Framework

Where we come from

Our roots are in Georgism. Henry George argued in 1879 that the value of land, which communities create and owners collect, is the proper base for public revenue and that the proceeds belong to everyone. Thomas Paine had proposed a ground dividend in 1797, and Milton Friedman later called the land value tax the least bad tax. We carry that tradition into the twenty-first century. We tie it to energy and physical limits, not to money alone. We require every model to close as a stock-flow consistent balance. We extend “land” to other non-reproducible positions, such as data and network monopolies. And we pair the levy with an unconditional citizen’s dividend.

Our political starting point is resilient liberalism. A free order is not a stable default, so the conditions that make freedom possible have to be maintained. Georgism gives us the economic foundation, and resilient liberalism the political one.

Macro-physics

Production follows energy, not abstraction: $Y = f(K(E_k), L(E_l))$. Capital and labour are transducers of usable energy. Energy can be added through innovation; physical land and network positions are finite.

System design

Every model is Stock-Flow Consistent and closes under the Kirchhoff balance identities. The federation supplies neutral rails, invariant checks and sane defaults; models and parameters are open source.

Philosophy & ethics

Freedom needs a material outside option. The refusal test: a citizen can decline exploitation, poverty traps and degrading work without penalty ($B \ge$ subsistence minimum).

Statecraft

Relational federalism: a continental outer shell (one military command, sovereign technology chains, a continental tax base) combined with maximal subsidiarity inside.

Property & monopolies

Tax shifts away from human labour towards non-reproducible monopolies: land (LVT), spectrum, ecological extraction and secondary assets ($t_f \times A_s$). The yield returns to citizens as a Citizen’s Dividend.

History

The Gracchi saw the Republic hollowed out by the monopolisation of ager publicus. The pattern of concentrated land and network rent, and the collapse of the free middle class, recurs.