genocidal one-party state
Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977
Industry Historical
The Khmer Rouge regime near the middle of its rule, when forced agrarian collectivization, executions, starvation, and destruction of social life were central policy. It scores at the floor because ordinary life was converted into compulsory ideological labor under lethal state control.
Why this matters: This is a bottom-anchor for coercive utopianism.
Letter grade F Malignant Medium confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.
The L badge appears when the Policy Capture penalty is severe. Here, L stands for Lobbying: the policy-capture value is -15, meaning the evidence indicates major private-interest lobbying or policy pressure against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, democratic accountability, or ecological life.
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Evaluation Overview
F - Malignant
The score turns mainly on Scale Integrity, with the largest penalty coming from Coercive Violence.
Strengths
- Scale Integrity1/5
- Ownership0/10
- Governance0/10
Penalties
- Coercive Violence-30
- Human Harm-20
- Policy Capture-15
- Ecological Harm-8
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims12
- Direct axis claims12
- Coverage11/18
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
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Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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0 / 10 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. |
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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0 / 10 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. |
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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0 / 10 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. |
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
|
0 / 7 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. |
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
?
Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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0 / 7 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. |
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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0 / 7 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. |
Market Conduct
?
Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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0 / 5 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. |
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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0 / 5 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. |
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
|
1 / 5 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Human Harm
?
Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense,
reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to
0.
|
-20 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Coercive Violence
?
Direct or institutionally enabled killing, torture, detention abuse,
armed repression, forced displacement, violent domination, or
nonconsensual crisis-line emergency escalation that exposes callers to
confinement or force. Range: -30 to 0.
|
-30 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Ecological Harm
?
Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale,
including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued
after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
|
-8 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Policy Capture
?
Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes,
enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental,
healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy
against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or
ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely
because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.
|
-15 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Debt Peonage
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Coercive or structurally inescapable debt systems, including
bankruptcy-resistant student debt, compelled servicing relationships,
wage or benefit garnishment leverage, distressed-debt buying, debt
collection, or refinancing practices that turn education, medical care,
housing, household necessity, or public obligation into long-term debtor
control. Ordinary transparent lending is not penalized by itself. Range:
-12 to 0.
|
-8 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Accountability Opacity
?
Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability
structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
|
-2 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Identity Capture
?
Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
|
-3 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Surveillance Capture
?
Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial
recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of
customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
|
-5 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Ideological Disavowal
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Concealed ideology presented as neutrality, expertise, professional
necessity, public-service administration, market inevitability, or
non-ideological common sense while exercising power. Range: -3 to 0.
|
-3 |
The year 1977 captures the regime after total social reorganization had become ordinary rule. Linked evidence
|
Bonus Credits
No bonus credits applied in this version.
Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 69/100
12 verified linked claims 12 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 11/18 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 14/20
12 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 9/18
12 direct claims across 18 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 6/10
11/18 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977: Britannica describes mass death under Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 to 1979.
- Britannica: Cambodian genocideGeneral web source · 58%
2Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977: Britannica describes the Khmer Rouge regime and death toll estimates.
- Britannica: Khmer RougeGeneral web source · 58%
3Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for scale integrity based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
4Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for human harm based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
5Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for coercive violence based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
6Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for ecological harm based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
7Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for policy capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
8Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for debt peonage based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
9Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for disclosure based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
10Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for identity capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
11Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for surveillance capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
12Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 has a year-specific historical finding for ideological disavowal based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Democratic Kampuchea @ 1977 historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
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