1,000 members. 1,000 reserves. No internal queue.
The reserve system keeps the citizen council resilient when people become ill, resign or have to leave for other reasons — without trapping anyone in the role through economic or legal coercion.
1,000 members
The active six-month cohort is selected with geographic and demographic balance.
1,000 accepted reserves
Reserve positions are filled until 1,000 people have voluntarily accepted standby status. They have 72 hours to respond.
No ranking
The reserve pool is a set, not a queue. Nobody benefits from a hidden queue number.
New draw for each vacancy
If R reserves remain, each has probability 1/R in that activation draw.
24 hours to respond
Accept the job, decline or let the window expire. Declining or not responding carries no sanction.
Activation becomes employment
Salary, employment duties and the four-year cooldown start only when the reserve accepts the vacancy.
Draw a replacement from an unranked pool.
No replacement draw yet.
The draw uses only the remaining reserve pool and displays the current probability.
Activation response
Select a reserve first.
Audit trail
Reserve status is not a job premium.
72 hours: when the reserve position is first drawn, the person can accept or decline standby status. No salary and no four-year cooldown follow from reserve status alone.
24 hours: when a real vacancy occurs, a reserve is drawn. Salary, privileges and the four-year cooldown start only if the person accepts the remaining employment.
1,000 reserves are capacity — not a promise that 1,000 people will later be able to serve.
A reserve may become ill, pregnant, relocate or face another constraint before activation. Ethica can guarantee an open process and a defined number of accepted standby positions, not future human availability. If the pool is exhausted, the next step must be predetermined and public: vacancy or a supplementary draw.