The ULTIMATE NOOT starters guide to POLIS, the Gift of Gods.

This is a gospel about Polis and its wonderfull properties. Read, Love, enjoy.

I — WHAT IS POLIS?

When Michael and Friends started SA they realised that they needed two things in order to build their new, stable and nootsome world. They needed a dynamic economy and they needed a structure to give in game and extra game real power to their players to determinate the ways and paths of future of the game.

For the first, they created Atlas.

For the second, the gods created POLIS.

The name POLIS comes from the Ancient Greek, which means city. As some of you know The greeks, around VIII a.c, started living in cities called Polis, and the fundamental characteristic of living in a Polis was that every citzen of the Polis had the right to come forward and speak up about the city’s affairs, directly influencing in the governance and voting on every proposition concerning the Polis.

In Star Atlas, this concept is further developed into the really noot Idea of descentralized governance, POLIS here is proof of citzenship, like into ancient greece, BUT it also expands into actually being able to govern a piece of star atlas metaverse, and even stablish extra game features, to the point that trough Polis ownership the DAO can even take the control of the game from the SA Team.

1 Polis = 1 Vote

Should you acquire 360.000.000 Polis, you are the máster of pretty much everything in SA (But you won’t since I won’t sell mine).

We will noot about that now.

II — THE POWARS OF POLIS

First of all, some features of polis, POLIS IS VERY LIMITED IN SUPPLY, as I stated above, there will be only 360.000.000 POLIS forever, so for each Polis you acquire you are granting yourself eternal vote polis in AS.

Second, POLIS IS SOFT POWER, the beautifull thing of POLIS is that you don’t have to spend it to use it awesome powers, that I will explain later. UNLIKE ATLAS ASSETS POLIS DON’T HAVE USE COSTS, while growing in strength over time due to scarcity!

Third, POLIS GIVE YOU PASSIVE INCOME, as soon as we reach february 3rd, hopefully, we will be able to stake our polis in smart contracts, this will give us income in form of more glorious POLIS! It’s a snowball of blessings.

Owning POLIS give you powers in three different levels:

1. Regional governance
2. Faction governance
3. SA universe governance

The usual SA citzen thinks that this is a game of buy ships and go pew pew. Well you sure can have fun doing that, I’m doing that, everyone is doing that. BUT in reality this is a game of politcs, friendship and diplomacy, in all of its forms.

IF you want to participate in END GAME CONTENT YOU WILL NEED GROWING NUMBERS OF POLIS.

I shall show you that while explaining the three dimensions of Polis influence above.

AS UNIVERSE GOVERNANCE — So, you want to rule the world huh? Well the Best, and possibly, unique way for that is trough POLIS HOLDING. Oh you don’t think so? LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT THE SA UNIVERSE DAO CAN VOTE ON:

1. Monetary Policy
2. The DAO FUND (SA TREASURY)
3. Game development
4. DIVIDENDS
5. Budget for NPC purchase, incentivizing production.
6. Overrarching rules regulating lower levels DAOS
7. Protocol updates
8. Emergency Actions
9. Enabling and Disabling Game Components

You can come and say: “ But noot noot, this is soooo far awayyy from meee” noot, this is really important and right next to you! IMAGINE IF A FREAKING WHALE VOTE THE OPAL JET OF THE GAME!!!!!! GG WP friend. The citzens of the Metaverse must remain aways vigilant, with their Polis into their hands, to help influence the outcomes of our game!!

Also remember, there is little polis in circulation now, as sooner as you buy some and start making passive income of it the more capable you will be to fight the politic wars of the late game!

BUT NOOT I JUST WANT TO MAKE MONEY.

NOOT NOOT INFIDEL! BUT OK, I will show you how you can influence your pockets more directly in the next level!

FACTION GOVERNANCE — The next Power of Polis influence is the FACTION GOVERNANCE. In this level you start to see more clear objectives for the common player. IT BASICALLY MEANS THAT YOU CAN VOTE YOUR ENTIRE FACTION INTO DOING 4 KINDS OF OBJECTIVES:

1. Occupy
2. Hold
3. Build
4. Patrol
5. MEGA PROJECTS

So, let me give you a use case, The first mega Project the USTUR Faction will be voting will be the creation of my NOOT STAR. I will propose it to the FACTION DAO and, IF it passes, the TAX FROM EVERYONE IN THE USTUR WILL FUND THE CREATION OF THE SUPREME WEAPON MUHAHAHHA

I could give you lots of examples from the others as well, you can send your faction into a CRUSADE! And things like that!

Now you say: “wow.. noot noot!!! I can see potential in that!!! Well, it only gets better friend, For we are reaching the most fun and direct level of influence!!!!!

Regional Governance — The universe of SA is divided on regions, which in turn contain star systems and planets. Regional DAO control specialization of star systems and Access restrictions by adjusting taxation.

Regional governance can:

1.  Adjust local taxation: a. Region-wide global (e.g. a flat 5% tax on all activities) b. Specialized by activity (e.g. 5% for mining, collected in ore, 10% on ship missions, collected in ATLAS) c. Regional treasuries cannot pay dividends, but can provide monetary bonuses for certain mission type
2. Govern and update the local policies: Distribute the budget between the funds allocated to the local policies a. Protecting planet from external threats (military policy) b. Maintaining internal security (homeland security policy) c. Diplomacy and external relations policy (making alliances, applying custom duties on selected imported goods to protect the internal market, etc.)
3. Distribute the budget between the funds allocated to the local policies

Basically, IF you can control the polis votes on a regional DAO you become the governor of the region, able to use all the funds of the region on the interest of your coalition!

“So noot, IF i govern a region I can even set how the militar force is used? Yes. I can create laws about goods and services? Yes. I can determinate taxes?! YEESS!!!”

So yeah.. POLIS IS REALLY STRONG, especially in the lower levels, since you won’t need a milion POLIS TO RULE A PLANET!

I HOPE THIS CAN OPEN YOUR EYES TO WHAT YOU ARE MISSING ON POLIS! REALLY! NOOT NOOT!

I will follow this text with more in deep mechanics of Polis on my next writtings! Hope you all enjoyed!

Peace out