# Overview
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/building-blocks

Understand the core components of our platform.

The World Republic is built on four foundational pillars:

<CardGroup>
  <Card title="Test elections" icon="check-to-slot" href="/building-blocks/test-elections">
    Non-binding elections open to every registered party
  </Card>

  <Card title="Voter verification" icon="id-card" href="/building-blocks/voter-verification">
    A one-time check that each voter is a different person
  </Card>

  <Card title="World drachma" icon="money-bill-wave" href="/building-blocks/world-drachma">
    The World Republic's digital currency
  </Card>

  <Card title="Party subsidies" icon="hand-holding-dollar" href="/building-blocks/party-subsidies">
    Funding based on electoral performance
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Past programs

<Card title="Ambassador Program" icon="clock-rotate-left" href="/building-blocks/ambassador-program">
  Rewards for inviting party leaders, closed from Test election 33
</Card>


# Ambassador Program
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/building-blocks/ambassador-program

A closed program that rewarded citizens for inviting party leaders.

The Ambassador Program rewarded citizens for inviting party leaders. Each time a party received a [subsidy](/building-blocks/party-subsidies), the citizen who had invited its leader was awarded an extra 10% of that amount, on top of the party's subsidy and never taken out of it.

## Why it ended

No democracy pays people to recruit candidates. Party leaders should stand here because they want to, not because someone earns a share of their subsidy for bringing them in. From Test election 33, no new ambassador rewards are awarded.

## Rewards already awarded

Rewards awarded before then are not affected. Each is released into the wallet of the citizen it was awarded to, continuously rather than all at once, on the same schedule as a [party subsidy](/building-blocks/party-subsidies#how-the-money-arrives). The wallet lists them as **Ambassador rewards**.

## Inviting is still welcome

The most useful thing a citizen can do here is still to bring in people worth voting for. Inviting someone to register a party is no longer paid, and the link to share is the World Republic's own: [worldrepublic.org](https://www.worldrepublic.org).

<Card title="Register a party" icon="users" href="/quickstart/register-a-party">
  Start a party and stand in the next test election
</Card>


# Party subsidies
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/building-blocks/party-subsidies

Funding based on electoral performance.

Parties earn **world drachma** for the seats they win, so a movement with real support can fund itself instead of depending on donors.

## How it works

Each [test election](/building-blocks/test-elections) has a reward pool of WDD — the pools are [listed below](#reward-pools). The pool is divided into **2,025 seats**. When the election closes, parties win seats by their share of the vote, using the Sainte-Laguë method, which favors neither large nor small parties, and each seat is worth an equal part of the pool.

> **Party subsidy** = seats won × (reward pool ÷ 2,025)

With a pool of **202,500 WDD**, one seat is worth **100 WDD**. A party with **20%** of the vote wins **405 seats** — **40,500 WDD**.

**A threshold of one seat.** A party needs at least 1 vote in every 2,025 cast — about 0.05% of the vote — to win a seat and a share of the pool. Many national systems pay nothing below a much higher cutoff, often 5%; here the line is one hundred times lower, so small and new movements can still fund themselves.

## Why 2,025 seats

The number comes from the **cube root law**, an observation by the political scientist Rein Taagepera: the size of a national assembly tends to be close to the cube root of the population it represents. Countries of very different sizes fit it remarkably well.

Applied to the whole world: the United Nations projects the world's population at **8,300,678,395 on July 1, 2026** (*World Population Prospects 2024*). Its cube root is 2,024.7 — so **2,025 seats**.

The number **stays the same from one election to the next**, so every party knows it before the vote. It may be recalculated when the United Nations publishes a new projection, always announced before the election it first applies to. It may also change if a better method is agreed, or if a world parliament decides to change it.

When two parties have an equal claim to the last seat, it is decided by a draw that anyone can re-run from the published result — never by which party is bigger.

## Reward pools

| Test elections | Reward pool | Paid |
| :- | :- | :- |
| 33 onward | 202,500 WDD | By seats: 100 WDD a seat |
| 31–32 | 200,000 WDD | By share of the vote |
| 21–30 | 150,000 WDD | By share of the vote |
| 1–20 | 100,000 WDD | By share of the vote |

Elections before seats were introduced were paid in proportion to votes, with no threshold: every party with a vote took pool × its votes ÷ all votes cast.

Those elections also paid an extra 10% of each subsidy, on top of it, to the citizen who had invited the party's leader. That was the [Ambassador Program](/building-blocks/ambassador-program), and it ends with them: from Test election 33, the subsidy is all an election pays.

## The barrier to entry

| | World Republic party | National party |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Formation** | **Instant** (verified account) | **Weeks/months** (bureaucratic) |
| **Registration** | **Free** (no fees) | **Expensive** (filing fees + lawyers) |
| **Ballot access** | **Open** (any party, from registration) | **Difficult** (signatures + thresholds) |
| **Subsidies** | **From one seat** (about 0.05%) | **High threshold** (often 5%+) |

Starting a party costs nothing. The one requirement is that the account registering it is [verified](/quickstart/get-verified) — the same short camera check that voting requires.

## How the money arrives

1. **It is not instant.** Each election is distributed once, after it has closed — not the moment the last vote lands.
2. **The award vests over a year.** Nothing arrives as a lump sum. The subsidy is released second by second across 365 days, and the balance in the app ticks up while you watch it.
3. **It lands in a personal account.** There is no separate party wallet. The subsidy accrues to the World Republic wallet of the citizen who registered the party, where the transaction list shows it as **Party subsidy**.
4. **You withdraw it yourself.** Vested WDD can be sent onchain to an address you choose, on either chain the [world drachma](/building-blocks/world-drachma) runs on. A minimum withdrawal amount applies, and the app shows it on the withdrawal screen.

### A new subsidy restarts the clock

A second subsidy does not start a second stream beside the first. Whatever has already vested stays available in your balance; whatever has not is added to the new award, and the combined amount is spread over a fresh 365 days. A party that keeps earning keeps a rolling twelve-month horizon rather than finishing one award before the next begins.

## Why this matters

* **Financial independence:** parties are funded by their share of the vote, not by donors.
* **Level playing field:** a new party draws on the same pool as an established one.
* **Direct impact:** every seat is an equal share of the pool, and seats follow the vote.

## Next steps

<CardGroup>
  <Card title="Register a party" icon="users" href="/quickstart/register-a-party">
    Start a party and stand in the next test election
  </Card>

  <Card title="Test elections" icon="check-to-slot" href="/building-blocks/test-elections">
    The weekly elections whose results set the subsidies
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


# Test elections
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/building-blocks/test-elections

Non-binding elections open to every registered party.

Test elections are real elections with no binding outcome. They give new parties a contest to compete in and earn from, and they put the voting system under real load before anything depends on it.

## How it works

The rules are deliberately thin.

* **Open ballot access.** There are no signatures to gather and no filing fees; registering a party takes a verified account, and the party is on the ballot from that moment. An automated review — a check for spam and abuse, not for politics — decides only what is shown by default: a flagged party is left out of the list a voter sees first, and any voter who chooses to show all parties can still find it and vote for it. Its leader is told where it stands.
* **A weekly cycle.** Elections currently run weekly, and each one shows its own opening and closing times. The schedule can still change while we refine the system, so trust the dates on the election itself.
* **One vote per person.** Voting takes a signed-in account that has passed a short [face check](/quickstart/get-verified). You get one vote in each election, and it is final once cast.
* **Results at the close.** No standings are shown while an election is open. Each party's votes and share are published when it ends.

## Real incentives

The political outcome of a test election is not binding. The funding is real.

Each election carries a reward pool of [world drachma](/building-blocks/world-drachma). The pool is divided into 2,025 seats, which go to parties by their share of the vote; a party needs at least 1 vote in every 2,025 to win one. The subsidy reaches the citizen who registered the party, released gradually rather than as one payment, and can be withdrawn onchain — [party subsidies](/building-blocks/party-subsidies) has the formula and how it is paid out.

## The path to binding governance

Test elections belong to the first phase of the World Republic's governance roadmap. The phases, and what has to be true before each transition, are set out in the [organization overview](/organization#how-control-shifts-over-time).

## Next steps

<CardGroup>
  <Card title="Cast your vote" icon="check-to-slot" href="/quickstart/cast-your-vote">
    Vote in an open election
  </Card>

  <Card title="Register a party" icon="users" href="/quickstart/register-a-party">
    Put a new party on the ballot
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


# Voter verification
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/building-blocks/voter-verification

A one-time check that each voter is a different person.

Every vote in a test election has to come from a different person. Verification is how that is proved: one short face scan, taken in your browser, with no identity document and nothing to install.

## How it works

The scan answers two questions.

The first is whether a real person is in front of the camera at that moment, rather than a photo or a video of one.

The second is whether that person has registered before. Your scan is compared with the faces of citizens who are already verified, and matching none of them means this is your first account.

Clear both and the account can vote in test elections and register a party. That is all verification is for — browsing parties, reading results, and using your wallet never require it.

You do this once. Verification belongs to the account rather than to an election: nothing asks you to repeat it before a vote, and each verified account casts one vote in each election.

Verification lasts while you keep using World Republic. If you do not use it for three years, your face data is destroyed and your verification is removed with it. You can also delete your face data yourself at any time, in Account → Verification, without deleting your account; that removes your verification until you complete a new scan. You can verify again with a new scan whenever you come back. The [Biometric Retention and Destruction Policy](/legal/biometric-retention) sets out that schedule, and what counts as using World Republic.

## When two faces match

If your scan matches a face that is already verified, the account is not approved. The comparison decides that at the moment of the scan, on how closely the two faces match and nothing else about you. No person takes part, and there is nothing to wait for.

People can look alike, so the comparison can be wrong. If you think it is, ask in our [help community](https://t.me/worldrepubliccommunity): a person will look at both records and can reopen verification.

## What is stored

The check never asks for your name or for a document. What it needs is your face.

* A still image from your scan is kept, along with a mathematical summary of your face used only for comparison against other citizens.
* Both are held in the European Union (Ireland).
* You can download a copy of the images your scans left, in Account → Verification, while you are signed in. Your browser fetches them straight from the European Union and saves them as one file; they are never shown on screen and never pass through our servers. The mathematical summary cannot be downloaded: the comparison service does not release it.
* Nothing is captured until you agree. The check opens with a consent box you have to tick, and you can decline — though you cannot vote without verifying.
* Deleting your account deletes those images and removes your face from the comparison. It closes the account itself at the same time, and any WDD left in it is forfeited. One exception: if you voted in an election that closes within the next fourteen days, the images and the comparison entry are kept until that election closes and deleted then. An election closing further away than that does not hold the destruction at all — the face check is what stops the same person from verifying a new account and voting again in it.

<Note>
  The [Privacy Policy](/legal/privacy) sets out what is collected, who processes it, how long it is kept, and the rights you have over it.
</Note>

## Next steps

<CardGroup>
  <Card title="Get verified" icon="id-card" href="/quickstart/get-verified">
    Complete the check in one short camera scan
  </Card>

  <Card title="Test elections" icon="check-to-slot" href="/building-blocks/test-elections">
    What a verified account can vote in
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


# World drachma
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/building-blocks/world-drachma

The World Republic's digital currency.

The **world drachma (WDD)** is the World Republic's currency — what party subsidies are paid in, and what citizens withdraw from their wallet. It is a token on public blockchains rather than a balance held by a bank or a government. Making it a vehicle for global redistribution is our political aim. That is an aim, and it is not a statement about what WDD will be worth.

<Warning>
  **WDD 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. WDD is not offered as a security, as an investment, or as a financial instrument, and it is not offered as a way to make money. Section 8.1 of the [Terms of Use](/legal/terms) sets this out in full.
</Warning>

## Tokenomics

The allocation of the total **4 billion WDD** supply (2 billion on World Chain and 2 billion on Base Chain) is designed to prioritize the community and long-term sustainability.

| Category | Allocation | Purpose |
| :- | :- | :- |
| **Community** | **50%** | Party subsidies, ambassador rewards, basic income, and savings interest. |
| **Treasury** | **25%** | Long-term R\&D, grants, and operational expenses. |
| **Investors** | **10%** | Seed and private funding. |
| **Core team** | **10%** | Founders and early employees. |
| **Liquidity** | **5%** | DEX liquidity. |

Three of those have closed: [basic income](/campaigns/basic-income), the savings account and the [Ambassador Program](/building-blocks/ambassador-program). What they paid out stayed with the citizens who received it, and ambassador rewards already awarded are released on their usual schedule.

## Distribution model

WDD reaches citizens through elections. One route pays out today, worked out from an election's results after it closes and vesting over the 12 months that follow.

<Card title="Party subsidies" icon="hand-holding-dollar" href="/building-blocks/party-subsidies">
  Parties earn WDD for the seats they win
</Card>

## Two chains

WDD exists on two public blockchains, World Chain and Base Chain, at the same contract address on both.

Which chain you use does not change what you earn: subsidies are calculated in WDD alone, with no chain in the formula. The chain decides only where your tokens land when you withdraw.

There is no bridge between the two networks — deliberately, while the Base Chain market matures — so WDD on one does not become WDD on the other. A bridge is planned once the platform's governance and party structures are established.

## Balances and withdrawals

Rewards are recorded inside the app rather than on a blockchain, and vest second by second into a single balance with no chain attached to it.

Withdrawing asks you to choose a **Network**, World Chain or Base Chain. A minimum withdrawal amount applies, and the app shows it on the withdrawal screen. Most wallets show WDD only once you add it manually, on the chain you withdrew to, using the contract address below. The [Terms of Use](/legal/terms) set out how balances and withdrawals are treated.

## Technical details

The world drachma is a standard ERC-20 token deployed on both World Chain and Base Chain.

<ResponseField name="Name">Drachma</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="Ticker">WDD</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="Contract address">
  0xede54d9c024ee80c85ec0a75ed2d8774c7fbac9b
</ResponseField>

<ResponseField name="Networks">
  World Chain (chain ID 480) and Base Chain (chain ID 8453)
</ResponseField>


# Overview
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/campaigns

Explore issue-focused campaigns built on the platform.

A campaign points the platform at a single global problem: a question worth deciding democratically, the parties that take a position on it, and the elections where citizens choose between them.

## Current campaigns

<Card title="Raised by Humanity" icon="robot" href="/campaigns/raised-by-humanity">
  AI governance by a world parliament
</Card>

## Past campaigns

<Card title="Basic income" icon="clock-rotate-left" href="/campaigns/basic-income">
  Recurring WDD payments, closed in 2026
</Card>


# Basic income
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/campaigns/basic-income

A closed campaign that paid citizens a recurring amount of WDD.

Basic income was a World Republic campaign about economic security in the AI era: if AI raises what the world produces, the question is who shares in it. The campaign tested one answer directly — it paid citizens a recurring amount of WDD.

## What it did

Citizens activated basic income from the home screen and claimed what had built up. The payments came from the community half of the [world drachma](/building-blocks/world-drachma) supply — the same allocation that funds party subsidies.

## Why it is closed

It ran from March to June 2026. The World Republic is now built around elections: parties, the votes they win, and the subsidies that follow. Basic income is not running, and neither is the savings account.

Nothing was reversed. The WDD it paid out stayed in the wallets that received it.

## The question is still open

What the campaign asked has not been settled, and the platform's answer to an open question is now an election rather than a payment. A party can stand for basic income and citizens can vote for it.

<Card title="Register a party" icon="users" href="/quickstart/register-a-party">
  Stand for basic income and put it on the ballot
</Card>


# Raised by Humanity
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/campaigns/raised-by-humanity

AI governance by a world parliament.

**Raised by Humanity** is the first World Republic campaign. It focuses on a single question: how should humanity govern increasingly powerful AI systems through legitimate democratic processes?

## Why AI governance is our first use case

AI capabilities are advancing faster than traditional institutions can coordinate. The effects cross borders, but current governance remains fragmented by nation-state boundaries.

Raised by Humanity brings this challenge into a democratic framework where citizens can:

* support parties with clear AI governance positions,
* vote in global test elections,
* and help shape institutional legitimacy before binding global governance begins.

On both sites, the parties list and every election's ballot have an **Only AI governance parties** filter. Turn it on to see just the parties whose name or description says what they want for AI. It is off unless you turn it on.

## How to get involved

<Info>
  Alongside the primary platform entry at [worldrepublic.org](https://worldrepublic.org), this campaign also has a dedicated branded entry point at [raisedbyhumanity.org](https://raisedbyhumanity.org).
</Info>

<CardGroup>
  <Card title="Get verified" icon="id-card" href="/quickstart/get-verified">
    Confirm your eligibility to participate in elections.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Cast your vote" icon="check-to-slot" href="/quickstart/cast-your-vote">
    Support parties and positions on AI governance.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>


# Overview
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/help-center

Browse the FAQ or contact our help community.

<div>
  <div>
    # World Republic Help Center

    <div>
      Browse the FAQ or contact our help community.
    </div>

    <div>
      <Card title="FAQ" icon="circle-question" href="/help-center/faq">
        Find answers to common questions about the World Republic
      </Card>

      <Card title="Help community" icon="headset" href="https://t.me/worldrepubliccommunity">
        Need more help? Reach out to our help community on Telegram
      </Card>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>


# Help community
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/help-center/community



<Note>
  **Need help?** Contact our [help community](https://t.me/worldrepubliccommunity) on Telegram.
</Note>


# FAQ
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/help-center/faq

Find answers to common questions about the World Republic.

## General and world drachma

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="What is the World Republic?">
    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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What is WDD?">
    WDD (world drachma) is the World Republic's blockchain-based currency that turns our political vision into a self-sustaining economic system.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What gives WDD its value?">
    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](/legal/terms) sets this out in full.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How can I earn WDD?">
    Register a party, and it earns [party subsidies](/building-blocks/party-subsidies) for the seats it wins. That is the one route today: the [Ambassador Program](/building-blocks/ambassador-program), which rewarded citizens for inviting party leaders, ends from Test election 33.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Verification and voting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="Do I need verification to participate?">
    **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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How does verification work?">
    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](https://t.me/worldrepubliccommunity) for a person to look at it.

    See [voter verification](/building-blocks/voter-verification) for the full picture, [get verified](/quickstart/get-verified) for the steps, and the [Privacy Policy](/legal/privacy) for what is captured and stored.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Elections and parties

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="What are test elections?">
    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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="How do party subsidies work?">
    Each election's pool of WDD is divided into 2,025 seats. When voting closes, parties win seats by their share of the vote, using the Sainte-Laguë method, which favors neither large nor small parties, and each seat is worth an equal part of the pool. A party needs at least 1 vote in every 2,025 cast to win a seat — about 0.05% of the vote. [Why 2,025](/building-blocks/party-subsidies#why-2025-seats). 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.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="What happened to the Ambassador Program?">
    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 is ending: 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. The [Ambassador Program](/building-blocks/ambassador-program) page explains why it ended.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

<Note>
  **Need more help?** Contact our [help community](https://t.me/worldrepubliccommunity) on Telegram.
</Note>


# Overview
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/index

The future of global governance.

<div>
  <div>
    # World Republic

    <div>
      The future of global governance.
    </div>

    <div>
      <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart">
        Get started in minutes with our step-by-step guides
      </Card>

      <Card title="Building blocks" icon="cubes" href="/building-blocks">
        Understand the core components of our platform
      </Card>

      <Card title="Organization" icon="landmark" href="/organization">
        Explore our mission, governance, and roadmap
      </Card>

      <Card title="Help center" icon="hands-helping" href="/help-center">
        Browse the FAQ or contact our help community
      </Card>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>


# Overview
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/organization

Explore our mission, governance, and roadmap.

The world has global problems, but no global democracy to solve them.

AI safety, climate change, and economic inequality ignore borders, but our political systems are locked inside them. The World Republic is building the layer that is missing: a platform where anyone, anywhere, can take part in the decisions that cross every border.

To see how that mission applies to specific global challenges, explore [Campaigns](/campaigns).

## How World Republic governance works today

The World Republic is early, and the platform is operated by a Swiss association. During this stewardship phase the founding team runs it, so the election system, verification, and party infrastructure can be tested and changed quickly.

The elections held today are [test elections](/building-blocks/test-elections): open to every registered party, experimental, and non-binding.

## How control shifts over time

Control moves to citizens in three phases:

1. **Phase 1 (current): Stewardship and incubation**\
   Governance is non-binding while test elections validate systems and support political party development.

2. **Phase 2: Constitution ratification**\
   A global referendum ratifies the constitution and formalizes the permanent governance framework.

3. **Phase 3: Citizen governance**\
   Binding elections transfer full governing authority to citizens under constitutional rules.

<Note>
  Phase transitions depend on readiness criteria such as security, participation, and institutional maturity rather than fixed calendar dates.
</Note>

## What protects citizens in every phase

The roadmap changes who governs. It does not change these.

* **Open source:** The platform is free software under the [GNU AGPL](https://github.com/worldrepublicorg/worldrepublic.org), so anyone can read how voting, verification, and rewards work — and the license lets anyone run their own copy. What is published is a snapshot, and it is older than the version running today. Section 9.1 of the [Terms of Use](/legal/terms) sets out what we have published and what we have not.
* **No lock-in:** The [world drachma](/building-blocks/world-drachma) you earn can be withdrawn onchain, to a wallet you control.
* **Ballot privacy:** Your vote is private, but not anonymous to us. We record that you voted, so nobody can vote twice, and your choice is added to the party's total. No screen shows which party you chose. Someone with direct access to our database or its provider's backups could link some ballots to the people who cast them. Only party totals are published, and only once an election has closed. Telling people how you voted is your choice.
* **No legal name, no documents:** Proving you are a real, unique person takes a short camera scan — no legal name and no identity document. Signing in with Google stores no name, email, or photo. The scan does process biometric data: the [Privacy Policy](/legal/privacy) sets out what is captured, where it is held, and how to have it deleted.

These hold during stewardship, and they are not up for negotiation under citizen governance.


# Overview
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/quickstart

Get started in minutes with our step-by-step guides.

Whether you want to cast your vote in our next election or lead a political movement, we have a path for you.

## For leaders

<Card title="Register a party" icon="users" href="/quickstart/register-a-party">
  Form a new political group and run for office
</Card>

## For voters

<Card title="Get verified" icon="id-card" href="/quickstart/get-verified">
  Confirm your eligibility to vote in World Republic elections
</Card>

<Card title="Cast your vote" icon="check-to-slot" href="/quickstart/cast-your-vote">
  Vote for a party in a World Republic test election
</Card>


# Cast your vote
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/quickstart/cast-your-vote

Vote for a party in a World Republic test election.

Follow these steps to vote for a party in an open test election. Once you are verified it takes a few taps, and you get one vote per election.

## Prerequisites

* A World Republic account, signed in
* A completed face verification — see [Get verified](/quickstart/get-verified)

You can start without either. Tapping **Vote** asks you to sign in, or sends you to the face check, before anything is cast.

## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the active election">
    Open [worldrepublic.org](https://worldrepublic.org). It opens on **Home**, and the card at the top is the current election — an **Active** tag means voting is open. Tap the card to open it. The **Elections** tab lists every election, past and upcoming.

    The **Vote** button on that card goes to the same place — it does not cast anything.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose a party">
    Under **Choose a party** the election lists the parties on the ballot. Search by party name, leader or description, or scroll the list. Parties an automated review flagged as spam are left out of that list. The filter button beside the search box opens **Filter**: **Show spam** includes them, and they can be voted for like any other; **Only AI governance parties** shows just the parties whose name or description says what they want for AI. Both are off until you turn them on. Tap a party's name to read what it stands for and who leads it — you can vote from there too.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Vote">
    Tap **Vote** beside the party you want, then **Review vote**. A confirmation screen headed **Confirm your vote** shows which party you picked; **Cast vote** is what casts your ballot. Nothing is recorded until you tap it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Outcome

<Check>**Success!** The app confirms **Vote recorded**. Your ballot counts from that moment, and the election page shows the full result once the election ends.</Check>

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="You are signed out, or not verified yet">
    Signed out, **Vote** opens the sign-in dialog — **Use biometrics** or **Continue with Google**. Once you are signed in, tap **Vote** again if the app does not carry on by itself.

    Not verified, **Vote** takes you to the face check inside the app: a consent screen, then a short camera scan. There is nothing to install and no code to scan with another device. When it passes, the screen reads **You are verified** — tap **Close**, and the vote you started is cast right then, with the same confirmation. [Get verified](/quickstart/get-verified) covers the other outcomes a scan can have.

    Your vote is only held for you if you tapped **Vote** beside a party. Verifying from your **Account** tab carries no ballot — go back to the election and vote.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="No election is open right now">
    An **Upcoming** tag means voting has not started yet; the card shows when it does. You cannot vote early.

    If you are not verified, an upcoming election's page offers a **Get ready** card. Its **Test** button runs the face check, not a practice ballot, so you are ready the moment voting opens.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="You already voted">
    One account gets one vote per election. Tapping **Vote** again — on the same party or a different one — answers **You already voted in this election** and changes nothing. There is no way to move or withdraw a vote.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="You did not get a confirmation">
    A slow or dropped connection can lose the answer after the vote has already been recorded. Tapping **Vote** again is safe: if the first one landed you are simply told you already voted, and if it did not, this one counts.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Next steps

<Card title="Test elections" icon="check-to-slot" href="/building-blocks/test-elections">
  What these elections are for, and what parties earn
</Card>

<Card title="Register a party" icon="users" href="/quickstart/register-a-party">
  Stand for election yourself
</Card>


# Get verified
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/quickstart/get-verified

Confirm your eligibility to vote in World Republic elections.

Follow these steps to verify that you are a real person. It takes one short camera scan, you do it once, and it is what lets you vote and register a party.

## Prerequisites

* A World Republic account, signed in
* A device with a camera facing you

You do **not** need an identity document, and there is nothing to install.

## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open verification">
    Open [worldrepublic.org](https://worldrepublic.org) and sign in, then open the **Account** tab. If you are not verified, your name carries a **Not verified** mark and the button beneath it reads **Verify to vote** — tap it.

    Tapping **Vote** on a party brings you straight here; registering a party offers you verification first.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Agree and start">
    The screen explains what the check captures and asks you to consent to it. Tick the box, then tap **Start face verification** and allow your browser to use the camera when it asks.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Complete the scan">
    Hold your phone upright, fit your face inside the oval, and follow the on-screen prompts to move closer or further away. It takes a few seconds. Nothing flashes, and this scan never asks you for a document.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Outcome

<Check>**Success!** The screen reads **You are verified**. You can now vote in test elections and register a party. You do not repeat this for each election.</Check>

Verification lasts for as long as you keep using World Republic. After three years with no activity on your account, your face data is destroyed and your verification is removed with it — the [Biometric Retention and Destruction Policy](/legal/biometric-retention) sets out that schedule. You can verify again with a new scan.

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="The scan failed or was interrupted">
    Both are retryable. The usual causes are lighting that is too dark or too bright, a face that is off-center or too far from the camera, more than one face in frame, holding the phone sideways, or the camera being blocked or already in use by another app. Move somewhere evenly lit, hold the phone upright at arm's length, and try again.

    If you retry repeatedly you may be asked to wait a short while before starting another scan.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Not approved">
    If your face matches one that is already verified, the scan is not approved. The comparison decides that itself, straight away: nothing is waiting on a person, and your **Account** tab reads **Verification declined**.

    Face verification is then closed for that account and no further scan can be started, from the Account tab or anywhere else.

    If you believe it is a mistake, ask for help in our [help community](https://t.me/worldrepubliccommunity) on Telegram. A person can look at both records and reopen verification.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Next steps

<Card title="Cast your vote" icon="check-to-slot" href="/quickstart/cast-your-vote">
  Use your verified account to vote in an election
</Card>


# Register a party
Source: https://wiki.worldrepublic.org/quickstart/register-a-party

Form a new political group and run for office.

Follow these steps to register a party and put it on the ballot. You need a verified account, and the only required detail is a name.

## Prerequisites

* A World Republic account, signed in
* Verification — the same one-time face check that voting needs. If you have not done it, [get verified](/quickstart/get-verified) first.

<Note>Parties registered before verification was required keep their listing, their [subsidies](/building-blocks/party-subsidies) and their edit rights.</Note>

## Steps

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open the Parties tab">
    Open [worldrepublic.org](https://worldrepublic.org) and switch to the **Parties** tab — worldrepublic.org/parties goes straight there. Your own party lives in the **Your party** section at the top.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Fill in the details">
    In the **Your party** section, tap **Register a party**.

    <ResponseField name="Party name">
      The name citizens see on the ballot and in the parties list. You can change it later.
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="Description">
      Optional. A few lines on what your party stands for.
    </ResponseField>

    <ResponseField name="Official link">
      Optional. Your party's website or social media page. A bare domain is fine — `https://` is added for you if you leave it off.
    </ResponseField>
  </Step>

  <Step title="Register">
    Tap **Register**. If you are not signed in, you are asked to sign in first — **Use biometrics** or **Continue with Google** — and what you typed is kept, so you finish by tapping **Register** again.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Outcome

<Check>**Success!** You are a party leader. Your party appears under **Your party** and is on the ballot straight away. It joins the parties list voters see by default once an automated review clears it — until then your party's card reads **In review**, and a voter who chooses to show all parties can already find it and vote for it.</Check>

## Troubleshooting

<AccordionGroup>
  <Accordion title="You are sent to the face check instead">
    Registration is refused while your account is unverified, so the app explains the check and takes you to it rather than turning you away. Complete the scan, then come back to the **Parties** tab and register — anything you had already typed is kept.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="You already lead a party">
    An account leads one party at a time. Registering another asks you to confirm, and confirming dissolves the party you lead now and takes it off the parties list. To change your party's name, description or link instead, edit the one you have.
  </Accordion>

  <Accordion title="Editing or deleting your party">
    On your party's card, open **Edit your party** — it appears only on the party you lead. **Remove party** is inside it. Removing cannot be undone.
  </Accordion>
</AccordionGroup>

## Next steps

<CardGroup>
  <Card title="Cast your vote" icon="check-to-slot" href="/quickstart/cast-your-vote">
    Vote for your own party in a test election
  </Card>

  <Card title="Party subsidies" icon="hand-holding-dollar" href="/building-blocks/party-subsidies">
    How parties earn funding from election results
  </Card>
</CardGroup>