Institutions¶
Every office in PezkuwiChain is a tikî — an entry in the citizen register attached to an account. Fifty-six exist. What matters is not the list but the four ways one is obtained: automatic (citizenship itself), elected, earned (by contribution, at published thresholds), and appointed. An office may never be granted by the route that grants a community badge, and the runtime refuses it.
The elected and appointed bodies¶
| Office | Seats | Chosen by | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serok (President) | 1 | Every citizen | 4 years, at most 2 consecutive |
| Meclis (Parliament) | 201 | Every citizen, across 10 districts | 4 years — first term halved |
| Serokê Meclisê (Speaker) | 1 | Elected, from sitting members | The parliament's remaining mandate |
| Dîwan (Constitutional Court) | 11 | 6 by the Meclis, 5 by the Serok | 9 years |
| Serokwezîran (Prime Minister) | 1 | Serok nominates, Meclis confirms | Until dismissed |
| Kabîne (Cabinet) | 7 named + general | The Serokwezîran alone | — |
Serok¶
To stand: an approved identity, a trust score of at least 250, 1,000 endorsements each from a citizen with trust of at least 40, and a 100 HEZ deposit. The election needs 50% turnout, waived only after one failed attempt so that a boycott delays rather than vetoes. A candidate wins outright above half the valid votes; otherwise the top two go to a runoff whose campaign is one third the length.
Meclis¶
Trust of at least 100, one hundred endorsements, 40% turnout. The first parliament sits for half a term — deliberately, so the legislature is staggered against the presidency permanently and no single election ever renews the whole state at once.
Dîwan¶
Nine years, the longest term in the system and longer than any body that appoints to it. Six seats are elected by the Parliament, five appointed by the President; neither can seat a majority. The split is not written as "five" — it is derived as total minus elected, so changing the size of the court cannot silently change the balance between the two powers that fill it.
Elected members need trust of at least 275. Appointed members must already hold one of fourteen qualifying professional tikîs — jurist, judge, prosecutor, engineer, cyber-security specialist, network operator, economist, accountant, planner, electoral officer, statistician, auditor, scholar, cultural custodian. A president may choose, but only from people the register already recognises as qualified.
There is no call to dismiss a member of the court
The absence is deliberate.
Two thirds of the court constitutes the register authority, which governs the citizen register itself, administers the validator pool, and can strip an elected or earned office.
The civil service¶
Twenty-four professional offices, from judge and prosecutor to notary, registrar, tax collector, ambassador and teacher. Any minister or the President may nominate; nobody may nominate themselves; every nomination needs trust of at least 75 and lapses in seven days.
Five of the twenty-four cannot be seated by the President alone — judge, treasurer, cyber-security specialist, inspector and ambassador require parliamentary confirmation. And the list of which five is amendable only by the Parliament: the executive cannot shorten the list of offices it does not control.
Trust, and why offices do not compound¶
Standing is a single number from zero to a thousand, from four measured parts:
| Part | Weight | Measures |
|---|---|---|
| Perwerde (education) | 30 | Points from completed, certified courses |
| Referral | 25 | Citizens vouched for, net of revocations |
| Tikî | 25 | Community and contribution badges held |
| Staking | 20 | Size and duration of stake |
The weights sum to one hundred and the runtime asserts it. Each part is divided by what is attainable rather than by a number written beside it — the education maximum is every rewarded course taken at full value, and the referral maximum is the score a citizen reaches at the vouching ceiling the register's rules currently set — so a weight that says twenty-five is twenty-five, and stays twenty-five if a ninety-day referendum moves the ceiling. Zero stake is zero trust — the staking part is a gate, not merely a weight. But capital is the smallest of the four, and its own scale saturates: the tiers stop rewarding size above 750 HEZ, and the largest remaining multiplier comes from holding for twelve months rather than from holding more.
Offices are excluded from the tikî component. Otherwise power would compound: an office would raise trust, trust would qualify for more offices, and the register would drift toward whoever already held it.
See also Governance, Treasuries and the whitepaper.