split nimmerworld architecture: phase 1 of 3 — vertical-by-domain directories Create 9 domain directories under nimmerworld/, each owning an architecture.md that will eventually sit alongside server/client/schema/test code for that domain (vertical-by-domain rather than horizontal-by-language).

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+# Political Register
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+> *The world's political-economy substrate — Kafka-indifferent-totality not Orwell-malice; three ontological registers (gameworld, liminal, imperial-net); the three-tier policy loop (imperium / GM / districts) with imperial-budget-mortality and insolvency-spiral as architectural endgame; corruption emerging from quota-pressure + the Memorialist double-ledger; specialization-fragility producing the authoritarian ratchet.*
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+> ***Status: skeleton — content migration scheduled for commit 2 of the split-into-domains operation. Architecture content currently lives in `architecture-broad.md` and will land here next.***
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+> *Companion to: `architecture-broad.md` (executive summary + global meta-lists), `authority-and-decision/architecture.md` (the operational-flow-of-authority that the political tiers prescribe), `identity-and-personhood/architecture.md` (factions broadcast against trait-distributions).*
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+## Sections that will land here
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+- §Thesis
+- §The three ontological registers
+- §The three-tier policy loop
+- §Factions as universal demand source
+- §Labor-cycle architecture: shifts on NPC rows
+- §Resources
+- §Lifeforce — four-tier hierarchy
+- §Imperial budget
+- §Imperial-net economy with cross-layer bypass
+- §Specialization-fragility and the authoritarian ratchet
+- §Migration, exodus, silence
+- §Corruption, the double ledger, and the constituency of the shadow-economy
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+**Version:** 0.7.0-skeleton | **Created:** 2026-04-26 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 | **Origin:** Skeleton placeholder for commit 1 of the split-into-domains operation