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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 and ambassador rewards 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.
There are two routes today. Register a party, and it earns party subsidies in proportion to the votes it wins. Or share your referral link: the Ambassador Program pays you when someone you invited registers a party that earns subsidies.

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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, or to participate in the Ambassador Program.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.
Each election has a fixed pool of WDD, split between parties in proportion to the votes they win — so every vote increases a party’s share, and there is no minimum threshold. 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 rewards you for referring new party leaders. When someone you invited registers a party and that party earns subsidies, you receive 10% of that amount, released gradually on the same schedule as the subsidy. The 10% is extra — it does not reduce the party’s subsidy.They need to open your referral link and create their account from there. An account that already exists cannot be credited to you later.
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