# Political Register

> *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).*

## Sections that will land here

- §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