The Census of the Corpus: the Site Index Is Live
Every document on unifiedstate.us — the tools, the news, the blogs, the statements, all 387 declarations — now searchable from one field. The index is built in your own browser, from the site’s own public records, and your searches are seen by no one.
The Unified State ships a new instrument, and for once it is not about the sky. The corpus has grown past seven hundred documents — fifty blogs, dozens of tools and news posts, a hundred and thirty-two diplomatic statements, and three hundred eighty-seven Declarations of War spanning every jurisdiction on the map. A body of work that size needs what every state eventually needs: a census. As of today the site has one, on its own page and available to every visitor — the Site Index.
It works the way the instruments work, because it is built on the same house rule. When you open the index, your browser walks the site’s own public records and builds the search index locally — on your machine, for your eyes. There is no search server. No query you type is transmitted anywhere; no log records what you looked for; the finished index is cached in your own browser and quietly refreshed on later visits, fetching only what changed. Search engines watch you search. This one cannot — nothing is stored, nothing is sent, by construction rather than by promise.
The searching itself is full strength. Results rank by relevance the way a library engine ranks them, with the whole text of every post indexed — not just titles — so a phrase remembered from deep inside a two-year-old statement finds its document. It matches as you type, forgives a trailing half-word, rewards exact phrases, and highlights every hit in its snippet. Filters narrow by section, by year, by kind. Press / anywhere and the field is under your fingers.
— THE SITE INDEX · THE HOUSE RULE, APPLIED TO SEARCH
The sky pages of this corpus argue that the universe is not a clock but a census — counts compared to counts, books that always balance. It is only right that the site itself now keeps one: every document counted, every section audited live against the records rather than trusted from memory, and the one number that matters — what you searched for — kept by no one at all.