Just as we, individually, each have our own mental parts that can determine right from wrong, so too must a nation have a part that determines right from wrong.

The Office of Rightness is the scaled up version of your rightness part. It will communicate to its corresponding feeling part the rightness or wrongness of any proposed policy, thereby giving the society a systemic conscience. This office has the following functions and duties:

• Determine the rightness or wrongness of any policy, proposal, directive, or input.
• Communicate results to the Office of Feeling, Sensing, Perception, and Data.

It sounds like a simple task, but there is quite a bit involved. It is not always apparent that a proposal will be harmful. As a reminder, all actions that cause harm are wrong actions. All remaining actions – those that cause no harm – are right actions. Fundamentally, this office must answer the question "Will this cause harm?" of every policy, proposal, directive, or input that comes its way.

The kind of harm that the Office of Rightness deals with is a global harm to all life forms. It considers harm to the physical well-being of all life, the psychological well-being of all life, the mental well-being of all life, and the noetic well-being of all life. It considers the environment and ecology and damage to such as well, as plants are also lifeforms, and we do actually exist in environments that support us.

The Office of Rightness also evaluates potential harm to other nations and societies. It is easy enough to consider whether a proposal will cause harm to an individual human being or group of beings. When it comes to societies, additional work must be undertaken to ensure the proposal does not violate any treaties or agreements the nation has with any other nation.

Where the answer to the question of "Will this cause harm?" is unknown, and the people in the office are unable to think, reason, or otherwise forecast and project potential harms, the Office of Rightness may create simulations to determine the answer. Simulations may be via statistical and systems science models, computer simulations involving lots of players, or a zone in real life designed for testing this particular proposal with the explicit consent of all people involved.

In order to ensure no harm is done to the nation itself, the Office of Rightness can forward the proposal to the Office of Identity to verify that the proposal is inline with the identity rules. The Office of Identity forwards it back to the Office of Rightness along with its response in this case.

The Office of Rightness is autonomous and does not answer to any other office or council, though it reports to the Council of Witness. It may determine whatever other means it needs to evaluate, simulate, think through, and ultimately answer the question "Will this cause harm?", ideally without causing harm in the process. The office must respond to proposals sent its way and deliver the answers to the Office of Feeling, Sensing, Perception, and Data.

The Office of Rightness shall not and must not defer to any other authority to determine the rightness or wrongness of a proposal. To do so would subjugate and betray the nation and place it as a whole into perdition.

The Office of Rightness shall not and must not contact the Office of Reason directly. It must not direct the Office of Reason in any way for such action would introduce corruption into the system that would cause its ultimate destabilization and demise.

Directives of Time are messages from the Council of Witness to the Office of Rightness.

The Directive of Time is an inquiry where the Council is asking a question to the Office of Rightness to determine the rightness or wrongness of something. They are trying to find out "Will this cause harm?" and they should be as precise as they possibly can with the question. When the Council asks this question, the Office of Rightness processes it as they normally would and returns an answer directly to Council. It does not go through the system like a proposal.

It is called a Directive of Time because the Office of Rightness will take time to come up with an answer to the inquiry. Especially if the Office does not already know the answer, it will run a simulation which applies the time function of the universe and which could take years to figure out the answer.