Canonical doctrine · 24 sections
The System
The shortest complete statement of the doctrine, seven Parts and twenty-four numbered sections. Contradictions are resolved here under the Charter; books and orientation pages provide explanation and commentary.
Part I · Foundations
why a new form is needed
§1 The rupture GUIDE
Why AI breaks the link between work and income, and why a wage-funded state fails. §2 The reframe: society as a graph of value transformers GUIDE
The Æ-vector; the economy re-embedded in the many kinds of worth a society creates. §3 What Axiacracy is, and is not GUIDE
A third position: private ownership of the earned, commons ownership of the unearned; corrects but does not direct.
Why AI breaks the link between work and income, and why a wage-funded state fails. §2 The reframe: society as a graph of value transformers GUIDE
The Æ-vector; the economy re-embedded in the many kinds of worth a society creates. §3 What Axiacracy is, and is not GUIDE
A third position: private ownership of the earned, commons ownership of the unearned; corrects but does not direct.
Part II · The Value Substrate & its Measurement
the language, and its limits
Part III · The Governing Principle
see richly, steer humbly
§6 Correct, do not direct, the renounced "fourth duty" GUIDE
Prices in, quantities out; steer the frame, free the interior; the rate, not the direction, of change. §7 The governing loop GUIDE
Sense the vector, find where it leaves the band, correct the conditions, release, and the physics of delay. §8 Who sets the weights, and how capture is resisted GUIDE
The founding line, the impersonal corrector, and the machinery against ruling-class capture. §9 Epistemic humility GUIDE
The sensor reads effects, not the Good; the unsteered zone; the guardrail against value-monoculture.
Prices in, quantities out; steer the frame, free the interior; the rate, not the direction, of change. §7 The governing loop GUIDE
Sense the vector, find where it leaves the band, correct the conditions, release, and the physics of delay. §8 Who sets the weights, and how capture is resisted GUIDE
The founding line, the impersonal corrector, and the machinery against ruling-class capture. §9 Epistemic humility GUIDE
The sensor reads effects, not the Good; the unsteered zone; the guardrail against value-monoculture.
Part IV · The Economy
value, money, property, capital
§10 Two layers of money GUIDE
Money demoted to one axis with demurrage as a settlement layer, kept but stripped of its civic supremacy. §11 Markets and the externality overlay GUIDE
The market interior kept for allocation; a multidimensional Pigouvian overlay prices the harm it ignores. §12 Property, rent and the commons GUIDE
Earned-private / unearned-commons; the rent-meter, the reproducibility firewall, and rent generalised from land to compute and data. §13 The capital and credit engine GUIDE
Capital mobilised on Smith's dead-stock logic; finance's earned/unearned seam; the anti-fictitious-capital discipline. §14 Distributive justice GUIDE
A citizen claim on the commons, a variable dividend from realized yield, and a capability floor secured even when wage demand contracts; the anti-concentration ceiling. §15 Inter-frame value routing GUIDE
Plural value frames, minimum disclosure, and public corrections that must improve rather than erase participants' own perspectives.
Money demoted to one axis with demurrage as a settlement layer, kept but stripped of its civic supremacy. §11 Markets and the externality overlay GUIDE
The market interior kept for allocation; a multidimensional Pigouvian overlay prices the harm it ignores. §12 Property, rent and the commons GUIDE
Earned-private / unearned-commons; the rent-meter, the reproducibility firewall, and rent generalised from land to compute and data. §13 The capital and credit engine GUIDE
Capital mobilised on Smith's dead-stock logic; finance's earned/unearned seam; the anti-fictitious-capital discipline. §14 Distributive justice GUIDE
A citizen claim on the commons, a variable dividend from realized yield, and a capability floor secured even when wage demand contracts; the anti-concentration ceiling. §15 Inter-frame value routing GUIDE
Plural value frames, minimum disclosure, and public corrections that must improve rather than erase participants' own perspectives.
Part V · The Constitution & the State
law, powers, fiscal survivability
§16 The Charter and the hierarchy of norms GUIDE
Inviolable jus cogens above the rebalancer; the Charter-Apex that is a rule, not a person; bounded emergency. See also The Charter. §17 Rights, crime and justice as rebalancing GUIDE
Punishment for manifested acts, not sensed intent; non-retroactivity; deterrence not revenge; justice as restoring the vector. §18 The apparatus, value-flows, not org-charts GUIDE
A federation of public, bounded AI agents; independently implemented, reconstructable, appealable, and owned rather than rented. §19 The three duties and the fiscal base GUIDE
The state funded primarily by operationally identifiable rent and priced cross-boundary harm rather than earned labour. §20 Membership, external relations, and emergency GUIDE
Membership and the participation condition; the bounded-emergency doctrine; exogenous-subversion as a failure mode.
Inviolable jus cogens above the rebalancer; the Charter-Apex that is a rule, not a person; bounded emergency. See also The Charter. §17 Rights, crime and justice as rebalancing GUIDE
Punishment for manifested acts, not sensed intent; non-retroactivity; deterrence not revenge; justice as restoring the vector. §18 The apparatus, value-flows, not org-charts GUIDE
A federation of public, bounded AI agents; independently implemented, reconstructable, appealable, and owned rather than rented. §19 The three duties and the fiscal base GUIDE
The state funded primarily by operationally identifiable rent and priced cross-boundary harm rather than earned labour. §20 Membership, external relations, and emergency GUIDE
Membership and the participation condition; the bounded-emergency doctrine; exogenous-subversion as a failure mode.
Part VI · The Whole as a System
map, failure modes, rival orders
§21 The value-flow map (VSS) GUIDE
The whole state drawn as a single value-flow system, the map that makes the loops visible. §22 Failure modes the system designs against GUIDE
The catalogue: capture, monoculture, Potemkin legitimacy, tenure concentration, trust collapse, and their antidotes, the survivability payload. §23 Where it stands among rival orders GUIDE
Against capitalism, socialism, technocracy, realism, and the virtue tradition, what it adopts and where it parts. §24 Implementation and the test bench GUIDE
Deployment-agnostic invariants; the Simulation as a sabotage map, not a prosperity machine. See the Simulation.
The whole state drawn as a single value-flow system, the map that makes the loops visible. §22 Failure modes the system designs against GUIDE
The catalogue: capture, monoculture, Potemkin legitimacy, tenure concentration, trust collapse, and their antidotes, the survivability payload. §23 Where it stands among rival orders GUIDE
Against capitalism, socialism, technocracy, realism, and the virtue tradition, what it adopts and where it parts. §24 Implementation and the test bench GUIDE
Deployment-agnostic invariants; the Simulation as a sabotage map, not a prosperity machine. See the Simulation.
Part VII · Honest Status
open problems & live wagers