Fair by design.
Checked by anyone.

• Seats: founder seats, squads and elections are closed for changes. No new seat claim, endorsement, objection, squad or resignation is taken, and no country manager election opens.
• On record: seats, terms and results already on record stay as they are, and every published result stays readable with its hash.
• Country managers: a term already under way runs until its end date. Until a country has a manager, the admin covers it.
• The city's coin: new city-coin launches on this launchpad are closed until the Citycoin.dev token is live. Coins already launched keep trading, and a launched coin's design stays locked for good. The ticker is the city's own, so nobody can copy it, and every design and every change is public in the log.

• Hide: a manager (their country) or an admin, always with a reason. It comes back after 24 hours unless a second moderator confirms it or 3 people reported it.
• Reports: 5 reports hide a post until a moderator reviews it.
• Bans: proposed by one person, approved by a different one; they last 30 days.
• Appeals: once per decision, judged by someone who wasn't involved.
• Public log: every action, with who (role and name), why and what happened. See the log ↗

eligible = the lower of (balance at the cutoff) and (average of the last 14 days) pools, bonding curves and team wallets are excluded

• The cutoff is always 00:00 UTC and announced ahead: not scheduled yet.
• Published with a Merkle root and a hash of every input, then 48 hours to challenge before it's final.
• Check any wallet and get its proof on the Launchpad page.

• Your location is read in exactly one place. It returns a signed note naming your community (valid 5 minutes, usable once), and the coordinates are thrown away.
• VPNs, proxies and far-away connections are refused, with one generic answer, so nobody can probe which check they tripped.
• One account per wallet: you sign in with it. It makes fake accounts harder, but no online check can prove someone is one unique person (one person can have several wallets).
• What we keep: your wallet address (it is how you sign in); a made-up username, or one you choose; your home community; and, only if you add it, a phone number you can remove (it is not verified and not used yet). There is no password to keep: you sign in by signing a free message with your wallet, never a transaction. Your coordinates are never stored.
• Sensitive actions, such as moderating, need your wallet proven in the last 30 minutes.

• Move, freeze or take anyone's tokens.
• Pick or change a city coin's ticker, or keep a picture that breaks the rules: the ticker is fixed by the Citycoin.dev city list and copied on chain at launch, a picture that breaks the rules is removed, and a launched coin without a picture shows the Citycoin.dev badge.

Rules change only as a new, published version. Seats, elections and snapshots keep the version they were decided under.