Civilization is a machine with a job: increase pleasant conscious experience and reduce unpleasant conscious experience. HALE and median income are the terminal general-welfare metrics. Here is the schematic, the way a repair manual draws one, so you can see which part failed.

Earth Optimization Services' free, AI-tutored special education. It teaches you the manual to the level your job needs. Called special education because everyone needs it, including you, including me.

The Optimitron comes free with your first government. Its Optimal Budget Generator (OBG) and Optimal Policy Generator (OPG) check which policies work by looking at the 10,000 places that already tried them. Your species skipped this step and went straight to arguing.

A dFDA strategy for getting other people to build everything through open APIs and bounties, like WordPress but for not dying.

War is a negative-sum game and the spreadsheet agrees. Wishonia's replacement for the Department of Defense requires zero lines of code.

74,000 pages of tax code replaced by six lines of code. The IRS employs 95,000 humans to do what a smart contract does automatically.

You spend more administering help than you spend helping. 80+ welfare programs replaced by one for-loop.

Your politicians are funded by the people they're supposed to regulate. Wishonia replaces campaign finance with a single alignment score.

You pay 3,400 humans to audit a ledger that could audit itself. Then you wait eighteen months for the results.

You spend fourteen billion dollars to count everyone once every ten years. citizenCount() returns in fifty milliseconds. The count is the toy on top; the real product is the sensor array that measures the two numbers the whole machine steers by.