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.
54. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: the natural candidate¶
Chapter: 09 — Other countries Status: 🆕 Todo — placeholder, needs writing File version: v1 Date: 2026-06-11
Contents of the section (to be written by Claude in chat)¶
This section requires writing in later sessions. The structure should cover:
- Localising the formula to the local economy (median wage → dividend)
- Analysis of the legal route (parliamentary route vs citizen initiative)
- Strategic advantages and obstacles
- Specific pilot regions or launch schemes
- Connection to the local political context
- Ready-made wordings in the local language
Related sections¶
- §5 — The fifth class of relations (the general conceptual frame)
- §11 — The paradigm from duty to choice (for emotional communication)
- §23 — Quantitative comparison (orders of magnitude of the effect)
- §47 — State-by-state USA (methodology for choosing pilot regions)
Placeholder created 2026-06-11. To be replaced by full text from Claude in chat.