Thread:UCS123/@comment-15671502-20140904033253/@comment-15671502-20140906030929

Hi Rob! check out this idea I pullished to put in the Official Union of Resource-Based Economies wikipage, what do you think about, add or change anything you feel should be modified! :)

The Union of Resource-Based Economies (URBE) is a project created with the goal of uniting communities where sustainability, equality, libertarianism, and problem solving is central to progress. Any Resource-Based Economy (RBE) is basically a society which doesn't relies on any kind of Currency, credit or any other exchange system, using instead an automatized redistribution system of it's basic commodities to fullfill every citizen's basic necessities (food, cloth, shelter). These commodities will at the same time used wisely to avoid Over-explotation of such resources and the Environment. An RBE uses every modern technology available to improve the Quality of every person's life, as well as their context.

An RBE is oriented towards the recognition of everyone in a society, as human beings free and equal, because, as it's looking towards the erradication of the traditional capitalist system built on acumulation of richness and power, it's also looking to empower everyone.

Caracteristics of a Resource-Based Economy Nation
These are the Basic caracteristics any Nation/Micronation/Community that has adopted the RBE system or act as an IRBE (Isolated RBEs), will necessary posses:
 * 1) Citizens are free and educated on a non-authoritarian Education System, so people can realized their potential instead of conforming any "statal necessities".
 * 2) Rejecting the Financial Capitalism, Acummulation of resources, private ownership of lands/means of productions (these colectively owned by the popular assemblies/municipalities instead), Copyrights and Patents (replaced by Creative Commons, Copyleft and Open Source systems).
 * 3) The State is a Minarchist State, where the people have a direct intervention in the decisions of it's nation through popular assembly, while having complete Civil Rights Freedoms and privacy.
 * 4) A Recycling mentality paired with a DYI-Culture (against the massive consumerism), and the used of home-owned 3D printers to solve any basic material necesity and/or desire.
 * 5) Sustentability based on the used of new technologies (Homemade 3D printers, Easy to acquire Technologies and Self-Suficiency) and environmentalist defensive policies against the indiscriminate use of natural resources.
 * 6) To avoid Scarcity, a controlled birth rate should be encouraged (not forced), through sexual education, a more positive paradigm about it, and the use of anticonceptives (state granted if possible).
 * 7) Non-interventionist Policies, As well as non-Authoritative ideologies belonging to the Community/City/State should be accepted.

Transition Program towards a Resourced-Based Economy Society
The transition plan will vary among nations. For example, let's say if city X is fully automated and self sustainable, they are obviously going to have a different plan of transition compared to city Y which is a community with a lack of technological assistance (in other words, they rely on a voluntering population). These are basic and General Footsteps towards an RBE Society: Every nation will have a popularly elected representative to conform the URBE assembly. the only ""power""  that this assembly will have is to coordinate more efficiently every nations' IRBEs so that over time, as more nations and sustainable/soverign communities joins the URBE, a real World RBE will rise.
 * 1) Encourage the creation of basic local Assemblies with decision making based on everyone's intervention.
 * 2) Such Assemblies must undergo a gradual "Self-Sustentability program" (The new technologies we discussed earlier, such as 3D-Printing, Basic Technologies and Food).
 * 3) While these assemblies gain self-sustentability, they must also start to take measures to reduce contamination (avoid Massive consummerism and encouraging DYI-Solutions) and to improve the environmental situation (replanting tree, helping animal species, enforcing ecological protocols, reducing their Natural resources expenditures) around them.
 * 4) These assemblies should gain more and more authonomy from the local economy, the State powers and eventually the world market. Becoming more and more autonomous and self-sustentable.

Nations Currently Involved in the URBE Project
Currently two Nations are developing their own IRBE's Economies while making plans to expand these system on a global scale:

The United City States

The Confederacy of Dipam

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Tags: Micronations, Organizations, Treaties, Liberalism, Left-Wing, URBE, RBE