{
 "name": "The Aeviterna adoption tracker",
 "version": "0.5",
 "released": "2026-07",
 "codebook": {
  "scale": {
   "0": "absent, or present and failed",
   "1": "partial or informal",
   "2": "present and load-bearing"
  },
  "rules": [
   "a cell is coded only on documentable evidence in either direction",
   "not-coded is a recorded state distinct from zero",
   "decline and suspension are first-class states",
   "no averaging across cases into a headline number",
   "every changed code is documented in an errata note"
  ],
  "dimensions": [
   {
    "n": 1,
    "name": "Adaptive stability"
   },
   {
    "n": 2,
    "name": "Cognitive sovereignty"
   },
   {
    "n": 3,
    "name": "Cognitive ecology"
   },
   {
    "n": 4,
    "name": "The justice of light"
   },
   {
    "n": 5,
    "name": "The knowledge commons"
   },
   {
    "n": 6,
    "name": "Decaying standing"
   },
   {
    "n": 7,
    "name": "The dignity floor"
   },
   {
    "n": 8,
    "name": "Reversibility and exit"
   },
   {
    "n": 9,
    "name": "Anti-capture"
   },
   {
    "n": 10,
    "name": "Vital-signs review"
   },
   {
    "n": 11,
    "name": "Automated decisions"
   },
   {
    "n": 12,
    "name": "The more-than-human"
   },
   {
    "n": 13,
    "name": "The transition engine"
   },
   {
    "n": 14,
    "name": "The consent layer"
   },
   {
    "n": 15,
    "name": "Calibrated decay"
   },
   {
    "n": 16,
    "name": "The container rule"
   },
   {
    "n": 17,
    "name": "The visible substrate"
   },
   {
    "n": 18,
    "name": "The fork protocol"
   },
   {
    "n": 19,
    "name": "Friction and the cascade"
   },
   {
    "n": 20,
    "name": "The thin spine"
   }
  ],
  "subReadings": {
   "10": "Within Vital-signs review, a sub-reading codes whether the reviewing body pre-registers dated frames and is scored against them, the anchor property EQ-06e adds to the reading seat. A sub-reading, not a twenty-first dimension. No case in v0.4 yet meets it; the closest are external or academic monitoring that read an institution from outside (Porto Alegre, Ostbelgien, Sardex) without it staking dated, scored forecasts of its own. This is Falsifier F-08's instrument in embryo, the decade-horizon test of whether seats bound to scored frames out-calibrate unbound ones."
  },
  "costAnchor": {
   "name": "Governance cost anchor",
   "definition": "A per-case reading of an organization's documented governance and administration cost against the framework's own affordability standard, the overhead band of EQ-02f. A sub-reading, not a twenty-first dimension.",
   "method": "Coded only where an organization publishes its governance cost. Read as annual governance cost per member or per person and placed against the F-10 ceiling of 2 percent of operating budget and 5 percent of member work-hours at cooperative scale (see Aeviterna_v2.6_The_Balance_Sheet). Absence of published cost is recorded as not-coded, distinct from a pass or a breach.",
   "coverage": "No case in v0.5 carries a cost anchor yet. The priced record behind EQ-02f is drawn from external analogues rather than these coded organizations' own filings. Populating it is a standing task as filings surface, and a requested field for new high-transparency submissions.",
   "falsifier": "This is the tracker's leg of F-10, the affordability falsifier. A case running the applicable stack whose published governance cost sits materially above the band would count against the ceiling."
  },
  "contribution": {
   "how": "Anyone may propose a case by email to samizdat@aeviterna.org with the subject 'Tracker case submission', using the fillable submission form (tracker-submission.html) and the codebook (tracker-codebook.html).",
   "evidence": "Every code, in either direction, must cite a resolving public source URL. The instrument reads institutions from public records and codes no persons.",
   "review": "The maintainer checks inclusion (a real institution with a public record), that every code has a resolving source, and that the anchored 0/1/2 scale is applied, then accepts the case into the next quarterly version, requests revision, or declines with a public reason recorded in the adjudication log.",
   "cadence": "The full set is re-scored every quarter. Accepted submissions land in the next version; every changed code is documented in an errata note."
  }
 },
 "caveats": "Tenant-grade evidence. Nineteen cases, three of them collapsed or dissolved; coded by one team with adversarial review invited; no causal claims. Falsifier F-01's measurement instrument in embryo: it defines variables, anchors, and recording discipline; it is not yet the test.",
 "cases": [
  {
   "id": "mondragon",
   "name": "Mondragon Corporation",
   "founded": 1956,
   "status": "active",
   "statusClass": "st-active",
   "traj": "Federation of worker co-ops; survived its largest member's 2013 bankruptcy with workers relocated through intercooperation funds; two co-ops exited by vote in 2022; record sales in 2025.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.tulankide.com/en/mondragon-achieved-a-turnover-of-eur11-322-billion-and-created-1-346-new-jobs-in-2025",
    "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apce.12329"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Absorbed the Fagor bankruptcy (2013) and two member exits (2022); 71,415 employees and record sales in 2025."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Refundable member stake; Orona and ULMA exited by member vote and the federation held. Vested exit is real in both directions."
    },
    {
     "d": 7,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Roughly 1,900 Fagor worker-members relocated or early-retired through LagunAro and intercooperation rather than dismissed."
    },
    {
     "d": 9,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Wage-ratio caps and one-member-one-vote are structural; no documented rotation or independent-audit regime at federation level."
    },
    {
     "d": 13,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Corporate funds seeded three new companies in 2025 with major R&D spend; the 2022 exits cut the other way."
    },
    {
     "d": 20,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The center could neither save Fagor by fiat nor block the exits, central power demonstrably bounded, thinly specified."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "fagor",
   "name": "Fagor Electrodomésticos",
   "founded": 1956,
   "status": "dissolved",
   "statusClass": "st-dead",
   "traj": "Mondragon's flagship consumer co-op: five decades, over-expansion in the 2000s, bankruptcy in November 2013 when the federation declined a further rescue; its people composted into sister co-ops, its brand sold. Deliberately double-listed. This dead member is also evidence inside Mondragon's card, because the death and the absorption are one event read from two altitudes.",
   "sources": [
    "https://iuscooperativum.org/article/a-brief-chronicle-of-and-some-notes-on-the-bankruptcy-proceeding-of-fagor-electrodomesticos-s-coop/",
    "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/apce.12329",
    "https://www.thelocal.es/20131114/major-manufacturer-fagor-files-for-bankruptcy"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Over-leveraged international expansion met the post-2008 appliance collapse; bankruptcy filed November 2013 with debts near a billion euros and 5,700 jobs worldwide. The dissolution is the datum."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "At death the federation's machinery worked. Roughly 700 Basque worker-members early-retired and 1,000 relocated to sister co-ops through the intercooperation funds, with about 350 hired by the buyer."
    },
    {
     "d": 7,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "No member abandoned at the end. LagunAro welfare and relocation carried the transition, the cushioned death the federation was built to provide."
    },
    {
     "d": 20,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The group declined a further bailout. The center could let a member die, which is bounded central power cutting both ways."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "champlain",
   "name": "Champlain Housing Trust",
   "founded": 1984,
   "status": "active",
   "statusClass": "st-active",
   "traj": "Largest US community land trust; 3,015 apartments and 706 shared-equity homes across three counties (2026); grew through the 2008 foreclosure crisis.",
   "sources": [
    "https://legislature.vermont.gov/Documents/2026/Workgroups/Senate%20Economic%20Development/Housing/W~Michael%20Monte~Champlain%20Housing%20Trust~1-16-2026.pdf",
    "https://www.getahome.org/"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Forty-two years of continuous operation, growing through the 2008 crisis to the largest CLT in the country."
    },
    {
     "d": 7,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Permanent affordability is the product: land held in trust, homes resale-restricted, 2008 World Habitat Award."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The shared-equity resale formula is a contractual vested exit, letting the leaver keep equity plus a fixed appreciation share."
    },
    {
     "d": 9,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Tripartite board with one third resident directors as a structural firewall; little public record of contested cases."
    },
    {
     "d": 5,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "low",
     "e": "The CLT model is documented and replicated through a network; the trust's own knowledge practices are not publicly specified."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "twinoaks",
   "name": "Twin Oaks Community",
   "founded": 1967,
   "status": "active, rebuilding",
   "statusClass": "st-mixed",
   "traj": "Income-sharing community of ~85 adults; staged entry since the 1960s; two destructive fires (2024, 2026) took the flagship hammocks business; rebuilding via new textiles work and a sister-community partnership.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.twinoaks.org/",
    "https://c-ville.com/louisas-twin-oaks-commune-recovers-from-devastating-227-acre-fire/"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 14,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Formal staged entry: three-week visit, time away, provisional period, then membership by explicit act."
    },
    {
     "d": 17,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The labor-credit system prices domestic and care work equal to income work, a working care ledger since 1967."
    },
    {
     "d": 7,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Housing, food, healthcare, and stipend guaranteed to every member regardless of role."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Fifty-nine years and two recent fires with the flagship business lost; functioning and rebuilding, not unscathed."
    },
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Rotating planner-manager system with staggered terms; exact term rules are internal documentation."
    },
    {
     "d": 18,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "low",
     "e": "Acorn Community (1993) founded as a supported spinoff rather than a schism; secondary sourcing."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "portoalegre",
   "name": "Porto Alegre participatory budgeting",
   "founded": 1989,
   "status": "revived, diminished",
   "statusClass": "st-declining",
   "traj": "The world's oldest PB: twenty-eight years, suspension in 2017 when the political sponsor flipped, revival by 2025 with the second-largest attendance since 1989 and a fraction of the historic money.",
   "sources": [
    "https://prefeitura.poa.br/smgov/noticias/orcamento-participativo-de-2025-mobilizou-18-mil-pessoas",
    "https://www.wri.org/research/porto-alegre-participatory-budgeting-and-challenge-sustaining-transformative-change",
    "https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305750X13000156"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 4,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Open assemblies, a public allocation formula, and published investment plans for nearly three decades."
    },
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Delegates and councillors elected annually on short terms: rotation by design."
    },
    {
     "d": 13,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "No retention mechanism independent of mayoral will. The 2017 sponsor flip suspended the whole institution. The instrument codes the failure."
    },
    {
     "d": 10,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Twenty years of external outcome monitoring. PB municipalities shifted spending toward sanitation and cut infant mortality."
    },
    {
     "d": 7,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Documented redistribution toward poorer districts across the strong decades."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Survived many administrations, then did not; revived 2025 at 18,055 participants with thin funding."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "vtaiwan",
   "name": "vTaiwan",
   "founded": 2015,
   "status": "volunteer-run",
   "statusClass": "st-mixed",
   "traj": "Polis-based deliberation out of the g0v community; flagship consensus cases 2015 to 2018, dormancy after its champion entered government, revived 2023 onward as a volunteer laboratory for AI deliberation.",
   "sources": [
    "https://democracy-technologies.org/participation/consensus-building-in-taiwan/",
    "https://www.cip.org/alignmentassemblies"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 3,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Polis surfaces minority positions that bridge clusters by design. Dissent is structurally visible, not tolerated."
    },
    {
     "d": 4,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Full transparency: livestreams, verbatim outputs, open data throughout."
    },
    {
     "d": 5,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Open-source stack exported worldwide; the process itself is a commons."
    },
    {
     "d": 13,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Champion-dependent, stalling when its sponsor entered government; recommendations never bound. The instrument codes the failure."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Dormant roughly 2018 to 2023; survives as volunteer effort without institutional anchoring."
    },
    {
     "d": 11,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Alignment assemblies (2023 onward) are an emerging public-review channel for AI systems."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "ostbelgien",
   "name": "Ostbelgien Citizens' Council",
   "founded": 2019,
   "status": "active",
   "statusClass": "st-active",
   "traj": "First permanent sortition body attached to a legislature: 24 members, 18-month staggered terms, one third rotating every six months; survived a government turnover because a decree entrenches it.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.buergerdialog.be/en/citizen-council/what-is-the-citizens-council",
    "https://www.publicdeliberation.net/the-ostbelgien-model-five-years-on/"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Textbook staggered rotation: 18-month terms, one third replaced every six months, selection by lot."
    },
    {
     "d": 4,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Ministers and parliament must respond publicly to each recommendation in joint session, with standing follow-up monitoring."
    },
    {
     "d": 14,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Lot-based invitation with opt-in; any citizen may propose topics."
    },
    {
     "d": 9,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Sortition prevents professionalization of the seats; the surrounding administration is conventional."
    },
    {
     "d": 10,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Academic evaluation built in from inception, published at the five-year mark."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Seven years and one election turnover survived; too young for longitudinal claims."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "wikimedia",
   "name": "Wikipedia / Wikimedia",
   "founded": 2001,
   "status": "active",
   "statusClass": "st-active",
   "traj": "A quarter century at enormous scale; elected arbitration in staggered terms; one constitutional crisis absorbed (the 2019 office ban rolled back) and one recorded plainly. The 2024 movement charter passed community ratification and the board declined it, eleven to one.",
   "sources": [
    "https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Ratification/Voting/Results",
    "https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Draft_Movement_Charter_and_next_steps"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 5,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The paradigm knowledge commons: open license, full dumps, seven million articles."
    },
    {
     "d": 3,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Talk pages, requests for comment, and an independent internal press keep dissent visible."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Twenty-five years of governance crises absorbed without organizational rupture."
    },
    {
     "d": 4,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Public logs, cases, and appeals sit beside the opaque office action that triggered the 2019 crisis."
    },
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Arbitration is elected on staggered two-year terms; adminship is indefinite, with recall adopted only recently."
    },
    {
     "d": 18,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The license makes forking structurally real (the 2002 Spanish fork); the 2024 charter veto was contained without one."
    },
    {
     "d": 20,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "low",
     "e": "Central overreach rolled back once (2019); the center declined community-written bounds once (2024)."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "debian",
   "name": "Debian (and Devuan)",
   "founded": 1993,
   "status": "active",
   "statusClass": "st-active",
   "traj": "Constitution since 1998; twenty-eight consecutive annual leader elections with public tallies; its deepest ideological conflict resolved by ballot; its fork, Devuan, alive eleven years later with both branches persisting.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.debian.org/vote/",
    "https://bits.debian.org/2026/04/dpl-elections-2026.html",
    "https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/excalibur-release-announce-2025-11-02"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Twenty-eight consecutive annual leadership elections (1999 to 2026), Condorcet, public tallies, the strongest rotation record in the set."
    },
    {
     "d": 3,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The general-resolution mechanism institutionalizes dissent; every vote archive is public."
    },
    {
     "d": 4,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Every ballot, tally, and constitutional rule published."
    },
    {
     "d": 18,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Devuan (2014) took a new name, kept the commons interoperable, and both branches persist, a completed, surviving fork."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The systemd conflict, the project's deepest, was resolved by formal ballot without collapse."
    },
    {
     "d": 14,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Staged New Member process with documented checks."
    },
    {
     "d": 20,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The constitution tightly bounds leader and technical-committee powers."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "icann",
   "name": "ICANN Empowered Community",
   "founded": 2016,
   "status": "active, powers untested",
   "statusClass": "st-mixed",
   "traj": "The designed capture firewall of the IANA transition: nine enumerated community powers including board recall; a symbolic first exercise, the .org sale stopped by adjacent pressure rather than the power built for it, and the first-ever rejection petition filed in 2026.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.icann.org/ec",
    "https://www.icann.org/news/blog/icann-board-withholds-consent-for-a-change-of-control-of-the-public-interest-registry-pir",
    "https://aso.icann.org/follow-up-notice-to-the-rir-community-icann-empowered-community-rejection-action-petition/"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 20,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Post-2016 mission limitations legally bound the central functions; the operator can be fired by enumerated, court-enforceable powers."
    },
    {
     "d": 19,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Rejection-petition periods impose mandatory delay windows on bylaw and budget execution."
    },
    {
     "d": 9,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The community firewall exists and has never fully fired; the .org save ran through the board and a state attorney general instead."
    },
    {
     "d": 10,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Mandated periodic reviews exist; the live 2026 fight is precisely over the board pausing them."
    },
    {
     "d": 4,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Reconsideration and independent-review venues exist and are used; petitioners rarely prevail."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Absorbed the transition and the .org crisis; the first rejection petition appears to have failed for lack of support."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "wir",
   "name": "WIR Bank",
   "founded": 1934,
   "status": "function declining",
   "statusClass": "st-declining",
   "traj": "The world's longest-running complementary currency: measured countercyclical lending to small firms across decades, a healthy cooperative bank, and a currency function in documented decline inside it.",
   "sources": [
    "https://gb.wir.ch/de/2024/wichtigste-zahlen-2024",
    "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41294-016-0001-5"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 19,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The countercyclical credit mechanism is documented shock-buffering for member SMEs across the postwar record."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Ninety-two years of survival, achieved partly by drifting into conventional banking while the core function decays."
    },
    {
     "d": 10,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Transparent annual reporting makes the currency's own decline legible. CHW loans and deposits both fell in 2024."
    },
    {
     "d": 15,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "low",
     "e": "The original currency carried demurrage, a literal decay charge, abandoned in 1948; the one in-case calibration experiment."
    },
    {
     "d": 13,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "low",
     "e": "The institutional pivot preserved the shell, not the function."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The currency is officially non-convertible, value locked in, exit friction by design. Coded against the framework's own standard."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "sardex",
   "name": "Sardex",
   "founded": 2010,
   "status": "active, operator unresolved",
   "statusClass": "st-mixed",
   "traj": "The strongest living business-to-business mutual-credit system: a Sardinian circuit born in the 2008 credit crunch, fifteen years old, upward of ten thousand firms across fifteen Italian regions, over a billion euros cleared and about 142 million in annual volume in 2023, on a no-convertibility rule that makes the only exit a purchase. Countercyclical where it counts, and peer-reviewed: membership raises member sales ten to fifteen percent, strongest for the smallest firms. The ambiguity is the value: the currency is healthy while the operating company loses money and its ownership walked from five founders to the state investment bank's venture arm. Companion to WIR, alive rather than declining, and the survivor where the Bristol Pound died, the binding anchor against the convertible costume.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.sardexpay.net/news/il-primo-miliardo-di-sardex/",
    "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0450-0",
    "https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jeborg/v230y2025ics016726812400475x.html",
    "https://www.cdpventurecapital.it/cdp-venture-capital/en/dettaglio_comunicato.page?contentId=COM288",
    "https://www.ufficiocamerale.it/7048/sardex-spa"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Born in the 2008 credit crunch and grew through 2012 to 2014 while Sardinian bank lending contracted at twice the national rate; added 73 percent more members in the pandemic year while clearing over 120 million euros. The currency function is alive and load-bearing, not a declining shell."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Credits are non-convertible and spendable only in-circuit, so the only exit is a purchase. The no-convertibility rule is the resilience anchor and, by the framework's own exit standard, a failure: value is locked in. The exact inverse of the Bristol Pound."
    },
    {
     "d": 13,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The operating company lost roughly three million euros in 2023 and two million in 2024 on revenue near three and a half million. The circuit clears but the operator does not self-fund, surviving on patient state-adjacent capital. The self-funding threshold is not yet passed."
    },
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The five founders left operational control and the circuit survived the handover; governance survived its founders, though the new owners, a state investment bank's venture arm alongside an ethical bank, are the open question the case turns on."
    },
    {
     "d": 10,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Volumes and membership are self-reported, but the network is read from the outside. Peer-reviewed studies in Nature Human Behaviour and JEBO measured its cyclic flow and its member-sales effect, and the operator's losses are legible in third-party registry filings. Intra-circuit credit-loss data is absent."
    }
   ],
   "falsifiers": [
    "Insolvency or liquidation of the operator without circuit continuity.",
    "Annual volume falling materially below a hundred million euros.",
    "The introduction of euro convertibility, which would dissolve the anchor and reclassify the case.",
    "Continued multi-million-euro operator losses past 2026 without recapitalization, which would demote the case from survivor to subsidized experiment."
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "bristolpound",
   "name": "Bristol Pound",
   "founded": 2012,
   "status": "dissolved",
   "statusClass": "st-dead",
   "traj": "The UK's largest sterling alternative at its peak: council tax and business rates payable in it, the mayor's whole salary taken in it, a million issued by 2015 and five million spent by 2017, then decline, the digital close in August 2020, paper withdrawal in September 2021, and a successor payment platform that folded in 2023. The set's calibration anchor, fully dead with the record public, and the contrast case to WIR: strong exit, short life, against locked exit, long survival.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2021-09-30/end-of-an-era-as-bristol-pound-leaves-circulation-after-a-decade",
    "http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/125484/1/Marshall%20and%20O%27Neill%202018%20%5BThe%20Bristol%20Pound%20-%20A%20tool%20for%20localisation%5D%20AAM%20Version.pdf",
    "https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/20/mayor-salary-bristol-pounds",
    "https://www.bristolpoundlegacy.info/"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Nine years from launch to withdrawal. The digital scheme closed in August 2020, paper notes left circulation on 30 September 2021, and the successor platform folded in 2023 for insufficient funding. The dissolution is the datum."
    },
    {
     "d": 13,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Grant- and council-dependent with usage declining from 2017 and council support substantially cut from 2018; extraordinary institutional anchoring, taxes payable, the mayor's salary, energy bills, did not substitute for a self-funding engine."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Sterling-backed one to one in trust at the credit union, fee-free conversion out through electronic accounts, and a reimbursement window at the end. Holders could always leave, which is why it died cleanly instead of trapping value."
    },
    {
     "d": 10,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Independent research read the currency against its own localisation objective by 2017 and found it wanting; the organization contested the reading, then attempted a late pivot that failed for funding."
    },
    {
     "d": 5,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Founded the Guild of Independent Currencies to share the model and helped Exeter launch its own; the guild no longer exists, and a legacy site keeps the record and resources public."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "whanganui",
   "name": "Whanganui River / Te Awa Tupua",
   "founded": 2017,
   "status": "active, contested",
   "statusClass": "st-mixed",
   "traj": "The world's first river granted legal personhood, by New Zealand's Te Awa Tupua Act 2017, which vested the Crown-owned riverbed in the river itself and created Te Pou Tupua, one Crown and one Whanganui-iwi appointee, as its human face, backed by an 80 million dollar redress package and a 30 million dollar health fund. The iwi-led strategy group Te Kopuka released its long-term catchment strategy for consultation in 2023, deferring binding resource-management change to about 2028. Yet the Act's section 46 preserved Genesis Energy's existing upstream water diversions, and the Department of Conservation's own assessment found the catchment's ecological health had declined, with E. coli generally worsening over the decade. Personhood is load-bearing in law and thin in enforcement.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2017/0007/latest/whole.html",
    "https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/regions_local-democracy-reporting/498102/this-is-a-reform-te-awa-tupua-strategy-unveiled-for-the-whanganui-river",
    "https://www.doc.govt.nz/contentassets/6149970d5730454d8839356dd0ca3d0e/whanganui-catchment-ecological-health-assessment-report.pdf",
    "https://news.mongabay.com/2024/07/as-maori-heal-through-nature-is-legal-personhood-a-tool-or-a-distraction/"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 12,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The Act recognises Te Awa Tupua as an indivisible living whole with the rights, powers, and duties of a legal person, vests the riverbed in the river itself, and gives Te Pou Tupua full capacity to act in its name: the first operational grant of legal standing to a natural entity worldwide."
    },
    {
     "d": 15,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Decay is scheduled. The Te Heke Ngahuru strategy is reviewed at least every ten years, Te Pou Tupua terms lapse every three, and the 2023 strategy deliberately defers binding resource-management change to about 2028 to allow engagement first."
    },
    {
     "d": 9,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Te Kopuka gives central and local government only 4 of 17 seats and is iwi-chaired, resisting state capture, but section 46 explicitly preserved Genesis Energy's Tongariro Power Scheme water rights, ring-fencing the river's largest upstream threat out of its own reach."
    },
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Te Pou Tupua guardians serve fixed three-year terms jointly appointed by Crown and iwi, but reappointment is unrestricted and one appointee has held the office continuously since 2017, blunting genuine rotation."
    },
    {
     "d": 4,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Te Pou Tupua is a statutorily named face and voice that must be treated as an affected party on catchment consents, but there is no published independent audit of the 30 million dollar health fund or the office."
    },
    {
     "d": 10,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "A vital-signs function exists in the Conservation Department's catchment health assessment, but it is not owned by the river's own guardians and its finding was adverse. Overall ecological health had declined, with only 4 sites rated excellent."
    },
    {
     "d": 13,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Six years on, personhood has not measurably improved river health. E. coli is generally worsening, a sewage-diversion problem remained unresolved as of 2023, and Maori commentators call the model a legal instrument in the coloniser's house that has not scaled from status to enforced outcomes."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "fediverse",
   "name": "The Fediverse / Mastodon",
   "founded": 2016,
   "status": "live, shrinking and concentrating",
   "statusClass": "st-mixed",
   "traj": "The federated social web on the ActivityPub standard, a W3C Recommendation since 2018, with Mastodon its best-known software. Monthly active users spiked to roughly 2.5 million after the 2022 Twitter acquisition, then fell back below one million by 2024 to 2025 as the migration waves subsided; Meta's Threads began federating in 2024, bringing about 150 million users one-way, while hundreds of instances pre-emptively defederated, and Mastodon's founder handed control to a European nonprofit. Cognitive sovereignty and a spineless federation are load-bearing, but the same openness leaves the network defenceless against for-profit capture and offers no retention.",
   "sources": [
    "https://arxiv.org/html/2408.15383v1",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network)",
    "https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/13/mastodon-announces-transition-to-nonprofit-structure/",
    "https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 2,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "ActivityPub is a W3C Recommendation implemented across independently owned instances, so an account lives on a server the user or community controls, and default Mastodon timelines are reverse-chronological with no ad-targeting or algorithmic ranking. The user, not a platform, holds the feed."
    },
    {
     "d": 18,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The protocol is truly fork-plural, an open standard with many independent server implementations (Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Lemmy, Misskey), and gab.com runs as a live for-profit fork of Mastodon's own codebase on the same protocol."
    },
    {
     "d": 20,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "There is no apex operator. Autonomous instances each decide federation, moderation, and funding over a thin ActivityPub spine, with no central server able to deplatform a user across the whole network."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Mastodon supports account portability through the Move activity, redirecting followers to a new instance, but posts do not migrate at all and follower transfer can take over a day, a real but partial exit with residual lock-in."
    },
    {
     "d": 3,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The network sustains real software and instance diversity, yet about 82 percent of some 21,000 instances have fewer than five active users and a quarter have zero, so much of the ecology is inactive husk rather than living habitat."
    },
    {
     "d": 9,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Anti-capture failed at network scale. By 2024 Meta's Threads at about 150 million users dwarfed the roughly one million active FOSS Fediverse and hosted its most-followed accounts, and within FOSS instances half of active users sit on the top twenty; the protocol imposes no barrier to big-tech dominance."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Adaptive stability is weak. After the 2022 spike to about 2.5 million monthly active users, Mastodon fell below one million by 2024 to 2025, and a migration-cohort study found only about 45 percent of migrants still active at six months."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "folkhojskole",
   "name": "Danish folk high schools",
   "founded": 1844,
   "status": "active, subsidy-dependent",
   "statusClass": "st-active",
   "traj": "Grundtvig-inspired residential adult education, born at Rodding in 1844 and consolidated into a Folk High School Act whose current form fixes the aim as life, civic, and democratic enlightenment and, in section 15, forbids exams. In 2025 Denmark recorded some fifty thousand participants across roughly seventy schools, with the state grant covering only about half of a school's income and the sector still fighting a middle-aged, middle-class reputation. The state pays for the form and never applies a content test.",
   "sources": [
    "https://danskelove.dk/h%C3%B8jskoleloven",
    "https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/uddannelse-og-forskning/voksen-og-efteruddannelse/hoejskoler",
    "https://slks.dk/omraader/kulturinstitutioner/folkehoejskoler/tilskud-til-hoejskoler",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_high_school"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 16,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The Act funds the container through a pure form audit. It requires only that a course's aim be life, civic, and democratic enlightenment on the school's own chosen value basis, forbids all exams, and has the auditor verify only the enrolment and hours used to compute the grant, never a content test."
    },
    {
     "d": 5,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The system is a state-maintained knowledge commons: at least half of every student's instruction must be of broad general character, courses must be open to all, and the exam ban forbids the credentialing that would enclose the learning, sustaining about fifty thousand participants a year."
    },
    {
     "d": 14,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Participation is a paid, affirmative opt-in: attendance is voluntary with no entry requirements, the student pays a minimum fee as a condition of enrolment, and courses require a genuine multi-day residential commitment, not a default or a mandate."
    },
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Standing decays and is re-earned each cycle. The per-student grant is paid on the current year's realised enrolment, and a school must hit at least twenty-four year-students and run its minimum slate of long courses each year or lose funding by operation of the count."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Adaptive stability is real but partial. The tradition has absorbed 180 years of change and the law allows rule waivers for experimentation, yet it depends on the state grant for roughly half of each school's income, leaving it exposed to a single funder's annual decisions."
    },
    {
     "d": 9,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Anti-capture protections are coded but incomplete. The law bars landlord and related-party board members and shared auditors and lets the minister deny grants to a school risking outside control, but the single dominant state funder and ministerial clawback powers leave the sector exposed to its public patron."
    },
    {
     "d": 7,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "No dignity floor of access is guaranteed. Reach is narrow and self-selecting, the sector openly carries a middle-class, forty-to-sixty reputation, and the mandatory minimum student fee is an affirmative price barrier with no universal free tier, filtering the poorest out rather than flooring them in."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "algoregister",
   "name": "Public algorithm registers (Amsterdam, Helsinki)",
   "founded": 2020,
   "status": "active, non-binding",
   "statusClass": "st-mixed",
   "traj": "Amsterdam and Helsinki launched the world's first public algorithm registers in 2020, publishing per-system pages on purpose, data, human oversight, and where to object, and the model spread into a Dutch national register in 2022 with about a thousand entries by 2024. But the registers launched with only eight entries covering uncontentious municipal systems, and the two most damaging Dutch systems, the SyRI welfare surveillance struck down in 2020 and Rotterdam's biased fraud-scoring model suspended in 2021, were never surfaced by any register. A real legibility gain that omits exactly what matters.",
   "sources": [
    "https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.02944",
    "https://www.autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/current/algorithm-registration-in-the-netherlands-needs-improvement",
    "https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/suspicion-machines/",
    "https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2020/02/landmark-ruling-dutch-court-stops-government-attempts-spy-poor-un-expert"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 17,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The registers make a previously invisible algorithmic substrate legible without profiling persons. Each entry documents purpose, input data, and operating logic in plain language, mapping the substrate rather than the people it runs on."
    },
    {
     "d": 11,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The register indicates where objections can be made and Amsterdam mandates a human in the loop so no system decides alone, but coverage is voluntary and partial. The automated systems that made contestable welfare decisions were never registered, so the contestation route existed only for low-stakes systems."
    },
    {
     "d": 4,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The registers deliver ex-post transparency but not accountability. Entries have been removed without explanation, and the two systems that actually harmed people never appeared, so the transparency binds the benign and omits the contentious."
    },
    {
     "d": 10,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "As a binding review the instrument failed. The Dutch data authority found in 2024 that more than half of municipalities and over three-quarters of independent bodies had registered nothing, and only 5 percent of registered algorithms carried a fundamental-rights assessment."
    },
    {
     "d": 3,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The registers modestly enrich the civic cognitive ecology, giving journalists and watchdogs a shared reference surface, but scholars warn they risk ethics theatre, normalising algorithmic government by publicising a few tidy systems while the decisive ones stay outside the frame."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Reversibility existed in practice but not through the register. Rotterdam withdrew its fraud algorithm in 2021 and SyRI was judicially halted in 2020, yet in neither case did the register trigger, document, or enable the exit."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "kudumbashree",
   "name": "Kudumbashree",
   "founded": 1997,
   "status": "active, state-scale",
   "statusClass": "st-active",
   "traj": "Kerala's state poverty-eradication and women's-empowerment mission, launched in 1997 out of the People's Plan Campaign, federating neighbourhood thrift groups into a three-tier network and designated a National Resource Organisation in 2012, signing agreements with nine Indian states plus Ethiopia and South Africa. By its silver jubilee in 2023 it reported some 4.8 million women members across 317,000 neighbourhood groups, even as its flagship community kitchens entered a subsidy-withdrawal crisis in 2023 and critics flagged deepening political capture.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.kudumbashree.org/pages/9",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudumbashree",
    "https://sprf.in/kudumbashree-at-25-challenges-and-the-way-ahead/",
    "http://lsgkerala.gov.in/en/kudumbashree/news/bank-deposits-kudumbashree-nhg-women-state-amounts-rs-9369-crores"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 20,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The codified three-tier federation is load-bearing. Some 317,000 neighbourhood groups federate to 19,000 ward societies and 1,070 local-body societies, each governed by a common byelaw with defined bodies at every tier."
    },
    {
     "d": 13,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The scaling engine is explicit. Designated a National Resource Organisation in 2012, Kudumbashree signed agreements with nine states and with Ethiopia and South Africa to seed contextualised pilots rather than clone the Kerala model."
    },
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 2,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Decaying standing is structurally enforced. The byelaw mandates three-tier elections every three years, with office bearers barred from more than two consecutive terms, run by neutral election officers deputed by the District Collector."
    },
    {
     "d": 17,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "The visible substrate is partially recognised but not de-burdened. Kudumbashree organises and part-pays women's social-reproduction labour through thrift meetings, community kitchens, and elderly care, yet feminist critique documents the flexibility becoming a compulsion as members finish unpaid household chores before and after."
    },
    {
     "d": 7,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "A dignity floor exists but is partial. Byelaws reserve a top post and half of executive seats for below-poverty-line members plus special provisions, and the Ashraya project targets the destitute with no application form, but Dalit women are documented as effectively excluded from upskilling by low allowances and lost wages."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Adaptive stability is real but qualified. The network absorbed shocks by pivoting to mask production, community kitchens, and an interest-free loan scheme in the pandemic, yet its flagship kitchens proved fragile, with over a thousand awaiting dues and closures after the state withdrew the per-plate subsidy in 2023."
    },
    {
     "d": 9,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Anti-capture is present on paper but failed in practice. Despite byelaw independence from local government, reporting documents party infiltration that turned elected women from agenda-setters into passive actors, preferential treatment for party-aligned dominant-caste women, and a 2023 leaked threat to withhold loans over a state campaign."
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "id": "thedao",
   "name": "The DAO",
   "founded": 2016,
   "status": "collapsed 2016, forked",
   "statusClass": "st-dead",
   "traj": "The roughly 150 million dollar crowdfunded venture-DAO on Ethereum, drained of about 60 million dollars through a reentrancy exploit in June 2016; the stolen funds were trapped in a child-DAO by a split timelock, giving the community a window to respond, and a contested hard fork in July 2016 clawed the funds back and split the network into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. The SEC ruled in 2017 that DAO tokens were unregistered securities. The one thing that worked, the fork, was the social layer defeating the code.",
   "sources": [
    "https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf",
    "https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2016/07/18/the-hard-fork-whats-about-to-happen-to-ethereum-and-the-dao",
    "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum_Classic",
    "https://beincrypto.com/learn/dao-hack-explained/"
   ],
   "cells": [
    {
     "d": 11,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Code-is-law failed at its core. The immutable contract executed exactly as written, and that literal execution is what let the reentrancy exploit recursively drain about 3.6 million ether before any balance update, so automated execution was load-bearing but catastrophic."
    },
    {
     "d": 19,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Friction and capture-resistance were near-absent. The withdrawal function transferred funds before decrementing the balance, with no reentrancy guard, rate limit, or circuit breaker, letting one transaction loop until a third of assets were gone."
    },
    {
     "d": 1,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Adaptive stability failed completely. A single known bug class, reentrancy, publicly flagged before launch, took the whole 150 million dollar system from operational to collapsed within a day, with no graceful degradation and no survival of the first shock."
    },
    {
     "d": 6,
     "s": 0,
     "c": "medium",
     "e": "Decaying standing was absent. Curators held the only power to whitelist proposals with no decay or rotation, and their authority evaporated by ad hoc resignation rather than any designed sunset."
    },
    {
     "d": 18,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "The fork protocol was the one mechanism that worked, but only contentiously and by exiting the code. The July 2016 hard fork relocated the funds yet split the chain into Ethereum and Ethereum Classic on a vote where only about 5.5 percent of ether participated, a quarter of it from one address."
    },
    {
     "d": 8,
     "s": 1,
     "c": "high",
     "e": "Exit existed only as a crude, all-or-nothing recovery. Token holders could reclaim ether through a post-fork withdrawal contract, but only because the community overrode immutability network-wide, salvaging exit externally rather than by design."
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "legibility": "This instrument reads institutions from public records and codes no persons; its person-level legibility budget is zero by construction (EQ-03b).",
 "errata": [
  {
   "version": "0.2",
   "date": "2026-07",
   "note": "Added two dissolved calibration cases, Fagor Electrodomésticos (1956-2013) and the Bristol Pound (2012-2021). No existing codes changed. Fagor is deliberately double-listed with Mondragon; the note in its trajectory says why."
  },
  {
   "version": "0.3",
   "date": "2026-07",
   "note": "Added Sardex, the strongest living business-to-business mutual-credit case, coded high on a living record. No existing codes changed. Sardex is the first case to carry its own registered falsifiers, the conditions that would flip or reclassify its codes: the discipline the whole instrument is built toward, shown on one case."
  },
  {
   "version": "0.4",
   "date": "2026-07",
   "note": "Added six cases to fill the empty dimensions and add a documented death: Whanganui River / Te Awa Tupua (the more-than-human), the Fediverse / Mastodon (cognitive sovereignty), the Danish folk high schools (the container rule), the Amsterdam and Helsinki algorithm registers (automated decisions), Kudumbashree (the visible substrate), and The DAO (collapsed 2016, the adversarial death). Every dimension is now coded by at least one case. No existing codes changed."
  },
  {
   "version": "0.5",
   "date": "2026-07",
   "note": "Opened the contribution protocol so an outside party can propose a case and see it adjudicated: a published submission template, an evidence-URL rule, a maintainer review rubric, a quarterly re-score cadence, and a public adjudication log. No case codes changed. The codebook now carries its twenty dimension names inline and a governance cost anchor as a documented sub-reading (the tracker's leg of falsifier F-10), not a twenty-first dimension. A flat CSV export and a schema document ship beside the JSON."
  }
 ]
}