The whole picture · about 15 minutes
An ordinary day in Infocracy
The rest of this website explains how individual components work. This page asks what living with them might be like. One day, fourteen moments, from the alarm clock to lights out. Each choice stays with you: what you decide before noon changes your voting weight in the evening. Every moment includes a switch showing its equivalent today.
This is not a report from real life. No one lives this way today. It is a proposal: a day that might be possible if this system were built.
Before you get up
Your profile lives this day—not a character in a book
Everything below uses the profile you built in the guide, stored in your browser. If you have not visited it, you start as someone with good knowledge of woodworking and education, moderate project expertise and little medical knowledge.
Your knowledge: four strongest fields
Practically verified
A verified skill is one that someone already qualified has watched you perform. It is not a certificate of course attendance.
Integrity level
A multiplier from 1.00 to 0.00, applied to every issue. This is your morning value. It may change before evening; you will see when.
Change your profile in the guide →Fourteen moments
The day
Select a time or use the buttons. Every moment offers a choice that persists: the account on the right develops with your day. There is no good or bad route, only costs and consequences.
What this day does not show
Four things ran all day without you clicking on them once
The fourteen moments above show your actions. Underneath, mechanisms operate without manual administration. They make those moments possible.
The knowledge map keeps changing
During this imagined day, tens of thousands of corrections enter the shared map of human knowledge. Some overturn previously accepted claims. People whose examinations relied on those claims are notified and given time to update their understanding. No one loses their recorded knowledge overnight.
See how a leaf enters the Tree →Money flows through the roots
Each item produced anywhere today pays a fraction to everyone who contributed to the knowledge needed to make it—including people whose contribution dates back thirty years. That is why most of your 17:30 wallet income does not come from today’s work.
Explore the Informatium economy →Thousands of issues reach a voting stage today
You took part in one. The others continue in channels you do not open because you lack relevant expertise. Unlike an election every four years, you participate in a few decisions each year about things you genuinely understand.
Enter the voting room →No one checked where you were
The system knows your verified skills and ethics record because you submitted them and consented to verification. It does not know where you go or what you discuss. Crossing that boundary would turn this proposal into something entirely different—and much worse.
See the difficult questions →An honest account of the cost
This day costs more than your day today
Not in money, but in attention. This person contributed anything from several dozen minutes to more than two hours to tasks they may not do today: checking another person’s work, verifying a source, giving a judgement, reading three options before voting and taking an examination.
It is work, not a civic duty
Each activity earns remuneration. That is the incentive for doing it. A system dependent on goodwill would be designed for saints. This one is not.
Not everyone does everything
You do not have to review, judge or vote. You may work in a Hall and do nothing else. Your IPI then grows more slowly and your influence is smaller, but no one punishes you, takes away your money or records a negative mark.
The greatest cost comes at the start
In the early years, the knowledge map would have gaps, examinations would need refinement and judgements would vary. The day above assumes a mature system. Getting there is a separate, difficult subject that this day does not cover.
See the implementation path →What is deliberately left out
One day in one person’s life—and things are going well for them
This person is healthy, has a trade, lives in a region with functioning Halls and can pay their way. We do not show a sick person’s day, someone whose knowledge rests on a disproved branch, someone who declines verification or a child. Each would be different and harder to write. Their absence does not mean the system has solved their problems.
None of the figures should be treated as a rule. Pay rates, machine-hour costs, penalty ranges and micropayments illustrate proportions. The people concerned would set them and revise them when assumptions proved wrong.
Finally, this day exists nowhere. Not one city works this way. It describes a possibility, not observed reality.
You understand a system not by its constitutional promises, but by what a Tuesday looks like.
This page connects to
Where to go next
all subsystems together, with an event introduced
The whole picture 03Three systemscapitalism, communism and Informatium answering the same questions
Room 02Tree of Knowledgethe map you used at 10:30 and 21:20
Room 04Votingthe full journey of the decision you completed at 18:40
02IPIwhere the numbers behind your day come from
GlossaryAll conceptsone-sentence definitions, a dependency map and a quiz
Sources: the materials in Wiedza/ adapted to one day, plus clarifications from the Tree of Knowledge and voting rooms. All prices and rates illustrate proportions; they are not a proposed price list.