Background: Avapxia was a planet which was colonized by a significant effort, by an organization known as the Black Bloc, operating in a few planets of the Imperium of Manx, who foresaw the fall of the Imperium from projections made based on previous historical examples, and decided that exodus was preferable. This organization was funded by some wealthy members, but it still took collective funding to conclude the massive project, which involved faster than light travel, and was presented as "a ticket out of this Imperial mess" and "a new beginning, far from Imperium tax collectors", displayed in artwork throughout the planets, and it thus drew the attention of Imperium agents, who sought to prevent the exodus, without success.
The operation methods of the black bloc and their ideology was mostly unknown to all but core members of the organization, which acted as a fairly decentralized, tiered structure, with a cell structure of several taskforces. Their unconventional approach to operations had them score a victory against minor Imperium forces in the sector, overtaking the military facilities and their equipment, as well as a few ships, which, apart from the fighters, had to be left behind as they were not equipped with proper FTL capacity for the journey.
After a long journey, and a lost life-vessel, due to FTL malfunction causing the ship to melt in the system's sun, the people arrived at Avapxia, which at the time was designated as L8 by Imperium astronomers. Atmosphere was breathable, albeit with a somewhat low density, compared to their homeworld, something the terraforming equipment should be able to fix. There, the Taskforce Paris, a taskforce designated to coordinate the military aspect of the expedition, gathered everyone, and gave a speech, about how they were finally free from the tyranny of Manx, how they were masters of their own fate, and how the loss of the Lifeship Athens was, even if cruel, preferable to planetary annihilation by atomics from the Imperium or from it's foes. More importantly, though, they were free, here, to rebuild a stronger galactic civilization, without falling in the pit trap of authoritarianism which caused the fall of the Roman Empire, and which would cause the fall of the Imperium of Manx.
The government is composed of several layers of taskforces, which comprise the entire population. Assignments to Taskforces are made by a body of representatives of each taskforce, according to aptitude tests and other criteria, designed to maximize synergy and efficiency, but rejecting Fordism and encouraging rotation between taskforces to assure better integration.
Major issues are decided with electronic referendum, from within a locked computer network, with a program that takes care of the voting process, which was inspected and certified by electronics and computer specialists from several taskforces, and has a memory wipeout failsafe added against physical manipulation.
The top level of the taskforces has power to override lower taskforces's decisions, but these taskforces can demand the question to be decided in specialist conference, with specialists brought over from other taskforces and a vote deciding the binding decision. If there is no specialist consensus, the top level decision is kept.
A bill of rights was made and signed by everyone upon entering the ships, which establishes as inalienable rights of all citizens the right to access the highest level of education, useful and dignified employment, food, shelter, social equality, freedom of expression, freedom to exert their creativity. It is also an inalienable right and duty of all citizens the participation in the democratic decision process through the participation in taskforces.
