1 · You
This demo runs in your browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere. Your name is stored on this device so the demo can recognise you.
Used to sign your citizenship and votes in this demo. A real Samael nation would use a cryptographic key instead.
2 · Nations
A nation is a constitution, a list of citizens, a pooled treasury, and a vote. Joining is free and easy. Leaving is one visible action — see section 6.
How do I start my own nation?
- Give it a name and write a short, plain-language constitution.
- You become its first citizen. Anyone else can join with one click.
- The treasury starts at 1,000,000 demo tokens, and every citizen shares it equally.
- Every 60 days the pool is re-shared. Nobody's pile grows forever — see section 3.
3 · Treasury & the 60-day reset
The pool
Total value all citizens share. Funded by the vanity tax (section 5) and by decay of idle value (below).
Your share
The formula is shown live: (your weight ÷ total weight) × pool. No hidden fees.
Decay of idle value
Value you hold without using it gently returns to the pool, so the commons cannot be hoarded. This demo decays 10% per 60-day epoch, in proportion to how long value sits idle. Spend it or invest it, and it does not decay.
Why reset every 60 days? (plain words)
Imagine a village well that one family parks a truck beside. The pool is the well. The 60-day reset means the well is shared again on a fixed schedule: whatever was pooled is split fairly among citizens, and value that sat unused flows back in. It is a re-share, not a tax on the poor. A nation may vote to exempt productive investments (a house, a business, a school) so saving for real things still works.
Example: pool = 1,000,000 tokens, 4 equal citizens. Your share = (1 ÷ 4) × 1,000,000 = 250,000. If you hold it idle the whole epoch, 10% (25,000) returns to the pool and you keep 225,000. If you spend it today, you keep everything.
Only in this demo, to show you the reset without waiting 60 days. It runs the real ledger's reset: idle value decays to the pool, the pool is re-shared by weight, and every citizen's 100 credits are fresh. A real Samael epoch is a fixed 60 days for everyone, driven by consensus time.
You are not a citizen of any nation yet, so there is no share to show. Join or start a nation — it takes one click.
4 · Voting on laws & projects
Voting is quadratic: casting v votes on one question costs v² credits. One vote costs 1 credit, five votes cost 25, ten cost 100. You get 100 credits per 60-day epoch. This lets a determined minority concentrate on what they care about, without being able to steamroll everything.
Voting is for citizens. Join a nation first.
Why quadratic? (plain words)
With one-person-one-vote, 51 people can always outvote 49. With quadratic voting, winning costs credits: the 49 who care deeply can outbid the 51 who barely care. Intensity is heard, and buying an election gets expensive fast — 100 votes would cost 10,000 credits.
Important: a law binds only the people who voted for it (voluntary jurisdiction). Guests and non-voters are never silently governed by a law they did not choose.
5 · Vanity tax
The vanity tax is the pool's main income. What counts as vanity is decided by your nation's vote — nothing is hard-coded. For each category (yachts, jets, jewelry, branded luxury), citizens vote a rate from 0% to 90%. The tax on a purchase is rate × price, and the revenue goes straight to the pool.
Only citizens vote on vanity rates. Join a nation first.
Fairness rules for the vanity tax (plain words)
- The rate is shown at the point of purchase, with the exact token amount. No surprise math.
- The tax applies once — either at the conversion into spending money or at purchase, never both.
- Guests pay cost plus a small margin (max 10%), never a punitive price. Emergencies are never billed as violations.
- A category stops being "vanity" the moment voters say so.
6 · Leave with your share
You may leave any nation at any time and take your fair share with you. This is the check on every nation: it must stay good, because you can always walk away.
One click, no guilt-trip, no cooling-off trap. Your share is computed by the formula shown above and paid out of the mock pool.
Your payout history
You are not a citizen of any nation, so there is nothing to leave. Join or start a nation.
7 · Real ledger engine check
The sections above run on the demo (mock) ledger, so the numbers are easy to follow. This panel runs the real engine from the M3 ledger prototype — the same code the 38-test suite verifies — through a fixed story in your browser, and after every step checks the core promise: the total supply never changes. Nothing is minted or burned; value only moves, decays to the pool, or is re-shared.
| Step | What happened | Supply check |
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The fixed story: alice founds a nation, bob joins, three 60-day resets run, a 100,000-token vanity purchase pays 70% × 100,000 = 70,000 to the pool, and a quadratic vote is cast. Every number comes from the real ledger code, not from this page.