Leadership: A Democratic Animarosim operates under a council of diverse leaders from throughout the local community who manage their districts. Having a diverse cast of members from different races, job experiences, and genders allows for a wide range of citizens to have someone who can represent them. District councils are then managed by the country's council, which also oversees international work. The district councils have authority over decisions in their local communities, often not needing permission to act if it would not require the country's authority. Each council is led by a head council member, an experienced, well-liked council member elected by the citizens to lead that council. The council will come up with ideas for laws that can benefit their community, then put them on ballots, where voters can vote for what they think will benefit their community the most. Citizens also get to vote for who is allowed in the council, being able to vote them in, or remove them if they prove not to be a good fit. There are also citizen oversight councils that keep an eye on these councils to ensure that corruption is not taking place in them. And that the citizens are still the priority. Citizens can ask their local citizen oversight council to see tax records, so they can see where taxes are actually going. Citizen oversight councils also hold info sessions where citizens can go to learn more about the bill or the candidate on the ballot. People can also ask their citizen oversight council to help them veto bills that hurt their community or them. There is also a department that handles routine work, like permits, so the council can handle the harder work. And finally, a conflict resolution department that helps bring peace between conflicting councils. They also make sure that districts get funding that fits their needs to prevent conflict between districts. Often, only the council's community that the law affects and its oversight council need to sign off on a law. There's finally a law with certain things, like bio-reactors must be in all districts. Workforce: Businesses must adhere to strict anti-discrimination laws to ensure everyone has a fair chance at a good job. If a worker is injured, pregnant, or sick, they get paid vacation for however long their doctor says is required for them to recover. Large companies with a large number of robots compared to humans pay a fee that goes into the funding for low-income housing, food rations, and free water and electricity. The bigger the number of robots compared to humans, the fee grows. This fee only applies to larger businesses. It is also required that employees have a say in things like leaving the country or mass firings. People who work in dangerous or unpleasant jobs (like dogfood tester, surgeons, garbage removal, bomb squad, burning silo worker, ect) receive a 10% off card for entertainment-based products. They also get to work shorter hours unless their job requires them to work the same hours. Taxes: the floor for those who pay taxes is 35k made a year, with them only paying 9% of what they make a year, and every extra 8k they make, they pay an extra 1%, with the roof of how much they can pay is 40%. Those who make less don't pay taxes. Businesses that make more than 450,000 a year also pay taxes, with the amount depending on how much more than 450,000 they make. People who make over a billion dollars a year pay 45% in taxes. Businesses pay taxes on the amount of pollution they cause. Medical: Medical services are considered a priority sector. Medical care (other than non-essential plastic surgery) is free, as are hospital stays near hospitals and medical travel.
Treasury: There are citizen audit commissions that oversee debt in their local communities, overseen by the council and citizen oversight councils. They check the efficiency of local community services, checking how efficiently they perform, and reorganizing management if they are failing. They also watch large companies' income to watch for them hiding income to avoid taxes. Work: There are priority sectors that are recognized as incredibly important; these include medical, education, agriculture, technology, military, city maintenance, and infrastructure, things like that. These areas receive a lot of tax money to support them. Trade with other countries: Animaroisms focuses on trading with other countries that have good environmental and workforce standards. Offering to help countries that want to improve, but can't afford to improve their standards. A democratic animaroism also features a special trading club, where countries with high environmental and labor standards get to trade with each other for less. Trading includes getting items, but also learning how to develop imported items ourselves, in case supply lines are temporarily lost. There are also tariffs on products of low quality or of low environmental quality. Food/housing: Water is free, no matter societal class or income amount. There's also free food rations with some variation for different food requirements. Civilians get to choose where they get food from, either government approved free food or from restaurants and grocery stores that can apply for permits to sell food supplies to their local community, allowing for some competition among businesses (with small council-set rules on price to ensure they are at a fair price to the consumer and producer), and to foster choice for where citizens get food. Unnecessary items also incur a small tax (8% of the total cost). A large number of meat products are replaced with hemp alternatives, but real meat is still an option. As for housing, every neighborhood, whether it focuses more on rich or low-income housing, must have some low-income housing. The government has regulations on low-income housing, preventing low-income families from paying money they don't have on rent or ownership. Most housing is made from hempcrete and bamboo. Housing is private property. And people own the buildings, the government has a small say in how much the buildings are sold/rented for. Citizens can sell or rent buildings to other citizens. The government can evict them if they are bad residents, but it can't do so without a good reason. And as for electricity, there is a limit on how much of it is free, with excessive use costing money. There's also a law that if a business or landlord needs to charge more money (and there's proof that they do), the council will help make up the difference if what they would need to charge would be too much for consumers. Education: It is mandatory that all citizens go to 10 years of school. It is also required for students who, after graduation, take a test that evaluates their skills and interests to see which work fields they would work best in, giving them some advice on fields they would both enjoy and work efficiently in, but giving them a choice in what career they want to go into. People can retake these tests after graduating. Education is varied for each student, with each student getting varied levels of work (e.g, a student who's good at one thing but bad at another gets harder work in the thing they're good at but easier as well as tutoring to improve their skills in the thing they're bad at). At the beginning of every school year, students take tests that show where they are in subjects, without regarding them as better or lower than others. Animaroist Schools focus on a mixture of Waldorf, STEM, Montessori, and project-based learning style education. Education is a priority sector. Energy: animaroisms use bio reactors powered by hemp and bamboo, nuclear reactors, thermal reactors, nuclear and bio reactors as well as, trash-burning silos with built-in air filters and hemp grown around them to protect against burnt trash that use the heat to generate power and destroy trash, and solar panels on most houses. Hemp: Hemp is grown along major highways. It is also recommended that farmers grow hemp before other crops to improve soil quality.
