Mathom
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| Motto: Embrace chaos - all else is temporary | |
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| Region | The Proletariat Coalition |
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| Capital | Tyree |
| Official Language(s) | English (Mathomian and Scots dialects), French, Celdonian |
| Leader | Talitha MacMerry |
| Population | 1.9 Billion |
| Currency | Proletarian Credit |
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The basic form of social organisation in Mathom is termed the hypercommunity. Small groups of individuals or families with shared interests form a base-level community. These group together on a geographical or common-interest basis to form higher order (hyper-)communities, and this basic structure is repeated up to the national level there there are currently 57 hypercommunities which in turn form the hypercommunity of Mathom. An ideal size for a community is generally reckoned to be between 30 and 60 participants, and 125 a rough upper bound. A typical citizen is between 5 and 8 levels removed from the national hypercommunity.
Our economic system is based on a division between
a) necessities, which are communal and free, and produced by means of compulsory comunity service
b) luxuries, which are produced by workers co-ops, paid for in electronic currency, with a fixed percentage (currently 8%) of every transaction going into a communal fund.
The gopherment distributes a proportion (currently 63%) of the communal fund equally between all citizens, and uses the rest to fund those services and items of government expenditure not created by the community work program.
There are no elections - all citizens serve terms in various civic duties (gopher is the generic term for these offices). These are selected at random, but with exemption from re-selection until 50% of other eligible citizens have served. We thus have no ruling class, although we do have a degree of structure.
Most of our people celebrate Eris, goddess of Chaos in her many guises, but all religions are tolerated, and there are many Animists, Quakers and Bahai among our comrades.
Mathom has many fine musicians, indeed almost anyone plays or sings to some degree. The loose style may seem strange to those unused to it, with its emphasis on free harmony and subtle dischords, but those who take the time to listen frequently become enthusiastic converts. Most music is improvised, and a fireside jam is a common and much-loved way to end the day.
