Gig - Board of directors

What we do

One of the board owes his beautiful family and the best things in his life to a small personal victory: for a short period of time he made more money than a prostitute. It was the beginning of the Internet craze. He learned how to build computers from a book at the library. Soon, business people, lawyers, accountants and even an occasional Air Force colonel or a taxman came knocking on the door of his humble trailer. They needed a computer that could wield the power to run that new “window” and connected to the web with the elusive 56k modem. His price was unbeatable. He was suddenly popular. His confidence went through the roof. He quit smoking and drinking. He exercised regularly. He acquired extravagant tastes: every day he ate his burger and fries at a reputable strip joint whose kitchen catered only to a select discriminating clientele. For a while, he was a merchant of Edo. He made friends and taught others his new trade. He thought this windfall was only the tip of the iceberg. It dried up pretty soon and he had to move on to something else. He got married and had kids because of that brief break from financial worries.

Money can be a positive and powerful force. Money can change a dump into an exclusive neighborhood. Humanity could achieve greater things if more people earned decent incomes. The power to improve our life lies ultimately with every one of us. We just need to score a little victory to feed our mind and soul for a lifetime. So the board came up with this gig. It is the game of Centiki. Everything in the Universe from the Big Bang to the color of your eyes is a game of chance. If you want certainty, you break a basic commandment of quantum mechanics. Playing the game becomes the law.

Centiki Virtual Exchange is a replica of the computer program created by the board of directors of the library in the catacombs, under the city of Paris. The objectives are the same. Take action to avoid desertification of the planet. Make enough money while doing it to address some of the economic and social problems existent today. Climate change is not the only concern. As long as we have inequality, hunger, and extremism, the world will not be cool even at temperatures below freezing. The source of the riches on the exchange is the free bounty of nature. In December 2018 the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management sold the right to develop 4 GW of wind power capacity for $405.1 million. Getting money from the wind is a breeze. Solar radiation is omnipresent. Most of the magnesium metal is extracted from sea water. The desert can produce abundant food with free water from the ocean. The minimal wage for garment workers in Bangladesh is $92.14 per month. This is the retail value of the solar energy that falls monthly on two square meters of collector. About the size of an umbrella!

Centiki is played by the book. The game manual gives clues and helps with membership selection. What you get out of Centiki is exactly what you put in. You have to earn what you get. Virtual companies are proposed by level 4 members or selected and adapted from the generic ones listed in the shop. Virtual companies can be actual business entities, creative or scientific projects, or anything useful and ethical. Options for a virtual company are votes for the validation of that project. Options are recorded with unique serial numbers. A validated company begins a life of its own. It becomes a mockup of a real life business enterprise. The option owners elect a board of directors. The goal of the group is to transform the virtual company into a real life entity. Intellectual property is acquired with loans from the exchange and the sale of artifacts. With every step in the right direction, the price of the company option goes up. When the virtual company has enough to offer, it seeks financial backing from investors. The option owners will retain a stake in the new enterprise according to the number of votes they have exercised.

Each player starts at level 5 as director of the board of the library with the rank of inspector of the 21st Precinct. Level 4 will give the player the option to open a broker store to sell and trade virtual items. The player becomes a first lieutenant of the 21st Precinct. With level 3 the player gets command privileges: captain of the 21st Precinct.