Here's a proto I tossed together in an evening for a budget system.
This could, in theory, be adopted now and wouldn't particularly do
very much apart from allowing for funding of special projects (though
it would allow for a somewhat absurd amount of funding; I imagine most
of it would go to rebates). This makes more sense if we're going to
require all officers to make the payments for the things they need
(e.g. rewards, paydays) out of incoming funds, creating a potential
need for taxes. This goes well with economically focused gameplay.
It's perfectly compatible with sets stuff since coins are still going
to be somewhat important as the precursor for specialized currencies.
Presumably, we'd want to allow for some coins to enter the market
*somewhere*, to allow for healthy inflation.
I won't be too offended if this isn't well-received. I think it's
interesting to consider though, at least as an option.
-Aris
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Title: Budgets
Adoption index: 1.0
Author: Aris
Co-author(s):
Let N equal the lesser of 510 coins and the Lost and Found Department's
coin balance. Transfer N coin from the Lost and Found Department to Agora.
Enact a new rule, entitled "Budget Regulations", with the following text:
The General Fund and the Rebate Fund are entities that can own coins.
Each officer CAN promulgate Budget Regulations. The Prime Minister's
Budget Regulations can set the Agoran budget (the amount of the General Fund
that is available to be appropriated, defaulting to half it, rounded down).
The official budgets of the Prime Minister and Treasuror are each equal
to half of the Agoran budget (rounded down and up, respectively).
Any officer's Budget Regulations can delegate any portion of their own budget
to another officer, appropriating that portion of their official budget and
adding it to the other officer's official budget. An officers's budget
after calculating delegations is their final budget. Any officer's Budget
Regulations can allow for transferring some amount coins from the General
Fund, appropriating that amount of eir budget. No officer's Budget
Regulations can appropriate a greater amount than eir official budget;
appropriations in regulations adopted earlier take precedence over those in
later ones, and the earliest appropriations within each regulation
likewise have precedence.
Enact a new rule, entitled "Budget Cycle", with the following
text:
At the beginning of each Agoran month, the Treasuror CAN and SHALL:
A. Once, by announcement, Rotate the Funds, causing all of
the General Fund's coins to be transferred to the Rebate Fund, and then
causing all of Agora's coins to be transferred to the General Fund; and
B. Report a Tabulation of the Budget, an enumeration of Agoran budget
and the final budget of each office, as well as all fixed
appropriations.
The Prime Minister's Budget Regulations may set the tax rate, R,
a rational percentage value defaulting to 0%. The Registrar's Budget
Regulations may set the personal withholding, W, an integer defaulting to
twice the number of coins in a welcome package. The Notary's Budget
regulations may provide for certain contracts to be deemed Tax-Exempt.
A person's taxable balance is floor(B - W), where B is eir coin balance. A
contract's taxable balance is equal to its coin balance, unless
it is Tax-Exempt, in which case its taxable balance is 0. All other entities
have a taxable balance of 0.
Each entity owes taxes equal to ceil(T * R), where T is that entity's taxable
balance. At the beginning of the second Eastman week
of each Agoran month, the Treasuror CAN and SHALL:
1. once, by announcement Collect Taxes, causing each entity to transfer the
amount it owes in taxes to Agora; and
2. report a Notice of Collection, a self ratifying list of the amount
paid by each entity.
At the beginning of the third Eastman week of each Agoran Month, the
Treasuror CAN and SHALL once Award a Rebate, transferring as much of the
Rebate Fund as possible to the active players in equal quantities by
announcement, and transferring the remainder to one or more randomly chosen
active players by announcement.
In the fourth Eastman week of each Agoran Month, the Treasuror CAN once,
by announcement, Appropriate Lost Property, transferring a specified number
of coins no greater than the Lost and Found Department's balance and the
beginning of the month from the Lost and Found Department to Agora.
