🏟️ The Arena Policy

No Religion. No Politics. On the Main Platform.

The Core Principle

Liana Banyan takes NO official position on:

• Religious beliefs or practices
• Political parties or candidates
• Ideological positions

The Founder is deeply religious and guided by personal principles and beliefs. But faith and political conviction are each person’s individual task — not the platform’s business.

Why This Matters

The Poison Problem

Every online community faces a choice:

• Allow political/religious debate → Watch it consume and divide the community
• Ban political/religious discussion → Alienate members who care about these issues
• Maintain neutrality → Keep the mission focused

We chose neutrality with a twist.

The Bullfight Arena

Instead of banning political engagement entirely, we built a separate arena where the bulls can fight:

Political Expedition — The Sixth Hall

The Political Expedition exists outside the main Senate structure under its own charter.

The bulls fight in the arena. The rest of the platform stays focused on building.

This maintains economic unity while creating discourse separation. The bulls fight in the arena, but they’re still using the same currency.

The Separate Charter

Political Expedition operates under its own governance rules:

1. Non-Partisan Data Only — Track votes, not opinions
2. No Endorsements — Platform never says who to vote for
3. Constituent-Defined Alignment — Members define what “aligned” means for them
4. Tool, Not Position — We provide the tracking tool; members decide what to do with it
5. Isolated Infrastructure — Political data doesn’t influence other platform features

Credits Still Work Here

You’re leaving the rest of Liana Banyan — but your Credits still work in Political Expedition. You can:

• Vote on bills and issues using your platform credits
• Track representative alignment
• Fund accountability initiatives

The arena is separate for discourse, not for economics. Your Credits, Marks, and Joules remain unified across the entire platform.

What This Means in Practice

On the Main Platform

✅ Discuss: Projects, initiatives, economics, community
✅ Debate: Best approaches to cooperative commerce
✅ Advocate: For specific products, services, crowns

❌ Do NOT: Promote candidates, parties, religious positions
❌ Do NOT: Attack others’ beliefs or political views
❌ Do NOT: Use platform features for political organizing

In Political Expedition

✅ Track: How representatives vote
✅ Score: Alignment with your stated priorities
✅ Communicate: With your representatives directly
✅ Organize: Civic engagement efforts

❌ Do NOT: Expect platform endorsement of your views
❌ Do NOT: Assume others share your political positions

The Founder’s Position

“I am guided by my faith and principles. They inform everything I build. But my faith is MY task — not yours. Your beliefs are YOUR task — not mine. What we share is the mission: help each other help ourselves. That’s enough common ground to build on.”

Why Not Just Ban It?

Some platforms ban all political discussion. We didn’t, because:

1. Civic engagement matters — People should track their representatives
2. Economic policy is political — We can’t pretend otherwise
3. Denial doesn’t work — People will discuss it anyway
4. Separate container is better — Give it a place, define the rules

The Political Expedition is the pressure release valve that keeps the rest of the system functioning.

The Neutrality Guarantee

Liana Banyan commits to:

• Never endorse candidates, parties, or religious organizations
• Never donate platform funds to political causes
• Never use member data for political targeting
• Never allow political advertising on the main platform
• Always maintain the separate charter for Political Expedition

Summary

“The bulls fight in the arena. We build in the workshop.”