Self-Sovereignty

Founding principle

• Citizens/Residents should be encouraged to have the skills and infrastructure to be as self-sufficient as possible

• Decentralization ensures that enemies taking down key infrastructure has limited/contained impact

• Centralization ensures swift mobilization of collective resources toward providing for the common defense or other large-scale/far-reaching endeavors

• Barriers to entry for business endeavors should be minimized without compromising public safety ... the technology exists but needs to be accessible and streamlined

• Lawyers shouldn't be able to gate-keep justice and laws should be written so that average people can understand and abide by them

• Citizens/Residents should be free to associate, assemble, and unionize, particularly in efforts to balance negotiating power

• The economic roles of laborer, entrepreneur, and distributor/merchant should be considered fluid within each citizen/resident and each citizen/resident should be empowered with the necessary agency to be effective in these roles

• Citizens/Residents should be able to mint tokens like in-store credits (backed by inventory ... will have to explore this "full faith and credit thing), transmit them, negotiate exchange rates for them against other tokens (likely broker networks would form around this to make this easier, which will have to think on more), lend them, and act as escrows/intermediaries.

• Citizens/Residents should be able to create legal contracts easily as needed (and there should be consequences for deliberately including illegal provisions to bully non-drafting parties)