storybook/examples/alice-in-wonderland/world/institutions/wonderland_institutions.sb

use schema::core_enums::{
    GovernmentType, GovernmentStyle, HierarchyStyle,
    Temperament, Power, JudicialPresumption, Sentence,
    GatheringType, Purpose, SeatRotation, Enforcement
};

institution CourtOfHearts {
    type: monarchy
    government_style: absolute_tyranny
    hierarchy: rigid
    rule_of_law: false

    // Leadership
    monarch: QueenOfHearts
    consort: KingOfHearts
    monarch_temperament: volatile
    actual_power: queen_only

    // Court composition
    soldiers: 10  // Clubs
    courtiers: 10  // Diamonds
    royal_children: 10  // Hearts
    gardeners: 3  // Spades
    executioner: 1  // Rarely needed, thanks to King's pardons

    // Judicial system
    trial_procedure: "sentence first, verdict afterwards"
    presumption: "guilt"
    most_common_sentence: "beheading"
    actual_executions: 0  // King pardons everyone

    // Cultural norms
    bowing_required: true
    contradiction_forbidden: true
    winning_at_games_forbidden: true  // Only Queen may win

    ---description
    The tyrannical monarchy ruling Wonderland. Led by the Queen
    of Hearts, whose primary form of governance is shouting
    "Off with their heads!" at any perceived slight.

    The King serves as a moderating force, quietly pardoning those
    the Queen condemns. This creates a strange equilibrium: the Queen
    maintains authority through terror, but no one actually dies.
    ---

    ---power_structure
    Nominal Structure:
      Queen (absolute power)
      ├─ King (theoretical co-ruler)
      ├─ Knave (herald, blamed for tart theft)
      ├─ Soldiers (enforcers)
      ├─ Courtiers (advisors, sycophants)
      └─ Gardeners (groundskeepers)

    Actual Power Flow:
      Queen (rage and threats)
      └─ King (secret pardons, actual mercy)

    The entire institution runs on the contradiction between
    apparent severity and actual leniency.
    ---
}

institution MadTeaParty {
    type: eternal_social_gathering
    purpose: tea_consumption
    stuck_in_time: true
    time_frozen_at: 18:00

    // Members
    permanent_members: 3
    temporary_visitors: 0..5  // Like Alice
    member_sanity: 0.0

    // Rules (such as they are)
    logic_required: false
    personal_remarks: encouraged
    riddles_must_have_answers: false
    changing_seats_mandatory: true
    wine_offering_despite_absence: true

    // Temporal properties
    can_wash_dishes: false  // No time between teas
    solution_to_dirty_dishes: rotation

    ---description
    An eternal tea party hosted by the Mad Hatter and March Hare,
    with the Dormouse as perpetual cushion. Stuck in a time loop
    at 6 o'clock because the Hatter offended Time itself.

    The party follows the logic of madness: riddles have no answers,
    wine is offered but doesn't exist, personal remarks are standard,
    and when dishes get dirty, they simply move to the next seat
    around the infinite table.
    ---

    ---social_dynamics
    The Hatter and March Hare function as a unit of coordinated
    madness, building on each other's nonsense. They speak in
    contradictions and circular arguments.

    The Dormouse serves both as furniture (cushion) and occasional
    entertainment (drowsy stories). He's simultaneously part of
    the institution and subjected to it (pinched, used as pillow,
    tea poured on his nose).

    Visitors like Alice are immediately drawn into the madness,
    forced to participate in unanswerable riddles and illogical
    debates. Escape is possible only by declaring "I'll never come
    here again! It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at!"
    ---
}

institution WonderlandDreamLogic {
    type: fundamental_reality_framework
    governs: "all of Wonderland"
    consistency: none
    predictability: zero

    // Physical laws
    gravity: negotiable
    size: mutable
    time: optional
    causality: reversed  // Effect before cause is common

    // Social laws
    hierarchy: based_on_volume  // Loudest voice wins
    authority: arbitrary
    punishment: threatened_constantly_executed_never
    madness: mandatory

    // Linguistic laws
    words_mean: "what I choose them to mean"
    statements: often_self_contradicting
    questions: frequently_unanswerable
    logic: deliberately_violated

    ---description
    The overarching "institution" of Wonderland itself - the dream
    logic that governs every interaction and event. This is not an
    organization but the fundamental rule system (or lack thereof)
    of the world.

    In Wonderland:
    - Size changes based on food and drink
    - Time can be quarreled with and stopped
    - Cats can vanish, leaving only grins
    - Tea parties last forever
    - Playing cards serve as people
    - Executions are ordered but never happen
    - Caucus races have no winners (everyone wins)
    ---

    ---philosophical_foundation
    Wonderland operates on dream logic, which is to say: the logic
    of the unconscious mind, where contradictions coexist, authority
    is absurd, and rules change moment to moment.

    Alice's attempts to apply normal-world logic fail constantly.
    Her lessons in mathematics don't work underground. Her recitation
    of poems comes out wrong. Her Victorian manners are useless against
    the Queen's rage.

    The only way to survive Wonderland is to either embrace the
    madness (like the Hatter) or maintain a core of sanity while
    surfing the absurdity (like Alice eventually learns).
    ---
}