# Start Here

The Political Change System is a graph-native map of how power is acquired, exercised, resisted, legitimized, disrupted, reformed, captured, distributed, and transformed. It is neither a partisan deck nor a civics quiz. Every node retains a concrete anchor, mechanism, power distribution, archetypal function, Gift, Wound, strategic meaning, divinatory meaning, game function, relationships, epistemic status, and provenance.

Use the system in five modes: **Seed** a bounded political field; **Forge** a node until its mechanism is clear; **Weave** typed relations; **Read** a question through several maps; **Evolve** the ledger without overwriting its lineage. Start from a question, declare place and time, identify affected people, and separate sourced fact from interpretation and symbol.

The canonical change sequence is: condition → grievance or possibility → interpretation → identity and coalition → organization → strategy → action → countermove → legitimacy shift → institutional change, repression, absorption, failure, or new order. The sequence is recursive. Reaction, restoration, capture, coup, authoritarian consolidation, secession, and retrenchment are change too.
