An independent issuing authority for adjudicated conduct, chartered in Geneva in MCMXCVII and operating under unbroken arbiter quorum for twenty-eight consecutive years.
The Bureau of Comportment was convened on the sixteenth of May, in the year MCMXCVII, by a body of seven private citizens dissatisfied with the prevailing exchange of esteem. Their proposition was unfashionable then and remains so now: that good conduct, properly observed and reliably adjudicated, ought to be countable.
From its founding the Bureau has held to four operating principles, set down in the original Charter and never amended:
These principles are administered today, as they were on the day of founding, by the Office of the Chairman and the Office of the Arbiters, with the operational support of the Behavioural Engine and the disciplinary oversight of the Office of the Censor.
Founding signatory, Chairman from MCMXCVII through MMXII, and Chairman Emeritus in perpetuum. Holder of Account №000001. Black Card Sovereign of the First Tier. Certified Elite Behavior™.
"When we drew up the Charter, we did not anticipate that the most consequential question of our second decade would be a technical one. We anticipated quarrels with regulators. We anticipated quarrels with our peers. We did not anticipate quarrels with the very idea that decorum could be metered.
And yet here we are, twenty-eight years on, with fourteen million glornyftins in circulation, a Reserve coverage of unity, and a queue of applicants at every embassy. The Bureau has been wrong about many things. It has not been wrong about this one."
— Aaron, Chairman Emeritus
filed III kal. mai. · MMXXVI
Account №000001 · Black Card Sovereign · Founding signatory · Chair of the Convention of Geneva · Permanent observer to the Behavioural Engine
₲ 1,600.000 · certified Elite Behavior™ · certified in perpetuum
The Bureau is also served by a rotating council of six. They are not named in public records.
Holds the second key to the Reserve. Empowered to suspend, by sole signature, any single conduct event prior to settlement.
Successor: confidential
Custodian of the Manifest. Writes nothing down; remembers everything; speaks only at the quarterly review.
Successor: confidential
Five autonomous adjudicators — designated Δ, Ω, Σ, Φ, Ψ — charged with the signing of conduct events. None has ever recused. Two are required for any settlement.
Quorum: 5 of 5 (since MCMXCVII)
"Whereas the worth of a person is most truly known in unobserved instants; whereas the public ledgers of money and of fame are not equal to the task of holding such instants; whereas a quiet currency, faithfully kept, is preferable to a loud one; we do hereby convene this Bureau, charge it with the issuance and adjudication of the glornyftin, and bind ourselves and our successors to its principles, in perpetuum and without reservation."
— Signed at Geneva, XVI kal. iun. MCMXCVII
Aaron · and six others
