The primary mission of the Department of Social Security is to provide the Constitutional free access to food, water and oxygen, as well as facilitate subsidized access to many other items.
All of these should be limited in such a way as to ensure fair and equal access to every Citizen, while allowing for extra allocations based on need at minimal cost, at or near the production cost of the resource or item.
On Depots:
There should be a depot within around 10-15 walking distance from every PDRM DoH provided building. Each Depot should be sized to be able to serve roughly the population of the nearby area+15%, or 1150 people, whichever is higher. Each Depot should have a industrial 3D printer, stocks of materials and objects, a fleet of drones and a drone repair facility, a full kitchen, a canteen, water purification system, air purification system with optional aquaponics, and storage systems sufficient to supply the community with all the essentials for at least a month.
On Delivery:
Each Depot should have some established method of regularly delivering all the necessary essentials to any house that needs them in their service area. This can include airborne drones for lighter weight items, as well as ground drones for heavier. A designated landing/dropoff area should be agreed upon with the property inhabitor.
On Collection:
A Citizen should be able to pick up a month's worth of supplies at once, every month, or collect multiple times per day. A Citizen should also be able to pick up supplies for anyone living in their household, again for a month in advance. If they do this, they should have the cards of everyone they are collecting for on them, but if not, a quick confirmation should be sent to the pad of the people being collected for. A confirmation is not needed at the moment, but a denial of that confirmation later on can lead to negative consequences down the line for the collecting person.
On Cards:
Every citizen, at birth, is issued an RFID card. While not necessary for identification, it is used as a mark of representation, and as such, when collecting for someone other than oneself, a person should have that person's card. In theory, a person should have their card with them for collections all the time, and for month collections it is more or less mandatory, but for smaller collections it can be waived. If the card is lost, the citizen should immediately report it, and a new card will be issued instantly.
On Food:
Every citizen has the right to have at least 3 meals a day, and an assortment of smaller foodstuffs available. At lunch and dinner meal, 6 options should be available: normal, alternate, simple, meatless, halal, kosher. In addition, special considerations should be taken in mind, and requests should be accommodated. Meals should not repeat within a period of around 4 weeks. The meal should be capable of being produced in the home or at the depot. They should be stored in such a way to last at least a month with refrigeration or freezing. Breakfast is more free form, with a small selection of dishes, as well as a collection of various foodstuffs like cereals or toasts. Snacks should be available throughout the day, and for delivery, made of simple, digestible foods. All foodstuffs, when put together, should more or less cover the human needs of the person ordering, with additional mineral or vitamin needs covered by supplements.
In addition to foodstuffs, a percentage of the daily drinking water allowance can be exchanged for various drinks, such as fruit juices, carbonated drinks, coffee or milk. These should be available in reasonable quantity with reasonable variety.
On Water:
Every Citizen is entitled to 10 l of water per day for drinking and food preparation. This water shall be sterilized and imbued with a small amount of minerals to taste of the Citizen.
Every Citizen is entitled to 200 l of water per day for hygiene, clothes wash, and other uses. This water will be pure and drinkable, but should be used for other purposes.
Both of these water allowances should be returned as wastewater once used, with a 5% loss allowance. Any excess will be charged for. However, most homes simply pump in water from the mains for both purposes, and pump it back out when finished, and so do not have to think about it.
Any extra water can be purchased, for $100 for 1000 l, with a refund of $80 per 1000 l on return.
On Oxygen:
Every Citizen is entitled to 1.5 kg of Oxygen per day, as well as an allowance of around 0.5 kg of other atmospheric gasses to account for leaks. In addition, each Citizen can take home a Atmosphere Scrubber, which can remove particulates and noxious gasses, including CO2 from the air. If the citizen returns around a kg of CO2 per day, they will not be charged for the Oxygen, but if they do it is free.
Most citizens however, live in a habitat, and the depots in that habitat will simply deal with it behind the scenes. They may still request an atmospheric scrubber for their living area, but this will be a courtesy rather than a right, and it will be a less powerful unit.
Additional Oxygen can be purchased, pressurized, for around $10 per 100 kg, and CO2 will be purchased back at $5 per 100kg.
On Other Goods:
Other goods should be available, at a minimal cost, at the depots and for delivery. As an example manifest:
Clothing, various sizes and styles.
Daily medical products
Hygiene items
Exotic Foodstuffs
Drinks, alcoholic and non
Specialty meals
Electronics:
[hl]Pads
[hl]Contacts
[hl]VR kits
[hl]Electronic toys
Simple furniture
Children's toys
Simple camping gear
ESA suit
Tools
Simple raw materials (wood, plastic, metal, cut to various shapes)
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