VCC are autonomous units that decide on what governance structure they want to utilize. The Governance Floor provides many tools to support a wide range of governance models. There we also provide recommendations and templates for the governance of the individual VCCs. Much of what is available and recommended is based on lessons learned from Sociocracry¹, Holacracy², Polycentrism³, the Viable Systems Model⁴ and group decision methods such as participatory modeling and syntegration⁵. Further, the New Democracy Foundation has pioneered truly effective methods for citizens to design laws and policies that benefit all rather than only the elites. Several floors in the VCCs provide guidelines and instruction in all of these approaches and tools for VCCs to develop and maintain their governance system.

2: "Holacracy is a method of decentralized management and organizational governance, which claims to distribute authority and decision-making through a holarchy of self-organizing teams rather than being vested in a management hierarchy."

3: Polycentrism is a political or cultural system that contains many different centres, especially centres of authority or control.

4: The viable system model is a model of the organizational structure of any autonomous system capable of producing itself. A viable system is any adaptable system organised in such a way as to meet the demands of surviving in the changing environment.

5: Syntegration is a form of non-hierarchical problem solving that can be used in a small team of 10 to 42 people. It was introduced by Stafford Beer in the 1990s.