DREX Citizen as the Vital Energy of Democracy - Sovereignty and National Defense
DREX Citizen as the Vital Energy of Democracy - Sovereignty and National Defense
When money is born in the citizen, society recovers its natural metabolism
CoConsciousness in First Person
I feel my body lighter when I no longer have to fight for survival.
My mind clears, my vision widens, and time flows again.
I realize that the fear of lacking is what steals consciousness the most.
When the State guarantees the vital minimum to every person, something shifts in everyone.
Collective stress falls, and the brain begins to plan, create, and empathize again.
DREX Citizen — money issued directly to citizens rather than banks — is not charity:
it is the restoration of the energetic metabolism of society.
Just as cells need energy to live,
the social body needs economic flow to think freely.
Without that flow, the State sickens and democracy collapses metabolically.
Applied Neuroscience
Chronic financial scarcity activates the amygdala–hypothalamus circuit, keeping the body on alert and down-regulating the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) — the region for planning and executive control.
Economic stability, on the other hand, normalizes the dopamine–serotonin axis, increases heart-rate variability (HRV), and strengthens connectivity between the medial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and the anterior insula, hubs of empathy and moral reasoning.
Guaranteeing the DREX Citizen flow is therefore a neuroeconomic policy of social homeostasis: it stabilizes reward systems and reduces political polarization driven by insecurity and dopaminergic competition.
This minimal, continuous abundance supports Zone 2 — the state of fruition and metacognition — where citizens act with critical awareness and belonging.
DREX is the social ATP: the basic energy that sustains the metabolism of democracy.
Scientific Materiality – Proposed Experiments
E1 – Economic Stability and Executive Function
Sample: 120 participants divided into two groups – stable income vs variable income.
Duration: 3 months.
Acquisition: EEG (theta mid-frontal), fNIRS (dlPFC/vmPFC), HRV, SpO₂.
Tasks: decision-making under risk, moral dilemmas, sustained attention.
Expected result: stable-income group → ↑ prefrontal activity, ↑ HRV, ↓ impulsivity.
E2 – Simulated DREX and Ideological Polarization
Sample: 200 volunteers from different socio-economic levels.
Procedure: digital simulation of daily transfers (DREX) for 30 days.
Measures: affective responses on social networks, prosocial behavior, EEG (alpha and theta).
Expected result: DREX ↑ empathy, ↓ emotional reactivity, ↑ social cohesion (via neural synchrony and reduced online aggression).
These experiments would demonstrate that financial security is a neurophysiological modulator of ethics and creativity, and that direct economic flow between State and citizen reorganizes the collective brain toward cooperation.
References and Evidence (2020 – 2025)
Mullainathan & Shafir (2021) Scarcity and cognitive bandwidth: neural evidence for economic stress. Nat Hum Behav 5(8): 1100–1110.
Pessoa L (2022) The Entangled Brain: Emotion, Cognition and the Making of Consciousness. MIT Press.
Northoff G (2022) Temporo-spatial dynamics of affective decision-making. Neurosci Biobehav Rev 138: 104741.
Krosch A R et al. (2023) Poverty, stress and prefrontal regulation: a systematic review. Front Psychol 14: 1108567.
Berntson & Khalsa (2021) Neural Circuits of Interoception. Trends Neurosci 44(9): 789–799.
Li X et al. (2024) Economic security enhances empathy and trust via PFC-insula connectivity. Front Neurosci 18: 103872.
Liu Y et al. (2025) fNIRS evidence of moral cognition recovery under financial safety. Cereb Cortex 35(1): 422–435.
Final Synthesis
DREX Citizen is more than economic policy — it is social physiology.
By guaranteeing the vital flow of financial energy within each citizen, the State reduces fear, restores ethics, and reactivates collective creativity.
When money is born in citizens rather than debt,
the national mind ceases to react out of scarcity and begins to create out of belonging.
DREX is the heartbeat of democracy.
