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Greenovia: The Belonging Test

You wrote the rules. Who did you leave out?

Citizenship, nationalism & recognition · 85–110 min · take-home estimate

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Learning goals

Before the activity

Self-contained; suitable for a take-home synthesis. Allow time for explanation.

Syllabus description

Design a country’s promise, then put it through citizenship, language, schools, religion and voting disputes. A family you did not plan for is about to test your principles. Students produce charter, council decisions and comparative report.

Discussion prompts

  1. Which cost of your charter was least visible at the beginning?
  2. How did the new family case test the rule rather than your intentions?

What to assess

Look for consistent principles, precise institutional consequences and engagement with the strongest challenge.

Limitations

Greenovia is fictional. The time is an estimate and can vary substantially with the depth of written work.

Credit & permissions

Created by Yoav Duman. Free educational use, sharing and hosted embedding; software rights reserved. Software, artwork, branding and third-party materials are separate; see the full reuse information.

Suggested citation: Yoav Duman, “Greenovia: The Belonging Test: Teaching companion,” Possible States, https://possiblestates.com/teaching/greenovia. Include your access date.

ASSESSMENT & SUBMISSION

Grade the explanation.
The interface has no opinion.

Set an endpoint, ask for the activity’s readable report, and use your existing LMS. Students can use Print / Save as PDF where a separate download is not offered. A progress backup is for restoring work, not grading it.

A suggested 10-point rubric

For each criterion: 0 = absent, 1 = partial, 2 = clear and supported. Adapt the weighting to your course; this is guidance, not automatic scoring.

Concepts / 2
Use the relevant political concept accurately.
Evidence / 2
Support a claim with a specific record or comparison.
Mechanism / 2
Explain how the rule or arrangement produces a consequence.
Revision / 2
Address a rival account or explain a change of mind.
Limits / 2
State what the model or evidence cannot establish.

Say this before they begin.

  1. Choose For class and follow the instructor’s endpoint.
  2. Save a progress backup before moving devices or changing website address.
  3. Open the readable report and check the required responses.
  4. Upload it to the course assignment. Check the LMS submission confirmation.

Switching from exploration keeps the current work, but skipped class responses may still need completing. A local report cannot establish authorship or make an activity tamper-proof.

Make it an assignment.

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Syllabus description & discussion prompts
Syllabus description
Design a country’s promise, then put it through citizenship, language, schools, religion and voting disputes. A family you did not plan for is about to test your principles. Students produce charter, council decisions and comparative report.
Questions for a discussion board or class debrief
  1. Which cost of your charter was least visible at the beginning?
  2. How did the new family case test the rule rather than your intentions?
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