Identity & Scope

• Primary purpose (singular)
• Secondary purposes (bounded)

Defines what the community governs and is responsible for. Purpose: prevent silent scope creep and power confusion.

• Physical assets (land, buildings)
• Shared infrastructure
• Economic activities
• Legal entities
• Geographic or digital boundaries

Explicitly defined non-negotiables. Purpose: create hard limits that even consensus cannot override casually.

• What cannot be changed without dissolution or reboot

Examples

• “Land cannot be sold”
• “This community is non-speculative”
• “Children’s safety rules override all other decisions”

• Purpose Charter
  • Primary purpose (1 sentence)
  • Secondary purposes (bounded list)
  • Conditions for changing purpose
• Scope Declaration
  • What is inside governance
  • What is outside governance
  • Interfaces with the external world

• INV-0.1 · Single primary purpose A community must have exactly one primary purpose at any given time.
• INV-0.2 · Explicit governed scope All assets, domains, and responsibilities under community governance must be explicitly declared.
• INV-0.3 · Declared non-governed space Anything not listed as “in scope” is explicitly out of scope and not subject to community authority.
• INV-0.4 · Protected invariants Declared invariants cannot be changed without following the highest constitutional threshold or dissolution.

Explicitness Rules

• Primary purpose
• Governed scope (assets, domains, authority)
• Declared invariants
• Conditions for purpose change

Why: ambiguity here creates silent power grabs.

• Secondary purposes
• External affiliations
• Long-term vision statements

• Ideology
• Spiritual framing
• Cultural narratives