State-Duties Index
“Contracts without a deadline are not contracts; they are hopes.
What the state owes its citizens — standardized, published, with an as-of date. Two levels, one status light, one highlighted duty each month.
From a tile to a benchmark.
Citizens' duties are deadline-bound and sanctioned — the state's side was not, until now. The Index forces it into the same measurement logic. Filterable by domain and status.
The state binds its citizens' duties with deadlines and sanctions — its own half of the contract it binds to nothing. The Index makes the state's half visible: standardized, published, with an as-of date. What is measured is not what was resolved but what has actually happened.“Contracts without a deadline are not contracts; they are hopes.”
Keep the share of on-time cases high
The on-time rate measures how often the state keeps its own statutory deadline. In the worked example of a federal agency: 38 of 100 cases on time. The citizen's duty alongside it is deadline-bound — and sanctioned.
Conclude criminal proceedings within a reasonable time
Let no one go free because of excessively long proceedings
Enforce a final obligation to leave the country
Staff the judiciary adequately
Confiscate criminal assets
Provide the means for defense
Actually build up the force
Civil protection / shelters
Secure the internal monopoly on force
Maintain infrastructure
Actually build with the funds provided
Maintain schools, roads, bridges
Provide digital public administration
Make work pay more than doing nothing
Honor the legal right to childcare
Place people into work promptly
Recognize foreign qualifications on time
Decide applications within the deadline
Keep the share of on-time cases high
Be reachable digitally
Compensate for delay automatically
Don't let silence count against the citizen
The book's rule of thumb: no new duty for citizens without a corresponding duty for the state.