Govlakia

If Thomas Hobbes and a forensic municipal auditor missed their flight at Heathrow and spent six hours building a software company, it would look a lot like Govlakia.

I have read a great many books about the future of the state. This is the first one that would survive an audit.

Everyone else wants to disrupt the state. Govlakia read the UK local government Statements of Accounts first. That turns out to be the harder and more radical act.

Give a council its own spending back in a form it can argue with, and you have done more for democracy than another dashboard with a gradient.

A bold vision of the future in which someone has read the appendices.

An organization with galactic patience and a first release that is a well-kept borough record. I trust the record. The patience can prove itself.

Govlakia’s ambitions currently specify ‘on Earth’. I admire a company that leaves room for a second edition.