ancient empire
Roman Empire @ 117 CE
Industry Historical
The Roman Empire at its territorial high point under Trajan, with administrative durability, public works, roads, and law coexisting with conquest, slavery, and emperor-centered rule. It scores low because imperial order and infrastructure rested on domination rather than accountable consent.
Why this matters: Rome is useful because it combines real institutional capacity with slavery and conquest.
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 -10, 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 Integrity5/5
- Loss-Bearing Fidelity3/7
- Product Integrity3/5
Penalties
- Coercive Violence-14
- Policy Capture-10
- Human Harm-8
- Debt Peonage-5
Evidence state
- ConfidenceMedium confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims19
- Direct axis claims19
- Coverage17/19
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 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. |
Governance
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Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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1 / 10 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Extraction
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Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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2 / 10 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Labor Sovereignty
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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.
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0 / 7 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. |
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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1 / 7 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Loss-Bearing Fidelity
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Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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3 / 7 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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2 / 5 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Product Integrity
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Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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3 / 5 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Scale Integrity
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Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
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5 / 5 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Human Harm
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Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense,
reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to
0.
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-8 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Coercive Violence
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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.
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-14 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Ecological Harm
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Footprint, trajectory, irreversibility, culpability, and scale,
including whether ecological harm is central to the model and continued
after credible notice. Range: -30 to 0.
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-4 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Policy Capture
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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.
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-10 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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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.
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-5 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability
structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
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-2 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Identity Capture
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Customer pressure, employee pressure, and pervasive identity saturation.
Range: -3 to 0.
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-2 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Surveillance Capture
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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.
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-1 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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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.
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-2 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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1 / 3 |
The year 117 CE captures Rome at maximum scale and administrative prestige rather than in collapse. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
Medium 76/100
19 verified linked claims 19 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 17/19 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 14/20
19 verified linked claims
Source quality 10/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
19 direct claims across 19 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 9/10
17/19 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.1Roman Empire @ 117 CE: Britannica describes Trajan-era harmony, public works, and expansion.
- Britannica: Ancient Rome, Flavian emperors and TrajanGeneral web source · 58%
2Roman Empire @ 117 CE: Britannica describes slavery and mass enslavement in Roman warfare.
- Britannica: Ancient Rome, culture and religionGeneral web source · 58%
3Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for governance based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
4Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for extraction based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
5Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for solidarity unemployed based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
6Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for loss bearing fidelity based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
7Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for market conduct based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
8Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for product integrity based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
9Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for scale integrity based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
10Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for constitutional spirit based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
11Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for human harm based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
12Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for coercive violence based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
13Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for ecological harm based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
14Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for policy capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
15Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for debt peonage based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
16Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for disclosure based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
17Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for identity capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
18Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for surveillance capture based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
19Roman Empire @ 117 CE has a year-specific historical finding for ideological disavowal based on the dated profile sources and snapshot evaluation.
- Roman Empire @ 117 CE historical profile sourceGeneral web source · 58%
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