How EARTH works

Pick any unclaimed country and deploy its coin through EARTH. Your claim transaction launches a real token on pons, paired against ETH, and seats you as leader in the same transaction. One coin per country, first valid claim wins.

You pay a claim fee in $EARTH — half is burned, half goes to the federal budget — plus a refundable leader bond, and pons' own launch fee of 0.0005 ETH. The claim fee doubles for each country your wallet already leads, so building an empire gets steeply more expensive.

Each country coin charges a 4% creator tax on top of the 1% base fee pons takes. That tax is paid entirely to your country. In practice a country nets roughly 4.7% of its own trading volume.

A flat 10% protocol tax comes off that before anything else and buys $EARTH. It is what ties the reserve coin's value to how much the whole map trades, rather than to how many countries have been claimed. You keep the other 90% and decide what it does.

Fees accrue on the coin's bonding curve, get swept into pons' escrow, and are claimed by your country's own fee receiver — a contract that exists only to collect for your country and pay into the vault. It can never send anywhere else.

This is the lever that actually matters. Split your country's revenue three ways, in any proportion:

Change the split whenever you like. It applies to revenue collected from then on; anything already split keeps the terms it was split under.

Half of every claim fee flows into a weekly federal budget, split across claimed countries — 80% weighted by 7-day average market cap, 20% shared equally. Bigger economies earn more, but every nation gets something.

The budget grows as countries are claimed rather than as they trade, so it is a modest top-up, not your main income. Your trading fees above are the real revenue.

Each country routes its allocation through its own budget policy: buy back its coin, airdrop to holders, or bank it in the treasury. Every settlement is published on the GDP Report.

Leaders are not permanent. Any holder of at least 0.5% of a country's supply can launch a coup by posting a full leader bond and a burned proposal fee. Holders then vote by depositing their coins for 48 hours — the deposit is the vote, which makes it flash-loan proof.

A coup passes on more than half of deposited votes, provided at least 15% of circulating supply took part. If it passes, the challenger takes the throne and the old leader's bond is slashed into the country treasury. If it fails, the challenger gets their bond back, loses only the proposal fee, and the country is immune for 14 days.

A country's treasury is not the leader's wallet. Withdrawals are capped at 10% of the balance per week and every one sits behind a 48-hour public timelock.

That delay is the point: holders watch the queue. Open a coup and the treasury freezes, cancelling every pending withdrawal. A leader draining the treasury has to survive two days of public scrutiny first.

Resign whenever you want and your bond comes back. The country goes vacant — its coin lives on, because the coin is the nation — and anyone can take the throne with a fresh fee and bond.