Questions and answers
Your identity. Your agent. Your choice.
The answers below describe the architecture we are building and the permissions it must respect. The current website records registrations and inquiries; it does not yet provide an active agent, wallet connection or paid Civic Mission.
Who owns my profile?
You control the VerusID and associated civic profile used by the applications. Civic Ledger is an interface to that participant-controlled information, not the owner of your identity.
Does Civic Ledger hold my master identity keys?
The architecture should not require transfer of the master private key controlling your VerusID. Application access should be specific to the data and capability you authorize. Never submit private keys through a website form.
How can Civic Ledger aggregate encrypted data?
When you join an applicable Civic Mission, your wallet or interface can authorize mission-specific access or decryption capability for the data required to perform that mission. The agreed processing can produce an aggregate product without handing a sponsor the underlying identifiable profile.
Can I use the same profile on Rate My Representatives?
Yes, where the application supports the same data types and you choose to authorize them. Portability does not mean automatic sharing. A shared VerusID alone does not expose private fields.
How is a person verified?
The planned journey begins with the Checks and Balances Human Verification Protocol, which supplies community-attested proof appropriate to the civic interaction. Civic Ledger verifies the attestation; it does not own the credential.
What does the Civic Agent actually do?
It is designed to watch government for you: monitor the jurisdictions and issues you chose, explain material changes and compare them with the rules you configured. It should show sources and uncertainty rather than infer a political position from broad values.
Can the Civic Agent respond for me?
It may execute a narrowly defined standing instruction you previously created. Otherwise it returns the issue for your decision. A delegated response must be labelled “Executed under participant standing instruction,” and remain distinguishable from a fresh human confirmation.
Is a Mirror Response an official vote?
No. A response recorded within Civic Ledger is non-binding. An official submission requires a separate authorized process under the receiving institution's rules. Civic Ledger is an independent company, not a government service.
What is Mirror State?
A digital reflection of government structure, authority and observable public activity. Its Observed State preserves attributable records, source history and corrections.
What is Prototype State?
A separate experimental layer where alternative civic processes can be modelled and demonstrated without pretending they are official government rules.
What is the Parallel Republic?
The demonstration environment created from those experimental civic systems. It is not itself an official government, and its simulations do not amend law.
What does a Civic Pulse sponsor receive?
The aggregate research product defined by the mission terms, with methodology and limitations. It does not automatically include the underlying identifiable profile or rights to target individual participants.
Does participation guarantee a Civic Dividend?
No. A paid mission must disclose eligibility, contribution requirements, compensation and timing. Joining the founding network is not a promise of selection or income. Compensation must not depend on viewpoint or official voting behaviour.
Can I withdraw permission?
You can end future access or authority within its disclosed terms. Ending permission does not automatically erase data already legitimately processed or completed aggregate outputs. Each mission must state its withdrawal deadline, retention, deletion and completed-report rules.
Does a Civic Pulse speak for everyone?
Not automatically. Eligibility, recruitment, sample size and response methods affect what the research can support. A report must disclose those limitations and distinguish human-confirmed responses from participant-authorized agent executions.
Does registration create my agent or my self-sovereign profile?
No. The current form stores contact details, locality and selected interests for the founding network. Creating or connecting a profile, setting an instruction and joining research each require separate steps and authorization when those features become available.