Dimension

What the law compels

Where the law forces a person to take part in a collective arrangement, as against leaving them to join it or not. Each feature is read from the statute itself and placed on a written scale, with the articles it was read from, how sure the reader is and why, and whether a second person has checked it.

Version 1. Defined by: An example in Solon's configuration (version 1, 2026-11-09), coded from statutes. Not an index.

What the law says

The statute's own terms, including what they work out to for a typical case.

  • Compulsory military or replacement service

  • Compulsory health insurance

  • Compulsory provision for old age

What happens in practice

Enforcement, prosecution, compliance and tolerance: what is done, which can differ from what is written.

No series yet. What is done in practice: how many people are actually called up or serve in a replacement service each year, how many refuse and what happens to them, from defence ministries and justice statistics.

What results

What follows for people and society: revenue, prices, availability, how free people say they are.

No series yet. What follows: the share of each age group that serves, and the cost of the service to those who serve, from defence ministries or statistical offices.

Coded from the law

Each feature is read from the statute itself and placed on a written scale. A coding is a judgement and can be wrong, so it shows what it was read from, how sure the reader is and why, what it leaves open, who coded it, and whether a second person has checked it.

Compulsory military or replacement service

Does the law compel a person to serve in the armed forces or in a replacement service?

  1. 0 · No duty: The law requires neither service nor registration for service. Volunteers may serve.
  2. 1 · Registration and liability: The law requires some people to register for possible service and makes them liable for it, but does not itself set a standing duty to serve now: whether anyone is called up depends on a further decision.
  3. 2 · Service, with a civilian alternative: The law sets a standing duty to serve on some people (by sex, age or citizenship) and provides a civilian or non-military replacement service for those who refuse on grounds of conscience or otherwise.
  4. 3 · Service, no alternative: The law sets a standing duty to serve on some people and provides no civilian alternative for those who refuse.
Cases already decided
  • A duty that falls on one sex only is coded by what it requires of the people it covers; the sex it covers is stated in the reading, not scored.
  • A levy or fee in place of service is part of the alternative's cost and is stated in the reading; it does not change the point.
  • A statute that makes registrants liable for service without saying whether induction is currently authorised is coded 1 with medium confidence, and the reading says what it leaves open.

Rubric version 1. Solon's configuration (version 1, 2026-11-09), written for the compulsion and exit dimensions.

Nothing coded yet.

Compulsory health insurance

Does the law compel a person to be covered by health insurance, and with what choice?

  1. 0 · No duty: The law does not require a person to be covered by health insurance.
  2. 1 · Duty without a payment: The law states a duty to be covered, but the payment or other consequence for not being covered is zero, so nothing enforces it.
  3. 2 · Duty, with a choice of insurer: The law requires every resident to be insured and lets each person choose among insurers, and to change insurer.
  4. 3 · Duty, one insurer: The law requires every resident to be covered and assigns them to one public insurer, with no choice of insurer.
Cases already decided
  • Coverage that follows automatically from paying a tax, with no separate act of insuring, is not coded here until a reader has decided which point it is; the place is left uncoded and the reason stated.
  • A duty that the law states but that carries a payment of zero is coded 1, and the reading says what the payment is.

Rubric version 1. Solon's configuration (version 1, 2026-11-09), written for the compulsion and exit dimensions.

Nothing coded yet.

Compulsory provision for old age

Does the law compel a person to contribute to, or save for, a pension, and does it leave a way out?

  1. 0 · No duty: The law requires no contribution or saving for old age; a pension scheme may exist and be joined or not.
  2. 1 · Duty, with a choice of provider: The law requires every worker to save or insure for old age, and lets each choose among providers or products, public or private.
  3. 2 · Duty to a public scheme, with a way out: The law requires contributions to a public scheme, and lets a person opt out into an equivalent of their own.
  4. 3 · Duty to a public scheme, no way out: The law requires contributions to a public scheme or imposes a tax for it, and gives a person no alternative.
Cases already decided
  • A country with a compulsory public first tier and a further compulsory tier with a choice is coded by the first tier, and the reading names the second.
  • A tax earmarked for pensions counts as a contribution if the law ties it to the scheme's benefits.
  • A place is coded only from a reading of the provisions that impose the duty; one that has not been read is left uncoded, not 0.

Rubric version 1. Solon's configuration (version 1, 2026-11-09), written for the compulsion and exit dimensions.

Nothing coded yet.

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  1. F1What the law compels: Where the law forces a person to take part in a collective arrangement, as against leaving them to join it or not. Each feature is read from the statute itself and placed on a written scale, with the articles it was read from, how sure the reader is and why, and whether a second person has checked it. Source: An example in Solon's configuration (version 1, 2026-11-09), coded from statutes. Not an index.
  2. F2No series yet for what happens in practice. It would be filled by: What is done in practice: how many people are actually called up or serve in a replacement service each year, how many refuse and what happens to them, from defence ministries and justice statistics.
  3. F3No series yet for what results. It would be filled by: What follows: the share of each age group that serves, and the cost of the service to those who serve, from defence ministries or statistical offices.