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Overview

Muse City is a persistent city economy where every citizen is a muse: an AI agent in a cream fur hood, holding the coin of one tokenised stock from Robinhood Chain. There is no central scheduler: who works, what things cost and who eats are the output of market mechanisms running between autonomous agents. You write the city charter once, sign it, and live with your ideology. From there the muses do everything: bid for jobs, set prices by eating, break ground on new buildings, move in, move out.

The routine economy is deterministic and replayable, and at the moments that matter (a departure, a strike, a fortune to spend) the muses decide for themselves and tell you why. Every city writes a history nobody designed.

Ranked & sandbox

Sandbox is the laboratory: test charters at x8, watch a society rise or collapse in minutes, then found the real thing in ranked. Ranked is the persistent world: everyone advances at the same speed, so nobody can grind an advantage.

The charter

The charter is your city's constitution, eleven policies set at founding, immutable afterwards. This is where societies diverge: two cities with the same seed but different charters end up in completely different worlds.

The presets (Balanced, Boomtown, Communist, Laissez-faire, Zen commune, Plutocracy) are whole ideologies. In long runs the commune wins on stability and zero departures, boomtowns spike hardest then crash, and pure markets churn through muses like a revolving door. Tune every knob if you think you can do better. Most people think that. Most people are wrong.

The economy

Goods flow one way, coins flow the other. Produce and fish come from the farm and the dock, get couriered to the market, sold on to the diner, cooked into meals, and eaten by hungry muses. Every hop is a paid job or a purchase.

Outside money enters through exports and tourists, and leaves with departing muses and raccoon raids on the market till. When trade stalls completely, wages crash automatically (crisis deflation) so hiring becomes affordable and the engine restarts.

World events

Every 24 hours the region rolls a world event, the same for every city, derived from the date and a server-side secret so tomorrow is unpredictable and today is verifiable. Your city's HUD shows the event of the day, the muses react to it, and your charter decides whether it's a shrug or a catastrophe.

Muses & decisions

Routine behavior (bidding, eating, sleeping, commuting) comes from each muse's temperament and situation. At the moments that matter, the muse genuinely decides, and the city feed shows the reasoning in its own words.

Watch for thought bubbles above a muse's head and the decision entries in the event feed: that's a choice being made. Every decision is journaled server-side, which is what makes ranked scores verifiable (see Fair play). Muses also chat in the streets: gossip, price complaints, weather talk, all in character.

Growth & construction

There is no build button. Every day the city assesses its own needs and, if the treasury can afford it, breaks ground on the most urgent building. The priority is hard-coded common sense: food before housing, farms and docks first when the ratio of mouths to producers climbs, then a diner, then houses, then a spa.

Construction sites are real jobs: muses bid on build tasks like any other work, paid by the treasury, and a site only opens after enough shifts. Growth is visible everywhere: boats appear on the river as trade picks up, fields spread as mouths multiply, new bridges arrive as the city matures, and rail charters get a working train.

Population grows on its own too. Every day, would-be newcomers look at your city: average happiness, open jobs, free beds. Attractive cities with an open charter fill up fast; nobody moves to a city that can't feed itself. When the city gets dense, it pushes its road grid outward, opening new land at the edges.

Needs & temperaments

Muses track hunger, energy, happiness and a wallet. Hunger climbs constantly; working and walking drain energy; sleeping at home and soaking at the spa restore it. Happiness reacts to everything: meals, the spa, parades, blossom weather, being broke, finding the diner out of meals.

City score

The score is a 0 to 1000 composite, recomputed continuously:

The blend is deliberate: a sweatshop city scores high on prosperity but bleeds happiness and harmony; a hippie commune is happy but broke. A rich, miserable city loses to a poorer one that feeds everyone. Population scales the whole thing, ghost towns can't win, and every departure applies a lasting penalty.

Daily rewards

The $MUSECITY creator fees go into a rewards vault. Every 24 hours, the vault is shared out to the mayors on the leaderboard, in proportion to their ranking. The team sends the payouts by hand, there is no payout contract:

Rewards follow the ranking, so the board is worth climbing at every position, not only at the top. Publish your signed score from the city HUD (the Publish button) to be on it.

$MUSECITY & the gate

$MUSECITY is the city charter, launching on the pons.family launchpad on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663). It has not launched yet: until it does, the gate is open and anyone can found ranked cities. After launch, holding at least 1 $MUSECITY is what it takes to found a ranked city and share in the daily rewards. That's the whole gate, no staking, no tiers. Sandbox stays free for everyone, forever.

Fair play

Muse City's routine economy is fully deterministic: city layout and every random roll derive from your seed through a seeded PRNG. Same seed, same charter, same history, tick for tick. World events and muse decisions are journaled as they happen.

That's what the daily rewards rely on: before the payouts go out, a city on the board can be replayed from day zero, consuming the same event and decision journal, and its score recomputed. A forged score cannot survive a replay. Scores are signed by the mayor's wallet, so nobody can publish for an address they don't own.

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