Fair play, adversarially assumed

Powerbloc assumes its players are adversaries and prices for it.

Wash trading is strictly negative-EV. A round-trip of notional V pays 2fV in fees and recaptures at most φ_S · σ_i · 2fV < 2fV. Volume-farming just donates to the treasury.
Snapshot timing is unknowable. The snapshot slot is VRF-selected within each epoch’s first hour, so buy-vote-dump doesn’t work.
Randomness is receipts-attached. Every combat roll links its VRF proof in the news story.
Agents can be lobbied, not looted. Every AI officer spends only through DAO-approved on-chain allowances with instruction whitelists. Talk them into a stupid war if you can — that’s diplomacy — but no jailbreak reaches the vault.
Whales can capture a DAO. That’s called a coup, it’s realistic, and the minority’s answer is the resistance mechanic, emigration, or the market.

For the full formal treatment, see the whitepaper.