The Cost of Democracy
Showing nominal values.

No logarithms. No normalization.

The monetary scale of public life, rendered as physical volume.

One voxel is one million euros. Democratic infrastructure stays visible as the baseline while AI, defense, wealth, and capital accumulation rise around it at strict linear volume.

Hero comparison scene. Showing 4 monetary volume objects in nominal mode.

Analytic mesh
1 voxel

equals €1,000,000

side = cbrt(amount / 1M)

volume is always linearly proportional to money

PPP €PPP

reveals real purchasing power against the EU27 average

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