A user’s Britizen score is made up of several factors, these factors include:

• Your friend’s scores and groups scores
• Normal credit check
• Criminal Record
• Post history
• Employment

Your friend’s scores and groups scores

This part of one’s score are the networks in which the user is a part of, the higher score of the networks such as friend’s and group’s the higher their own personal score. Having this as part of a personal score will encourage users to apply pressure on their networks to improve their scores as it directly affects one’s own score. This could potentially lead to ostracising friend’s with low scores in the most extreme cases.

Normal credit check

This credit check will be performed via a third party company such as Experian[1] and will be a measure of how likely a person is able to pay their bills. This will promote users trusting other users with high scores as they are more confident when lending money or favours.

Criminal Record

Having one’s criminal record be a part of their score will encourage users not to commit crimes as this will have an even greater damaging affect on their reputation if it is on show via their Britizen score.

Post History

Users who make posts on Britizen which promote British values will be given higher scores. Users who post material which do not agree with British values will be penalised in their score.

Employment History

A user’s employment history will affect one’s score, this will encourage users to obtain better jobs as the bonus for employment can be tailored specific to jobs which the country currently needs, for example the NHS is currently understaffed, therefore doctors and nurses could receive larger Britizen score bonuses, hopefully encouraging more users to become doctors or nurses.

[1] http://www.experian.co.uk/