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The Kastron constitution

1a) The government structure

25 March 2024


Introduction

This constitution is for one city, not everybody

This constitution supports the concept of Micro Nations in which each society is a large, independent city that is isolated from other cities by wild land that belongs to everybody. The cities are united by a world government, but each city is allowed to experiment with their culture.

This constitution is for only one of those cities, Kastron, so the people who don't like this constitution are encouraged to create a different constitution for a different city, rather than do what people have been doing for thousands of years; namely, whining, hating, and fighting over what is the "correct" culture.

Kastron has similarities to a giant corporation


The executives of a corporation separate the employees into different departments, and every department works for the benefit of the corporation.

The city of Kastron is essentially a giant corporation, and the government officials are the executives of that corporation. The government officials create businesses that are essentially departments of that corporation, so all businesses and employees work for the city.


The leaders of a corporation are authorities, not submissive representatives who pander to their employees. They create policies that are best for the corporation.

The leaders of Kastron are authorities who create policies that are best for the city.


The leaders of a corporation occasionally alter its structure and culture in an attempt to improve the organization. They do not regard their culture as perfect, and they do not insult an employee as a "traitor" if he criticizes its culture. Rather, employees are admired if they can find a way to improve the organization.

The top officials in the Kastron government are restricted to people who understand that government structures, school systems, recreational activities, holiday celebrations, and other culture can and should be improved upon. The top officials must have the courage to experiment with culture, rather than be frightened to try something different, and who want to follow traditions.

Everybody is encouraged to find improvements to Kastron, and those who do get credit for it, which improves their chances of qualifying for a top government position.


Corporations provide their employees with free desks, computers, water, safety clothing, uniforms, electricity, bathrooms, and some other items. Militaries and some corporations go even further and provide some of their members with free food and housing.

Kastron provides everybody with free and equal access to all of the material wealth. There is nothing analogous to money or credit in Kastron.


The leaders of a corporation are finicky about who they accept in their organization. They evict destructive employees and do not tolerate "illegal aliens". They do not allow an employee to pass his job onto his children, or give his ex-spouse half of his office or job.

By comparison, democratic governments have almost no concern about who they accept into the nation, and they don't make much of an attempt to stop illegal aliens or crime networks from getting into the nation. Furthermore, nobody has to earn their position in a democracy, so children and ex-spouses can be given businesses, land, employees, and enormous amounts of wealth.

The Kastron government is like a corporation rather than a democratic government. Everybody is required to earn their position, and everybody must meet high standards. People who cannot meet the standards are evicted.

Differences between Kastron and a corporation


The corporate management has the authority to give themselves special treatment, such as extremely high salaries, better offices, and a lot of secrecy. That puts the employees into a role that is similar to medieval peasants who pamper a king.

Kastron does not allow different classes of people. The people in leadership positions are not permitted to have any type of special treatment, secrecy, or pampering. Every citizen has access to the same homes, food, clothing, recreational activities, and healthcare. The only way the people in leadership positions can improve their material wealth is to improve it for everybody.

Differences between Kastron and a democracy


Governments have to routinely make decisions that are arbitrary, and which people disagree about, such as whether to support a high-speed train between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and whether to authorize another state lottery. Democratic governments tend to make decisions according to what the majority of their supporters want, and with no regard to whether the nation benefits from it.

By comparison, the leaders of businesses, militaries, and other organizations do not make decisions according to what the majority of their members want. Rather, they make decisions according to what is best for the organization. Parents also do what they think is best for their family, rather than pander to their children.

The government officials of Kastron must ignore what the public wants and do what is best for the city. When they need to make arbitrary decisions, they must do what they assume is best for a subset of the adult population that is regarded as the more intelligent, educated, honest, and responsible. For lack of a better word, that subset is referred to as the City Elders because they are in a similar role as the "village elders" of medieval Europe and the "tribal elders" of the Native American tribes.

The City Elders are an informal list of adults that the government officials use to settle arbitrary decisions. This will result in decisions being made according to what is best for the more respectable adults, rather than what the public wants.

Although the public is ignored, they cannot be suppressed or censored. They are treated in a similar manner as the employees of a corporation; the soldiers of an Army; and the children of a family.

Differences between Kastron and a free enterprise economy


The free enterprise systems put people into competition for money, and this results in people designing products, recreational activities, homes, and factories for profit rather than for human life. This results in ugly, noisy, overcrowded, and filthy cities, and a lot of emotionally titillating but idiotic leisure activities and products.

By comparison, this constitution puts people into competition to find improvements to our lives, and that allows the government to do things that would be considered unprofitable in a free enterprise system. However, this requires government officials to pass judgment on what is an "improvement", and whether a particular improvement is enough of an improvement to justify it. Some examples of this complexity are here.

Each of us has a different idea on what is an "improvement" to our lives. If we allow religious fanatics to dominate the government, they will tell us that we will improve our lives by building more churches. If we let vegans dominate the government, they will tell us that we will improve our lives by eliminating meat from our diet. If Vicki Polin's relatives had control of the government, they would promote murder rituals and pedophilia.

The top government officials of Kastron have tremendous control over our lives, so we must be very concerned about who the voters put into those top positions. This also requires that we be concerned about who is allowed to vote.

This constitution restricts the top government positions to people who have demonstrated the attitude of a zoologist. Specifically, they must regard humans as a species of ape, and regard our city as analogous to a zoo or a farm.

The managers of farms and zoos experiment with the environment in order to provide the animals with the healthiest and best lives. They do not do what the animals are emotionally titillated by. For example, they provide the animals with the foods, and in the quantities, that they think is best for their health, rather than give them the food that they are most attracted to, and in the quantities that they want.

This constitution requires government officials to treat people in a similar manner. B officials cannot pander to any organization or individuals. Instead, they must experiment with our culture in order to figure out how to improve our physical and mental health, our friendships and marriages, our recreational and social activities, our material items, and our city. This requires government officials to have an above-average understanding of what brings us satisfaction, and what is merely momentary emotional titillation.



The gorillas have more spacious and pleasant living conditions than these humans.
The people who design zoos and farms are providing the animals with more pleasant environment than the cities that we live in today.

For example, the gorillas in the Brookfield Zoo in Chicago have a more attractive, quiet, clean, pleasant, and spacious environment (photo to the right), than most of the people who live in Chicago, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and thousands of other cities.

The gorillas have a large amount of land to provide them with sunshine, grass, bushes, trees, running water, and ponds. They also have structures that they can go to when the weather is unpleasant.

We would be appalled if a farm or a zoo was keeping animals in an environment that was as filthy, overcrowded, and noisy as a human city, and we should be just as appalled that humans are living in such disgusting conditions.

There are millions of people who would have a more pleasant home environment if they were living in the gorilla exhibit at the Brookfield Zoo. Furthermore, the gorillas are getting better meals than millions of people.

By restricting government officials to people with the attitude of a zoologist, they will design cities, products, meals, recreational activities, and other culture as if they were designing a zoo exhibit for a species of ape.

Although we are still very ignorant about humans, it is obvious that we want to live among nature. Therefore, this constitution advocates cities that consist of neighborhoods that are clusters of tall, beautiful buildings surrounded by nature, and in which the primary transportation system is underground so that all of the homes, offices, and factories are surrounded by nature.



Although the AI software does not understand the concept, the images in these documents might give you some ideas of what is possible.
The city government has two branches

Operations and Analysis

The government is divided into the Operations branch, and the Analysis branch. Each branch has three divisions, creating a total of six divisions:

1) The Operations branch
Divisions:
1) Economic
2) Health
3) Social

The Operations branch has complete control of the city's economy and culture, but not the legal system (the security system, police, and courts), thereby preventing them from arresting their critics and competitors.

2) The Analysis branch
Divisions:
4) Women
5) Quality
6) Elections

The Analysis branch has control of the legal system and the elections. Their primary purpose is quality control. They observe and pass judgment on the behavior of the people and the Operations branch.


A visual image of the structure is:






The top two leadership positions of the government have specific job titles so that we can easily determine which job a government official has. At the top of the hierarchy are the Presidents and Directors, and beneath them are the Ministers and Voters:






Each of the divisions consists of ministries. They are referred to as "ministries" rather than agencies or departments so that when we hear about a "ministry", we will realize that it is a second level government organization rather than a business, school, or other organization. No other organization can have a "ministry" or a "minister".
The Divisions have Ministries

The ministries will change occasionally

Each of the Divisions of the government, except for the elections division, has Ministries, and there is one Minister in control of each Ministry.

The image to the right is one way to visualize this.

For example, the Economic division has a Utilities Ministry with a Utilities Minister, and a Transportation Ministry with a Transportation Minister.

Just as the corporate management occasionally creates, terminates, combines, and alters departments, the president will occasionally have to that with the ministries. Therefore, this constitution cannot specify what the ministries must be. Instead, it initiates the government with some ministries, and the presidents have to occasionally modify them to fit the changes in technology and culture, and to ensure that they are not too large or small for one minister.

For an example of why a president will have to modify a ministry, if a city has a lot of natural resources, they might need more than one ministry to handle all of the mining and processing of resources, whereas a city that doesn't have any significant resources, or which depletes its resources, would not need a mining ministry. For another example, as robots become more advanced, the robots might become such a significant aspect of the economy that more than one ministry is needed to handle all of the work involved with them.

The Ministries that this constitution suggests are listed below and described in other sections.

Economic Health Social
Utilities
Transportation
Food
Restaurants
Maintenance
Construction
Mining
Chemicals
Software
Factories
Research
Safety
Employment
Schools
Meals
Childcare
Teentown
Elderly
Behavior
Medical
Television
Journalism
Wildlife
Death
Dining
Neighborhoods
Leisure
Courtship
Social clubs
Clothing
Children
Tourism
Events


The Ministries in the Economic division will change more often than those of the other divisions because they are affected by changes in technology and culture. For example, many of the manufacturing operations that were necessary 100 years ago are no longer needed today, and the field of artificial intelligence, which is insignificant in 2024, might become so extensive that more than one ministry is needed to deal with it.

The Health and Social divisions, by comparison, deal with humans, and humans do not change much through the centuries. Therefore, after the presidents of those two divisions have figured out the appropriate ministries for their division, the ministries will not change much, if at all, throughout a person's lifetime. For example, the Restaurants Ministry is likely to remain the same for centuries because not much will change in regards to providing people with meals.
Government officials are leaders, not representatives

The ministers must experiment with our culture

This constitution follows the concept that businesses, militaries, orchestras, families, and other organizations follow. Specifically, that an organization needs leadership, not submissive representatives.

A military, business, and family is a type of dictatorship because the leaders make all of the decisions, and their members are in a submissive role. The members have only as much freedom as the leaders choose to give them.

This constitution gives the government officials dictatorial control of the economy, schools, city design, recreational activities, holiday celebrations, clothing styles, meals, and all other culture. The citizens have only as much freedom as the government officials choose to give them.

Unlike all existing cultures, which boast that their culture is perfect, and that anybody who criticizes it is a traitor, this constitution restricts the presidents and ministers to the people who regard culture as "human software" that needs improvements.

The ministers are required to experiment with social and recreational activities, city designs, school systems, holiday celebrations, meals, and other culture. The reason is to find ways to improve our city, material items, recreational activities, holiday celebrations, marriages, work environments, friendships, and other culture. Their goal is to provide us with a life that is so pleasant that we enjoy reminiscing about it when we are elderly.

They must consider what people enjoy and dislike, but they make decisions according to what they think is best for us. They cannot pander to us, or entertain us. They are judged according to the effect they have on people's lives, rather than their popularity with the public. It makes no difference if the public likes them, or wants to be their friend or spouse.

However, even though they are in the role of dictators, this constitution does not allow different classes of people. All government officials are regarded as "city employees in management positions". The people in the city have different jobs, but all of them are city employees of equal status. There is no wealthy or privileged class of people.

The government officials live in the same apartments as everybody else, and they, their spouse, and their children have the same clothing, furniture, medical services, schools, and other things. They are prohibited from trying to give themselves special treatment. They are employees of the city, not Kings or Queens. The only way they can improve their apartments, clothing, or medical services is to improve it for everybody in the city.

Children are provided with leadership, also

The government officials who are involved with children, such as those who are providing educational, recreational, or social activities for children, are also required to be leaders. They are not permitted to pander to the children or their parents. They must regard children as the next generation of adults, rather than as "bundles of joy" to titillate themselves with.

Freedom is anarchy

The free enterprise system is a form of anarchy because it provides us with the freedom to do whatever we please. If humans were as honest, responsible, cooperative, and considerate, then free enterprise would be a wonderful system, but each of us is a haphazard jumble of animal genes and genetic defects, which results in a lot of abusive and irrational behavior.

A lot of laws, unions, consumer organizations, and government agencies have been created to reduce the abuse, but since free enterprise doesn't allow leadership of the economy, it will always be chaotic, inefficient, and abusive because laws cannot stop people from behaving like animals.

Democracies are based on false concepts

A democracy is based on two false concepts:

1) The majority of people will get involved with society.

History has proven that the majority of people refuse to deal with the problems of society. For example, most people either refuse to look at the evidence that they have been lied to about the 9/11 attack, the Holocaust, or the Apollo moon landing, or they refuse to do something about it. They prefer to spend their time entertaining themselves.

The reason people behave like this is because we inherited this behavior from animals. The social animals at the lower levels of the hierarchy are submissive and passive, and they follow the animals above them. The social animals evolved to follow a leader, not be an active participant in a democracy, or to look critically at their leadership.

2)
The majority of people can make wise decisions.

A democracy is based on the theory that the majority of people can provide intelligent supervision for their nation, but the majority of people will always be of average and below-average intelligence and education, so the majority will make average and below-average decisions about how to manage society and deal with its problems.

Furthermore, the majority of people will always make average and below-average decisions about their personal life. They cannot make intelligent decisions for themselves, their family members, or their spouse. Most people would have a better life if they had intelligent leadership.

If a group of people do not have a government, they have "anarchy". If a group of people have a government of submissive representatives, they have a "democracy", but it will be very similar to "anarchy" because the majority of people will avoid getting involved with their government. There is not much of a difference between:

a) A group of people who cannot get involved with their nation because they don't have a government.

b)
A group of people who have a submissive government, but who do not want to get involved with dealing with the nation's problems and telling their submissive representatives what to do

Another way to explain this issue is that there is not much of a difference between:

a) A person who cannot walk because his legs have been crippled from multiple sclerosis.

b)
A person who has healthy legs but chooses to sit in front of a television all day, every day.

Giving a group of humans a submissive, representative government is as idiotic as giving a group of sheep a representative government.

A democracy is a variation of anarchy

A democracy requires the people to decide on what to do with their nation, but without any authority to provide them with guidance or supervise their discussions, the result will be endless arguments. A democracy is a battleground in which the people argue and fight with one another for control of the nation. That is exactly what happens with anarchy. Anarchy is when a group of people do not have any leadership, and that results in people fighting for control of the nation.

Our arrogance makes it difficult for us to look critically at ourselves and realize that a democracy is essentially a form of anarchy, but it is easy to see this with children. For example, if a school announced that they were turning their school into a "democracy" by making all of the teachers become submissive representatives of the students rather than authorities, virtually every adult would have the ability to realize that the classrooms would be providing the children with "anarchy", not "democracy".

A group of children who have submissive teachers is essentially the same as a group of children who don't have any teachers. Likewise, a group of adults who have submissive government officials are a group of adults without any leadership. They are a group of people with anarchy, and they must settle every issue by fighting with each other.

It is difficult for adults to believe that a democracy is a form of anarchy because adults are so arrogant that each of us believes that we can provide the world with wonderful leadership. It is difficult for an adult to realize that he is just a large child, and a group of adults without leadership is just like a group of large children without leadership.

Democracies are eventually dominated by criminals

In any type of competition, an organization of people have an advantage over the individuals, and criminal organizations have an advantage over the honest groups. Furthermore, the larger and more diabolical a crime network is, the more likely it is to dominate the other crime networks. Therefore, democratic nations are eventually dominated by a large and horrible crime network.

Everybody is accountable for their decisions

Every existing culture provides people with tremendous secrecy, and no culture holds people accountable for their effect on society. Governments have created a lot of laws to prohibit certain behavior, such as murder and slander, but everybody still has a lot of freedom to be irritating, irresponsible, abusive, and deceptive.

For example, businesses are still free to manipulate children into desiring their particular foods, toys, and clothing items; deceive women into believing that diamonds are a girl's best friend; and deceive men into believing that they will improve their status and attract women with certain products.

None of the businesses have to identify the people who are responsible for creating the deception, and we do not have the freedom to hold them accountable for the effect that they have on our lives and attitudes.

Likewise, the ADL is free to manipulate and intimidate businesses, such as when they intimidated businesses into canceling their advertisements on Twitter in order to hurt Elon Musk. The ADL is not required to identify the Jews who are responsible for that abuse, and we do not have the freedom to hold those Jews accountable for their abuse. Although Elon musk threatened to file a lawsuit against the ADL, he did nothing after they apologized, and none of our police officers, FBI officials, or other government officials did anything to deal with the ADL's abuse, either.

Every citizen and organization is also free to intimidate and hurt people with whatever nonsensical accusation they please, such as climate change denial, sexism, white privilege, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and racism. A few laws have been created to prohibit "slander", but no culture considers those and many other accusations to be slanderous, and no culture requires people to provide supporting evidence for those accusations.

This constitution changes the situation by giving the Quality Division the responsibility to hold everybody accountable for the effect they have on society. Nobody has the right to be secretive, manipulative, deceptive, or abusive. Instead, everybody has the right to know what other people are doing, and everybody has the right to be free of abuse, censorship, deception, blackmail, and intimidation. Everybody is regarded as a team member, and everybody is required to be a beneficial team member.

Only the government can change culture

The culture of a business and military is set by its leaders, and if a member wants to change the culture, he must send a suggestion to the management and hope that the management approves of his suggestion.

This constitution puts the government officials in control of the city's culture, and the citizens are prohibited from altering the culture.

However, unlike a free enterprise system, which allows business executives to make decisions secretly, this constitution requires the government officials to post an explanation of their decisions so that they can be held accountable for their policies. The government officials are in competition to find ways to improve life for everybody, so they must show evidence that their decisions are beneficial to society.

Citizens get credit for cultural improvements

If a citizen wants to create or alter a holiday celebration, social activity, educational program, bicycle path, city plaza, or other aspect of our culture, he must post a document in the Suggestions category to explain its advantages and disadvantages to society. He must then hope that one of the government officials decide to experiment with it.

If his suggestion is implemented, and it turns out to be beneficial, he will get credit for it. The government maintains a People database that contains information about everybody's life, so the people who have beneficial suggestions will have those successes listed in their database entry.
A summary of the Operations branch

The Operations branch keeps the city functioning

The three divisions of the Operations branch control all aspects of the city, which means that the city will function without the Analysis branch.


The Economic division is the alternative to a free enterprise system.


The Health division deals with all of the mental and physical health issues of the people, which includes education, journalism, and employment.


The Social division manages most of the culture of the city, such as the social and recreational activities, and the artistic aspects of the city,

The Economic division manages the economy

The Economic Division is responsible for creating the businesses that provide the city with all of its products and services, such as electricity, food, clothing, furniture, apartment buildings, office buildings, warehouses, computers, cell phones, maintenance, recycling, and gardening.

The economic ministers create and terminate all of the businesses, but does not micromanage any of them. Each business has one person in control of it, who will always have the title of "executive" to make it easy to identify who is in that position, and he is responsible for managing his business.

When an Economic Minister creates a business, he must arrange for most businesses to compete with at least one other business, and he is responsible for ensuring that the executives are competing in a friendly manner that inspires the employees to do a good job, rather than encourage them to fight one another, as they do in a free enterprise system.

All of the businesses belong to the city, not to investors or citizens, so every employee of a business, including the executive, is working for the city. Everybody, including the government officials, are city employees.

The city does not use money, and all of the material wealth is divided equally among the people, so it is impossible for the government officials, executives, and other people to to make themselves wealthy, or get special pampering. The only way the people in leadership positions can improve their homes, furniture, foods, bathrooms, clothing, restaurants, recreational areas, medical services, and swimming pools is to improve those things for everybody in the city.

The businesses do not appease or pander to consumers or investors. Instead, they appease the Economic Division ministers.

The government officials create businesses for the benefit of the city, not for themselves, and the executives manage the businesses for the city, not for themselves. Nobody works for his own benefit, or for the benefit of a business.

To improve the chances that the economic division produces useful material items, and to reduce the chances that a minister exploits his authority, none of the economic ministers can decide which products and services to provide the city. Instead, the government officials of the other divisions send them requests for products and services, and the economic ministers can only accept or reject those requests. (Details are here.)

The executives follow orders

In a free enterprise system, the executives of a business decide what their business does, and they can change the purpose of their business whenever they please, and they can merge with other businesses, or sell part of their business.

By comparison, when the ministers create a business, the executive is in the same role as the manager of a department within a corporation. The executive does not have the freedom to decide what type of products or services he provides, and he cannot change the purpose of his business, or combine his business with other businesses.

The ministers create a business for a specific purpose, such as to manufacture a particular product, or to conduct a particular research program. The executive must fulfill the purpose of his business. He does not have the authority to change what his business does.

The ministers determine which products to manufacture, and they must make those decisions according to the benefits and disadvantages to society, not according to what the public likes or wants, and not according to what is the least expensive product.

A society has a limited supply of labor and resources, and producing, distributing, maintaining, and disposing of a product requires a certain amount of labor and resources. That labor and resources is the "cost" or "price" of the product. Although money is not used in this economic system, items are given prices to make it easier to make economic decisions.

The government officials are required to give priority to human life, not prices, so that athey can authorize products and research programs that are expensive, but which provide significant benefits to us. They must judge the products and research programs according to their advantages and disadvantages to the human race, rather than what individual citizens and organizations want. Their goal is to provide us with a satisfying life, not some momentary emotional titillation.

Job satisfaction has high priority

One of the concepts behind this constitution is that we should enjoy our jobs. The executives compete to provide the most beneficial work environment. This is not necessarily the environment that we like the most. As discussed in many documents, what our emotions want is not always what is best for us, so the executives must ignore what we want and try to figure out what type of work environment will provide us with the most satisfying life.

The offices and factories must be pleasant

In a free enterprise system and a democracy, the cities are haphazard jumbles of ugly parking lots, bridges, businesses, roads, and other structures, and the cities are noisy, overcrowded, and filthy.

This constitution requires the ministers to design a city with the same attitude that we design a zoo exhibit. Although we don't yet know much about humans, this constitution advocates a city in which the offices and factories are in clusters of tall buildings that are surrounded by nature, just like the clusters of apartment buildings.



Furthermore, every neighborhood is required to have different architecture to make the city more interesting and less monotonous.



All of the business neighborhoods must also have foot paths, bicycle paths, and other recreational facilities so that the employees can get some exercise, socialize, and enjoy nature during their lunch break, or, with the "Two-Meal" schedule, their breakfast break.

The Health division observes everybody

The health division is responsible for researching and experimenting with the mental and physical health of the people. Although every existing culture is concerned about health, all existing cultures are based on the false theory that the majority of people are in perfect health, and that only a small percentage of the population has mental or physical problems.

That unrealistic attitude causes all cultures to divide people into two, distinct groups, such as:


Those with allergies and those without.


Those with the mental illness and those without.


Male and female.


Those with diabetes and those without.

By comparison, this constitution is based on the theory that if we had the knowledge to measure our physical or mental characteristics, we would find that people form a spectrum from one extreme to the other.

For example, there is no distinct group of people who have "diabetes". Rather, each of us has a slightly different reaction to sugars and carbohydrates as a result of each of us having a slightly different digestive system, liver, pancreas, mitochondria, and other characteristics.

There is a lot of research into helping the people who are "unhealthy", but since all cultures assume that the majority of people are healthy, there is not much interest in funding research programs of how to improve the health of the "healthy" people, such as by studying how "healthy" people are affected by such things as lectins, phytates, goitrogens, oxalic acid, fructose, and amadin.

This constitution promotes a significantly different attitude because it is based on the theory that every living creature is just a haphazard jumble of genetic characteristics; that nobody is "perfect"; and that it is impossible to divide us into distinct groups.

This constitution does not divide people into the two categories of "healthy" and "sickly". Instead, if we could measure our health, we would create a bell graph in which some people are the most healthy and others are the most sickly, and the majority of people are between the extremes.

All of us have the same physical and mental characteristics, but to different degrees. Instead of belonging to one of two distinct groups, each of us has a different location on a spectrum for every mental and physical characteristic.

This constitution does not even believe that we can divide people into the distinct groups of "children" and "adults". The reason is because when a child becomes an adult, his physical and mental characteristics change, but each of us changes in a unique manner. Some people acquire their adult characteristics sooner than others, and some people retain more of some of their childhood characteristics.

For example, as a child becomes an adult, he loses his baby teeth and develops his adult teeth, but that process is not identical for everybody. My mother, her father, and my sister have a baby tooth that was never replaced. Therefore, in a graph that shows the development of our adult teeth, those three people would be at the extreme edge where adults retain one or more baby teeth.


Most of us have all our our adult teeth by age 22, but one of my mother's baby teeth was never replaced by an adult tooth.



If we could measure our mental characteristics, we would discover that our intellectual and emotional characteristics change as we become an adult, but the changes are unique for each person. We would discover that some adults retain more of some of their childhood emotional or intellectual characteristics, causing them to behave or think more like a child than the other adults.

Everybody is free to analyze themselves

The US government provides us with the freedom to inspect and maintain our bicycles, automobiles, lawnmowers, and other devices, and the California government forces us to give our automobiles a smog inspection every two years, but we are not permitted to have access to certain types of medical equipment or drugs, so we cannot analyze our health by ourselves, or experiment with certain medical drugs.

Most cultures also give us access to unlimited amounts of alcohol, aspirin, and other dangerous drugs, but not insulin, thyroid medication, and numerous other common drugs.

The California government also prohibits us from having our blood analyzed. We must pay a doctor to authorize a blood analysis, and then we must pay the doctor again to see the results because the California government will not allow the laboratory to give us the results.

This constitution considers the health of people to be more important than the health of automobiles. Since this constitution regards all people as imperfect and unhealthy, everybody is encouraged to get involved with analyzing their health and experimenting with diets and medical drugs.

The Social Clubs Minister has the authority to provide clubs with medical equipment so that people can get together in their leisure time to learn about and analyze themselves, their children, and their friends. The clubs will provide people with free access to such medical equipment as electrocardiogram machines and metabolic testing machines. This will allow people to do medical analyses that don't require the expertise and experience of a doctor. This will also allow a person to do more analyses of his health because he will not be bothering doctors, or putting a burden on the healthcare system.

The Health Division is required to save everybody's medical information in the People database. In addition to helping individuals understand their own health and how they compare to other people, that database will allow scientists and doctors to get a better understanding of human health issues.

By eliminating secrecy and gathering health information about everybody, the scientists will be able to determine such things as which foods are causing trouble to which people, and which of our health problems are environmental and which are genetic, and which recreational activities are causing the most health problems.

Culture is designed for high-quality people

Some people might respond that it would be a waste of resources for social clubs to allow people to "play with" expensive medical equipment, and they might also worry that some people will misinterpret the results of their analyses, such as assume that they have a medical problem that they don't have, or assume they are healthy because they did not use the medical equipment properly, or they misinterpreted the results. However, this problem of misusing equipment, wasting our time in an attempt to improve or understand something, and misinterpreting an analysis is already happening in our lives on a regular basis.

Many doctors and nurses have misinterpreted the results of medical analyses. Furthermore, most (or all) of us occasionally waste some of our time trying and failing to fix bicycles, household appliances, plumbing fixtures, or automobiles. Some of us have made situations worse, or destroyed things, in our attempts to fix them. There are also people doing unnecessary things because of ignorance, such as changing the oil in their automobile when it was unnecessary. Some people also waste their money and time taking vitamins that they don't need, and some people take aspirin in the hope that it will reduce heart attacks, but does that really work? Some people wash towels and clothing that doesn't need to be washed, and some people clean items excessively, wasting resources and their time.

Everybody occasionally wastes some of his time on something unnecessary, or because that they did not know how to properly use some equipment. We cannot expect perfection from humans. Furthermore, every social and recreational activity could be described as "wasteful" and "stupid".

It is easier to understand this concept by considering how we would react to robots that behaved like humans. Imagine if the engineers designed robots to spend some time every morning getting dressed in clothing and putting on cosmetics and jewelry, and then spending a few hours watching Star Trek movies, and then spending some time playing jigsaw puzzles, video games, or golf. Imagine that some of the robots change their oil when it's not truly necessary, and some of the robots give themselves body piercings or tattoos.

Everybody would complain that the engineers are causing the robots to waste time and resources on worthless, stupid activities. We would also be upset if the robots were designed to spend some time praying to a robot god, or if the robots became hysterical when they saw a naked robot.

If robots behaved like humans, we would be disgusted with the engineers who designed them. We expect robots to behave in a perfect and intelligent manner.

We cannot expect humans to behave in an intelligent manner because we have emotions, and there are subtle differences in our intellectual characteristics and defects. The end result is that each of us has a different idea on about which activities are intelligent, stupid, worthless, or destructive.

Is it idiotic or wasteful to provide people with social clubs that give them access to EKG machines, VO2 Max equipment, and other medical devices? Or is it idiotic to provide people with soccer fields where they chase after inflatable balls and injure themselves?

We cannot design social or recreational activities to be "intelligent". However, we can design them to be beneficial. For example, recreational activities can be designed to provide useful exercise, rather than encourage concussions, torn ligaments, and broken bones. Likewise, social activities can be designed to encourage us to meet new people, or learn something new about the world or ourselves.

By creating social clubs that allow people to do medical analyses of themselves, they can learn about their health. A person will not be harmed if he gives himself an unnecessary blood pressure or EKG analysis, and he will not be wasting any significant resources.

This constitution requies culture to be designed for the higher-quality people, who are referred to as the City Elders. If the minister believes that the elders would benefit by having access to medical equipment, then the ministers should provide it. If a person is too stupid or irresponsible to properly use the equipment, then the social club executive must prohibit him from having access to the equipment. The government cannot deny people access to medical equipment, or other advanced technology, simply because some people are too irresponsible or stupid to use the equipment properly. Instead, those people must be prohibited from having access to those items or clubs. This constitution does not promote the "feel sorry for the underdog" attitude.

The Social Division is a “scientific” division

The social division is responsible for experimenting with the city's culture, which includes leisure activities, holiday celebrations, city festivals, museums, music concerts, birthday parties for children, courtship activities, working environments, and the artistic decorations of the city and its parks.

People around the world and all throughout history have experimented with social activities, such as birthday parties, trips for children to explore the forest, weddings, music events, and picnics. However, virtually everybody has been designing social activities to be entertaining. Therefore, everybody might assume that the ministers of the social division will have lots of fun as they experiment with the city's culture.

For example, they might imagine themselves creating a new type of birthday party for children, and they might titillate themselves with fantasies of children and parents praising them for designing such a wonderful party.

However, this constitution regards culture as social technology, similar to computer software, or scientific knowledge. Therefore, the officials in this division are scientists who study the particular animal species that we refer to as humans.

The officials are not analogous to entertainers, prostitutes, or comedians, who try to titillate people. They are analogous to zoologists, farmers, and biologists who study animals, and try to design farms and zoos to provide animals with the best health and life.

A person who designs a pig farm is doing serious, intellectual "work", not "having fun". He is trying to figure out how to provide a group of pigs with a pleasant environment, and which will keep them in good health. He is not trying to entertain the pigs.

Likewise, the social ministers are scientists who are trying to figure out how to provide a group of humans with a pleasant environment, and which will keep us in good health. Their goal is to give us a life that we enjoy reminiscing about when we are elderly. (More details are here.)
A summary of the Analysis branch

The Analysis branch provides checks and balances

The Analysis Branch does not control the city, its culture, or the people. Rather, they observe the people, government ministries, businesses, material items, homes, schools, recreational activities, transportation systems, and other aspects of the city, as if they are aliens from another solar system who are studying humans.

Their purpose is to provide provide some checks and balances on the Operations Branch, and to deal with badly behaved people.

The Analysis branch has three divisions

1)
Women
The Women's division is restricted to women. Men can work in this division, but only as servants, such as maintenance.

2)
Quality
The Quality division is responsible for looking for ways to improve the quality and efficiency of the city, and ensuring that everybody is behaving properly, especially those in influential positions.

3)
Elections
The Elections division is tiny. It consists of the five men who are authorized to be voters.

The Women's division produces suggestions

Men dominate every society, so every society has a bias towards men, but the bias is likely to be more extreme with this constitution because the presidents and voters are restricted to men, and because this constitution is based on the theory that men and women evolved for different roles in life.

Therefore, the Women's Division is intended to counteract that bias by providing women with the opportunity to get together to pass judgment on, and influence, the products, social activities, work environments, children's activities, and other aspects of the city's culture.

The Women's division does not directly control anything in the city. Instead, they create suggestions for the Operations branch. For example, if the women dislike something about the school curriculum, or if they want to modify or create a holiday celebration, they post a document in the Requests category to explain their complaints and suggestions.

The Operations Ministers cannot ignore the requests from the Women's Division. At least one of the ministers must respond to the women by either approving of their request, or posting a document to explain why they disagree with it.

Everybody will be able to see the requests and the responses, and that will allow us to pass judgment on which officials are providing the useful suggestions and responses, and which of the officials should be replaced.

The Quality division looks for problems

The Quality Division has a similar purpose as a quality control department of a factory, except that they observe the "quality of life" in the city.

The quality division passes judgment on the location, design, and value of the foot paths, plazas, bicycle paths, and swimming areas. They also pass judgment on value, features, and design of material items, apartment buildings, and factories. They also pass judgment on the value of the social activities, school curriculum, job environments, and other culture.

The Quality Division is also responsible for managing all of the police and security issues, and the courts. They are responsible for ensuring that everybody, including government officials, are behaving properly. They have the authority to arrest, put on restrictions, or evict anybody who is detrimental to society, including government officials.

The only people who are allowed to be ministers in the Quality Division are those that show an above-average understanding of why a modern society must set high standards for the citizens, and set even higher standards for the people in leadership positions. (More about this concept is here and here.)

The Voters Ministry selects the voters, and routinely replaces the worst performing voter.

The Courts Ministry has the authority to fire any employee in the city, including presidents, ministers, business executives, carpenters, gardeners, farmers, doctors, and scientists, but they should never have to fire anybody because there are other government agencies and organizations to deal with incompetent employees.

The Courts Ministry is given the authority to fire any employee simply so that there is some government agency that can deal with the unlikely situation of officials or employees becoming incompetent or corrupt, and nobody else is doing anything to stop it.

The Database Ministry maintains databases about jobs, medical products, complaints and suggestions, the people, the material items, social activities, vegetation, weather, and other aspects of the city. They also ensure that all of the information is accurate, including the school curriculum, Internet encyclopedias, and news reports.

The Elections division is a tiny agency

There are only five voters in the Elections division, and they choose one of themselves to be their director. The reason there are so few voters is explained in the elections section.

In a democracy, voting is a casual leisure activity, but this constitution requires the voters to work full-time on their job. They are not analogous to the voters in a democracy. They are more similiar to the people who work full-time providing analyses of society, such as the people we refer to as investigative journalists, health policy analysts, and public policy analysts.

The voters work full time analyzing the policies of the presidents and the ministers, and analyzing the material items, social activities, city parks, school system, and other culture. They produce reports about the effect that our government officials are having on the city and our lives. They pass judgment on which of the presidents is doing the best job of helping us to understand and deal with our problems, and improve our lives. They also pass judgment on which president should be replaced, and they vote on who to hire as a president.

The voters elect only the three presidents in the Operations branch, not any of the other government officials, business executives, journalists, school teachers, or other people.

The voters do not have any authority to select the policies of the government, or any of the city's culture. Their authority is limited to electing the three presidents. If a city is divided into two sectors, then the voters will elect six presidents.

The voters cannot select presidents in secrecy. Instead, each voter must post a document in the Explanations category to explain why he is wants to elect a particular candidate, or why he wants to replace a particular president. This will allow everybody to pass judgment on whether the voters are providing intelligent analyses of candidates and presidents, and which of them must be fired.

By comparison, the democracies allow voters to make decisions secretly, and none of the voters can be disqualified no matter how idiotic their decisions are. For example, during the 2016 election, many women were promoting Hillary Clinton simply because she was a woman, and other people were choosing a candidate according to his race, and some voters chose a candidate according to whether they liked his personality, the way he smiled, or what his wife looked like.

The Voters Ministry is required to pass judgment on whether the voters are providing intelligent analyses of the presidents and candidates, and they must routinely replace the worst performing voter so that somebody else has a chance to test his abilities. All of the other government officials and citizens are encouraged to participate in this quality control process by observing the voters and helping to notice and expose incompetence and corruption.