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  "abstract": "Economic and institutional systems are often modeled as markets, optimization problems, or agent simulations. Those models can generate interesting behavior while leaving critical questions undefined: who has standing, which rights cannot be traded, how authority is delegated, what happens when evidence conflicts, how appeals work, when emergency power expires, and whether an optimization engine can rewrite the conditions of human participation. MCE-1 — Minimum Complete Economy is a software-only simulation contract that begins with institutional completeness rather than predictive realism. It models people and organizations, rights and needs, resources and ecological limits, capabilities, projects, work, contribution, claims, obligations, exchange, bounded capital, commons, automation gains, governance, adjudication, concentration, uncertainty, external institutions, branches, failure, and recovery. The system may begin with synthetic people, random demand, simplistic equations, fictional institutions, and fake currencies. It may not begin with missing rights, missing authority, missing appeals, missing receipts, hidden callbacks, or a privileged sovereign operator. Language models interpret, explain, propose, and simulate. They do not become the unappealable judge or canonical state authority. LCSM governs recognized state. FOVEA addresses and retrieves it. fold/2 represents it. SurfaceMind presents it. PolyView synchronizes projections. Gantry governs crossings. A constitutional layer constrains every operation.",
  "author": "Hayden Lindley",
  "category": "Constitutional Systems",
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        "scope": "Normative system contract.",
        "statement": "MCE-1 specifies a structurally complete synthetic economy contract including rights, needs, resources, work, claims, governance, appeals, concentration, ecology, external bridges, failure, and recovery.",
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        "scope": "Constitutional invariant.",
        "statement": "The architecture keeps models outside final canonical authority and unappealable adjudication.",
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  "subtitle": "MCE-1: a minimum complete synthetic economy with constitutional causality and non-sovereign AI",
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