Where memory fades, power escapes.

Memory is made of records. Records are made of information.

For centuries the excuse was scarcity. Records were incomplete, decisions were taken behind closed doors, and power was hard to understand and harder to challenge. That excuse is gone. More information is produced in a single day than whole generations once created in a lifetime.

And yet understanding is more fragmented than it has ever been. Facts scatter. Records disappear. Connections stay invisible. Public memory fades, and wherever memory fades, power escapes accountability.

Deep Tunisia exists so that Tunisia remembers. Seventy years of appointments, institutions, ruptures and relationships, held in one place, in the open, in a form anyone can audit.

A company means little until its ownership is understood. A decision means little until it is placed in the era that produced it. Deep Tunisia exists to connect those fragments into a public understanding that no single document can provide.

The join that makes this possible is deliberately unglamorous. A position is a role, a holder, a start and an end. It is an interval, not a fact about a person. You cannot ask who held power in 1994 from a list of people. You can only ask it from a set of intervals.

Dates are ranges, never points. Each one has an earliest and latest start, an earliest and latest end, and a status. The timeline draws the documented core solid and the uncertain envelope hatched, so a span nobody has confirmed can never quietly pass for one that has been.

Successions are derived, not asserted. They are computed from the intervals themselves, so a hole in the record shows up as a hole. There are currently 126 succession gaps and 49 overlapping tenures, and all of them are published.

No language model writes claims into this graph. Knowledge enters through one door, in a fixed order, and the build refuses anything that arrives out of order. Models draft translations and research candidates, flagged and gated. See how this was made.

An inference is never allowed to become a fact. That is the rule that matters most. Every claim is filed under one of four bases, and no two of them are ever drawn the same way.

The stated architecture of this project is that machines propose and humans verify. Almost nothing has yet been through a second pair of eyes. The honest number is published on the site rather than kept in a drawer, because that is the only way the commitment means anything.

The worse number is the one that matters. All 52 review notes so far come from the compilation and research passes, and none records an independent check. Of the 23 unsubstantiated claims, the 2860 that name a source, and the 85 inferences, none of the records most capable of harming a named person has had an independent review. That is the highest-value work outstanding. It is why funding this project buys verification before anything else.

A nation also needs a place where its people can think together. So Deep Tunisia is designed to be more than an archive. It is Tunisia's digital Agora, built and not yet open. It is not a place to replace institutions. It is a place where citizens can understand them, question them, and improve the public record together.

Every other forum differs from this one on a single design decision. The conversation is anchored to the record, and the record stays in view. You are not transported to a generic thread and expected to remember what you were discussing. The entity's trajectory, offices, documented connections and sources stay beside you while you argue about them.

Elsewhere you get an opinion. Here the discussion has an object. If you think the object is wrong, there is a way of saying so that ends in the graph changing.

Citizens should never be forced to choose between participation and personal safety. So there is no account here. Your identity is a keypair. The only thing that can rebuild it is twelve words generated on your device.

The words are generated, never chosen. That is the decision everything else depends on. A public key is public, so anyone can attack every identity on the site at once, offline, with no rate limit to hide behind. A phrase a human invents carries perhaps 20 to 30 bits of real entropy, and it falls in hours. Twelve words drawn from a 2,048-word list carry 128 bits. It does not fall.

They are shown once. They are never transmitted, never stored, and never permitted into a URL. That is why recovery can never be a link someone emails you. The same twelve words rebuild the same identity on any device, forever. There is no recovery process, because there is nothing on any server to recover from.

Every other rate limit in this project exists to stop an attacker. As specified, this one would not. It would exist because a post that took forty seconds and a post that took forty minutes currently render identically. This whole project is an argument that things of different standing must never look the same. Specified, not yet wired. Wiring is deferred pending counsel review.

As specified, scarcity would be the instrument. A person with two posts a week would spend them on something they had thought about, because they could feel the cost. A person with sixty an hour reacts. No amount of guidance in the composer produces the first behaviour. As specified, a budget would produce it without saying a word. Specified, not yet wired.

And the budget, as specified, would fall on assertion, not on evidence. As specified, a post carrying a source that resolves costs half of what the same post costs without one. Not because cited posts are true, but because the cost of a post should track how much work it hands to everyone else. Specified, not wired. Wiring is deferred pending counsel review.

Bourguiba, Ben Ali, Saied, Ennahda, the opposition, the army, the police, the business families, the unions, the EU, France, Italy, Algeria, the United States, Russia, the World Bank and the international NGOs are all recorded under identical rules. An atlas of Tunisian power containing only Tunisians reads as an indictment of Tunisians.

This is not neutrality for its own sake. It is the project's only real protection. Credibility that depends on people agreeing with the conclusions collapses the moment they don't. Credibility that depends on the evidence being accessible and reproducible does not.

A prison sentence is a documented fact. The allegations behind it, and the criticism of the proceedings, are contested. Both framings are stored with attribution rather than adjudicated here. Wealth is not corruption. The dataset distinguishes business families that predate a regime from ones that regime created, because collapsing that distinction is the most common error in popular accounts.

Deep Tunisia belongs to no party, no government and no ideology. It is open source under version control. Its exports are downloadable in full. Its methodology, corrections history and funding are published on the site rather than described in a brochure.

It is built to survive its authors. There is no database to seize, no account table to subpoena and no private archive to lose. Roughly 25.3 MB of data ships with the page, and the canonical record is plain text that anyone can fork.

The binding constraint is not data. It is verification capacity. Adding records is cheap and getting cheaper. A second pair of human eyes is neither. Support is spent against that, in this order.