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The Kastron Constitution
26b) Divide a large city in half

1 September 2024

Our leaders need competition

Government officials must compete with each other

Government officials are employees of the city, not Kings and Queens, so they are put into competition just like everybody else. They cannot give themselves any special treatment or privileges. They cannot suppress their critics or competitors, and they are not entitled to lifetime positions.

A large city is divided into sectors

It is difficult to put government officials into competition, but if a city is very large, it could be broken into two sectors that are virtually identical in regards to land, farms, people, factories, recreational areas, and resources. This makes it easy to compare the two sectors, and pass judgment on which officials are doing the best job of managing their sector.

This Constitution supports the concept that every city is an independent society, and every city has the same maximum population limit. To initialize the situation, this constitution will set the population limit for a city to half a million adults.

A city with half a million adults would be large enough to divide into two sectors. However, when we start the process of creating new cities, there might be some cities that don't have enough people, but eventually their population will increase to their maximum level. At that point every city could be split into two sectors.

Only the Operations Branch would be divided

Each sector of the city would have its own Operations branch, but the city would have only one Analysis branch, as illustrated below.



This puts the Operations branches into competition with one another, and by making the sectors identical, it becomes easy for us to pass judgment on which of the Operations branches is doing the best job of managing their sector of the city.

We will be able to compare the sectors to determine which of them is producing food, electricity, and other items more efficiently; which of their school systems is producing students who are better prepared for jobs; which sector has the most stable and pleasant friendships and marriages; which sector has developed the most useful recreational activities; and which sector has the most attractive gardens, plazas, and city art.

We would also be able to determine which sector has the least amount of crime, obnoxious behavior, obesity, tooth decay, diabetes, arguments, recreational injuries, divorces, sleep disorders, eyeglasses, and cancer.

The voters are required to routinely replace the worst performing government officials, so those type of comparisons will allow voters to do a better job of determining which government officials are the most talented at finding ways to improve our lives, and which of them should be replaced so that somebody else can try his talents.

The reason there is only one Analysis branch

The three divisions of the Analysis branch do not directly control the city. Rather, they analyze the city, the other government agencies, and the people, and they look for ways to improve the city and the lives of the people. They also deal with the badly behaved government officials and citizens.

The Analysis branch provides checks and balances for the Operations branches, so the city needs only one of those branches.