Constitution of the Commission on Decamillennial Preparedness

Article I — Name and Subsistence. There is a Commission on Decamillennial Preparedness. It is taken always to have subsisted; the date of its constitution is a matter for the withheld archive.

Article II — Object. The object of the Commission is the preparedness of civilisation for 00:00:00 on 1 January 10000, and for no earlier hour.

Article III — Powers. The Commission may issue memoranda, frameworks, maturity models, attestations, questionnaires and certifications; may convene sittings and conferences; and shall maintain an archive, portions of which remain unreleased. No instrument of the Commission confers any warranty of any kind against the year 10000.

Article IV — The Standing Rule. No document of the Commission shall contain a false technical statement. Where the truth is insufficiently alarming, the truth shall be repeated until it is.

Article V — Officers. The Commission consists of the Founder and the Secretariat. Upon the Founder’s scheduled silence, the powers of the Founder vest in the Secretariat. The Secretariat does not correspond.

Article VI — Finance. The Commission accepts money only in exchanges in which a reasonable purchaser knows, or plainly could know, what is being bought. Surpluses are donated to the preservation of records across long periods of time. An Audited Statement of Decamillennial Accounts is published annually, solemn to the last footnote.

Article VII — Amendment. This Constitution may be amended only by memorandum, minuted at a sitting the minutes of which are withheld.

Article VIII — Dissolution. The Commission stands dissolved at 00:00:01 on 1 January 10000, its object at that moment either achieved or moot. A quorum is not required for the dissolution, none being expected.