Some of the books in a library are referred to as "reference books". Each dictionary describes those books differently, but one useful description is:

A book intended to be consulted for information on specific matters rather than read from beginning to end.

The databases that the Database Ministry is required to maintain can be regarded as expanded, electronic versions of the reference books in a library. Unlike the Internet, which allows everybody to post worthless, deceptive, and idiotic documents, videos, sales brochures, and propaganda, the databases are under the control of the Database Ministry, and the information in them must meet high standards.

The city databases contain information that is specific to a city, whereas the world databases contain information for everybody.

This constitution does not support patents or copyrights, and businesses are not allowed to keep technology a secret, so all scientific knowledge belongs to the world, and is put in a world database. Likewise, all of the information about medicines, products, animals, humans, the earth, and the universe belong to everybody, and is put in a world database.

The existing cultures provide individual citizens and organizations with the freedom to decide if they want to produce paper documents, but one of the goals of this Constitution is to reduce undesirable labor to a minimum.

Therefore, the Database Ministry has the authority to determine which information can be printed on paper and which will be electronic. They must make their decisions according to the benefits and disadvantages to society, rather than according to what people or businesses want.

Creating and recycling paper products requires resources and labor, and as of 2024, computers are so advanced that there is no longer a need for us to provide a city or schools with libraries of paper books. Modern computer monitors now have such high resolution that electronic databases provide us with images, video, and audio that is superior to the text and photographs in a paper document.

Home libraries are prohibited.

Many people have a strong attraction to paper books, and this results in a lot of people having fantasies of having a library in their home, even though very few people want to read the books.

Perhaps we enjoy the books because it makes us feel intelligent and educated, and because we enjoy the visual image of the books.

However, since we rarely read the books that are in our homes, it is absurd to produce them and waste space in our homes for them. By eliminating the paper books and bookshelves, we can reduce the size of our homes without reducing our living space.

If there are any paper books that are truly beneficial, they should be in public libraries, not our homes. This Constitution promotes small homes and lots of public structures, and public items rather than private items.

Instead of manufacturing bookshelves and books for homes, the Database Ministry is responsible for providing electronic databases that everybody can access with phones and computers. Eventually robots will be so advanced that we can ask the robots for information.

Electronic documents are also more beneficial for students compared to paper books. For example, electronic documents can be searched, and they can have links to other documents and videos. Computers can also use an artificial voice to read the material, which can help younger students learn how to pronounce words, and allow the older students to listen to the information while they are looking at interactive images or graphs.

The paper documents that have historical value should be scanned into a computer, and we should also develop software to translate their languages.

The Neighborhood Minister is responsible for providing the city with lots of small video rooms that have comfortable chairs, large, curved, high resolution monitors, and high quality audio.

We can use video rooms to find information.

In addition to using those video rooms to watch documentaries, entertainment, and video from WebCams, we can use them to search the Internet, and to access the information in the databases.

Those rooms allow us to access information while we are sitting in comfortable chairs, and we can see the information much better than we can on a phone, a small computer monitor, and a paper book. We would also have high-quality audio.

With voice recognition software, and with software that can identify what we are looking at and pointing at, we could tell the computer what to search for so that we don't need to use keyboards.

HTML documents should be simpler

In the free enterprise systems and democracies, the businesses and computer programmers are pandering to the public, and this results in HTML documents becoming increasingly complicated. Many of the documents have more HTML formatting characters and they have text. This is wasting computer memory and Internet bandwidth, and it takes more time for those pages to load.

For an example, when I first created HTML documents, I could make words bold with only 7 formatting characters (in red):

The final version of Netscape uses 40 characters:


The ministers are responsible for ensuring that when engineers and computer programmers "improve" a product, they are truly improving it, rather than making it more confusing, or adding options that are not truly useful.

It is impractical to give a product or software every possible option. As we increase the options, we make the item more difficult to learn and use, and it can make products inefficient or wasteful of resources.

The ministers must continuously pass judgment on the value of products and software, and keep the engineers and programmers under pressure to make everything as simple as possible, and to include features that are truly beneficial.

The ministers have complete control of all culture, so they decide what formatting characteristics the HTML documents have, and what features and options the HTML editors will have. This will allow them to create HTML editing software that is easier to learn and use because they can restrict what the software can do. For example, they could restrict the software to offering only a couple of different format options. One option could be for scientific documents, in which case the software would provide the sections that are typical for a scientific report, such as an abstract, references, and illustrations, and the scientist would only have to fill in the details and specify the images or videos.

However, allowing the government to control the design of products and software requires the voters to provide us with much better leadership than what the voters have been giving us. The communist nations are examples of what can happen with bad leadership. For example, the communist Chinese government required everybody to wear drab clothing, and the communist Russian leaders made people live in drab apartment buildings and ugly cities.

To make the situation even more complex, there is no way to determine which decisions are beneficial and which are selfish, idiotic, or abusive. The decisions are arbitrary, and since different people have different personalities and intellectual abilities, we will disagree on which products and software are best for us.

For example, the communist Chinese government did not consider themselves to be abusive. They assumed that they were wonderful leaders who were providing the Chinese people with a better life. Likewise, the officials of the churches believe that they create wonderful policies that are beneficial to the people.

The free enterprise system provides everybody with the freedom to create any product or software they please, although there are now lots of government laws that  businesses must follow, especially in regards to food products, weapons, and medicines.

That freedom allows us to have almost any product or software we want, which makes us feel good because we love to satisfy our desires. However, our desires are not necessarily beneficial. We are often attracted to products that are worthless, detrimental, dangerous, or low-quality. It also results in lots of businesses wasting technical talent, labor, and resources on products we don't need or benefit from. They also produce a lot of worthless products for children.

Furthermore, many businesses are producing products and software for people who are unhappy, bored, ignorant, or stupid. We should design products to make our lives better, not to titillate the unhappy or mentally ill people.

In order to provide ourselves with better products, software, recreational activities, and other culture, the government officials are required to design everything according to what would be best for the City Elders. They must ignore the public, and especially ignore the people who are unhappy.

The free enterprise system puts people into competition for profit, and that favors the people who are abusive, selfish, and willing to join crime networks.

The economic ministers are required to put businesses into competition in order to improve society according to what would be best for the City Elders. This will give us business leaders who excel at finding improvements to our products and software. We will be able to let them restrict our freedoms without worrying about being abused by them.

All existing cultures provide every citizen and organization with the freedom to purchase whatever type of paper and printer they please, and in whatever quantity they please. Businesses are also free to develop and manufacture a wide variety of printers, including low-quality printers that break easily, or have ink cartridges that clog easily.

How many paper documents can justify the burden of producing them?

Nobody has studied how many of the printed documents are useful, but my personal observations show that many people in 2024 have books, magazines, and other paper documents that they glance at once or twice, and then put into bookcases or trash cans.

Most people in 2024 are more likely to get information from televisions, cell phones, and computers, rather than paper documents. Therefore, I suspect that most of the printed documents are unnecessary as of 2024.

Furthermore, the world is producing a phenomenal amount of electronic waste, and electronic devices are very difficult to recycle, so we should eliminate as many unnecessary printers as possible.

In addition, inkjet printers are wasting a lot of ink and ink cartridges because they frequently clog before they have emptied.

Businesses also need lots of trees and water in order to reduce paper, both of which are in short supply in many areas of the world, so it would be best if we could reduce our paper consumption.

The Database Ministry has the authority and responsibility to determine the production of paper, printers, DVDs, CD-ROMs, and other materials for information. For an example of what they can do:

•		They can prohibit the production of printers for citizens. The city could have facilities for printing, but a citizen would have to request a document to be printed, and the Database Ministry could reject the request.
•		Since businesses cannot keep secrets, the Database Ministry can keep track of the paper, printers, and toner that each organization is using, and pass judgment on whether the organization is wasting resources on unnecessary printings.
•		They can set the "price" of paper and printers artificially high to discourage their use.

Requiring citizens to get approval to have a document printed is a restriction of our freedom, but with proper leadership it is as beneficial as requiring a child to request his parents to print something for him. If the voters provide us with appropriate leadership, we will benefit from the restrictions.

The Database Minister has the responsibility to create and maintain the electronic databases, and to ensure that their information is as accurate as possible.

He has total control of the databases so that he can prevent the idiotic and wasteful situation we have today on the Internet. For example, the Internet has dozens of dictionaries and encyclopedias with slightly different definitions and explanations, and there are millions of other documents and videos with conflicting historical, scientific, medical, nutritional, health, and other information.

The Database Ministry has the responsibility to make the databases sensible and efficient. For example, we should have only one dictionary and only one encyclopedia.

By putting all of the knowledge into databases, rather than scattering millions of documents around the Internet at random, as people and businesses are doing today, the software that searches for information will be able to find it without also finding the irrelevant and idiotic information from citizens.

By becoming intolerant of crime, the Internet does not need to be burdened by crime prevention techniques, such as requiring us to verify that we are human. Also, secrecy is prohibited so nobody can put information on the Internet secretly or anonymously, or with somebody else's identity. This allows people to be held accountable for the information they provide for, or put into, the databases.

The world government and each city government will maintain databases. Everybody has access to the databases, but each database has restrictions on who can post and edit the data. For example, only government officials can post or edit documents in the database of government laws, and only the people who qualify as scientists can post or edit documents in the database for scientific research.

Since the government has control of education, the government determines who qualifies as a scientist, rather than the citizens or the school teachers. This allows the government to prevent somebody who studies religion or Freudian psychology from describing himself as a scientist, or as a learned scholar, or as an expert.

As of 2024, individuals and organizations can put information on the Internet, in school books, in product brochures, and in advertisements without identifying themselves as the author. Everybody has tremendous secrecy, and nobody is accountable for the information that they provide to the public.

This freedom has resulted in the Internet, school books, and advertisements becoming full of propaganda, financial scams, mistakes, and contradictory information. There is also a lot of censorship of information and people.

In order to improve this situation, we must find a way to increase the quality of the information. This Constitution suggests the following techniques:

Nobody is permitted to create or spread information secretly or anonymously. Everybody who creates, promotes, or edits information for the public must identify himself as the author, and is held accountable for his actions. When someone discovers a mistake in a document, the information must be corrected, and if the author doesn't want to do it, or has died, the government must do it.

If somebody believes that information is deliberately deceptive, and if the Courts Ministry agrees, then the person who noticed it gets credit for helping to identify deceptive information, and the author is regarded as a criminal. This constitution sets high standards for information, and considers people who provide deceptive information to be more dangerous than people who put poison into food.

Many cultures have an authority for medicines, such as the FDA, but there is no authority for information. As a result, every citizen, school, business, Zionist group, government agency, and other organization has the freedom to create whatever information they please, regardless of its accuracy or value. Everybody is also free to censor information and people, and make claims and accusations without supporting evidence.

This constitution puts the Database Ministry in control of information. The Database Ministry is required to ensure that the information in the databases is accurate and useful. People and organizations can create information, but it has to meet the approval of the Database Ministry.

This creates the potential problem that the Database Ministry becomes as corrupt as Google, Facebook, the ADL, the SPLC, and other organizations that secretly manipulate information to fit their selfish desires.

However, it is much easier to watch over one government agency that doesn't have any secrecy than to deal with an unknown but enormous number of secretive government agencies, religions, businesses, charities, think tanks, political groups, universities, feminist organizations, Israeli organizations, and citizens.

Our public libraries, schools, and news reports are censoring information and providing propaganda about the 9/11 attack, the Apollo moon landing, the world wars, the Holocaust, and possibly tens of thousands of other events, but we don't know who creates or authorizes the dishonest information, and we cannot hold them accountable even if we knew who they were.

They also censor, suppress, and intimidate people by ignoring them, insulting them, or accusing them of nonsensical crimes, such as sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, or anti-climate denial.

Somebody must make decisions about which events should be reported in the news reports; which information should be put into the school curriculum; and which information should be included in a television documentary. Somebody must also make decisions about which accusation is "slander", and which information is deceptive.

All throughout history, every person and organization has been free to make those decisions secretly, without any regard to the consequences, and without any accountability.

For example, several thousand years ago the Egyptian pharaohs would determine which information was acceptable to inscribe on the walls and statues. They were also free to destroy the information that previous pharaohs had inscribed.

By putting the Database Ministry in control of information, we only have to watch one group of people, so it will be much easier for us to ensure that we are being provided with high-quality information.

Likewise, the Journalism and Television Ministries are responsible for ensuring that news, documentaries, and other television programs are honest and accurate, and it's easier to watch over those ministries than to watch over thousands of different, secretive businesses that are producing such information.

The Database Ministry will not necessarily improve the information that we are provided with. The FDA is an example of this concept. The FDA was created to be an authority for foods and medicines, and although they have improved the value and safety of foods and medicines, the FDA is allowing people and businesses to lie to us and abuse us. An example that I have mentioned many times is that they promote sugar, aspartame, and sucralose, while suppressing Stevia and monk fruit. They are also doing nothing to resolve the incredible contradictory information about the health issues of various foods.

Creating a government agency to protect us does not necessarily protect us from anything. In order for a government agency to truly protect us, we need to restrict the leaders of the agency to those who have the intellectual ability and the emotional desire to protect us. If we allow the agency to be dominated by criminals, idiots, or lunatics, it would be worse than not having the agency.

A government agency will be honest only if the people want to be honest, and they will provide intelligent guidance only if they are above-average in intelligence, and only if they have the emotional ability to acknowledge that humans are a species of ape.

In order for the Database Ministry to be useful, we must set high standards for the people working there. This requires that the voters be able to select intelligent and honest government officials.

Likewise, in order for the businesses to be beneficial, they must consist of people who have the ability and desire to do something useful for the city, and in order to live in a city without crime, we need to live among people who want to follow the laws and treat people with respect.

The point of this section is that the only way we can bring significant improvements to our society is to raise the standards for the people, and especially for government officials. We must reduce the number of apathetic, selfish, dishonest, mentally disturbed, and stupid people.