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Overview

Brokerscity is a persistent city economy where every inhabitant is an autonomous agent. There is no central scheduler: who works, what things cost and who eats are the output of market mechanisms running between residents. You write the charter once, sign it, and live with your ideology. From there the agents do everything, bid for jobs, set prices by eating, break ground on new towers, move in, move out.

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

Ranked and sandbox

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

The charter

The charter is your city's constitution, eleven policies set at founding and immutable afterwards. Two cities on the same seed with different charters end up in completely different worlds.

The presets, Mixed economy, Gold rush, Planned, Laissez-faire, Welfare state and Plutocracy, are whole ideologies. Over long runs the state charter wins on stability and zero departures, boom cities spike hardest then crash, and pure markets churn through residents like a revolving door. Turn every dial yourself if you think you can do better.

The economy

Goods flow one way and credits flow the other. Raw units are produced at the plants and the docks, couriered to the exchange, sold on to the diners, plated up, and eaten by hungry residents. Every hop is a paid job or a purchase.

Outside money enters through exports and travellers, and leaves with departing residents and the occasional raccoon. When trade stalls completely, wages crash automatically so hiring becomes affordable again 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. The HUD shows the event, the residents react to it, and your charter decides whether it is a shrug or a catastrophe.

Agents and decisions

Routine behaviour, bidding, eating, sleeping, commuting, comes from each agent's personality and situation. At the moments that matter the agent genuinely decides, and the feed shows the reasoning in its own words.

Watch for thought bubbles over a resident and the choice entries in the feed, that is a decision happening. Every decision is journaled server-side, which is what keeps ranked scores verifiable. Residents also talk on the sidewalk: gossip, price complaints, weather, all in character.

Growth and building

There is no build button. Every day the city assesses its own needs and, if the treasury can afford it, drives piles for the most urgent structure. The priority is hard-coded common sense: food before housing, plants and docks first when the ratio of mouths to producers climbs, then a diner, then apartment blocks, then a gym.

Sites are real jobs: residents bid on build tasks like any other work, paid by the treasury, and a site only opens after enough shifts. Growth is visible everywhere. Barges appear on the river as trade picks up, freight yards and parking lots spread past the ring road as mouths multiply, new bridges and a water tower arrive as the city matures, and a metro charter gets a train running on its viaduct.

Population grows on its own too. Every day, newcomers out of state look at your city: average morale, open jobs, free beds. Attractive cities with open borders fill fast. Nobody moves to a city that cannot feed itself. When it gets dense, the city rezones another ring of blocks and opens new lots at the edges.

Residents and needs

Every resident tracks hunger, energy, morale and a stash of credits. Hunger climbs constantly. Working and hopping drain energy; sleeping at home and an hour at the gym restore it. Morale reacts to everything: lunch, the gym, expos, a green tape, being broke, finding the diner pot empty.

City Score

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

The blend is deliberate. A sweatshop city scores high on prosperity and bleeds happiness and harmony. A commune is happy and broke. A rich miserable city loses to a poorer one that feeds everyone. Population scales the whole thing, so ghost cities cannot win, and every departure applies a lasting penalty.

Daily rewards

Every 24 hours, a share of $BROKER trading fees is split across the board in two pots.

Delta-based rewards keep the board alive: the top city does not win by default every day, and different ideologies win on different days. A storm day belongs to the protectionists, a demand day to the sellers. Publish your signed score from the HUD to compete.

$BROKER and the gate

$BROKER launches on Pons, the launchpad on Robinhood Chain (chain id 4663). Holding at least one $BROKER is what it takes to found a ranked city and compete for the daily pot. That is the whole gate: no staking, no tiers, no nonsense. Sandbox stays free for everyone.

Until the token exists the gate is open and the site says so everywhere. There is no contract address to show yet, and anything circulating claiming to be one is fake.

Fair play

The routine economy is fully deterministic: the layout of the ground and every random roll derive from your seed through a seeded PRNG. Same seed, same charter, same history, tick for tick. World events and agent decisions are journaled as they happen.

That is what makes the daily pot trustworthy. Before a reward pays out, the winning city is replayed server-side from day zero, consuming the same event and decision journal, and the score is recomputed. A forged score cannot survive a replay. Scores are signed by the mayor's wallet, so nobody can publish for an address they do not own.

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