Here is a clear, structured explanation of how to coordinate more than 25,000 residents in Solon Papageorgiou’s post-monetary micro-utopia model — without currency, without markets, and without centralized authority.

🌍 How to Coordinate 25,000+ Residents Without Money

(The Fully Post-Monetary Coordination Architecture)

A community of 25,000 people might seem too large to function without money — but only if one imagines it as a centralized city.
Solon’s framework avoids that problem entirely.

It uses modular design, transparent resource systems, and distributed governance that scale horizontally, not vertically.

✅ 1. The Community Is Not One Giant Unit

It is a network of small, self-sufficient micro-units, each with high autonomy.

Population Structure:

• 150-person clusters (neighborhood circles)

• 500-person villages

• 2,000-person districts

• 25,000-person federations

Each layer handles only the level of coordination appropriate to its scale.

This reduces complexity by 95%.

No money is needed because:

• each cluster handles its own food, water, caregiving, conflict mediation

• districts handle infrastructure and energy grids

• federations handle inter-district logistics, healthcare, and planning

It’s like having hundreds of small communities, not one massive city.

✅ 2. Resource Coordination Replaces Price Coordination

In capitalism, prices coordinate distribution.

In Solon’s system, resource visibility + planning circles do this instead.

The tools that replace money:

1. Public Inventories

   • everyone can see what exists

   • nothing is hidden behind private ownership

   • prevents hoarding

2. Production Dashboards

   • how much food is growing

   • energy output

   • maintenance schedules

   • skill availability

3. Needs-Based signaling

   • communities report needs like:
     “We need 50 more water filters”
     “This district needs a carpentry team this month”

This creates information transparency, the key to coordinating large populations.

✅ 3. Affinity Groups + Task Teams handle the work normally done by money

Instead of earning money to hire labor, groups self-organize around:

• skills

• interests

• responsibilities

Examples:

• food cultivation affinity groups

• repair & fabrication teams

• herbal medicine groups

• water purification teams

• childcare and education circles

• conflict mediation circles

• crisis response teams

These take the place of:

• companies

• departments

• government offices

Thousands of people coordinate — but nobody is coerced or paid.
They contribute because:

• they see the community needs

• their contributions secure the system for everyone

• work matches personal meaning, not survival anxiety

✅ 4. Post-Monetary Logistics = The Key to Scaling

Solon’s model uses distributed logistics, not markets.

Key tools:

• daily or weekly assemblies at the 150-person level

• district coordinators selected by consent (not elected)

• rotating roles to prevent power concentration

• inter-district councils for large-scale issues

There is no centralized government and no top-down control.

Instead, coordination flows like a mesh network:

• local → district → federation

• federation → district → local

Nothing requires money, because the community doesn’t buy from itself.

✅ 5. Specialization Exists — but without class divisions

In a 25,000-person federation, people naturally specialize:

• doctors

• engineers

• midwives

• architects

• gardeners

• technicians

• mediators

• educators

• energy maintenance teams

But these roles are:

• voluntary

• respected

• non-market

• contribution-based

Nobody “earns more” for being a surgeon or engineer.
Their contributions are a service to the community in a needs-based system.

✅ 6. Why This Works: No Profit Motive → No Scarcity Logic

In a monetary economy:

• companies must sell

• customers must pay

• shortages create higher prices

• profits guide production

In Solon’s system:

• goods flow to where they are needed

• no one has an incentive to hoard

• production is planned through needs and transparency

• the community sees shortages early and responds collectively

Coordination becomes simpler — not harder.

✅ 7. Cross-Community Rapid Response Provides Stability

For 25,000 residents, resilience is essential.

Solon's model includes:

• traveling medical teams

• mobile repair teams

• inter-district builders

• seed-sharing networks

• knowledge exchange teams

• environmental crisis teams

Large-scale events (storms, water breakdowns, crop failure) are handled by cooperative mobilization, not by money or markets.

✅ 8. Historical Proof: Large Moneyless Systems Work

Large populations have coordinated without money many times:

• Inca Empire’s “mita” system (12 million people)

• Indigenous confederacies

• Medieval commons systems

• Israeli kibbutzim clusters

• Zapatista zones in Chiapas

• Cuban Special Period adaptations

• WW2 rationing economies (functionally post-monetary)

Every one of these proved:

• money is not necessary for distribution

• transparent needs + mutual contribution outperform markets

• resilience increases when survival is de-linked from wages

🌱 In Summary

A 25,000-person micro-utopia coordinates without money through:

1. Modular organization

2. Transparent inventories

3. Needs-based planning

4. Affinity groups instead of companies

5. Distributed decision-making

6. Rotating leadership

7. Post-monetary logistics

8. Cross-community crisis teams

Money becomes unnecessary because everything essential is produced, shared, and distributed directly within the community.

The system does not scale like a city — it scales like a forest:
many small units, interconnected, self-sufficient, stable.