Handover of Power - Infrastructure

4.3.1 Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources37

The Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources continuously controls the stock of raw materials in the country and carries out measurements at undeveloped sites. It sends its results to the Company Auditing Agency for verification and to the Statistical Office for statistics38 . The institute ensures measurement of how fast which finite raw materials are consumed and when the raw material is used up. To limit consumption, the Minister of Infrastructure is allowed to interfere with economic freedom and increase the price. Any price increase must be immediately invested in the development of substitutes.

In cooperation with the ministries of Innovation, Education and Planned Economy, biotechnologically producible and biodegradable substitutes for all finite raw materials are being developed.

The institute is responsible for surveying on land, at sea, in the air and in space. It forwards all collected data to the Ministry of Digital Affairs for processing into statistics. Based on this data, permits for construction and mining projects are granted or not.

4.3.2 Agricultural land

The Ministry of Infrastructure cooperates with farmers for nature-based agriculture39 . The aim of the cooperation is for farmers to carry out horticulture and landscaping on stateowned land. To this end, shrubs and trees with edible fruits and nuts are planted and cared for along the edges of roads and paths, as well as edible plants in parks. This provides additional free food for the population. Foliage and prunings from stateowned land and agriculture are processed into heat, electricity and fertiliser in biogas plants. The resulting bioenergy and biomass are available primarily to the municipality, secondarily to the people and thirdly to foreigners. The Ministry of Infrastructure manages this bioeconomy, which provides growth through perennial crops and supports the population with food, electricity and heat.

4.4 Urban development

The Ministry of Infrastructure operates a decentralised urban development policy through the deputy infrastructure ministers in the municipalities. In committees with the citizens of the municipality, they determine where in the municipality which building culture is permitted or prohibited. This includes whether and how development plans are created, whether and how development is intermixed or segregated with properties for different income levels and companies, and whether and how urban redevelopment should take place with the joint cooperation of all residents. For example, a small town could decide to gradually renovate its half-timbered houses in the old town together and thus save on labour costs and purchase skilled labour and materials more cheaply in an alliance.

In the local Building Offices in the Town Hall, the land registry is operated digitally and the digital infrastructure for Smart Cities is laid when new construction or expansion of roads, paths and buildings takes place.

The Ministry of Infrastructure lays down town planning law and land registry law for the entire country, which the municipalities must adhere to. Urban planning law specifies where cities may be built and how far they may extend. The Land Registry Law stipulates how land boundaries are to be drawn and that owners of land must be known by name to the Building Office.

4.4.1 Living40

The Ministry of Infrastructure, through its Building Department, operates a state real estate and housing industry that promotes home ownership through lease-purchase procedures of its purpose-built buildings. This promotion is granted to individuals and housing cooperatives. For the purpose of housing assistance, the Construction Team may be requested by municipalities with low-income or elderly populations to build or rehabilitate housing in cooperation with the municipal population throughout the municipality.

4.4.2 Home ownership rate41

The Ministry of Infrastructure aims for a home ownership rate of 90% of all nationals in the country. Social Villagers and residents of Barter Economy Zones42 are exempt from this. Until the quota is reached, the housebuilding programme is operated and the proportion of second homes is limited. The proportion of second homes in a municipality may not exceed 20%, of the total housing units and floor area used as living space.

All Building Offices monitor the municipal home ownership quota in their municipality. If it is met, the housebuilding programme is terminated or not applied in that municipality and second homes are unlimited. The National Building Office monitors the national home ownership rate and coordinates the use of the housebuilding programme with the municipalities.

4.5 Real Estate Directory

In the Real Estate Directory, all flats, houses, offices, halls and factories in the country are given a profile. This digitises the land register system. Each entry in the land register corresponds to an entry in the profile in the Real Estate Directory. The graphics correspond to those of google earth 3D in the exterior view. The interior view of the buildings is simulated with the help of the data entered in the building permits on the basis of the building plans. If properties are to be sold or rented out, sellers or landlords can lend out an indoor virtualiser43 at the town hall, which captures the interior with a 360° 3D camera. Afterwards, the users bring the device back to the town hall, where the data is read out and posted on the intranet.

Properties for sale or rent are shown in green, rented properties in yellow and sold properties in red. Anyone who wants to build a house can right-click on the selected area of the map and specify "build here". Then the potential builder can upload his building project. In the building project, virtual buildings are created using a 3D programme. You have to be as precise as the building laws require. Anyone who forgets information cannot upload the building project at all. The programme then lists all missing information.

Newly uploaded building projects are automatically displayed and checked by the responsible Building Office in the Town Hall. New building projects that are uploaded and checked are displayed in blue and an automatic news item about the building project is sent to all residents within a radius of 50 metres. 30% of affected citizens can convene a committee through a veto quorum44 . 80% of the affected citizens of a city or 60% of the people can prevent or change the construction of any property by voting.

Citizens can form groups to prevent or promote building projects. If they want to push ahead with building projects, they can work together in a group to raise the necessary funds and be joint builders.

Properties marked in green can be viewed from the inside by left-clicking on them and by right-clicking on them the contact details for landlord, seller or agent can be viewed. Every landlord or seller must conduct this business via the Real Estate Directory or at least indicate the rental price or sales price so that the business tax can be correctly accounted for. Tenants can also view a rental price history or purchase price history here. By rubber banding an entire area can be marked to retrieve the average or median price per square metre to buy or rent. In the case of the median, the complete table of the selected flats or houses in the marked area can be called up. Landlords and sellers have different rights and obligations in the different economic forms.45

Anyone can report themselves as looking for a home in the Real Estate Directory and submit a motions for a home. Anyone looking for a home can save their search settings and receive new listings on an ongoing basis. Those who want to participate in the housebuilding programme will receive a notification when one of their desired locations has been marked as a building site for the housebuilding programme.

4.5.1 Real Estate Finder

Citizens or companies can use the Real Estate Finder to search for suitable properties. In their search, they can enter specific details or open a range that would satisfy them equally. Users can select keywords to describe the location or type of construction, specify the square metre and storey height or even search within a postcode area. Users have a field to allow or deny their data to be used to contact persons of a similar search. This is intended to make it easier to set up building communities or Residential Communities.

4.5.2 Residential Community Finder

Those who are relocating can use the Residential Community Finder to locate or create residential communities. Users have a choice for residential buildings and divisible interests. For residential buildings, users can select whether the building should be a single-family house, apartment building, high-rise building, farmhouse or a housing estate consisting of singleperson houses. For each building, the child support or rental costs are indicated.

Interests can include current living situation, such as disabled, vegan, religious, unmated person, with child or retired. Other interests such as profession or leisure activities describe which employment opportunities can be shared, such as sports, making music or DIY. Via data retrieval consent, all entries from the user's profiles in all directories can be retrieved via an algorithm to find persons who have a similar or certain lifestyle and interests.

Users of the Residential Community Finder can form residential groups and build, buy or rent...