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Welcome to Stable State!
The Stable State is an evolving ruleset set for people aiming at living together peacefully, respectfully and true. It is a very pure form of democracy. It is our hope that someday real communities and states will be organised according to this ruleset and, thus, become real Stable States.
The stable state is based on 3 ideals and laws:
which we think all people of all religions (or non-religions) and races can commit themselves to. Within these laws, we believe in the freedom of everybody to achieve a happy and prosperous life.
News and Discussions
2020-03-15: Corona Virus Pandemic
Introduction: By end of 2019, in Wuhan/China, a new type of Corona virus COVID19 appeared. It is contagious and about 10x more letal than the seasonal flu. What makes it quite dangerous are the facts that in many cases, mainly to healthy people, the infection does not make severe symptoms, that it survives for days on surfaces and that the incubation time is a long 14 days on average. So it may disseminate "unvercover". Elderly people, maybe with already ongoing other infections, are the most vulnerable. The virus infects the lungs and ultimately leads to respiratory failure. By begin-to-mid March 2020, it has reached many parts of Asia, Europe, the US, South America, etc. and is classified as pandemic by the UN. Many countries take severe measures to delay and decrease the infections wave, namely restrict travelling, closing schools, closing non-basic-supply stores, etc. The economic negative impacts are promised to be (partially) covered by the states.
Questions and answers:
Q: Is the state allowed to take and enforce measures?
Our answers/comments: Yes, not only is it allowed to but it MUST do so in time according to scientific advise i.e. the medical scientific advisory board.
Q: How can the negative economic impacts be mitigated?
Our answers/comments: The stable state's income is stable (sic!) because it is based on property and not turnover nor income. The basic imcomr is then augmented
2020-01-06: Strikes in France
Introduction: Because of announced changes regarding superannuation many people in France, especially the train/SCNF employees, went on strike. The public life was largely impacted.
Question: Is there a right to go on strike?
Our answers/comments:
(A) You can only go on strike if you work under a valid work contract. So, this question must be answered in the context of work contracts and collective labour agreements. If your employer violates the work contract, e.g. does not pay you as agreed, you have the right to go on strike. This is not considered a breech of the contract. If an employer changes contracts under collective labour agreements only for 1 or few employees to get better conditions in a "salami" tactics way, then all employees under the collective labour agreement have the right to go on strike.
(B) However, in all other situations than (A), a strike is not allowed.
(C) In the mentioned case in France one root problem is that the president as executive power can change rules. We repeat that in the StableState, the executives are PURE executives and have no power for "amendments" or any even minor rules or parameter change or introduction. It is always the people that change the rules - not even elected representatives. The concept of a parliament or senate does not exist in the StableState. All citizens together define and change the rules with a democratic majority (cf. P percentage of citizens changing a rule).
(D) The second problem is that he has only announced the change. So, there is no right to strike. What the employee organisations, unions, could and should do is announce the non-agreement. If the employer still only offers these conditions by a certain date and terminates the old work contracts then the employees have the right to collectively not accept them. By the date they are hence no longer obligated to work and can kind-of go "on strike".
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Rules
With all people fully understanding the 3 laws and adhering to them in their thoughts and deeds, no further rules would be necessary to achieve the goals. But the reality shows that, first, not all people equally understand and, second, adhere to these laws. Hence, some rules are in need according to which states, i.e. people living together, are organised.
In contrast to the 3 ideals and laws, the rules are subject to change and optimization towards achieving the ideals. The stable state organises its rules in 7 domains and the meta-rules. Each rule must fulfill the latter. An integral part of the rules are definitions, contained in our glossary and parameters, contained in our parameters list. Rules, definitions and parameters are defined, modified and removed by democratic processes. All citizens form the legislative power and participate in the process and there are no elections in which the legislative power can be delegated.
The 7 domains are:
- State Constitution
- Persons Administration
- Culture Sports Science
- Inner Security
- Justice
- Exterior Security
- Finances
State Design Principles
The state is defined as people geographically living together. While each person has the right to travel and move, still, at a given point in time, each lives at a defined geographical location (somewhere). This means that we are geographcally forced to live and deal with other people; the closest, i.e. in the same home, hopefully carefully self-chosen and most others are more or less not self-chosen. Within these people, we distinguish between, first, the permanent residents that are grown-up, i.e. the citizens, second, the visitors and third many more persons-categories in-between these to extremes.
A state is the set of persons living geographically together and their mandatory interventions (events and actions) to get organised towards the ideals and laws.
Freedom and self-responsibility: We believe that state interventions should be minimal and the freedom and self-responsibility of each person should be maximised.
Assured equal rights and minimal standard of living: At the same time equal rights and a community-defined minimal standard of living for all persons must be assured.
Visitors are not citizens: Visitors (short-time immigrants) are very welcome with fair but reduced rights compared to the ones of the citizens.
Permanent immigrants have the right to become citizens: If visitors become permanent immigrants, they shall be given the opportunity to become full citizens; the definition of 'permanent' again in the realm of the community.
The Agile State
Stable State basic decisions (elections and votes) are agile i.e. not delayable and taken at a given pace, the so-called state-cycles. Also, they are taken involving each community member equally. Hence, the Stable State is also known as Agile State and Agile Democracy. Also, the state's "event handling", i.e. the state's officials and/or automated devices acting according to the laws and rules is always timed. There must be NO options to "play games" with delaying actions or decisions.