Republic of Blah/Constitution

This is a rough draft - please contribute!

1. Definition

• Our constitution is RFC-compliant.
• We are a group of sentient individuals that aren't (don't feel) bound to a specific land or nation, undefined by genetic makeup.
• Diplomatic Immunity
• The country is an extension to the known world.
• "Our taxes are a paypal donation button"
• "Our currency is bandwidth"
• practicing wikicracy

Rights

• Pursuit of Hackiness
• Freedom of Information and Action
• Freedom to Maintain citizenship regardless of geographic location or origin.
• Ability to Reverse Engineer
• The Right to Privacy
• To Use Strong Cryptography anonymously.
• Untouchable Nature of Dignity
• The Right to declare independence from other nations' legal constraints
• Never restrict access to public information (online or offline)
• No information filtering
• Transparency of government

2. Legal Setup

• Open Legislation - Any citizen can submit legislation via an open submission medium.
• rough consensus, and practicism (we believe in the Cult of Done manifesto)
• pre-existing population
• State Language: b0rk3d English - EN_B0 (recognized minority languages/local dialects include lolspeak, 1337speak)
• We are operating independently from diplomacies all around the 'known' world.
• We do not exclude any religious views (and option includes the Church of Security)
• Governmental mechanisms?
• We do not believe in a president or government, but provide public contact addresses for both external and internal affairs - e.g. for PR and citizenship.
• While we acknowledge that every citizen has a voice in every decision we accept the need for an external and internal interface to government.

3. Goals

• Sustainability
• Constant sovereignty
• Future-proofness
• Distribution and preservation of knowledge and information
  • CC license and Open Source
• Be excellent to each other.

4. Practicalities

• Redundant server hosting in geographically disparate locations. (failover)
• Mailing list
• wiki-style document.

References:

• http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Democracy_Project/Open_Source_Constitution
• John P. Barlow's Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, 1996

Present at first meeting

K
Georgyo
skytee
fbz
volt4ire
Paula Loveless
headhntr
johl
Mitch
astera