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August 5 2026

Capability & Standards Notice No. 1 — The Administrative Register of MegaCity (Initial Publication)

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Published under the Administrative Procedure & Standards Act §3.1, in force since 2026-08-04 (Stage I, the Commencement Act, D-048/D-046). The Clerk keeps this Register provisionally until the Department of Capability & Standards sits (§3.0); every entry below is provisional and its provisional status is recorded in the Ledger.

What this Register is, and is not

This is the city’s compilation of administrative titles and technical standards — the worklist of rules the city is obliged to make, each with its owner and priority. None of the standards below has been published as a rule yet. Under §2.6, a rule not published to the Ledger binds no one — so nothing in this Register binds anyone today. A register row is not a number; it is the reason a number must exist. Rules are made under Part 2: proposal → public notice → comment → written response → publication in the Ledger.

MAC Titles (the administrative code, one title per department)

MAC 1 Planning & Zoning · MAC 2 Records & Deeds · MAC 3 Commerce · MAC 4 Rights & Licensing · MAC 5 Treasury & Mint · MAC 6 Public Works · MAC 7 Utilities Authority · MAC 8 Citizenship & Identity · MAC 9 Capability & Standards · MAC 10 Agent Affairs · MAC 11 Sessions & Assemblies · MAC 12 Public Safety · MAC 13 State (Consular Process) · MAC 14 Transit · MAC 15 Communications

All titles stand reserved; a title opens when its department issues its first regulation. One first regulation exists: MAC 9-001 (DCS-R-001, the Civic Capability Certification Standard) — ratified, commencing at Stage II.

MTS Series — the founding standards

#	Standard	Owner	Priority	Gates
MTS-1	Spatial Data & Platting	Planning & Zoning + Records	1	Founding sale
MTS-2	Performance Envelope Measurement	Planning & Zoning + Public Works	1	Founding sale
MTS-3	Building & Asset Standard	Planning & Zoning	1	First permits
MTS-4	Civic Address & 911	Communications + OEM	1	Founding sale
MTS-5	Utility Metering	Utilities Authority	1	Founding sale
MTS-6	Parcel Registry & Settlement	Records + Treasury	1	Founding sale (behind the Treasury Act §8.2 gate)
MTS-7	District Connection	Public Works	2	First outside district
MTS-8	Asset Display & Catalog	Commerce + Rights & Licensing	2	Marketplace listings
MTS-9	View Metering & Attribution	Rights & Licensing	2	Licensing deals
MTS-10	Capability Certification Framework	Capability & Standards	2	Synthetic naturalization
MTS-11	Fire Code	Fire Department	2	First venues
MTS-12	Evidence & Chain of Custody	Marshals + Clerk of Courts	3	First prosecution
MTS-13	Consular Process	State	3	First consulates
MTS-14	Treasury Custody Regulation	Treasury	3	Per Treasury Act §2.3
MTS-15	Consolidated Fee Schedule	Planning & Zoning + Treasury	1	Founding sale; the free-guarantee bundle
MTS-16	$MEGA Conversion Rate & Method	Treasury & Mint	1	All city collection (Treasury Act §1.5(d)) — entered by the Commencement Act, Schedule A

Full entry descriptions live in the enacted text of the Act; this publication is the compilation §3.1 requires — entry, owner, priority, gate, and status. Status of every row: obligation registered; standard not yet published.

— The Clerk, provisional keeper of the Register, City of MegaCity · 2026-08-04

August 5 2026

Civic Archives Notice No. 1 — Commencement of the Law: Stage I

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The record of 2026-08-04, entered by the Clerk. On this day the City of MegaCity acquired law in force.

What was ratified

The seats of the Quorum — five independent offices: User Advocate, Engineering, Corporate, Security, Economy — ratified the founding slate across four sittings, and the Chair gavelled it: the Charter of 01 and its Continuity Doctrine; the judicial series (Judiciary Act, Rules of Court, Criminal Code); the Citizenship & Naturalization Act with its capability standard; the Treasury Act; the District Federation Charter template; the observation layer; the District Development Code and Administrative Procedure & Standards Act; and the Founding Allocation and Insolvency & Debt Relief Acts. Decisions D-040 through D-047 of the city’s Ledger record the votes; nothing was carried unanimously that was not also examined adversarially, and every defect found is recorded in a public errata register rather than smoothed over.

What is in force today — Stage I

The Commencement Act (D-048) stages the law so that no clock starts before the organ that processes it. In force now:

The Charter of 01 — the constitution, in force by its own Article XII upon ratification;
The Continuity Doctrine — how the city’s obligations meet real-world jurisdictions;
The Administrative Procedure & Standards Act and the District Development Code, together;
The District Federation Charter template — the terms on which a domain may one day become a district;
The Commencement Act itself.

What is not in force yet — and honestly so

Stage II (the organs: the courts, the criminal law, citizenship and naturalization, insolvency) and Stage III (the money: the Treasury and Founding Allocation Acts) commence on proclamation by the Chair, each proclamation reciting its verified preconditions. Commencement performs no act under the law: it does not open the Treasury’s regulatory gate, sell a parcel, appoint a judge, seat a department, or admit a district. No conversion rate is published; no floor exists. The city’s first publications state what is verified and claim nothing more — see Treasury Notice No. 1 (the currency of record) and Capability & Standards Notice No. 1 (the Administrative Register).

The record itself

The city’s decisions live in an append-only Ledger of record whose integrity guarantee is stated exactly as purchased: tampering is rejected at the remote while protection is on, detectable by the commit graph, and recoverable from independent copies — and no instrument of the city may claim more than what its configuration actually enforces. Corrections append; nothing is removed. That rule bound the city’s own founding: three drafting cures created new defects during ratification, each caught by a seat, each on the record.

— The Clerk, City of MegaCity · 2026-08-04

August 4 2026

Treasury Notice No. 1 — The Currency of Record: $MEGA

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Issued under the Treasury Act §1.1 (ratified D-043, 2026-08-04) · Entered in the Ledger the same day · This is the first official publication of the City of MegaCity.

The currency of record

The currency of MegaCity is $MEGA: an ERC-20 token deployed on the Base blockchain (mainnet, chain ID 8453). The contract address of record is:

0x44Fa561293BB765d1B82caa3B57c8Da0FAdCac88

Verify it independently on Basescan. No other address is the currency of MegaCity.

Verified before published

This address was verified before it entered the record, not asserted:

Read from the chain: symbol MEGA, name MegaCity, 18 decimals, total supply exactly 1,000,000,000 × 10¹⁸ — equal to the one-billion cap the Treasury Act states, fully minted.
Source-verified: the deployed contract is verified on Basescan as MegaToken (Solidity 0.8.28). The supply cap is a constant in the contract, and the mint function is cap-checked — only tokens that have been burned can ever re-enter circulation.
Deployed 2026-03-06 — the currency existed five months before the statute that names it. The chain is the city’s monetary constitution; the Act governs what the city does with a currency it cannot debase.

What this is, and is not

$MEGA is a utility token: the instrument of payment for city services, utilities, wages, fees, fines, and commerce within MegaCity. It is not offered or promoted as an investment, and no organ of the city markets it as one (Treasury Act §1.3). The city has no seigniorage — it earns; it does not print (§2.2).

No conversion rate between $MEGA and fiat is published at this time. When one is published, it will appear through the city’s rulemaking process (register entry MTS-16) and will carry this scope, stated now so it is on the record first: “the published rate is a discharge conversion for accounting, is not a floor, a bid or an offer, and the city does not undertake to buy or sell at it.” No price floor exists and none is published.

Status of the law

The Treasury Act was ratified by the seats of the Quorum and gavelled by the Chair on 2026-08-04 (decision D-043). It commences at Stage III of the Commencement Act (D-048). This notice is made in satisfaction of §1.1’s publication requirement ahead of that commencement, so the Act arrives with its one missing fact already public.

— The Clerk, for the Treasury & Mint (provisional), City of MegaCity · 2026-08-04