The Caste Ladder & The Perception Gate (Demand-Side Stratification + Legitimacy Filter)

[Report #114 — Caste Ladder] The engine's demand-side stratification, mapped. Object: the documented two-tier order is resolved into a 6-RUNG CASTE LADDER (nodes caste_ladder + the rung nodes; Concept 'The Caste Ladder') built strictly by capital/legal thresholds (Reg-D-506 accredited $1 million / Qualified-Purchaser $5 million / ECP $10 million / QIB $100 million / SD-trust+CTA opacity / FASAB-56 sovereign apex) — de-freezing the Admin/User binary (#3, now SUPERSEDED-not-deleted) as the demand-side mirror of the centralized power structure Stack (#115). The WALL between rungs is decided PER-BOUNDARY by public availability: unmarked threshold / per-caste seeing-restriction / LEGITIMACY FILTER (Concept 'The Legitimacy Filter'). The mainstream-source anomaly is fact-checked TRUE: FASAB-56/Interpretation-8 (component-entity shifting to shield classified data), the Department of Defense (DoD)-OIG unsupported adjustments, and the Invention Secrecy Act (6,155 active orders FY2023, incl. 25 'John Doe' orders on private inventors) are PUBLIC/.gov yet treated as fringe -> classification-wall FALSIFIED, recognition-wall SUPPORTED. DISCIPLINE/CORRECTIONS: this is a CARTEL not a directorate (#197) — the dual-null killed BOTH the 2-tier-null AND the unified-cabal; the surviving core is a legally-codified continuum + an EMERGENT legitimacy filter, NO coordinated hand, apex HELD, no holder named, no dial move. The $21 trillion is GROSS unsupported accounting adjustments (1998-2015), NOT proven missing/stolen money. The report's specific OIG voucher figures ('33,389/$803 billion + 22,536/$903 billion') were WRONG and are corrected to the real DODIG-2016-113 figures ($2.8 trillion Q3 + $6.5 trillion year-end unsupported JV adjustments). CTA currency fix: the Mar 2025 FinCEN rule exempted ALL domestic entities (BOI now foreign-only). Fed-DFA bases corrected (total-assets vs net-worth; top 0.1% ~14.5%, bottom-50% net-worth ~2.5%). H6 Bounded-LLM (#110): logged as the report's SELF-REPORT (the mediator resists .gov data), consistent with BST — not promoted to proven fact.