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There are five principal performance measures used to determine the viability of a democracy and the quality of its representation. An electorate should concern with how military enlisted and based are allocated between the member states, with scrutiny over how federal tax subsidies are distributed in ration to the taxes levied, and a review of how effectively the nation or parties use due process and legislation to pass laws and administer the state. The performance measures provided evaluate politicians, political parties, and states within a union, in a similar fashion a Turing test for Artificial Intelligence measures sentience, in terms of viability for sovereignty and quality of representation. States can regulate their own federal or national representation by imposing fiduciary duties, professional laws for legislators and judges, and anti-corruption laws governing all federal officers through taxing securities and personal wealth for those living within the state. When states can exert their sovereignty by passing laws within their own legislatures regulating the quality of representation and access residents seeking election within the federal branch, by creating quality control measures for access to ballots within the states. Federal representatives can use the budgetary process to self-regulate by establishing a Union Regulatory System based on median threshold applied on performance measures, with tax penalties on federal tax subsidies for states performing worse than the median and incentives distributed from the total penalized money to the above median performing states. A federal government may not be able to tax states on their performance, but they can certainly tax their own revenues.