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In its first phase the Republic was the uncontemplated theatrical set for an artificially constructed language, so that an inspired group under the age of 20 could enjoy the excuse to gather themselves, to investigate the world, and to answer their own dilemmas creatively. Outside the ‘con-lang’ and the informal meetings the Republic was materially invisible. It had no constitution, barely a monarchy; and it faced the dangers of errantly lost whims, the risk of a quiet death. The pelican in the Silofaisan coat-of-arms conveys that this was indeed a delicate time, and that Silofaisan history shall start always in Louisiana.

In its second phase the Republic was an aspirational collaboration among disparate persons over the internet. A single idealist in Olathe convinced thirty-some onlookers that they join, build, participate willingly in a new vision of 21st-century government. Some were Louisianian, Kansan, British, and Australian. It lasted half a year until sheer idealism could not overcome latent disunity anymore. Too many members did not take the Silofaisan ‘experiment’ for its potential, and because they saw it rather as the place for their weak egos, Silofais succumbed to a quieter, realer hibernation. An initial bang has ended by a quasi-recent whimper, inasmuch that process was more important than substance, and that rules had preempted people. The bison in the Silofaisan coat-of-arms conveys that this was indeed a formative time; it counsels that Silofais must know oneself more truthfully, more strategically than did John Brown at Harpers Ferry.

Now is the third phase of the Republic of Silofais, when its constitution will be academically informed, experientially adaptive, and intellectually true. Its model shall investigate, inspire, and safeguard the delicate formation of human freedom, in order to promote common wealth, equitable trading, and strategic profits. Here the phantasmal is material: ‘church and state’ meet themselves again; ‘law and justice’ become clarified beyond the bounds of hypocrites; and all politicians earn their appointments, emoluments, perquisites only by the free-equal markets of scarce decisions under historical constraints. As Silofais does not tolerate the power-monopolies of cognizant idiots, so Silofaisan norms and creeds must incent moral conduct throughout the ranks…must disincent rentful, cruel, unusual, or consumptive decisions. The motto – “Only Together We Flourish” – is not merely a calling, but is also the good measurement of governmental labor. Those who help others cognizably must be promoted, whereas those who segregate their neighbors aggressively must be outset of societal benefits, burdens, and bounds.

Today a false myth exists, that every politician were inherently corrupt. It exists as far as anyone has forgotten the older ways of human civilizations. Judaea, Rome, Carthage, Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad, Jeanne d’Arc, Amelia Earhart – inter alia – convey adequate evidence that righteous leadership induces itself under the correct circumstances. In Silofais a politician’s votes are as free, equal, and competitive as the prices of commercial marketplaces; not because they were already so; but because the Silofaisan constitution, statutes, and rights materialize such a real history together.