Two electorates

The most consequential decision in this system is that the franchise is split, and the two halves count differently.

3.1 The People chain — one citizen, one vote

Referenda on the People chain are tallied by a citizen count. Support is measured as ayes divided by the entire citizen roll, not by tokens, and approval as ayes over ayes-plus-nays. The roll is the number of citizens in the register. A wallet holding a billion HEZ has exactly the weight of a wallet holding none: one, if it belongs to a citizen, and zero if it does not.

Five tracks exist, each dispatching a different authority:

The last one is the notable entry. The parameters that decide who may vouch for a new citizen, how many people one citizen may vouch for, and what suspends that right, are held in a parameter store whose only administrator is a referendum on the ninety-day track. Not root. Not the court. Not the president. Changing the rules of admission takes three months of deliberation by the people already admitted, and there is no faster path.

3.2 The relay chain — stake, with conviction

The relay uses conviction voting over HEZ. Turnout is measured against votable issuance, which deliberately excludes the escrow account holding the Asset Hub's mirror of the supply — 140 million HEZ that exists on both sides of a teleport and must not be counted twice.

Eight tracks exist for network matters: whitelisted upgrades, staking administration, lease and auction administration, general administration, and the two cancellation tracks. There is no track for root, because root is not the relay's to give.

3.3 The citizens' initiative

Citizens may open a referendum without any office's involvement. One percent of the roll, recomputed live against the current register, backing a proposal within fourteen days, opens it on the track it names. The deposit is ten HEZ and the cooldown is thirty days.