The goal of this test is deceptively simple: to produce the largest, most extensively used public building network in all of Egypt.
After registering for this test, your Tests menu allows you to name a Public Work. You may invite up to six others to join in your Work. Once named, you may build, through your Tests menu, construction sites or Compounds, or any building which may be used to produce materials. Buildings built through construction sites, or in a compound, will require each person joined in the Work to contribute at least one-tenth of the resources used in building it, and no more than 40% may come from any one player. No one not involved in the Work may contribute resources directly to the construction site. Buildings in a Public Work, once built, may be used by any citizen of Egypt.
Once built, the resources used in construction for each building create a scoring pool, where each deben is worth less then the previous deben of the same resource. Additionally, each deben of a resource produced or consumed anywhere within the compound by a player who was not involved in the construction goes into another scoring pool. The total of the two scores is the current score for the Work, and each month the Public Work with the highest score will pass the test. For these purposes, highly individuated resources like Treated Boards or Raeli Tiles are considered different.
Once a Public Work has been used to pass the test, it remains publicly useable but is no longer involved in the test.
Scoring takes place much like the Test of the Funerary Temple. The first unit of a resource is worth 100 points. Seven units of a resource is worth 200 points. Scoring continues thus:
| Debens | 1 | 7 | 49 | 343 | 2401 | 16807 | 117649 |
| Points | 100 | 200 | 300 | 400 | 500 | 600 | 700 |
Points for resources involved in construction are gathered from all buildings anywhere in Egypt which are marked for this particular Work, as are points for resources produced. This encourages wide variation in the types of buildings built. Buildings which generate resources on their own, such as Greenhouses should only give points when the resources are removed by someone who is not part of the Work.
There is a forum thread about this test proposal. This test was originally envisioned as a Harmony test, but it's been suggested that it would make a better Architecture test.