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General and world drachma

The World Republic is an open-source platform for global democracy. Verified citizens register political parties and vote in weekly test elections, the results are public, and the platform has its own currency, the world drachma.
WDD (world drachma) is the World Republic’s blockchain-based currency that turns our political vision into a self-sustaining economic system.
WDD is the currency of the World Republic: it is what party subsidies are paid in, and what you withdraw from your wallet. That is what it is for.It has no guaranteed value. No government, bank or reserve stands behind it. We do not undertake to buy WDD back from you, and we do not undertake to exchange WDD for money. Its value can move in either direction, and you can lose the entire value of your WDD. We do not offer WDD as a security, as an investment, or as a financial instrument, and we do not offer it as a way to make money. Section 8.1 of the Terms of Use sets this out in full.
Register a party, and it earns party subsidies for the seats it wins.

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Verification and voting

For voting and for registering a party. Both require a verified account. You do not need verification to earn party subsidies on a party you already lead.Parties registered before this requirement keep their listing, their subsidies and their edit rights.
Verification is a short face scan in your browser. It confirms that you are a real, live person and checks your face against accounts that are already verified. You need to be signed in, on a device with a camera facing you — the scan asks for no document, and there is nothing to install.You do it once per account. It lasts for as long as you keep using the platform: after three years with no activity on your account, your face data is destroyed and your verification is removed with it, and you can verify again with a new scan. If your face matches one that is already verified, the account is not approved — the comparison decides that itself, straight away — and you can ask in our help community for a person to look at it.See voter verification for the full picture, get verified for the steps, and the Privacy Policy for what is captured and stored.

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Elections and parties

Test elections act as a proving ground for the World Republic. They serve two purposes: stress-testing our voting technology and incubating new political parties. While results are politically non-binding, parties earn real WDD subsidies to help them grow.
A party earns WDD for each seat it wins in a test election: the election’s pool is divided into equal shares, one for each of its 2,025 seats. How seats are won, and why there are 2,025, is set out under test elections. The money goes to the citizen who registered the party, and it is released into their wallet gradually over the following year rather than all at once.
The Ambassador Program awarded an extra 10% of a party’s subsidy, on top of it, to the citizen who had invited the party’s leader. It has ended: from Test election 33, no new ambassador rewards are awarded. Rewards awarded before then are released into the wallets they were awarded to, on the same schedule as a subsidy.
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