Socialist Republic of Sol (SRS)

An outline of the SRS, which will undergo changes over time according to criticisms and suggestions. Methods for contacting me for improvements can be found here.

Overview

The Socialist Republic of Sol (SRS) is the Heoist model of global cooperative Communism, creating a concordial society in which different flavours of Socialism can work together in a larger union. This will serve as the actually functional Socialist analogue to the currently symbolic United Nations.

The SRS inherently requires maintaining the autonomy of:

Various Socialist states which may disagree on details of praxis
Anarcho-communes
Indigenous states
Borderless states

Consequently, the SRS serves primarily as a global government model of international Communist cooperation with the modern goals of guaranteeing universal human rights, equitable capital redistribution, global adoption of green energy, and tangible assistance and development, without overstepping its power over local governments.

Member SRS Unions will work cooperatively with each other, with citizens being able to freely cross, "borders," (which won't serve in the conventional sense of hard lines between countries which require passport registration to cross, but rather SRS citizens carry a universal SRS ID wherein citizens can freely pass through different Socialist states and Anarcho-communes at will to settle wherever they find most safe and comfortable, or even live nomadically among different members), and all power will be executed at the lowest possible level of government.

The SRS will serve as a unitary party Socialist workers' state. Additionally, it will use a method of voting heretofore unused on a large scale, knowing as STAR (Score, Then Automatic Runoff) Voting, which in testing has proved to be more accurate than purely Ranked Choice or purely Approval Voting, and is significantly more accurate than Plurality Voting (the current voting system used in many countries, including the United States of America).

STAR voting merges the methods of Ranked Choice (rank candidates on a grading scale) and Plurality Voting (vote for multiple candidates at equal weight) to allow voters to vote for multiple candidates on a grading scale, but multiple candidates can be voted at equal weight if desired. Instant Runoff is then executed from these votes to determine the popular democratic decision.

The model of the SRS operates under a principle of fives, and is a five-branch government consisting of Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Indigenous Assembly, and Vox Populi (Voice of the People). The basic outline of these branches are as follows:

Executive: Commissary Council

The Commissary Council of the SRS consists of multiple Commissars, rather than a single individual as a, "President." This will serve to prevent any singular person from having complete executive power ever again, helping to divide the power of the Commissary Council in requiring popular approval (minimum 60%; i.e., 60% of the Commissary Council must agree on a decision to even suggest a Party Plan).

The number of Commissars will be determined as at least 1 per member SRS Union, whereas at lower levels of government it will be determined as a ratio from the population, with a minimum of 5 Commissars at all levels of government, where at least 50% of the Commissars (in the minimum case, at least 3) must be elected from the Indigenous Assembly.

All Commissary Plans must receive popular approval (minimum 60%) from the International Assembly and popular approval (minimum 60%) from the Indigenous Assembly to be passed as a Party Plan.

A popular approval (minimum 60%) from the International Assembly plus a popular approval (minimum 60%) from the Vox Populi, or a popular approval (minimum 60%) from the Indigenous Assembly, may be used to immediately impeach a Commissar at any time, instantly revoking their authority and demoting them to a standard citizen, at which point a snap election may be held to replace them.

Bar the initial interim government during mass organization (which will consist of popular votes from the Party for all members of government), Commissars must be elected from the International Assembly (or respective National Assemblies at lower levels of government) and Indigenous Assembly, respectively, where each must have been a previous member of either Assembly and elected to the Workers' Committee.

These Workers' Committee members may then volunteer to run as Commissars for the Commissary Councils, and may be elected as Commissars if they receive a popular approval (minimum 60%) from their respective Assemblies. This will ensure that all Commissars within the Commissary Council have extensive experience at lower levels of government before being eligible for a Commissary position.

Commissars have a term limit of 5 years per term, for a maximum of 2 terms. A third term may only be enacted wherein all of the following are true:

60% or greater approval from the applicable Assembly and Indigenous Assembly
70% or greater approval from the Vox Populi
A crisis situation affecting the entire population the Commissar is caring for has been declared

Legislative I: International Assembly

The International Assembly of the SRS (at lower levels, Continental Assembly, Regional Assembly, National Assembly, etc.) is a unicameral—i.e. single union, rather than partitioned into independent Congress and House of Representatives blocs—congress consisting of Congressbeiters (Congress-workers) at an amount proportional to the total population legislated (for example, if the entirety of the modern United States of America were to miraculously transition into a new, singular nation (as opposed to the currently predicted post-Roman-like fragmentation), given the population of approximately 340 million people, there would be a 1:500,000 ratio of Congressbeiters to population for a total of 680 National Congressbeiters; with smaller populations, this ratio would need to be scaled up or down according to applicable needs).

Members in the International Assembly are elected from lower levels of government (preferably from lower Assemblies, though they may be elected via, "diagonal," promotions from other government body types, per se).

The International Assembly and Indigenous Assembly are mutually responsible for the drafting, writing, and voting of laws, though may proceed directly to voting if a Party Plan or bill has been drafted, written, and delivered from the Commissary Council or the Vox Populi (or blocs therein, such as general and trade unions, Socialist states, Anarcho-communes, etc., regarding the latter), whether directly to either of the Assemblies or via the World Courier Network, the SRS's legally-required international courier service.

The International Assembly and Indigenous Assembly are additionally mutually responsible for electing a Workers' Committee within their respective assemblies, from within their respective assemblies, who will serve in a similar manner to the Standing Committee within the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (c. 2025 CE):

Planning and assembling the legislative workers to their respective Assemblies no less than once every 3 calendar months (4 major meetings annually), and they may additionally call further meetings as necessary (for instance, to vote a bill to be vetoed or enacted as law);
Explaining and interpreting the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Sol, or respective lower Constitutions (ex. Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Constitution of the Republic of Chile, Constitution of the Peoria Tribe, etc.), as well as laws (and at lower levels of government, ordinances (regional, local, etc. laws));
Implementing aforementioned ordinances at the popular request (60% or greater vote) of their respective Assemblies;
Supervising the implementation of Constitutions, laws, ordinances, Executive and Judicial activities, as well as supervising and guiding the activities of the next lowest level of government, and;
Launching general or partial mobilization, and declaring international (or respective level) states of emergency (ex. global climate state of emergency, pandemic state of emergency, etc.)

Members of Assemblies' Workers' Committees must be present during all meetings with 100% attendance, whereas only 75% or greater attendance is necessary for the rest of the Assembly, who are forbidden from failing to attend for the purposes of enacting a filibuster (for instance, refusing to meet attendance requirements to prevent a bill from being voted on), and failure to attend will be legally interpreted as an abstain vote.

Total vote percentages from the Assemblies will be interpreted via the percentage of votes from the total amount of Congressbeiters present, meaning the aforementioned filibuster attempt would result in a drastic shifting of votes out of their favour, indirectly forcing attendance to enact their vote.

Members from an Indigenous Assembly are permitted horizontal latemotion^[?] or direct election to non-Indigenous Assemblies, but only Indigenous people are permitted to be members of Indigenous Assemblies to assert Indigenous sovereignty in all levels of government.

The declaration of wars are required to have majority approval (60% or greater) within both the International Assembly and International Indigenous Assembly, respectively, as well as majority (60% or greater) approval within the Commissary Council.

The Workers' Assemblies are additionally permitted to run as Commissary candidates for Commissary Councils. This system specifically is in place as a Marxist-Leninist Representative Democracy to ensure that Commissars will always have extensive political experience over smaller portions of government, ensuring both job qualifications and understanding of popular needs at all levels of government are understood to the fullest extent.

Legislative II: Indigenous Assembly

Writing in progress.

Basic outline:

Similar formatting to the other Assemblies
As any attempt to define who is Indigenous will inherently be broiling in racist concepts of miscegenation, who is defined as Indigenous shall be determined by the Indigenous governments and people themselves, not by the outer government structures.
On the human scale, the International Indigenous Assembly will contain people from all Indigenous groups across Earth, as the international SRS will serve only for human-scale issues. Any governments that are present within the SRS must have applicable Indigenous groups present in Indigenous Assemblies that affect their land. Keep in mind that the future of humanity will consist of overlapping borderless states, not gridlocked, hard-bordered ethnostates.

Judicial: Universal Popular Court

Writing in progress.

Basic outline:

Judges of the Popular Courts will be elected via agreement between the Assemblies and Indigenous Assemblies. On the local scale, these Judges will be elected through direct democracy.
Multiple Judges must be present and agree upon a decision with at least 60% approval between them. While this number may be five (as according to the SRS method of fives), I feel this may be excessive; perhaps three?
All levels of government, including the Universal Popular Court (the international level) must have a jury present. The larger the scale affected, the larger the jury that must be present.

Vox Populi

Writing in progress.

Basic outline:

The Vox Populi can, through the series of applicable unions, democratically vote on the Party Plans of what they're going to produce, how much they're going to produce, when they're going to produce, and replacements to produce in the event of problems (such as supply chain issues, emergencies, recalls, etc.) for 5-year plans.

The initial Party Plans will be suggested by popular approval (minimum 60%) from the Commissary Council with explanations as to why certain forms of production may serve to be integral (on the international scale, this will be broad categories such as heavy/light/mixed industry in regions x, y, z, etc., whereas in smaller regions it will be more specific), but the Vox Populi have the ultimate control over the Party Plans.

The Vox Populi may instead reject the suggested Party Plans and decide their own via direct democracy: this will ensure that the workers actually own their public land, rather than it being state property (for example, in the United States, farmers don't actually own their own property (despite what the law may say), and are given instructions by the government to sow x crop and have to buy y seeds from z seed bank).
The Vox Populi have the power to remove Commissars from positions and execute snap elections to elect new members for the remainder of the terms.
Other powers for the Vox Populi have not yet been worked out.

References

The concept of interplanetary colonization is an inherently colonialist project and, in the modern day, serves to:

A. Reinforce the concept of a, "Planet B;" i.e., a place to run away to while ignoring the massive climate damage on Earth, and
B. Spread pseudoscience.

Interplanetary colonization in reality is an extremely complicated process. Take Mars, for example—Mars has an incredibly thin atmosphere largely consisting of carbon dioxide, its fine soil is full of toxic perchlorate salts that would kill any attempted colonists, and it's so fine that all current airlock technology isn't suitable enough to prevent it from entering. Or perhaps Venus, a planet with an extremely thick atmosphere that's caused such massive climate catastrophe that it's hotter than Mercury.

Both of these planets additionally lack geomagnetic fields, meaning anyone who lived on the planets would have to stay indoors in concrete bunkers all day or risk death by rapidly developing cancer.

Perhaps a Dyson sphere? Even the concept of a sphere of sattelites orbiting a star isn't feasible, as these require a currently sci-fi technology called statites (static satellites) which do not currently exist—basically, Project Star Wars for techbros.

Disinformation networks such as the widely popular Kurzgesagt serve to feed the public disinformation about projects such as these despite their scientific infeasibility; any project such as this would require terraforming planets long before colonists could safely be sent over—a process that would take 10s–100s of thousands of years.

Any government that lasted even 10,000 years would be a miracle of human organization. It's more likely to suggest that the SRS will be replaced by an even better form of government that we, building Communism in the material conditions of neoliberal capitalism, cannot possibly comprehend without the material conditions of Communism.