Parity-ethereum: How to extract genesis block via JSON RPC

[antonislav]

Is it possible to extract the genesis block, i.e. the inital balace allocations, using parity? For example on the mainnet. The usual RPC calls return empty results for block 0.

I searched through this repo and couldn't find the genesis block hardcoded anywhere. So it must be retrieved during syncing and there should be a way to extract it somehow.

[antonislav]

Didn't search hard enough. The information is in the file ethcore/res/ethereum/foundation.json.