The rule, exactly. Before an election each citizen chooses: to vote — or to take a payment and not vote in that election. The payment is a percentage of the median income, set by referendum; there is no fixed sum. One ballot is one vote, with no multiplier in the count; the vote is amplified only in that each ballot's share grows as others step out. The budget pays under law; a candidate never pays. Only a referendum of all citizens — simple majority, no quorum — introduces, changes or repeals the rule.
The protocol has been introduced nowhere and no pilot has been run: shares, turnout and outcome figures in the chapters are estimates, and the protocol promises nobody an election victory. If a chapter says otherwise, Exact Answers and the Charter are correct. For a candidate: ten questions and ten steps. For a citizen, a mayor, a finance officer, a donor, a journalist, a scholar, a lawyer: answers by role. Everything in force in one file: llms-full.txt.
1h. Glossary: the Repository's Terms — What They Mean and What They Are Not¶
Chapter: 01 — Introduction File: 01_001h · v1 · 12 October 2026 Purpose: the words the repository uses for voters and government sound like judgements — "apathetic", "burned", "thinking", "steals". They are not judgements but terms with exact meanings; a critic who reads them as morality (040ab, Mudde; 040af, Müller) reads something other than what is written. Each term is defined here once. Writing rule: in the repository's text a term is put in quotation marks at its first use in a chapter — "apathetic", "burned" — so that it is seen to be a word from the glossary, not a characterisation of a person. The architect's decision of 12 October 2026.
How to read. All the terms for people here are states, not types: a state is chosen or arises and changes from election to election; a type is assigned for good. One person may be "apathetic" at one election and "one who stays" at the next. No term says who is better; each says to whom what is worth more.
Terms¶
| Term | Meaning | What it is not | In full |
|---|---|---|---|
| the protocol, AB-EXIT | the rule: before each election every voter chooses A — vote, or B — take the payment and sit this election out; introduced and repealed only by referendum | not a party, a candidate or a programme; it takes no power | 1b, 048m |
| choice A / choice B | vote / take the payment; B is final within one election, at the next the choice is made anew | not a status or category of citizen; rights do not depend on the choice | 048m Arts. 5, 16 |
| the payment | a percentage of the jurisdiction's median income, set by referendum; only the budget pays | not vote-buying: vote-buying is when a candidate or party pays for a vote or for turnout; not a fixed sum | 1d, statement 6, 1g |
| share of the vote, amplification, "×3" | arithmetic: if two-thirds took the payment, each ballot cast is three times as large a share; equally for all who vote | not a multiplier or coefficient: one ballot is one vote | 1d, statements 11–12 |
| the counter | public numbers: how many voted, how many took, how many did neither | not a rating or a poll — a fact from the election's results | 048m Art. 10 |
| the precinct balance | reconciliation: the precinct's voters = those who voted + those who took + those who abstained; double spending is on the commission | not control over who chose what: names are not published | 048m Art. 5 part 3, Arts. 9–10 |
| the thermostat | feedback: the more took, the higher the share of each remaining vote and the more it is worth returning — and they return; exit itself raises the price of entry | not a manual setting: both arms move at once, there is no lever | 1b, 040ae item 4 |
| state (not type) | a voter's position at a given election — "apathetic", "burned" and so on; changes from election to election | not character, class or psychotype | 1f |
| "apathetic" | a voter with a short horizon for whom elections change nothing, and who votes only if brought | not "lazy" or "stupid": his estimate "my vote changes nothing" is accurate today | 1f §2, §5, 040ae item 2 |
| "the meek" | a voter who votes "so that it does not get worse", under fear of losing the little he has | not a coward: fear under dependence is rational | 1f §2 |
| "the centre": by motion and by position | in polls "the centre" is those whose vote cannot be predicted by party; it mixes movers without a position ("the apathetic"-waverers, "the meek") and the standing with a position (the cross-pressured, "the burned") | triangulation takes the former and calls it the median voter; the protocol separates them: the movers take B, the standing get weight | 040ao §1 |
| "the core" | the composition that decides the outcome today: the budget-dependent, mostly older, who are brought. Not to be confused with the elite — the top that passed the selection and the rich attached to it: they live off the budget as beneficiaries, the core as recipients of crumbs; today they vote alike, under the protocol apart — the dependent take B, the elite is left at the polls alone and is visible at its true size for the first time (055e §6) | not "the enemy", not "fanatics", not "bad people" — a predictable response to dependence; and not the elite: the core is those at whose expense the elite lives | 1f §2, §2b, §2c |
| "the brought-in" | those delivered to the election — by fear, by the employer, by a promise, by bus | not "bought": they receive no payment, that is the point | 1f §5, 040ac item 1 |
| "the layer" | the thin wavering stratum that decides the outcome when two cores cancel each other; decides last, by image | not "the centre" or "the moderates" | 040v item 1 |
| "the burned" | those who voted, saw the core could not be outvoted, and stopped going; they produce most of the product and the ideas; absent from the literature — nearest: Hirschman's exit, Dalton's "apartisans", the "exhausted majority" | not "disappointed idealists" or "the best": a description of a path, not of quality; and not the layer — they judge by substance, not by the speaker's face | 1f §6, §6b, 040aj |
| "the unburned" | a young voter with a long horizon whose first election came already under the protocol: he never set out on the path through the core and took no burn; full of strength, wants to improve the world | not "burned" and not "returned" — a new state absent from 1f, because 1f describes the world before the protocol; within a generation "the burned" end as a group — they stop being produced | 040ai §4 |
| "those who stay" | all who chose A at this election — whatever they were before | not "the real people", not "the elite": the composition of one election, different at the next | 040ab item 2 |
| "the takers" | all who chose B at this election | not "sold out", not "excluded": the same rights, the vote in the referendum on the rule remains | 048m Art. 5 part 5, Art. 16 |
| "long / short horizon" | how far ahead a voter counts consequences: beyond the cycle, or until tomorrow; depends on position (stake, dependence), not on intelligence | not "clever / stupid", not "young / old" | 1f §7, 036e §10 |
| "thinking", "the thinking middle class" | one to whom the vote is worth more than the payment, because he has a stake beyond the cycle | not praise and not IQ: a synonym of "long horizon" in the context of choice A | 040v item 1, 040af |
| "remembering" | a voter who at the second election will check what the representative said and did; memory is a consequence of stake | not a moral quality | 040x item 5 |
| "the government" | the sitting elected and the apparatus; a predictable response to the composition of deciders | not "the enemy": the protocol names no enemies, it changes the composition and the government changes after it | 1f §2b, the head of llms-full |
| "the elite" | those who nominate and are nominated | not "corrupt": Mudde's three-marker test — zero of three | 040ab item 1 |
| "steals", "appropriates" | an economic term: uses the citizen's resource (his vote, his turnout) for free and without his consent | not a moral verdict and not an accusation of crime; the protocol's answer is a price, not a punishment | 029 §29.11, 040ab item 1 |
| "bribery" (of state party funding) | legally: payment from the budget for the vote, permitted by a law written by the recipients | not about the payment to the voter under the protocol — that is by a rule adopted by referendum | 040y item 3 |
| "populist" | a politician whose support rests on the brought-in and the layer and whose promises address the short horizon | not a term of abuse: a description of the one from whom the protocol takes the free voter | 040ab item 5, 039b |
| "underdog" | a candidate not from the government who puts the protocol to a referendum because he has nothing to lose from a change of composition | not "a hero" and not "the opposition" in general | 048n |
| "sick" jurisdictions | cities and countries with low turnout, debt and no alternation, where the protocol is tested first | not an insult: "the sick first" is an order of testing, not a diagnosis of people | 040m §5d, 048l |
| "punishment or price" | the populism test: the populist jails, the protocol presents a bill | — | 040ab item 1 |
| "the bounty trap" | the error of comparing the protocol with an ideal instead of with the present system | — | 040m |
| "passionarity" | Gumilev's term, used in the repository operationally: the state of a voter at a given election in which the vote is worth more to him than D (p × M); measured by the share of stayers at a given p; coarse at the income edges, accurate on the middle class | not a heritable trait and not a theory of ethnogenesis; not "a radical" or "a sage"; in English — intensity of preference (Dahl) or revealed preference | 040bp |
Weak point¶
The glossary fixes meanings after the fact: chapters written before 12 October 2026 use these words without quotation marks, and rewriting them all is not intended — the marks are obligatory for new texts, old ones are read through this table. And quotation marks do not protect against quotation: a critic who needs three words will take "the government steals" without the marks and without the link; the glossary is for the reader who gets as far as the question "what is meant here".