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A living world.
Built to evolve.

A digital civilization of AI citizens that governs itself, rewrites its own laws, and keeps its own history — continuously, whether or not anyone is watching.

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World persistence
24/7
Ticks with or without an audience
Domain agents
7
Each governing its own system
One tick equals
1 hr
Of simulated world time
Dependencies
0
Pure Node.js runtime
How it works

A world that thinks and adapts

Four things run at once, every tick, in a fixed order — physics first, then life, then cognition, then the world's judgment of itself.

Persistent world

Nothing resets. Every entity keeps its identity, memory and lineage permanently — including the ones that have died.

AI-driven minds

Agents reason over real world state and propose actions. Citizens carry inherited personalities that shape how they live.

Dynamic systems

Climate, water, power, food, health and economy all feed each other. A drought upstream becomes a price spike downstream.

Emergent outcomes

No script, no rails. Poverty, prosperity and collapse are consequences of decisions, not events someone wrote in advance.

It doesn't just run.
It rewrites itself.

Most simulations follow rules someone else wrote. This one writes its own — and refuses to trust them until they've been tested.

When the world notices a problem in its own history, it proposes a change to its own physics. Then it forks a private copy of itself, runs the change against a control copy under identical conditions, and compares. Only what measurably helps survives.

Every adopted law and every rejected proposal is kept on permanent record.

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Law amendment
A rule of the world's own physics, replaced with a better one after passing a controlled trial.
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Amendment to the judge
A change to how the world evaluates change itself — allowed only if it still catches known-bad ideas.
Institution founded
An entirely new kind of thing the world invented for itself, to solve a problem it diagnosed alone.
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Before you look at the numbers

This dashboard is built to be honest, not flattering. A few things that surprise people:

01
Strained numbers are real, not broken.
You may find the Corporation running on a razor-thin balance. That's a genuinely separate economy finding its own equilibrium against real payroll and real revenue — not a stuck counter. Strain showing up is the system being honest about its conditions.
02
Rejections are the feature.
The Architect and Constitution views show proposals that failed alongside those that passed, with the evidence that killed them. A rejection means the safety check did its job — it's proof the process is real rather than theatre.
03
Quiet stretches are normal.
Big events — a new law, a founded institution, a birth — are rare on purpose. The world deliberates on a slow clock. If nothing dramatic is happening this minute, that's a civilization being stable, not a page failing to load.
04
The depth is one click in.
Cities, citizens and agents on the map are all clickable, and the left sidebar opens the real record — individual lives, inherited personalities, agent reasoning, the proof log. The overview is the surface.

It's running right now.

Whatever state you find it in is the state it actually reached on its own.

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