Pure elite rule
Having a stable government that makes the correct decisions in a timely manner is very important for continued expansion. Just one bad government can be enough to destroy the future of your society sending your country into disarray.
Since governments are in constant competition against each other for power slow/dysfunctional systems of government will all be crushed and be replaced by more efficient systems of government. Thus over time smaller and smaller portions of the world population will be governed by a system other than
pure elite rule and eventually a single government will govern the entire planet.
There isn't actually any good reason to think the right people would actually be likely to grab power to establish pure elite rule, instead in most cases the people grabbing power would not be very suited for it but then over time these people would see themselves out-competed and crushed to the point where only competent governments remain.
Because societies are in a constant competition between each other until they have crushed all competition the ruling elite would be very limited in their ability to actually implement their vision for society since unless they actually win the war their impact would be very limited.
It's in the interest of society that a good government remains firmly in power since otherwise you will risk losing power to some other actors and that comes with a significant risk. It's better to let the ones who are already governing well figure out the succession themselves. If the leaders are highly competent they should be able to also select good successors to themselves (such as everyone selecting their most competent son out of 50 to 200).
Once you have finally established yourself as the unquestionable world authority you would finally be able to stark shaping the world to your liking securing not only a good life for yourself now but also good lives for your children and if you reincarnate as a human you would experience the fruits of your labor first hand, you are thus incentivized to shape society in a such away that on average your life after reincarnating would be great, you can still have some people who are brutally abused if that creates more value for others than how much they suffer from said abuse.
An elite taking control over a country will be able to enjoy abusing their powers in many ways. If the elite takes power ruthlessly they are also likely to rule ruthlessly. The ruling elite will divide the world population into the following classes:
A The ruling elite (5 to 999 senators).
B Selected by the ruling elite.
C Ordinary citizens or tourists/guest-workers.
D Human property of a citizen or group of citizens.
E Less/no rights, not property of a citizen or group of citizens.
F Military targets.
All senators must be reachable at all hours of the day, if a majority of all senators cannot instantly agree to a decision senators asleep may have to be woken up. The full senate will have the highest judicial, legislative and executive power.
Each senator will select up to 20 successors/advisors, if the successor already sits in the senate when being allowed to take over he has to give one of the seats away to someone else.
The senators can vote to make any decision including change to how the country is governed via simple majority, thus the senate can quickly change the government structure as needed.
In addition to voting “Yes” and “No” senators also have the option to cast an “Abstain” vote. 2 senators voting “Abstain” will reduce the number of votes requires for a conclusive outcome by one. If a vote ends in a draw (such as 4 yes, 4 no, 1 Abstain, 0 didn't vote) the A0 senator will have their vote decide the outcome if he/she voted, if he/she voted “Abstain” the A1 senator will instead have its vote decide the outcome, and so on.
The strength of laws will depend on how many senators who support these laws. If only 10 of 15 currently approve of a new legislation you would need 8 of 10 to think that the one charge is guilty if all the 5 who disagree with the law are against convicting the individual (which might not actually happen). This will also apply to lower courts if each senator appoints a representative to said court.
A senator has the option to vote with a set execution time, one a majority has voted Yes or No with that execution time or less the time will start ticking down. By having some execution time a mistake can be reversed before it's too late.
Since the senate is the highest power you as a senator going against the majority will not actually do much good unless it's a decision that at some time can be reversed, at least in part. For that reason when senators are voting it might not make sense to continue having the vote once a majority decision has been reached (such as 3 yes including senator A0, 3 Abstain, 1 no, 2 not voted yet).
A senator will work 13 to 17 hours per day, each senator will have a personal staff (B citizens) that helps them with research and to avoid harmful group-think among senators.
It's very important that the ruling elite is actually able to implement the policies they think are right instead of having to constantly compromise to remain in power. For that reason you want the senators to establish themselves as something like goods such that very few people actually question their decisions. The senate shall control media and education in addition directly to ensure social harmony.
We can expect the ruling elite to prioritize the well-being of their own over the well-being of other citizens and this is not a bad thing. The elite are the for society most important individuals so of course we want them to make sure they are doing well. The elite will of course also have a great incentive to look out for the country as a whole since they depend on said country for their well-being and power.
It's very important that the senators put a lot of effort into creating successors that are even better at governing than they are since otherwise you might find your society out-competed by another society that managed to appoint a more competent ruling body.
One very simple method of creating suitable successors is for the senators to simply have a lot of children and then select the most suitable child from each senator, the more children they have the better the successors will be if the senators do a better than random job at appointing the most suitable children of them as their successors.
The senators can further increase the chance of having good offspring by selectively breeding with the partners where they are more likely to create suitable offspring. They can also use technology such as genetic engineering to make sure the ones eventually replacing them are more capable than the competition in other countries or competition that managed to remain in hiding within your country.
The male senators are supposed to have sex daily to impregnate a lot of females, this will result in each senator having many children to choose from when it comes to appointing a successor. A senator may also select a successor who isn't a biological child of his/her. Female senators will get impregnated on a regular basis and keep working while pregnant or donate eggs.
x = probability of a senator making a decision
y = probability of the senator making said decision
As we see from the pictures above increasing the size of the ruling elite can increase the accuracy in which the ruling elite makes decisions. That however assumes a constant error probability for all senators which will not be the case in reality.
If the number of senators is 15 we get
A0: senator of rank 0
A1: senator of rank 1
A2: senator of rank 2
A3: senator of rank 3
A4: senator of rank 4
A5: senator of rank 5
A6: senator of rank 6
A7: senator of rank 7
A8: senator of rank 8
A9: senator of rank 9
A10: senator of rank 10
A11: senator of rank 11
A12: senator of rank 12
A13: senator of rank 13
A14: senator of rank 14
B0: first successor to the senator of rank 0
B1: first successor to the senator of rank 1
B2: first successor to the senator of rank 2
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B14: first successor the senator of rank 14
B15: second successor the senator of rank 0
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B100: successor 7 to the senator of rank 10
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B299: successor 20 to the senator of rank 14
C0: Approved by the senate for the highest level of service, eligible for B-citizenship.
C1: Approved for high positions such as a lower judge.
C2: Approved for heavy weapons.
C3: citizens allowed to carry light weapons.
C4: full citizenship.
C5: permanent residence.
C6: temporary residence (can be extended by paying fee).
D0: very high-value child/teen under guardianship/custody of C0/higher. Will by default be given C2 citizenship at 16
D1: high-value child/teen under guardianship/custody of C1/higher. Will by default be given C3 citizenship at 16.
D2: high-value individual reduced to property of C0 or higher for an indefinite period of time.
D3: valuable individual reduced to property of C1 or higher for an indefinite period of time.
D4: individual (such as a child) where C4 or higher have custody. Will instead be given C4 citizenship at 16.
D5: slave/child you are not allowed to injure (minor punishments allowed).
D6: slave not allowed to be killed or seriously injure (loss of limb, brain-damage, sterilized, etc).
D7: slave you are not allowed to kill or give serious brain-damage.
D8: slave with no rights.
E0: very limited legal protections. Not the property of a citizen or group of citizens.
E1: no legal protections. Not property of a citizen or group of citizens.
Fn: military targets of value {F0 value}*10n/10
If the senate consists of the true elite the senate will make the right decision more often than any individual human. Elite rule also has the massive advantage of allowing decisions from the highest authority to be made at any time without delay.
All senators will carry a secure phone with them when they are not working, the secure phones will allow them to quickly make a decision in the case of an emergency such as a nuclear war scenario. The first successors can be allowed to vote in the place of senators with a minimum execution delay of 3 minutes (enough for the senator to be woken up & vote) to 12 hours.
By default biological children of C0/higher will get D0 'citizenship' but teens/children under 16 who are not children of C0/higher can still be given D0 citizenship via court approval by request of C0/higher.
D0 and D1 individuals who cannot meet the standard at 16 will have their citizenship downgraded. The D0 and D1 'citizenships' are exclusive to people younger than 16. A lot of resources will be invested into training D0 and D1 teens/children while they are young and can learn easily.
By default biological children of C1/higher will get D1 'citizenship' but teens/children under 16 who are not children of C1/higher can still be given D1 citizenship via court approval by request of C1/higher.
People with D2 or D3 citizenship can be freed by the people who own them as custody at any time to be given C4 citizenship. Freeing them to get higher than C4 does however require court or senate approval.
People can be under the custody of more than one individual, for D0 'citizens' all individuals who share custody needs to be C0 or higher.
While the full senate will always maintain the highest executive authority there will also be a need to grant some executive powers elsewhere. It's however very important that these lower powers are constrained to limit the damage that can be done by a single actor or a lower court.
A police officer might for example end up having to kill some people in the moment but then someone will get killed without even facing trial. It's especially important to have scrutiny in advance since punishing a police officer for killing someone isn't going to bring them back.
In some matters a single senator can take official government action but then said decision can also very quickly be reversed. This works by having all votes in these matters count as "Abstain" by default.
A decision by A1 can for example be temporarily reversed by A0 or any two A-citizens.
These senate actions need to be formally granted and clearly defined, all other senate actions require full votes. It's for example a good idea to at least allow a single A-citizen to temporarily hide a major social media channel. You can also grant authority to B-citizens to in some circumstances vote on behalf of their senate seat if no higher vote has been cast by any higher successor or their senator.
Senators can freely select who to breed with, a female citizen selected for that do have the option to just offer her eggs if she has already given birth enough or is already being bred. Similar rights can be granted to lower ranked male citizens as needed (such as C0 and higher).
A female citizen can never be forced into surrogacy. A male citizen does not have the right to deny sex with a female senator.
As you try to increase the size of the ruling elite you will eventually have to lower the standard to add more people as A-citizens since it will become harder and harder to find existing people who are suited for the job. There is also not any reliable way to figure out who is actually suited for becoming an A-citizen and once someone is added getting a majority in the senate for their removal will be difficult.
Another issue with increasing the size of the ruling elite is that it will reduce the probability of a vote cast being a deciding vote that will change the outcome, this will decentivize senators from putting effort into the votes they cast.
Another issue with having too many senators is that in order for the senators to be able to properly make decisions they will have to be provided with classified information, adding more senators will increase the risk for leakage of classified info (doesn't have to be intentional). The more freedom and privacy that are given to an individual senator the greater the risk is that he/she is going to leak classified information without someone finding out, of course even if he/she is found out the damage will have already have been done. Not giving senators freedom & privacy however will make it more difficult to recruit suitable people to the senate, especially if each senator only has very limited power.
Holding senate votes where the outcome is obvious is nearly pointless, this issue can be resolved by having a lower board or a sub-group among the senators make the initial decision, full senate votes/trials will mostly/only be held when the initial vote got close. This is especially a problem when the number of senators is large (such as 315) making it very unlikely an individual vote will change the outcome.
If the senate is divided into smaller formal courts (such as 7 courts with 9 senators each) any such smaller senate courts would be allowed to weigh in on any case and then a full senate vote/trial will be held unless every courts that hold a trial arrived at the same conclusion or there vote is already conclusive from the senate-courts who have already voted.
B-citizens can be used to fill out courts and other high government bodies such that each senator has a representative for said body. This will be especially useful when there are not enough senators to split the senate into multiple smaller courts (such as 11 courts with 9 seats each).
The lowest full courts consist of at 5 to 15 people with at least C1 citizenship.
You need C1 or higher to be able to appeal a court decision. Each individual judge will be able to appeal but a single C0 citizen (or higher) or 3 C1 citizens will also have the authority to appeal decisions made by the lowest full courts.
When a court-decision is appealed the senate will first be notified. The senate then have the following options
0. Hold a full senate trial.
1. Hold a quick senate trial.
2. Vote right away.
3. Force a new trial as determined by the senate (such as B0 to B14 as judges).
4. Do nothing which allows any approved appeals court can decide to look into the case if they want to and have free time for it.
The court can change your citizenship if you are a C2 citizen or lower but cannot promote the citizenship to anything higher than C2.
Getting C1 citizenship required formal vote by the senate (such as the senate approving a list of candidates) or via the senate granting the authority to some single individual or body to grant a limited number of C1 citizenships.
Once you have received your C1 citizenship you can be approved as C0 citizen via a full senate vote. All new C0 citizens needs to be formally approved by the senate with only one person being approved for each senate vote.
Your citizen-class will determine which weapons you are allowed to possess and carry, non-citizens are not allowed to carry any weapons, C2 and higher will be allowed to carry very heavy weapons, since they have already been approved by the court there will be no need for further background checks.
Each senator will be provided a large amount of money on a daily basis that he/she will be allowed to freely spend. A senator can also automatically redirect portions of these payments to other things such as salaries for personal advisors/children/wives. This can be very useful as emergency spending and senators can get fully or partly reimbursed later.
A senator might end up with too much money/resources and then the government might have to take over some of that (such as some business the senator no longer have time to manage) or it can be given away to children of the senator, etc.
Technically anyone will be able to use their salary to quickly provide needed finances during emergency but for people with poor finances that would be very risky since they would not be guaranteed to get fully compensated by the government.
It's very important that the ruling elite and their supporters are in control over the military and powerful weapons in general in the case there is an attempted uprising. You also want problematic individuals to be armed as little as possible so they will be unable to fight back if you target them. Thus you will be able to keep your power or regain control even if most of the public starts opposing you.