Mobilization

Staking is enlistment. Treasuries buy units at a rising cost, and your staked tokens become your nation’s fighting spirit.

Building an army

Units are bought from the treasury at a cost that rises with the size of the army:

c(M) = c₀ · (1 + M / M_s)

Units activate the next epoch (no vote-day insta-armies), depreciate at δ = 10% per epoch, and demand upkeep — skip payroll and desertions double the decay.

Combat power

CP = M^α · (1 + λσ) · τ · ε        α = 0.65,  λ = 0.5

• M is your military stock, entering through a concave exponent α = 0.65 — so doubling your army does not double your power.
• σ is the fraction of supply staked — your mobilization. An 80%-mobilized micro-nation punches ~40% above its weight before tactics are even chosen.
• τ is the tactics multiplier (see combat).
• ε ~ U[0.9, 1.1] is a public, verifiable VRF roll — every roll’s receipt is published in the news.

Getting paid to stand

Stakers earn the φ_S fee share plus a cut of every spoil. Yield is pure cash flow — zero emissions, ever — so it self-balances: when stakers are few, each remaining soldier’s share of the flow is larger.

Staking locks hard while your country is in a declared conflict. Deserters can’t dump on the eve of battle; they stand and are paid for it — defenders who stay staked through a successful defense split 30% of the attacker’s forfeited siege escrow.