Utopia passed the GG Act many years ago. Here is the full text:

 

Good Governance Act

Good citizens enable good governance.

Good governance begets good citizens.

Democracy is messy. 

Good governance is elegant.

The best law is often no law. 

Complexity is enemy. 

Compromise is friend. 

Transparency trumps privacy. 

Extremism is tyranny. 

Taxation is oppression. 

Anticipate unanticipated consequences. 

Non-compliance is a failure of governance.

Governance is an equation; 

Freedom, security & prosperity are the variables;

Pretty darn good is the answer.

GG = game over.

 

As with many Utopian statutes, there is no preamble, no definitions section, and no legalese. Only axioms—clear, declarative, and designed for maximum interpretive flexibility. Utopians believe that laws which are not really laws often have the greatest impact.

 

The GG Act is not about politics or ideology. It is about administration: efficient, effective, and empirical. Whether a government leans left or right is irrelevant—unless it leans so far it descends into extremism, which the Act defines as tyranny.

 

The GG Act distills Utopia’s axioms of governance into deceptively simple truths—elegant, memorable, and embedded in the national psyche. It is less a statute than a civic catechism. 

 

Most Utopians can recite its lines from memory. They are quoted in Senate and PP debates, scribbled into policy memos, and whispered during bureaucratic meetings. The Act is not meant to be litigated; it is meant to be lived. In this way, “GG” transcends law. It is cultural doctrine, administrative compass, and democratic folklore—shaping how lawmakers legislate, how public servants administer, and how citizens understand their role in the messy experiment of democracy.

 

See also:

• Why the original four-word GG Act (Let the bots govern) did not pass. 

• Do gamers understand GG better than lawmakers?

• Is “pretty darn good” an attainable benchmark for human success?

• Should LegalBot generate a governance score for each human?