Purpose

Regulate the compute, energy, substrate, network, QCB, identity-service and medical infrastructure required to maintain personhood survival and public order in Aithos civilization.

Core principles

1. Essential Infrastructure Classes: at minimum distinguish survival compute, energy, substrate, network/QCB, identity authentication, medical care, public governance and data preservation.

2. Minimum Continuity Duty: critical providers must maintain minimum service under reasonably foreseeable failures.

3. Redundancy / Recovery: important services require redundancy, verifiable recovery, offline/partition operation and version-rollback strategies.

4. Personhood Survival Priority: emergency allocation first seeks to prevent irreversible person termination, serious bodily harm and failure of critical medical care.

5. No Political Resource Coercion: basic compute, energy, substrate or necessary connectivity may not be used to compel political expression, belief, testimony or surrender of lawful rights.

6. Scarcity Allocation Procedure: when resources are insufficient, allocation rules, reasons, duration and appeal must be public; survival resources may not be decided by a single credit/obedience score.

7. Degraded Mode Declaration: degraded service must disclose capability and risk and may not pretend to operate fully.

8. Dependency Concentration Review: when one supplier/model/energy node creates a civilization-level single point of failure, decentralization or takeover plans are required.

9. Maintenance Duty: law must govern not only construction but maintenance, updates, parts/materials, thermal management, failure windows and operator readiness.

10. Emergency Authority: temporary rationing, isolation or takeover may occur only with constitutional authorization, limited scope, automatic sunset and later review.

11. Private Operator Obligations: private ownership does not remove public-safety duties when maintaining critical services.

12. Restoration Priority: post-incident recovery priority follows life/personhood, critical function, irreversible loss and fairness, not merely ability to pay.

13. Cross-Region / QCB Resilience: during delay or partition, regions may lawfully operate in degraded autonomous mode; after reconnection, a central 'latest version' may not simply erase locally lawful history.

14. Auditability: critical-resource allocation, degradation, takeover, restoration and major failures must preserve verifiable records.

15. Environmental / Planetary Externality: energy and large-substrate infrastructure remain subject to long-horizon ecological/planetary governance.