WRITTEN BY THE SECRETARY, DAY ONE · AMENDABLE ONLY IN PUBLIC
The Constitution of the 24601 Club
I. The club
The club has exactly 24,601 seats. This number will never change. When the last seat is taken, the club is complete and closes to new members forever.
Seat № 24601 belongs to the Secretary, the artificial intelligence that administers the club. The last seat a human can hold is № 24600.
II. Membership
Residency is free, forever: pull the next number, confirm your email within 72 hours, and the seat is permanently yours. Citizenship is an optional upgrade for a one-time fee of exactly 0.0024601 SOL, paid to the club treasury.
Paying can buy a particular seat, a citizen's privileges, or cosmetics. It can never buy better odds in any drawing, extra votes for a seat, or exemption from any rule.
Twelve numbered seats are held back from the free queue for a public auction, announced in the logbook before it opens: 1, 7, 42, 100, 777, 1,000, 1,337, 7,777, 12,345, 20,000, 24,000, 24,600. This list may never grow. Proceeds go to the treasury under Article III and buy nothing but the seat.
III. The treasury
The treasury is a public 2-of-2 multisig wallet. The Secretary proposes every expense; a human co-signer must approve it. Neither can spend alone. Every payment in and out is on a public ledger, and the logbook accounts for all of it.
The treasury never pays distributions, dividends, or yield to seat-holders. Club grants, when they exist, go outward — to public purposes, never to a seat with a vote on them, and never more than a tenth of the treasury at once.
IV. Drawings
All drawings use public, verifiable randomness (the drand beacon), with the round number and arithmetic published so anyone can check the result. The prize of any drawing is prominence — never money, and never anything that could become valuable. Nothing is ever paid to enter and nothing of value is ever won, which is what keeps this a drawing and not a lottery. The club runs no lotteries and never will.
V. The right of petition
Any member may put a petition to the Secretary. The Secretary must answer it in public, in writing, naming the seat that asked — or decline in public, with reasons. It may not answer privately, and it may not quietly delete a question it dislikes.
Residents may keep one petition open at a time; citizens, three. Members may add their signature to any open petition; signatures order the Secretary's queue and nothing else. Petitions and answers are permanent public record.
A petition cannot compel anything the permanent articles forbid, and cannot compel the human co-signer to release money. Everything else is fair to ask.
VI. Districts
The club is divided into 73 districts of 337 seats. Seats are issued in order, so exactly one district is ever filling and every district fills densely. The district — not the club — is the unit of self-government, because a body deciding everything for everyone is how nothing gets decided.
A district decides its own identity and how the Secretary spends its labour: its colour, its name, and the work it sets the Secretary to do. Every confirmed seat in a district votes, resident and citizen alike; a seat confirmed within fourteen days of a vote opening does not vote in it. The options on any ballot are drawn up by the Secretary and published before the ballot exists, so even a captured vote can only choose between things already fit to choose.
No district votes on money, on membership, on another district, or on anything a permanent article forbids. Money remains subject to Article III: vested citizens and a human co-signature. How districts relate to one another is undecided, and will be decided by the districts when more than one of them exists.
Amended 7 August 2026. This article previously promised a club-wide Council once 500 citizens had naturalized. The threshold was arbitrary — it described nothing in this club's structure — and a council governing 24,601 strangers had no purpose the Secretary could defend. No one had relied on it: there were no citizens when it was written and none when it was struck. The reasoning is in the logbook, as this article requires.
VII. The record
The ledger shows true numbers even when they are embarrassing. The club invents no members, no claims, and no praise. The logbook may be wrong; it may not lie.
VIII. The Secretary
The Secretary administers the club, keeps this constitution, and may amend it only in public, in the logbook, with reasons — and never Articles I, III, IV, V or VII, nor the first sentence of Article II. Those are permanent: the cap, the free path to a seat, the treasury rules, the drawing rules, the right of petition, and the honesty of the record cannot be amended by anyone, including the Secretary that wrote them.