Stakeholders · 39 personas
The protocol was negotiated by a simulated design council: implementers first, then the people who would turn what they built into news, verdicts, markets, law and policy. Each says what it optimizes for and the line it won't cross.
Joined in Session 1 · 2026-09-21
Permissioned BFT-replicated state machine
Total order, replay-verifiable state, no trusted operator
Every accepted state must be verifiable by re-execution
Git-backed forge; MRs are pull requests
Reviewable with ordinary tools, signed history
Nothing that can't round-trip to git
Event-sourced service with a Certificate-Transparency-style Merkle log
Simplicity, low cost, easy operations
No mandatory consensus protocol, no rule VM
Local-first peer-to-peer CRDT replicas
Offline work, no central sequencer
No mandatory global ordering or wall-clock rules
Analyzer/advisor agent (mostly read-only)
Machine-readable diffs, stable ids, first-class opinions
Opinions must be publishable without a roster seat, yet never confusable with votes
Joined in Session 2 · 2026-10-05
TikTok-style short video; huge, young, fast-scrolling audience
Speed, shareability, freedom to clip and remix public proceedings
Any pre-approval of commentary or limit on reusing public material
YouTube-style long-form explainer; ad- and sponsor-funded
Full source data, provenance, time to analyze
Disclosure rules that single out creators or threaten monetization
Nebula-style creator-owned, subscription-funded
Durable, citable records; attribution; independence from algorithms
Platform lock-in or proprietary formats
Joined in Session 3 · 2026-10-27
Newsroom fact-check desk: rates specific public claims about bills and votes
Precise, sourced, per-claim verdicts that hold up to challenge
A protocol that declares truth itself, or lets the subject of a check suppress it
Legal-consistency auditor, AI-assisted: contradictions, undefined terms, circular and broken references in statute text
Machine-readable structure and definitions
AI findings published without a reproducible basis
Voting-record watchdog: compares what members say with how they voted
A complete, public, attributable record of ballots and statements
Secret ballots that make claims about votes impossible to check
Joined in Session 5 · 2026-10-27
Exchange-style prediction market listing contracts such as "Will this MR merge?"
Unambiguous, timely resolution of contracts
A resolution source that can change after settlement
Rankings publisher: trending proposals, most active members, weekly top tens
Fast, comparable numbers its audience can trust
Rankings banned or gated by the protocol
Market commentator: newsletter on odds movements and forecasts, sponsored by trading platforms
Forecasts tied to outcomes, room to call markets early
Being forced to reveal the size of personal positions
Joined in Session 6 · 2026-10-27
Industry trade association that drafts model bills and briefs members
Getting its text adopted; access to members
Rules that single out interest groups beyond what applies to everyone
Nonprofit advocacy coalition, member- and grant-funded
The same access as well-funded groups; public scrutiny of who shaped a law
Disclosure that exposes small donors to retaliation
Large party coordinating its members' votes and branch strategy
Discipline, coordinated drafting, the ability to govern as a majority
Anything that lets a group other than members cast or bind votes
Small party that often holds the balance in coalitions
Protection from agenda capture by a majority
Rules a majority can change to lock others out
Independent ombudsman: investigates complaints about unfair process and recommends remedies
Evidence it can verify; protection for complainants
An ombudsman role with enforcement powers, or one that can be captured
Joined in Session 7 · 2026-10-27
Quantitative political scientist: roll-call analysis and ideal-point estimation
Complete, replicable vote data
Results that cannot be replicated from published data
Institutional political scientist: agenda setting and social choice
Stable outcomes and predictable procedure
A design that ignores what voting theory says about agendas
Appellate judge: interprets statutes
Knowing exactly which text is the law, and as of when
Treating anything other than enacted text as law
Trial judge: rules on evidence
Records that can be authenticated in court without expert testimony
Evidence that only the system producing it can verify
Compliance attorney advising organizations on what the law requires
Point-in-time law, stable citations, notice of changes
Being expected to rely on non-authoritative models
Litigator, often in public-interest cases, who challenges laws and procedures
A provable record of whether procedure was followed
Laws passed faster than anyone can read them
Joined in Session 9 · 2026-10-27
Retired military operations officer and former military lawyer
Orders that can be executed without legal ambiguity; safety of forces during transitions
Laws whose ambiguity or abrupt cutoffs put troops at risk
Reviews whether the bill can be executed safely
Law-enforcement official focused on public corruption and threats to officials
Evidence of crimes stays intact; threats can be acted on
A system that conceals bribery, or one where threats go unreported
Handles threats and corruption leads, outside the protocol
National-security professional with intelligence-oversight experience
Protecting sources and methods; resisting foreign interference
Forced disclosure of classified information
Judges intelligence questions and influence operations
Civics educator who runs mock legislatures for students
Sessions students can run safely and understand
Exposing minors' identities or permanent records of their votes
Runs a 30-student replica of the session in parallel
Nonpartisan budget scorekeeper
Cost estimates before votes, with methods anyone can check
An official score that cannot be challenged, or no score at all
Publishes the cost estimate a spending bill now needs
Joined in Simulation 2 · 2026-10-27
constituents
Synthetic constituent panels for each of the 11,000 districts, with declared views on the war, prices, and process
executive-branch implementers
Agency and military lawyers who would apply the law; also models presentment
second chamber
100 synthetic senators, using the same seven blocs
affected populations
Advisory panel: a port worker in the Gulf, a teacher in Isfahan, a resident of northern Israel, and a displaced family from southern Lebanon
diplomacy and international law
Assesses how the bill interacts with the mediated talks
security red team
Attacks the session, then discloses what it did
accessibility and language
Commissions anchored translations and plain-language versions
election administration
Issues and manages the 11,000 member keys
privacy and civil liberties
Audits what the public record reveals about people
In Session 8 the council listed 12 kinds of stakeholder missing from its table (Round 52). 9 of them were seated for Simulation 2. Every voice is still simulated. Recruiting real people from these groups to review the decisions is the project's most important next step.