Pacificus Logistico-Industrius

Summary

Pacificus Logistico-Industrius (PLI) is a semi-sovereign legal person with partial international recognition. Legally speaking, PLI is a multinational non-profit corporation headquartered in Singapore. Despite its extensive de-facto territorial control, PLI maintains a deliberately ambiguous stance on its sovereignty and independence. PLI has diplomatic missions in most major UN member states, as well as most unrecognized states. PLI also establishes delegations with international labor federations and large multinational corporations almost as though they were states in their own right.

History

Foundation

Originally, the entity which was to become incorporated as PLI was organized as a charitable trust named the "StrikeSafe", and appointed most of its trustees from the Merriman Consortium and affiliates of the ITUC. The purpose of this trust was to hold corporate shares in the name of striking workers as they accumulated commodity concessions granted by (or extorted from) corporate executives during strike negotiations. From its inception, the StrikeSafe trusteeship contract has contained a stipulation that trustees have a fiduciary responsibility to guarantee availability of StrikeSafe assets for use in economic plans which achieve consensus on the ΛCORS network.

Over time, the decision-making power vested in the StrikeSafe board became quite complicated, and several trustees saw the need to institutionally formalize their collective decision-making processes before fractious divergence in vision led to the fragmentation of the trust. Because most of the trust's holdings were in industrial and logistics companies around the pacific rim, an entity named Pacificus Logistico-Industrius was incorporated in Singapore in 2021, and was immediately appointed as the sole trustee of StrikeSafe in perpetuity. PLI was originally organized according to institutional policy recommendations from the Merriman Consortium as something between a charitable foundation and a private security contractor.

Function

Economy

The PLI articles of incorporation guarantee that all assets owned by StrikeSafe are made freely available for use in economic plans which achieve consensus on the ΛCORS network. PLI itself does not own any assets beyond privacy-sensitive internal documents and foreign contracts; It opts rather to borrow assets from StrikeSafe for use in its operations. Borrowing allows PLI to operate with significantly smaller revenues and expenditures, which drastically simplifies tax filing and increases its operational security.

Politics

The PLI board of directors is randomly drawn by lot from PLI membership each quarter. The PLI board of directors appoints and recalls the CEO at its leisure, calls plebiscites on changes to the PLI bylaws, and appoints internal auditors and ombudsmen. Recommendations are presented to the PLI board by the Advisory Council, which is appointed by the previous board and may be supplemented by additional appointments by the current board. Usually, the Advisory Council comprises leading scholars from the Merriman Consortium in policy research and law, as well as the head of PLI's Legal and PR departments, Auditor General, Ombud General, and other field-specific experts as necessary.