C.U.L.T. Kids · The Worlds · Progressive Planet
Cultivating Underdeveloped Leaders Today
The system runs around you every day. This planet teaches how it actually works — the branches, the levels, the laws, the maps, the names. Information, not advocacy. The opinions are yours to form.
A rule you think is unfair. A broken swing nobody reports. A petition with 200 signatures that changed nothing. Ten situations where the difference between complaining and changing something is one question: who actually holds the decision? No parties and no politicians on this planet — just how decisions really get made, from a classroom up to a town.
Two things carried nearly every mission. First, almost every rule is the scar of an old problem — ask what it is FOR before you argue against it. Second, effort aimed at the wrong person changes nothing, however much of it there is. Find the decider, ask clearly, write it down, and go one step up if the answer is silence.
This is the only planet on the platform that needs to state its rules out loud, because the topic is the one most adults disagree about. Here's what this planet does and doesn't do — in plain English, before you read another word.
The promise: this planet is information, not persuasion. Your beliefs belong to you. Your opinions belong to you. Our job is to give you the system clearly enough that you can think for yourself — and disagree with anyone, including us.
01 · The shape of it
Every level of American government is split into three parts. None of them is allowed to do everything. Each one watches the others. Tap a branch to see what it does.
02 · The layers of it
Each branch above shows up at three different levels. The federal level handles the whole country. The state level handles your state. The local level handles your town or city. Tap a level to see what each one actually decides.
03 · The map of it
Tap a state to reveal its capital. Switch to Quiz Me mode to test recall — you'll be shown a state, asked to pick its capital from four choices, and your best score saves on this device.
04 · The bigger map
The United States is one country among ~195. Tap a continent to see its largest countries by population, plus their capitals. The country list isn't every country — it's the largest and most-named ones at this age.
05 · The words you'll hear
Two words you hear adults say a lot. Most kids learn them as something heavy and hard. They aren't.
The Civic main page is comprehensive on its own — the four cards below are the depth roadmap for upcoming workshops. Roadmap and Tools are queued; Playground and Kit are in design.
Legislative writes. Executive runs. Judicial decides. Tap each one above to see what it actually does.
Same three branches, three different scopes. Tap each level above to see who decides what.
Browse, reveal, or quiz yourself. Personal best saves on your device.
The macro map. Tap a continent to see its largest countries and their capitals.
Many cultures around the world tell stories about this.
Planet · Civic
Most kids meet government as a list of names to memorize for a test. This planet teaches it as a living system you live inside — the shape of it, the levels of it, the limits of it.
A law is a rule that a government makes. If you break it, the government can take some kind of action — a fine, a court date, sometimes time in jail.
Laws come from the Legislative branch (the people who write the rules), are signed by the Executive branch (the people who run the day-to-day), and are interpreted by the Judicial branch (the people who decide what the rules mean when there's an argument).
Laws kids actually run into:
Most laws don't apply to you because you're a kid — but every law that protects you (against being hurt, against being lied to in a sale, against being treated unfairly because of who you are) is also a law somebody had to write.
Politics is what happens when a group of people has to make a decision together and they don't all agree. That's it. Not a dirty word. Not a fight. Just the process of figuring out what to do when you can't ask one person.
Politics happens at every scale:
Voting is one tool politics uses. Everyone gets one voice. The choice with the most voices wins. It's not a perfect system — sometimes the thing that wins isn't the thing the most people actually wanted — but it's the system most countries use because it gives every adult an equal shot at being heard.
This planet doesn't tell you who to vote for. That's not what we do here. But we will always show you how voting works, when it happens, and what is being decided.
No internet trick. Ask a grown-up. If they don't know either, look it up together. These are two of the most important people in your life that you almost certainly couldn't name yesterday. The system is run by names. Knowing them is half the work.
This planet is one stop on a single curriculum, not a standalone topic. The same subject is taught at every level of C.U.L.T. — a cadet who starts at Sparks never starts over.
Every level is open to everybody. Nobody is asked their age, and nobody is tracked. A grown adult who never got taught this is welcome to start at the bottom rung, and a twelve-year-old who is ready is welcome to climb.