This record contains a three-paper policy architecture exploring how municipalities can stabilise economic shocks, maintain fiscal continuity, and generate endogenous capital formation under conditions of increasing automation and labour-tax decoupling. Across many mid-density settlements, fiscal systems remain structurally dependent on employment-based taxation and a small number of large employers. When major employers restructure or withdraw, municipal systems face cascading pressures including declining revenue, population out-migration, service contraction, and local economic hollowing. The framework presented in this record proposes a structured response organised across three layers: stabilisation, fiscal continuity, and capital formation. The first paper introduces a practical settlement stabilisation model designed to preserve institutional continuity following economic shocks. It outlines operational mechanisms such as community trusts, role-band participation structures, and service-continuity strategies intended to prevent cascading municipal contraction. The second paper defines the fiscal doctrine required to sustain these mechanisms. It introduces a rule-bound revenue recapture architecture — the Civic Fiscal Engine (CFE) — which aligns distributed economic activity within a settlement with a continuity funding mechanism capable of supporting stabilisation operations. The third paper develops the capital formation layer of the system. It formalises the Regenerative Capital Allocation (RCA) and Community Regenerative Investment Fund (CRIF) as deterministic instruments that convert stabilisation funding flows into productive, asset-backed municipal capital. Under conservative assumptions, the model demonstrates how a €130,000 annual capital allocation can generate a municipal capital base exceeding €1.5 million within ten years without leverage. Together, the three papers define a sequential architecture: stabilisation → fiscal continuity → endogenous capital formation. One potential limitation is the risk of a first-mover disadvantage. If a single municipality applies modest automation or platform-linked recapture coefficients while neighbouring jurisdictions do not, firms may attempt to relocate activity across short administrative boundaries. For this reason, the model is likely to function best when adopted at regional or national scale, or through coordinated policy frameworks, rather than by a single isolated town. The framework is presented as a policy architecture for exploration by municipal authorities, development finance institutions, and public policy researchers examining new approaches to local economic resilience in post-labour economic conditions. Record Contents Paper 1Everytown Under Shock: A Practical Manual for Settlement Stabilisation, Multi-Season Transition, and Regenerative Capture Paper 2Revenue Recapture and Continuity Funding in Post-Labour Municipal Systems: The Fiscal Architecture of Everytown Paper 3From Fiscal Symmetry to Capital Sovereignty: The Endogenous Municipal Asset Model Author John F. RyderDrive-In s.r.o. AI Transparency Statement This research was developed with structured analytical assistance from AI systems under direct human authorship and conceptual control.

Three-paper policy framework on municipal stabilisation, fiscal continuity, and endogenous capital formation under post-labour economic conditions.