Lets say you have 12 ministers each that get slightly different flavours of UOPs, each month you need a different flavour of UOP to bid on a political post, including ministerial seats.
This clause triggers my "too complex for human agents" switch.
I'm approaching this problem from the perspective of finding flaws exploitable by selfish agents, rather than reviewing it as a better method of organization between agents that desire to cooperate but have imperfect information; perhaps that's not the point, and you're not trying to make a system that is robust against corruption?
Fungible commodities are money, and I'm not sure whether I believe a government can work where politicians are paid based on their approval rating, and elected based on their worth times their desire to govern. Dividing up the UOPs into several buckets in order to force increased trade only increases barriers to trade and thus increases the need for a common currency, and the likelihood that all politicians will start exchanging UOPs for dollars (because they need to exchange dollars for different kinds of UOPs).
In our world, not liking someone is usually a small factor in negotiating trade terms, and I don't see why moon-world is different in this regard.
I actually expect this to work much better for non-profits, because they are small and full of people who want to be there and support a common goal; I see an internal currency exchange as a signaling mechanism that might help group coordination. I think it's worth pursuing, but I don't feel like it's analogous to running a government.
I was thinking about why I didn't have an explicit problem with selling UOPs for money.
I see giving someone UOPs as equivalent to delegating some political authority. I've read a bit in a computer security field that has had long running arguments with the main stream security field about delegation.
They tend to argue that if bad things happen with explicit delegation, they can easily happen with implicit delegation as well. So your example of buying UOPs for money and then using the UOPs to get political power to enact something, why not just buy off th...
You are now in control of a habitat on the moon. It has no ties to any government; its creation was funded by a wealthy philanthropist who just wants people to emigrate from Earth. The cost of doing so is within the reach of a middle-class family if they sell their home; you can therefore expect a decent number of immigrants.
What sort of government do you establish? How do you go about ruling so that your new settlement on the moon will survive and thrive?