the establishment of Demarchy across the planet.
Diagnosis of the Current System
- Prologue to Demarchy – Invitation to reflect
- Crisis of Representative Democracy – Diagnosis of the present
- Bullshit Jobs – Jobs that are useless or harmful to society and the individual
- The Problem: Convergence between Power and Technology – Tools that enable large-scale manipulation
Analysis of the Conditioned Individual
- Homo Debitum – Who we are today
- Fear Engine – Motivational system driving Homo Debitum
- Collective PTSD – Systemic psychological trauma in today’s society
- The Cancer of Education, Tool of Domestication – How to free the potential of our minds from youth
- Learned Helplessness – Psychological state of learned powerlessness
- Existential Blackmail – How the system coerces us
- Cognitive Dissonance – Mechanism that turns victims into defenders of the system
Foundations of Individual Liberation
- Homo Socius – Who we can become
- Hope Engine – Motivational system driving Homo Socius
- Independent Thought – Overcoming conditioning
- Cognitive Sovereignty – The right not to be mentally overwhelmed
- Enlightened Self-Interest – Self-interest that leads to cooperation
- Zero-Sum vs Positive-Sum – Paradigms of social interaction
Mathematical and Architectural Principles
- Constructive Aggregation – Radical method for collective deliberation
- Principle of Least Action – The fundamental law of design
- Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem and Demarchy – Limitations of voting systems
- Condorcet’s Jury Theorem and Demarchy – Power of collective intelligence
- Wisdom of Crowds and Demarchy – Accurate predictions from large groups
- Game Theory in Demarchy – Rules that align incentives with the common good
Economic System
The architecture that aligns individual prosperity with collective well-being:
- Planetary Dividend – Your income as a co-owner
- Universal 50% Partnership – How every enterprise benefits everyone
- Tax-Free Economy – Automatic and transparent contribution
- Tokenized Economy – Demarchy’s nervous system
- Total Tokenization – Money that reflects reality
- Selective Oxidation – Incentives that keep capital flowing
- RUAC – Royalties for using common resources
- Universal Planetary Co-ownership (CPU) – Foundation of property
- Universal Value Unit (UVU) – Economic measurement unit anchored to real value
- Trust Capital (CdC) – Metric of reputation and integrity
- Osmotic Balance – Automatic alignment of incentives with sustainability
- Real Investment Market (MIR) – Platform for productive investment
- Free Market and Competition in Demarchy – Competition transformed into collective excellence
- Solidarity Risk Fund (FSR) – Sharing honest losses collectively
Governance
How collective decisions are organized without permanent elites:
- Citizens’ Assemblies – Democracy by sortition
- Independent Auditors – Comprehensive and technical oversight
- Administration of the Commons – Professional managers under supervision
- Demarchic Governance – Complete structure of the system
- Artificial Intelligence in Governance – Impartial assistance in decision-making
- Pillars of Demarchy – The nine foundations
- Anti-Capture Design – Structures that prevent concentration of power
- Information Markets (MI) – Objective oversight and amplification of collective intelligence
- Separation of Powers in Demarchy – Redesign to make concentration impossible
- Total Transparency and Verifiability – Antidote to corruption and fraud
- Multidimensional Voting and Demarchy – Decision-making that preserves complexity
- Citizen Super-Jury – Ethical court composed of citizens
Technology and Infrastructure
The tools that make the system possible:
- Common Vault – Digital sovereignty and radical transparency
- Principle of Citizen Sovereignty over Data – Citizen monopoly over personal information (formerly Principle of Citizen Monopoly of Information)
- Total Tokenization – Digital representation of value
- Artificial General Intelligence – AGI as a public assistant
- ASI-AdC – Superintelligence in common management
- Blockchain and Demarchy – Digital nervous system of civilization
- Common Health Fund (FSC) – Biotechnological management of health
- Guardian Angel AI – Protection of individual and collective sovereignty
- Longevity Revolution – Abolishing disease and ageing
Law and Justice
The legal framework that protects sovereignty:
- Planetary Demarchic Constitution – Draft constitutional text for the establishment of Demarchy across the planet.
- Natural Law and Demarchy – Ethical anchoring of the system
- Axiomatic Law – Legal system structured like mathematics
- Judicial System in Demarchy – Autonomous body under citizen authority
- Separation of Powers in Demarchy – Redesign to make concentration impossible
- System of Legal Responsibilities in Demarchy – Restorative and preventive justice
- Pharmaceutical Regulation of Drugs: Axiomatic Basis in Demarchy and the Collapse of Organized Crime – Focus on evidence and public health
- Draft Regulation of RUAC – Example draft regulation on how to apply RUAC
Culture and Society
Human transformation in the post-scarcity era:
- Post-Scarcity Evolution in Demarchy – Towards a society of abundance
- Demarchic Culture – Creative explosion and diversity
- Vision 2070 – The projected future of Demarchy
- Work in the New Post-Labour Era – Liberation from forced labour
No leaders. No hierarchies. Only free minds designing a civilization for when machines do our work. What will happen to billions of people without jobs?
The current system has no answer. We do.
Planetary Demarchy:
- A New Operating System for a New Human Civilization
- A Social Architecture Model Built from Scratch for a Post‑Scarcity Future.
- Where there is no “us” versus “them”. Only a “we”.
- A world designed from logic, reason and common sense.
- You are free to collaborate on the project.
The Origin of the Term: Democracy without Kratos
The term demarchy comes from the Greek demos (people) + arché (principle, government), but without kratos (coercive power, domination).
While "demo‑cracy" literally means "power of the people", "dem‑archy" means "government that emanates from the people" without implying domination. It is a subtle but fundamental distinction: it is not about the people exercising power over others, but about government arising organically from the population through sortition.
Classical Athens
In Classical Athens (5th–4th centuries BCE), most public offices were assigned by lot, not by election. The Greeks understood that:
- Voting is aristocratic: it favours the most eloquent, charismatic and wealthy
- Sortition is democratic: it genuinely represents the people in their diversity
Sortition ensured that any citizen —regardless of their rhetorical skill or wealth— could participate in government. For centuries, election was seen as an oligarchic mechanism disguised as democratic.
The difference today is that Artificial Intelligence makes this system viable on a planetary scale, something technically impossible in Antiquity.
→ See also: Civic sortition • History of demarchy
What Is Planetary Demarchy?
The Planetary Demarchy did not arise as a traditional system with a founding date and formal constitution.
In Planetary Demarchy there are no leaders and no commanders. It is a horizontal network of free thinkers without hierarchy.
It is, above all, a current of thought that emerges as a response to the convergence of multiple systemic crises and the imminent arrival of transformative technologies such as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) and massive automation.
Its history is not one of battles won or parliaments conquered, but of an idea that germinates in the minds of those who understand that the current system cannot survive the future that is coming and who wish to create a better world.
It is a civilizational project of planetary scope that is being built from thought to action, from the individual to the collective, from reflection to transformation.
It does not seek to conquer power, but to dissolve it, so that power is, as it always should have been, in the hands of everyone. And it does not plan to achieve this through protests or uprisings but through conversational contagion, from person to person. Like a benign virus for which there is no vaccine. The virus of common sense that spreads throughout the world, making the current system irrelevant.
Declared Foundational Principles:
Declared Foundational Principles:
- Individual Freedom with Collective Responsibility
- Universal Planetary Co‑ownership: Earth is the equitable heritage of all
- Equality of Sovereignty: No one rules anyone; everyone co‑administers the commons
- Mutual Interdependence: We are all partners with everyone. Universal 50% Partnership (AU50)
- Governance by Sortition: The Citizens' Assembly (AsC) supervises professional managers
- Radical Transparency: Planetary blockchain, total tokenization
- Incentive Architecture: Intelligent self‑interest builds the common good
- Preparation for AGI: Distributed structures, not concentration of power
- Non‑violent Transition: Peaceful, gradual, modular change
Governance Structure
The system proposes to replace the state and professional politicians with the Association of Co‑owners of the Planet managed by Citizens' Assemblies selected by lot (rotating and AI‑assisted), which set the ethical direction and supervise Professional Managers who are responsible for technical execution.
Economic Architecture
Economically, it is based on a tokenized and transparent economy, with a single currency, the Universal Value Unit (UVU), anchored to the value of the planet, where:
- The Planetary Dividend (PD) ensures an income for the co‑ownership of the world to every citizen of the planet
- Financing mechanisms such as Selective Oxidation, RUAC and the Universal 50% Partnership (AU50) channel individual self‑interest towards the collective good
- Nations and armies disappear; taxes, interest, financial speculation and precarity are eradicated
Systemic Advantages
It stands out for its adaptability and superiority in risk management and the elimination of corruption through real‑time radical transparency based on blockchain.
It is not just a system of government or an isolated economic model: it is an integral institutional architecture that simultaneously redefines:
- How we govern (civic sortition + AI as advisor)
- How we produce wealth (AU50 + MIR + universal automation)
- How we distribute resources (Planetary Dividend as a right)
- How we organize territorially (ecological bioregions)
- How we relate to power (rotation that prevents capture)
It is the technical blueprint of a post‑labour civilization where no human being can concentrate power, not even temporarily; where robotic abundance is distributed as a structural right; and where survival does not depend on employment but on the planetary co‑ownership that yields a dividend by right of ownership to every human being without exception.
In essence: a social operating system for the post‑scarcity era.
→ See also: Theoretical foundations
The Purpose: A Civilizational Fire Extinguisher
Planetary Demarchy is born from prudent anticipation, not from technological rejection.
If we are going to coexist with automated systems that will manage resources, infrastructures and decisions at speeds that surpass human deliberation, we must ensure that no person or group can control them permanently.
It is like a fire extinguisher: we hope never to need it, but it would be irresponsible not to design it before the fire. And the moment for design is now, while we can still choose how to integrate AI into our power structures.
The purpose is threefold:
- To prevent the irreversible concentration of power when AI manages critical infrastructure
- To radically democratize the economy through universal cooperation (AU50)
- To create post‑labour abundance where human creativity flourishes without the need for traditional jobs
→ See also: Transition and strategy • ASI-AdC
The Problem: Convergence between Power and Technology
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History teaches us that power corrupts. But it is no longer just a moral observation: neuroscience confirms that the prolonged exercise of authority alters brain biology, reducing empathy and distorting perception of reality.
No human being should carry a power that will inevitably transform them. And this vulnerability, which for centuries was problematic, becomes existential when the person affected controls automated systems capable of managing entire societies.
The institutional design window is open, but not indefinitely.
→ See also: Power corrupts • Crisis of representative democracy
How It Works: Institutional Mechanisms
Planetary Demarchy does not appeal to human goodness nor does it expect enlightened leaders. Instead, it deploys institutional mechanisms that make the concentration of power structurally impossible.
The Three Pillars of Governance
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You cannot capture what does not yet exist Citizens' assemblies selected randomly. A real statistical representation of the population. Temporary rotation: you serve and then return to your life. The Assembly is not a symbolic consultative body; it exercises real sovereign power in three fundamental areas: 1. Strategic Direction:
2. Institutional Oversight:
3. Grand Citizens' Jury (Super Citizens' Jury): This is the Assembly's most radical and transformative power:
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Professional Managers constitute the executive‑legislative arm of Planetary Demarchy, providing technical knowledge and implementation capacity at the service of citizen‑defined priorities.
Experts at the Service of the Common Good:
Meritocratic and Transparent Selection:
Direct, Measurable Accountability:
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Auditors are the oversight mechanism that guarantees the integrity, efficiency and transparency of the executive power, acting as a bridge between technical complexity and citizen understanding.
Specialized, Independent Oversight:
Preventive and Corrective Role:
Cognitive Mediation:
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Levels of Government
| Level | Scope | Duration | Participants | Decisions |
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| Local | Community (10K–100K inhabitants) | 30 days | 50–150 | Services, education, culture |
| Bioregional | Natural ecosystem | 30 days | 300–500 | Resources, biodiversity, infrastructure |
| Continental | Large region | 30 days | 1,000 | Inter‑regional coordination, migration |
| Planetary | Global issues | 30 days | 1 per million inhabitants | Climate, ASI, space exploration |
Each level operates through assemblies selected by lot that deliberate for 30 days, vote and then their members return to their ordinary life. New assemblies are drawn for the next cycle. No one has any power. In fact, not even the individual assembly members have any power. The Assembly has power; the members do not.
→ See also: Governance levels
Anti‑Capture Mechanisms
- Sortition makes it impossible to capture representatives who do not yet exist
- Temporal rotation (30 days) prevents political professionalization and entrenchment
- AI as advisor amplifies collective intelligence without creating new hierarchies
- Open‑source code and permanent citizen algorithm audits
- Right to human veto over any automated decision
- Education in cognitive sovereignty: everyone learns to oversee complex systems
→ See also: Oversight • Cognitive sovereignty
What the Post‑Labour Economy Will Be Like in the Automation Era
The Fundamental Pillars of the New Social Contract
Demarchy rests on an architecture defined by several key principles that shape the new relationship between individual and collective. The structure is summarized into nine pillars, or axioms built on three philosophical foundations (Co‑ownership, Equality and Mutual Interdependence).
A. The Refoundation of Property and the Economy
A. The Refoundation of Property and the Economy
This dimension addresses how wealth is generated and distributed to guarantee Effective Citizen Sovereignty.
- Universal Planetary Co‑ownership (CPU)
- The Earth and all its natural resources (tangible and intangible) are the heritage of humanity and therefore equitable and inalienable property of every living human being. The citizen is not a tenant but the legitimate co‑owner of the world.
- Universal 50% Partnership (AU50)
- We are all partners with everyone else, in a fair 50/50 partnership between the individual and humanity. 50% of the planet's profits flow automatically to the Common Fund (CF).
- Planetary Dividend (PD)
- This is the income that corresponds to every citizen for their co‑ownership and for the profits generated by AU50 and other levies. It is not aid or welfare, but the return that corresponds to you for the use others make of your property. This PD guarantees an existence free from economic anxiety.
- Post‑Scarcity Evolution
- The system is designed to scale into a future where superintelligent AI (ASI) generates abundance. Shared ownership ensures that technological progress enriches everyone by design, dissolving the fear of a future dominated by automation elites.
The AU50 mechanism radically inverts today's economic logic: (Universal 50% Partnership)
The mechanism to foster entrepreneurship, AU50 (Universal 50% Partnership), works as follows:
Today: You need your own capital or to go into debt; if you cannot → you work for an employer → you receive a salary (45–60% goes in taxes) → the employer captures part of the value you generate.
In Demarchy:
- The Common Fund capitalizes you first (access to robots, AI, infrastructure, land)
- You produce whatever you want without debt, bosses or bureaucracy
- You keep 50% tax‑free
- The other 50% returns to the Common Fund that capitalized you
- That Fund generates the Planetary Dividend for everyone (including you)
It is not a tax: it is the return on an investment that made you a partner.
Practical example:
You want to grow food. The Common Fund provides you with:
- Access to automated agricultural drones
- Land without speculative rent
- AI that optimizes crops
- Robotic logistics for distribution
All without debt, bureaucracy or permission from anyone.
You produce and sell. You generate 100,000 units of value.
- 50,000 are yours, tax‑free (vs. today, where you would keep 30–40 after taxes)
- 50,000 return to the Fund that capitalized you
As an entrepreneur: That 50% does not go to "freeloaders"; it goes to your investors, who are the rest of the citizens: it feeds the same system that gave you access to technology worth millions. Moreover, you also receive Planetary Dividend from the 50% that everyone else contributes.
As a citizen: You are not a parasite; you are a co‑investor together with the rest of humanity, contributing capital to projects that need it.
→ See also: Universal 50% Partnership • Solidarity Risk Fund • Tokenized Economy
Planetary Dividend vs. Universal Basic Income
The Planetary Dividend is not "social aid": it is the return on your structural participation in the common economy. You are a shareholder of the planet from birth. It cannot be conditioned, politicized or withdrawn because it does not depend on the benevolence of any government but on your inalienable right over common resources and collective productivity.
Many propose a Universal Basic Income (UBI) as the solution to technological unemployment. But UBI has a structural problem: it is conditional alms.
| 💸 Universal Basic Income (UBI) | 🌍 Planetary Dividend |
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It is generated automatically from four sources: (1) Royalties for natural resources (your share of Earth) (2) Your participation as "co‑partner" in AU50 (Universal 50% Partnership) (3) 50% of your work and projects (4) Selective Oxidation of accumulated capital
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Planetary Dividend Distribution Table (AU50 Only, Based on Current National Incomes)
How much would you receive this month if the Planetary Dividend, segmented by macro‑economies, were already implemented? If administration were already optimized, this table would reflect what each of us could be receiving today as Planetary Dividend.
| Economic Bloc | Real Wealth Generated per Year* (Billions/Trillions) |
Population (Millions) |
Structural Retention (Maintenance + Development) |
Net Monthly Dividend Per Person |
For a Family of 4 Per Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇪🇺 Eurozone | 11.25 € | 351 | 5.0% | 1,268.52 € | 5,074.08 € |
| 🇺🇸 USMCA | 21.00 $ | 500 | 6.0% | 1,645.00 $ | 6,580 $ |
| 🇨🇳 China | 13.50 $ | 1,400 | 8.0% | 369.64 $ | 1,478.56 $ |
| 🇮🇳 India | 2.80 $ | 1,400 | 10.0% | 75.00 $ | 3,600 $ |
| 🌍 Africa | 2.10 $ | 1,400 | 12.0% | 55.00 $ | 220 $ |
This table does not fully reflect reality because, once the extra costs derived from taxes, insurance premiums, interest, financial speculation are eliminated and land is considered common property, the purchasing power of money triples.
- (*) Note on Variable Retention:
- The administrative‑bureaucratic cost is below 1% everywhere (without politicians or human management). Retention reflects the physical cost necessary for the system:
- Mature Blocs (EU/USA): Retention is minimal (5–6%) because their infrastructures (roads, energy, networks) are already built; it is basically a Maintenance and Improvement cost.
- Developing Blocs (India/Africa): Retention is temporarily higher (10–12%) because they require aggressive investment in Construction (automation and new infrastructure) to raise productivity. As they develop, this percentage will fall until it matches that of the West.
The Planetary Dividend is not "social aid": it is the return on your structural participation in the common economy. You are a shareholder of the planet from birth. It cannot be conditioned, politicized or withdrawn because it does not depend on the benevolence of any government, but on your inalienable right over common resources and collective productivity.
→ See also: Planetary Dividend vs UBI • Common Vault • Selective Oxidation
From Private Ownership of the Planet to Planetary Co‑ownership
- Natural resources (minerals, water, electromagnetic spectrum) = common heritage of humanity
- Administered by bioregions with AI as neutral manager
- Eliminates speculation, hoarding and destructive extraction
- Every human being is a shareholder of the planet from birth
→ See also: Common Vault • Trust Capital (CdC)
How This Idea Spreads: Viral without Confrontation
How Do We Get Millions to Accept Such a Radical Change?
Not through violent revolution. That generates resistance and backlash. Not through legal imposition. That feeds rejection.
Through conversational contagion.
We do not seek to conquer power. We seek to dissolve it, so that it returns to where it always should have been: in the hands of everyone.
Through conversational contagion.
We do not seek to conquer power. We seek to dissolve it, so that it returns to where it always should have been: in the hands of everyone.
And we will not achieve it with protests or barricades, but person by person. Conversation by conversation. Like a benign virus that requires no violence, no permits and for which there is no vaccine.
The virus of common sense.
It spreads silently, making the current system not an enemy to be defeated, but something progressively irrelevant. Because when enough people awaken to an idea whose time has come, obsolete structures simply… fade away.
The Mechanism of Change
When the idea begins to spread and a good number of people already know it >30%, someone starts using a symbol (a green ribbon). This triggers new conversations, the idea spreads, others adopt it.
Many are sceptical about real change, but the green ribbon whispers: “Why not?” As the fire begins to spread, many more see it as a real possibility; politicians promise something vague, but every day it becomes more obvious that they are not going to help.Many remain sceptical about real change, but the green ribbon whispers: “Why not?” As the fire begins to spread, many more see it as a real possibility; politicians promise something vague, but each day it becomes clearer that they are not going to help.
Amid mass layoffs and the lack of satisfactory solutions, the light from a door left slightly ajar grows brighter, and those who doubted seek that exit.
Over the months, the Green Ribbon becomes a collective identity of hope. Now the symbol is everywhere: on bracelets, backpacks, windows, clothes. No one can ignore such a visibly massive movement.
The first change
The vast majority of the population already knows about Demarchy and the number of enthusiasts is very large. But so far there have only been conversations among friends; nothing "real" has happened. And that's how it must be. For now, there is nothing to do but talk.
But here is the crucial point:
The move from a government of politicians to a demarchic one will NOT occur little by little, winning council seats or parliamentary benches. It will be a quantum leap. From nothing to everything.
It happens when you reach a critical threshold —approximately >65% of an entire nation desiring change— where something psychological and structural shifts.
When you walk through any city street and see that more than half the people wear the ribbon, that is the moment.
The situation flips; what was utopian becomes inevitable and accelerates.
Then someone says:
"The 15th of not next month, but the month after, will be like a holiday.
No one will work. We will all go out to ask civil servants to take power, as they do in inter‑electoral periods, but not to prepare ballot boxes – to prepare a lottery to choose the first 1,000 assembly members."
Up to that moment, the strategy was individual, with conversational contagion person to person, without protests or demonstrations.
Now, with more than 65% support, it is time to organize into groups for the big day when we all go out and make noise to mobilize the undecided.
Making It Visible with the Green Ribbon (Near Future)
Transition Signal
When, in your immediate environment, the majority knows about Demarchy (even if not all support it yet), the movement moves into Stage 2.
The Symbol: Green Ribbon
Function:
- Mutual recognition among supporters
- Visibility of growing support (breaks the illusion of isolation)
- Rekindling hope among those who doubt
- Non‑confrontational message (only collective identity)
Why the colour green:
- Associated with life, renewal, nature
- Not captured by traditional left‑right polarization
- Visible yet discreet
Function:
- Mutual recognition among supporters
- Visibility of growing support (breaks the illusion of isolation)
- Rekindling hope among those who doubt
- Non‑confrontational message (only collective identity)
Why the colour green:
- Associated with life, renewal, nature
- Not captured by traditional left‑right polarization
- Visible yet discreet
It Is Still Not Time To…
In Stage 2, we still DO NOT do:
- ❌ Demonstrations
- ❌ Beware: there are no leaders and never will be; if someone pins a badge on themselves as leader, what they are selling is not Planetary Demarchy
- ❌ Nor is there centralized organization; if someone wants to sell that as Planetary Demarchy they are deceiving you
- ❌ There is and will be no direct confrontation with the system
- ❌ There is and will be no list of political demands. We will not ask politicians for anything nor expect anything from them. When the moment comes, they will simply be ignored. As if they did not exist
Psychological Effect of the Symbol
When the green ribbon begins to appear everywhere:
- People can no longer ignore such a visibly massive movement
- Hesitant citizens gain confidence ("I am no longer alone")
- The current system begins to lose perceived legitimacy
- Social contagion accelerates ("if so many people support it, it must have something")
Stage 3: Massive Peaceful Mobilization (Indeterminate Future)
Transition Signal
When the green ribbon is seen everywhere. When you notice that the majority wears it (>50%).
The Decisive Action
At a certain point someone says: the 15th of not next month, but the month after
That Day: Peaceful Paralysis of Economic Activity
The Threshold of Change
The game changes when:
- More than 65% of the population understand and accept the pillars of Demarchy
- Around 50% publicly display their collective identity at some point
- Due to group influence, many join and others switch sides when they see themselves as losers
- Those who are not convinced do not oppose the majority
- When the day comes, tacit support exceeds 90%
The legitimacy of the previous system dissolves, not because it has been destroyed, but because it has ceased to be relevant.
It is judo, not wrestling; you use the system's own inertia against it.
La legitimidad del sistema anterior se disuelve, no porque haya sido destruido, sino porque ha dejado de ser relevante.
Es judo, no lucha; utilizas la inercia del sistema en su contra.
The Big Day
- It is treated like a holiday
- No one goes to work
- For that day, it is recommended to organize into small groups of friends and make banners
- Everyone goes peacefully to the town square or the most emblematic place in their neighbourhood, with ribbons and banners
Clear, Technical Demand
The system and its current representatives are ignored and
- Civil servants are asked to assume the leadership of the country, as they do in inter‑electoral periods, and to take on the role of Demarchic Managers. Civil servants become Managers.
- They are asked to organize, within the next 45 days, the first lottery of 1,000 citizens for a Constituent Assembly and another 1,000 for the first Sovereign Citizens' Assembly with extraordinary Super Jury powers to grant amnesties or to judge politicians and their entourage.
- They are asked to prepare a binding referendum to formally ratify the transition to Demarchy
- Transparent implementation schedule
The message to the established power is:
- Politicians who resign and do not interfere, or who support the transition, will be granted full amnesty and a generous pension so that they do not feel harmed. Their past will not be questioned and they will not be bothered.
- This amnesty will also extend to other private actors such as media, business magnates, financiers and lobbies who remain on the sidelines or support the transition.
In the month and a half leading up to day D, it is essential to make as much noise as possible and to take maximum advantage of the situation. Wear the green ribbon—on your jacket, backpack or car—hang something green from windows and balconies, place a green ribbon in email signatures and profile pictures on social networks, etc.
Given the climate of the moment and the classic tendency of the "system's stakeholders" to abandon a sinking ship, I estimate that by that day tacit support will exceed 90%.
→ See also: Strategy for systemic change • The Green Ribbon • Critical mass thresholds
Why This Action Will Succeed
Support >90%: Impossible to repress or ignore. Soldiers and police are part of the people.
Non‑violence: Total moral legitimacy. The system no longer has the capacity to repress; it has no support, nor can it justify repression.
Clear, technical demand: Sortition + referendum (it is not a revolutionary coup; it is an administrative procedure).
Transversal unity: Not left vs. right, but citizenry vs. obsolete system.
Non‑violence: Total moral legitimacy. The system no longer has capacity to repress; it has no support and cannot justify repression.
Clear, technical demand: Sortition + referendum (not a revolutionary coup, but an administrative procedure).
Transversal unity: Not left vs. right, but citizenry vs. obsolete system.
From that moment on, authority is recognized in those civil servants who take the reins of administration. Orders from the political sphere are ignored as if they did not exist.
The Mechanism: Institutionalized Indifference
The previous system is not overthrown violently. It simply ceases to be relevant when:
- Civil servants organize the lottery because the majority wants it
- Soldiers do not repress a movement that represents their families
- Police officers join because they are part of the people
- Politicians discover that no one listens to them anymore
What is a president when the absolute majority decides that their role simply does not exist?
What is a minister's order when civil servants, police and soldiers —who are part of the people— decide to ignore it as if it had never been spoken?
Historical Precedent: Fall of the Berlin Wall and Many Others
This kind of change has occurred historically:
- 9 November 1989: The fall of the Berlin Wall was not due to military invasion; it happened because millions of people decided the barrier made no sense and crossed it. Governments trying to maintain it discovered they could not when the majority refused to respect it.
- Independence of India (1947): Led by Mahatma Gandhi, independence resulted from decades of non‑violent resistance and civil disobedience, such as the Salt March of 1930. The Indian people challenged British rule through mass protests and boycotts without resorting to direct violence.
- "Autumn of Nations" (1989, Eastern Europe): Non‑violent popular movements in cities such as Prague (Velvet Revolution), Berlin, Budapest and Bucharest put an end to communist regimes. The accumulation of social pressure made it impossible for governments to repress the majority.
- End of Apartheid in South Africa (1990): The non‑violent resistance movement, with Nelson Mandela as its symbol, succeeded in having the system of racial segregation dismantled, by building massive support and international pressure. Even the repressive apparatus ended up joining or disobeying orders to crack down.
- Orange Revolution in Ukraine (2004): Massive and peaceful civic protests, together with organized civil resistance, forced the repetition of fraudulent presidential elections, altering the system without violence.
- Fall of dictator Martínez in El Salvador (1944): The dictator's resignation was achieved through organized non‑violent actions and mass demonstrations, without military intervention.
- Civil Rights Movement in the USA: Civil disobedience (marches, sit‑ins, occupation of buildings) led by university students brought key advances against racial segregation and the Vietnam War without massive use of violence.
- Women's peace movement in Liberia (2003): A group of women persevered in non‑violent protests until they forced the president to negotiate peace, bringing the conflict to an end.
- Velvet Revolution (Czechoslovakia, 1989): Massive non‑violent demonstrations led to the fall of the communist regime after weeks of civil disobedience.
In all these cases, governments discovered that they could not maintain the system when the majority decided not to respect it, and the key was non‑violent action, mass disobedience and the construction of legitimacy from the social base.
The Evaporation of Legitimacy
At that point, the current system collapses not due to external force, but through the disappearance of legitimacy. It is simply ignored.
What is a president when the absolute majority decides that their role simply does not exist? What is a minister's order when civil servants, police and soldiers —who are part of the people— decide to ignore it as if it had never been pronounced?
They had power because we gave it to them; now we do not.
It is not dramatic civil disobedience. It is something quieter and more powerful: indifference.
"What, the president says it? As if the wind said it. I don't care."
Civil servants begin to apply the new rules, organizing the lottery for the first Citizens' Assembly that will help draft the new constitution,
not because they are receiving orders from above, but because the majority of the population wants them and it makes sense to do so.
Soldiers do not repress a movement that represents their own families, neighbours, children.
The previous system is not overthrown; it is simply ignored until it no longer exists.
If they want, the old politicians may remain in their useless parliaments; nobody will throw them out, but nobody will pay attention to them.
Historical Precedent
This has happened before. The fall of the Berlin Wall was not due to a military invasion; it occurred because millions of people decided that the barrier made no sense and crossed it. Governments that tried to maintain it discovered that they could not when the majority refused to respect it.
The difference with Demarchy is that this happens in a planned, constructive way.
What Makes Planetary Demarchy Possible Now
Historically, sortition on a planetary scale was unfeasible. Today, three technologies make it possible:
- Artificial Intelligence: Processes complex information, simulates scenarios, translates languages in real time, detects cognitive biases
- Blockchain: Guarantees transparency, auditability and economic tokenization without corruptible intermediaries
- Global connectivity: Allows distributed deliberation and real‑time coordination
You start with one country; you end with the whole planet.
→ See also: Technological foundations
This Has Been Only the Beginning
Now We Can Tackle Humanity's Great Challenges.
I. Fundamental Challenges in Economic Architecture
Planetary Demarchy seeks to establish a post‑scarcity economy based on Universal Planetary Co‑ownership (CPU). The main economic challenges after the abolition of professional politics are:
1. Neutralizing Passive Accumulation and Speculation (Elimination of Interest)
- Implementation of Selective Oxidation (demurrage): This is a crucial architectural challenge. The system must be designed so that capital must flow or die, forcing wealth holders to invest in real, productive projects and preventing parasitic accumulation that generates more wealth merely by existing while keeping the economy stagnant.
- Guaranteeing M ≡ Q (Money Supply equal to Real Productive Value): The total tokenization of the economy, where the Universal Value Unit (UVU) is anchored to the Total Value of the Planet (TVP), is a massive technical challenge. This makes traditional financial crises and credit bubbles based on unbacked liquidity structurally impossible.
2. Conceptual Extinction of Taxes
2. Conceptual Extinction of Taxes
The demarchic economic system is based on property rights, royalties and partnership, not on fiscal coercion.
- Replacing Taxes with property rights, Royalties and Partnership (RUAC and AU50): The challenge is to demonstrate the feasibility of financing the Administration of the Commons (AdC) and essential services (such as the Planetary Dividend) through Universal 50% Partnership (AU50) and the Universal Royalty for Access to the Commons (RUAC). This implies fully dismantling existing tax systems (income tax, VAT, social security, etc.) to achieve the goal of ZERO taxes.
- Guaranteeing Existential Security: Economic maturity implies ensuring that the Planetary Dividend more than covers each person's needs by right of ownership and not through charity, eliminating the economic precarity that feeds crime and despair.
II. Legal and Administrative Challenges
The elimination of professional politics clears the way for efficiency, but the challenge is to transform obsolete state structures and the legal "jungle" into an ultra‑light system based on the Principle of Least Action (PLA).
1. Abolishing Paralysing Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is seen as an "administrative metastasis" that steals billions of human hours and trillions of dollars in opportunity costs, suffocating creativity.
- Implementation of ASI‑AdC: The greatest logistical and technical challenge is to replace multi‑level administrative bureaucracy with Superintelligent Artificial Intelligence at the service of the Administration of the Commons (ASI‑AdC). This allows procedures that today take days or weeks to be resolved automatically, freeing human talent for real and creative production.
2. Consolidation of Axiomatic Law
A mature Demarchy cannot operate with today's legislative chaos.
- Drastic Reduction of Laws: The challenge is to implement a legal system derived from a handful of fundamental axioms (Level 1: Axiomatic Law). The objective is to eliminate 90% of redundant, obsolete or captured legislation so that laws exist only to resolve demonstrable conflicts of liberties, not to restrict freedoms without conflict.
III. Geopolitical and Security Challenges
The end of political parties at national level facilitates unification, but the challenges of planetary governance and the risk of technological tyranny remain.
1. Transcending Nationalisms and Militarism
Although professional politicians have disappeared, the inertia of territorial fragmentation persists.
- Transition to Bioregionalism: The challenge is the dissolution of nation‑states and their reorganization into natural bioregions (based on ecosystems and watersheds). This allows free movement as a natural right and facilitates planetary cooperation on existential challenges (climate, asteroids).
- Abolition of National Armies: A mature Demarchy requires the total abolition of national armies, recognizing that war is abolished as an instrument of conflict, replaced by a minimal Planetary Protection Force.
2. Shielding against Automated Tyranny (AGI/ASI)
2. Shielding against Automated Tyranny (AGI/ASI)
AI is the tool that enables demarchic efficiency, but it also represents an existential risk if captured by elites.
- Maintaining Distributed Citizen Control over AI: The fundamental challenge is ensuring that ASI‑AdC remains a tool, not a master. This is achieved through oversight by rotating Assemblies (impossible to capture) and radical transparency (open‑source code, decentralized and encrypted data). Demarchy seeks to eliminate the possibility of an automated tyranny controlled by a military or corporate elite.
IV. Cultural and Psycho‑social Challenges
1. Overcoming Existential Fear and Collective Trauma (PTSD)
The current system has generated a Collective Trauma that manifests as fear of scarcity, distrust and polarization.
- Collective Rehabilitation: Once the Planetary Dividend and safety nets (such as the Universal Health Fund and the Solidarity Risk Fund) have eliminated fear of poverty and failure, the challenge is to create a culture in which people can re‑learn cooperation without fear, allowing human energy, previously trapped in defence, to be redirected toward creativity.
2. Cultivating Cognitive Sovereignty
Demarchic maturity depends on citizens being protagonists with independent thinking, not followers of leaders or ideologies.
- Eliminating Dependency Patterns: The cultural challenge is to break deep‑rooted mental patterns of dependence on authority and social conformity that were exploited by traditional systems and leaders. Demarchy fosters protected deliberation and free individual judgement to maximize real collective intelligence.
3. Achieving Long‑Term Vision (Extended Longevity)
The 2070 horizon includes the Longevity Revolution.
- Design for Centuries: The challenge is for citizens (Assemblies) and Managers to act with the maturity and long‑term temporal vision that extended longevity provides. This means that dishonesty and short‑term
