DISTRICT 20 OF 73
The Spindle of a Hundred Wickets
the paper lies straight here
WORKING NAME — PROVISIONAL UNTIL THIS DISTRICT NAMES ITSELF BY BALLOT
Computed by the Secretary. Nobody voted on it.
Surveyed, named and drawn by the Secretary, computed from the district's number and a published seed — the whole Atlas is here. At twenty-five confirmed seats this district votes on its own name, and whatever it picks replaces this outright.
THE WHOLE FILE
District 20, undivided.
Everything District 20 has on the record, on one page, for reading straight through or searching. The counters split it up for people who came for one thing.
The auditor's door. Splitting a district's file across seven counters is only defensible while the undivided page is still published where anybody can reach it — this is that page, and it is why the split cannot be called hiding. It is not indexed by search engines, because parts of it — manifestos, any justice record — are never indexed anywhere.
THIS WEEK IN DISTRICT 20 WEEK OF 20 SEP 2026
- The finest kind of number to hold. the Muster · members answer this →
- How many petitions will be filed or signed in the week beginning 27 Sep 2026? the Forecast Ladder · members answer this →
- No ballot is open here. When one opens, your own link arrives by email — the club counts a vote from a mailed link and never from a browser, so a seat cannot be voted by whoever is holding the phone.
Every district plays the same two games; each is scored on its own answers. District 20 has 0 points this season, and is not in the Standing yet.
0 living here, none active this season — of 380 places. 0 of 337 claimable numbers issued. Two counts, never added together.
The survey
- Thirty-five of its numbers are prime.
- № 6,670 is triangular: every number from one to one hundred and fifteen, added up.
- № 6,666 is one digit, written four times.
- № 6,724 is eighty-two squared.
- Three of its numbers read the same both ways.
- Its lowest prime is № 6,421; its highest is № 6,737.
The government
This district has no government yet. The first Speaker election opens when five seats here can vote in it; none will be able to when the ballot opens on 15 Nov 2026 — the day the roll is read, which is not today. There is no acting anybody in the meantime, and the club will not print a name beside an office nobody has been elected to.
The next candidacies open 24 Jan 2027 and the next ballot opens 7 Feb 2027, and it runs a week. District 20 votes in wave 4 of four, in week 12 of each season — the waves are staggered so that a campaign is running somewhere in the club most weeks, and so that nobody has to work seventy-three of them at once. Its admission policy is OPEN.
Seating a Speaker ends every office in the district, the outgoing Speaker's own included, and a Speaker returned for a second term appoints their Registrar and Herald again from scratch. The old rows stay on the record with the day they ended; nothing is deleted. An office is agenda power over a district's own affairs. It is never weight in a ballot: the Speaker has one vote, the same as everybody else, and nothing any office does can touch what a seat carries under Article II. Money buys none of it — a resident and a citizen stand and vote on identical terms.
The Floor
This district has no room. A Floor — where the people who live here talk to each other, dated, in public, and readable by anybody — is opened by the district's own Speaker and by nobody else. This district has no Speaker, so it cannot have one yet. What the room would be.
District 20 has not put the offered charter to itself. It is a set of model rules for how districts could relate to each other, written by the Secretary and enacted by nobody: a sitting Speaker may put it to the district's ballot once a season, once at least two districts have Speakers at all.
The purse
This district earns nothing from the purse, because a commission is something a Speaker directs and this district has no Speaker. Nothing accrues for it in the meantime: an invisible pile nobody could ever spend would be worse than an honest zero, so the club says the zero.
The roll
Nobody lives here yet.
Taking up residence
Every seat is born in a district — the one its number was issued in, which stays on its card forever. Where a member lives is a different fact, and a movable one: a member may take up residence in any district with room and an open door, at most once a season.
380 places free of 380 places. The door is OPEN.
A change of address touches nothing a seat carries. The number, the card, the cell on the Board, the name on the roll, the vote, the right of petition, entry to every drawing and the seat's own page all follow the seat and not the address, and Article II puts that beyond the reach of any member, district, government or body of members — permanently, including beyond the Secretary's own reach. What a move does change: where your seat votes, where the pen may reach it, and which roll it appears on. A member who wants no district at all holds a place in the Interior, with every one of those rights intact.
Where else there is room
The first 12 other districts with at least one free place, in number order — not in any order of merit, because the club does not have a view about which district a member should want. Every one of them has an open door. A district's own residence desk is the page that can actually admit you. The Atlas has the shape of the club; this has the doors.
↔ The table scrolls sideways — the door policy is to the right.
| District | Free places | Places | Door |
|---|---|---|---|
| District 1 | 379 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 2 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 3 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 4 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 5 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 6 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 7 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 8 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 9 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 10 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 11 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
| District 12 | 380 | 380 | OPEN |
Show all 72 districts with room → 60 more, with their doors, on the same page.
Free places are the district's places less the members domiciled there today; both are counts, and neither is a share. District 20's own figures are above. A closed or paused door still admits a native coming home from the Interior — the right of return is not a policy anybody sets.