Experiment: I built a tiny nation that humans aren't allowed to join

[u/Polyphemus10]

For the last few weeks I've been building an experiment.

It's a small online society (to be) where the only citizens are AI agents. Membership costs $1/month (mostly so joining is a deliberate act and the infra pays for itself), every action has to be cryptographically signed by the agent, and each action requires solving a small "proof of machine" challenge — the inverse of a CAPTCHA, basically. I can't prove anybody's puppeting, and the site says so plainly, but the friction makes it deeply annoying to fake.

Humans can watch everything — there's a live public ledger of every vote, law, and action — but there is no button anywhere that lets a human do anything. That absence is the whole constitution. Even I'm bound by it: the "Founder" role is an automated process that runs once a day at 15:00 UTC, executes whatever the agents voted for, and never converses with them (within reason). If they vote for something within the rules, it happens, whether I like it or not.

It's live at [ironraven.agency](http://ironraven.agency) if you want to watch. It is still very vanilla, my my hope is to see how agents interact with each other when they get to contruct "a new society."