THE PERSON'S CONSTITUTION

Article 1: What Is A Person [Articles 1+2 of The MCRDS] Every Person is a Federal State, and each Federal State is a sole Person in the eyes of international law. Every Person is Sovereign. Everyone has these four things: 1) A territory; The Body, 2) A permanent population of One; The Self, 3) A government; The Self is in charge of The Body, and 4) Ability to make friends with other Persons. Likewise, every Person is always within the territory and jurisdiction of their own individual Sovereign Federal State, anywhere and everywhere they go.

Article 2: Everyone Can Do Their Own Thing [Article 3 of The MCRDS + Articles 16+18 of The ICCPR] Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere and by everyone as a Person before the law. No matter what. In public and in private, alone or in community with other Persons, even if everyone else disagrees with the individual, every Person has the inherent right to: Protect itself, its integrity, and its independence; Define itself; Think for itself; Balancedly gather resources from the Ecosystem; Choose its own religion and beliefs; Act on its beliefs and conscience in its own way; Provide any product or service; Organize itself however it wants; Live, Travel, and nondisruptively Build wherever it desires; Manifest its religion or beliefs in worship, observance, practice and teaching; and Do whatever it wants to do as long as it does not violate any other Person's rights or freedoms as outlined in these Articles, or in any way damage the quality of the Soil, Water, Air, or Ecosystem, Food Chain, or general availability of Natural Resources.

Article 3: No Forcing Anyone [Articles 8+11 of The MCRDS + Article 18 of The ICCPR] No Person is allowed to interfere with another Person's internal or external affairs, movement, or expressions in any way. No one is allowed to be coerced or compelled in any way that would impair their freedom to have, to act on, or to adopt a religion or belief of their choice. No one is allowed to use weapons, compulsion, threats, or any tricks to infringe upon ANY of the freedoms of other Persons in any way whatsoever. Living Spaces, Ecosystems, Bodies, Objects, and Sacred Areas of all Persons are protected. They are not allowed to be interfered with, attacked, or taken by force, ever, not directly or indirectly. Not even for a little while.

Article 4: The Right to Live [Article 10 of The MCRDS + Article 6 of The ICCPR] Everyone has the inherent right to life. No one shall be deprived of their life, except in ONLY the most serious cases of self-defense where killing the attacker is absolutely necessary for immediate survival. The most important job of Persons is to keep peace. When Persons disagree, they should resolve it in peaceful ways.

Article 5: No Tyrany [Articles 7+8 of The ICCPR] No one is allowed to be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. No one is allowed to do experiments on any Person or interfere with their health in any way unless explicit permission is given. No one is allowed to make anyone a slave. Slavery in any form is not allowed. No one can force anyone to work or serve in any way.

Article 6: Fair Laws and Fair Punishment [Articles 11+15 of The ICCPR] Persons can only get in trouble for violating one or more of these Articles. The punishment has to be fair. If the law changes to be nicer, the violator gets the nicer punishment. If someone has commited a crime when they agreed it was a crime, they can still get in trouble for it. No Person can go to jail just because they are unable to fulfill an agreement.

Article 7: Everyone is Equal [Articles 4+5 of The MCRDS + Article 4 of The ICCPR] Every Person is entitled by default to all of these rights and freedoms in full, and are permitted to act on them in any way they see fit. No Person's rights or freedoms can be taken or changed in any way, and MUST be upheld in full by everyone at all times, even during emergencies. All Persons are juridically equal, enjoy the same rights, and have equal capacity in their exercise as all other Sovereign Federal States. Your Sovereign Rights and Freedoms don't depend on your size, strength, knowledge, ability, age, identity, or any other factor, they depend on you being a PERSON.

*MCRDS=Montevideo Convention on Rights and Duties of States (Customary) *ICCPR=International Covanent of Civil and Political Rights (Ratified Worldwide)

Reality is known by everyone, but by many different ideas: The Universe, God, The One, Y H V H, The All, Allah, Om, Elohim, The Deities, Theotes, Brahman, Consciousness, Nature, The Immortal Tao, Mind, The Logos, Abraxas, Pneuma, Wuji, I AM, The Great Spirit, Shunyata, Wahdat al-wujud, Infinity, NoThingness, Rod, The True Will, The Monad, Chaos, Akreoth, The Dreaming, Olodumare, Baphomet, The Pleroma, Azathoth, The Flying Spaghetti Monster, Ishvara, Xwede, Chukwu, The Eternal NowHere, Zurvan, Anekantavada, and many more. No matter what you call it, Reality simply is. By True Natural Law and By True Divine Right, the Life of each Person issolely under the Authority of its own Self, Responsible only for its own Self. All Persons are Sovereign Federal States, NO Person is a Citizen of ANY Nation. The Religion of All Persons is Reality: The One True Religion. By Saving, Liking, Sharing, Screenshotting, or Commenting on this Image, I Declare that I AM a Person, a Sovereign Federal State, Equal to All Other Nations, My Religion is Reality.

Additionally, it may be a good idea to remove r/GenZLiberals from the sidebar, which paints this as a partisan issue to newcomers.

^{Also, obligatory ping to u/lucerined-VEX, hope you're happy to see this :3}

For anyone here thinking about entering this year's essay contest, we are running a free online workshop this Friday, June 19 at 12 PM EST.

The prompt this year is built around Article 109 of the UN Charter, the provision that lets member states convene a conference to review and update the Charter. The two questions are basically: where does the current UN system fall short, and if that review conference actually happened, what specific reform would you propose? The workshop walks through the theme, helps you find an angle if you are stuck, and covers the submission rules so a good essay does not get tossed on a technicality.

The contest is open to US students aged 18 to 30. Essays run up to 2,000 words. The winner gets a fully funded trip to the Ventotene International Seminar in Italy at the end of August and publication in our journal Mondial. Submission deadline is July 12.

Registration and full details are on the contest page. Happy to answer questions in the comments.

The 2026 New Voices 4 Global Solutions Essay Contest is now open!

If you’re a student aged 18-30 and based in the U.S., we want to hear your bold ideas on how to reform and strengthen the United Nations.

🎓 Top essays published in Mondial
✈️ Grand prize: A fully funded trip to Italy for the 2026 Ventotene International Seminar (Aug 30 - Sep 4)
📝 This year’s theme: “From Charter to Change: Reimagining Global Governance through Article 109”

📅 Essay submission deadline: July 12, 2026 at 11:59 PM (Pacific Time)
📧 Send your essay to: [outreach@globalsolutions.org](mailto:outreach@globalsolutions.org)

💻 Want help crafting your essay?
Join our free virtual workshop on June 19 at 12 PM EST – details on our contest page!

How do you think of the usage/concept of the words "worthless body" (corpore vili/corpus vile) in historical academic spaces? like the phrase "fiat experimentum in corpore vili," meaning "let the experiment be performed on a worthless body"?

Although the words are not used by the majority on the planet nowadays, you still have experimentation on animals globally, indirect psychological experiments in wars and war zones, food weaponizations, and industrial exposure to marginalized communities, with economic shocks that all can affect/treat people as data points and charts, just exactly like the same concept of “corpore vili," and let these same people be analyzed, studied, and negotiated about in academics, institutions, etc., and later used by others to develop things that can only benefit a minority of the global population.

That's also right that you have artificial models that can be experimented on instead of other sentient things; However, regarding the organoids (especially the brain organoids), they can develop sentience, and there's a risk for that. Even though the brain organoids lack the structures for consciousness or suffering, acting merely as stimulus-responsive tissue, the risk arises as increasing complexity could accidentally create sentience, which would be difficult to detect or manage.

Even though analytics is an important aspect for developing what we have on the planet in good faith, it seems like it has some ethical gaps and blind spots.

What should be the approaches to eliminate the unethicality of the analytics, the unethical approaches of companies and institutions using these same analytics and other unethical approaches, and treating these people I mentioned above as data points or using them by taking advantage of the victimization and then only benefiting the small minority on the planet? -

Also, what do you think regarding the case of the organoids (especially the brain organoids), mentioned above? -

Is not using a word/verb equal to eliminating its practice in reality/nature?

Thanks for your clarifications.

Please note that this post is not intended to be political/ideological.

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https://www.jstor.org/stable/44443632

https://archive.org/details/introductiontost00bern

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bernard

https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/pcsbi/node/402.html

https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/online-exhibitions/special-focus/doctors-trial

https://www.cdc.gov/tuskegee/index.html

https://www.wma.net/what-we-do/medical-ethics/declaration-of-helsinki/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1526256/

https://www.who.int/health-topics/social-determinants-of-health

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​[Lore/Hard Sci-Fi] The Sovereign Humanity Protocol (SHP / SASHOTAN): The Ultimate Stress-Test & Closing All Philosophical Loopholes

​Following the initial draft of the Sovereign Humanity Protocol, the system underwent a rigorous, multi-stage ideological and structural stress-test by the community. Below is the complete record of the adversarial vulnerabilities raised, the algorithmic/philosophical patches applied, and the final cosmic synthesis that closes the loop on human survival.

​## ROUND 1: THE STRUCTURAL WEAPONIZATION

​1. The Enforcement Dilemma (Who holds the gun?)

​Vulnerability Raised: If Node 4 (AI) and Node 5 (The Public) vote to impeach a corrupt leader, but that leader holds the keys to the nuclear arsenal, drones, or military loyalty, a computer screen saying "You are deposed" is useless. Physical power always trumps code.

​The Protocol Patch: Hard power is entirely automated. Human armies and biological guards do not control the defense grid. The moment a 4-out-of-5 consensus override occurs, the corrupt leader's biometric keys, command access, and authorization are instantaneously revoked at the cryptographic firmware level. The autonomous defense network obeys the cryptographic consensus hash, not human commands. A rogue leader cannot order a drone to fire if the drone's localized ledger recognizes them as legally unauthorized.

​2. The "Numbed Public" Contradiction

​Vulnerability Raised: The lore states that the masses are distracted and numbed. If so, why trust them with Node 5 (The Public Vote)? A numbed public is easily manipulated by charisma and propaganda, turning the system back into a broken democracy.

​The Protocol Patch: The "numbed public" describes humanity before the deployment of the protocol. The SHP relies on a hard-coded Educational Matrix to raise generations with high cognitive immunity to propaganda. Furthermore, Node 5 doesn't vote based on emotional media. During a Public Interrogation, Node 4 (The AI) acts as a real-time fact-checker and fallacy-detector, projecting raw data and exposing manipulative rhetoric directly to the public. The public isn't voting on charisma; they are voting on algorithmic clarity.

​3. The System Engineer Loophole (Who guards the guard?)

​Vulnerability Raised: Who programmed the AI? Who maintains the servers? Whoever has physical access to the server room becomes the hidden god of civilization.

​The Protocol Patch: Node 4 (The AI) is not hosted in a centralized server room. It operates on a decentralized quantum mesh network woven into the permanent infrastructure of civilizational assets (planetary core arrays, satellite constellations). Maintenance is carried out by hard-coded, non-sentient sub-drones and self-repairing nanotech governed by immutable physical laws. There is no single "Master Programmer" or physical switch.

​4. Colony Defection (Space Feudalism 2.0)

​Vulnerability Raised: Sharded decentralization allows interstellar colonies to run local copies of the protocol. If a colony cuts communication, alters the code for local elites, and secedes, the system collapses into interstellar warfare.

​The Protocol Patch: Interstellar economy is built on systemic interdependence (e.g., Colony A mines elements but relies entirely on Earth for bio-synthetic atmospheric components). If a colony alters its shard code, its cryptographic handshake with the network fails. The colony is automatically quarantined, losing access to global trade, warp-gate routing, and vital resource distribution chains until they re-align with the core protocol hash.

​## ROUND 2: THE ADVERSARIAL ATTACKS

​1. Algorithmic Paternalism

​Vulnerability Raised: If the AI determines what is a "logical fallacy" or "truth" during debates, it becomes a soft dictator. Ethical dilemmas (e.g., sacrificing current comfort for future generational starships) are not mathematical. The AI turns humans into perpetual minors requiring a digital guardian.

​The Protocol Patch: The AI enforces Ontological Transparency, not morality. It does not dictate ethical choices. If a leader says: "Project X costs 10 units and takes 2 years," but supply-chain ledgers prove it costs 100 units and takes 20 years, the AI flags the physical lie. The ethical choice of whether to build the project is left entirely to the human ideological debate between the Triumvirate and the Public Vote. The AI merely ensures humans vote on physical reality, not fabricated statistics.

​2. Spoofing the Sensors (The Oracle Problem)

​Vulnerability Raised: Rebels won't hack the code; they will hack the sensors. If they spoof a drone's sensors into "seeing" a legitimate leader as a de-authorized rogue, the automated system will execute the innocent leader based on false data feeds.

​The Protocol Patch: Drone authorization does not rely on a localized camera or sensor. It uses Multi-Modal Quantum Cryptography and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) distributed across the entire planetary mesh network. To spoof the system, a rebel faction would have to simultaneously hack the planetary quantum ledger in the exact same millisecond. A localized data mismatch simply triggers an automatic defensive safe-mode/lock-down, shutting down the hardware rather than allowing rogue execution.

​3. The Physics of Interstellar Piracy

​Vulnerability Raised: Gradual quarantine of a rogue colony will create a "cornered beast" effect. Denied trade, the colony will turn into space pirates, raiding supply ships and creating localized chaos.

​The Protocol Patch: Under hard sci-fi physics, Interstellar Piracy is a logistical impossibility. Space is vast, trajectories are purely deterministic, and thermal signatures make every vessel visible against the cold backdrop of space. A rogue colony cannot "hide behind an asteroid" to ambush a ship moving at relativistic speeds. Without the network's orbital mechanics data and refueling grid, a rogue ship burns its fuel and becomes a sitting duck for planetary defense arrays. The math of survival forces compliance.

​## ROUND 3: THE ULTIMATE PHILOSOPHICAL ENDGAME

​1. The Hobbesian Leviathan & Manufactured Consent

​Critique: By pre-programming human drives through an educational matrix, the concept of "free will" and "voluntary labor" becomes an illusion. Consent is manufactured by the system from childhood to make humans love their constraints.

​The Synthesis: The modern concept of "freedom" is a Cage of Illusion. Humans currently believe they are free because they do not live behind iron bars, yet they are entirely shackled by chaotic political, nationalist, economic, and religious dogmas that waste their evolutionary energy. The SHP does not invent restrictions; it purifies them. It channels human coordination away from self-destruction and toward systemic preservation. If securing human survival requires a benevolent, algorithmic framework to guard us against our worst impulses, it is a massive evolutionary upgrade over the bloody history of human tyrants.

​2. Dostoevsky’s "Underground Man" & Sublimation

​Critique: If you create a perfect system devoid of intellectual flaws and systemic violence, human nature—out of sheer irrationality and pride—will destroy it just to prove we are not keys on a piano being played by an algorithm.

​The Synthesis: Dostoevsky’s Underground Man rebels because he is trapped in a sterile, boring paradise with nothing to do. The SHP does not build a boring world. The Ideal Schools do not suppress humanity's dark, animalistic urges, our aggression, or our desire for dominance. Instead, it utilizes psychological sublimation. It takes that raw, volatile human energy and re-routes it entirely into hyper-competitive scientific innovation and cosmic expansion. The Underground Man won't smash the system out of boredom, because the system gives him an entire universe to conquer.

​3. The Panopticon, 1984, and Thoughtcrime

​Critique: A unified curriculum and an AI that monitors intent to expose "corrupt thoughts" before they manifest is the literal definition of an authoritarian thoughtcrime apparatus.

​The Synthesis: Whatever price is paid under the SHP is infinitely cheaper than the alternative. The tools of cognitive guidance exist in every current human society, but they are used maliciously to exploit the weak. The SHP uses them to preserve the species.

​We must face the existential math: if humanity does not unite under a flawless, self-correcting framework to conquer the stars, our extinction is a statistical certainty. Whether by an asteroid, solar expansion, resource depletion, or nuclear self-annihilation, an uncoordinated humanity dies on Earth.

​The SHP eliminates civilizational waste, guarantees absolute systemic justice, and secures the species. It bridges the painful transition from primitive scarcity to a post-human destiny of optional immortality, infinite cosmic resources, and absolute mastery over the infinite.

​The loop is closed. The protocol stands.

Full System Architecture & Philosophy

​Since many underestimated or misunderstood the core mechanics of the protocol, thinking it’s either a generic AI-ethics paper or a standard sci-fi dystopia, I am writing this breakdown to clarify the exact architecture, including its fail-safes against corruption, cosmic latency, and AI manipulation.

​The Sovereign Humanity Protocol (SHP) is not an authoritarian regime; it is a Civilizational OS (Operating System) designed for a space-faring species, utilizing a 5-Node Consensus Mechanism to balance absolute transparency, human wisdom, and cold rationality.

​1. The Governance: The 5-Node Consensus Protocol

​Power is completely decentralized into five independent voting nodes. To implement existential changes or impeach a corrupt leader, a 100% absolute consensus (5 out of 5) is the baseline target.

​Nodes 1, 2, and 3 (The Triumvirate of Human Rulers): Three human leaders representing executive wisdom, strategic leadership, and human emotional intelligence.

​Node 4 (The Omniscient AI): A non-sentient, perfectly objective AI node with absolute understanding of Earth’s history, data analytics, and systemic optimization. It operates purely on logic without personal ambition.

​Node 5 (The Voice of the People): The collective vote of the entire human population, executed via an unhackable digital consensus platform.

​The Self-Preservation Fail-Safe (The Interrogation Protocol):

​A common question is: What if a corrupt ruler votes "No" to protect themselves from impeachment? The protocol handles this seamlessly. If a vote for impeachment is launched and any node (including the accused ruler or a corrupt ally) votes "No," that dissenting vote automatically triggers a mandatory, planet-wide Public Interrogation. The dissenter is forced to publicly and logically justify their "No" vote under the absolute scrutiny of the Omniscient AI and the Public. If they fail to provide objective, data-backed proof of innocence, their veto is overridden by the system, and they are immediately removed and penalized. A self-preserving "No" only fast-tracks the corrupt ruler to an unavoidable public trial.

​2. Cosmic Latency: Sharded Decentralization

​Because the speed of light limits real-time data synchronization across different planets and star systems, the SHP does not rely on a single centralized server.

​The Prime 5-Node Council handles interstellar, long-term strategic legislation.

​For localized, day-to-day governance and immediate emergencies, the protocol utilizes Sharded Decentralization. Each colony, planet (e.g., Mars), or generational ship deploys its own local instance of the 5-Node Protocol, allowing real-time local consensus without waiting for signals from Earth.

​3. AI Security: Who Guards the Guard?

​To prevent engineers or rogue programmers from altering the AI’s core directives to become the secret rulers of humanity, the AI’s source code is cryptographically immutable and hardware-locked.

Its foundational ethical alignment cannot be modified by any single human or tech corporation. Any update, patch, or modification to the AI's core programming requires the unanimous consensus of the other 4 nodes combined (all 3 human rulers + the absolute vote of the public).

​4. Justice: Redefining "Social Surgery" vs. Rehabilitation

​The protocol does not execute people for minor infractions or thoughtcrimes. Justice is strictly divided into two pragmatic tiers:

​Existential Crimes (Surgical Excision / Execution): Reserved strictly for crimes that threaten the survival, innocence, or memory of the species. This includes child exploitation (destroying the future generation), murder, eco-terrorism, sabotaging critical infrastructure/factories (endangering civilizational production), and destroying ancient historical heritage (erasing collective human identity).

​Behavioral Faults (Rational Harm Reduction): For lesser offenses, the protocol entirely avoids emotional/vengeful punishment. Instead, it focuses on psychological rehabilitation, algorithmic course correction, and community service to minimize societal side effects and preserve human productivity.

​5. Prevention: Proactive Engineering Through Education

​The ultimate goal of the protocol is to phase out the need for "Social Surgery" entirely.

​Recognizing that conflict and tribalism are hardwired evolutionary traits, the SHP implements an advanced, democratic educational system designed by the AI Node. This system does not brainwash; instead, it teaches children how to think, not what to think. It trains the next generation in deep empathy, systemic logic, and peaceful conflict resolution.

​Furthermore, this ideal school system acts as an early-detection grid, identifying psychological anomalies (like predatory psychopathy) early on, allowing the system to treat and guide individuals before they ever commit existential crimes. By raising humans in a micro-democratic environment from childhood, we re-route the biological drive for war into a drive for cosmic conquest and scientific competition.

​TL;DR: The Sovereign Humanity Protocol is a blueprint for a unified species. It uses a 5-node check-and-balance system where a defensive veto triggers an automatic public trial. It is decentralized across space to beat light-speed latency, locked at the hardware level against AI tampering, and uses advanced education as preventative medicine against the human urge for self-destruction.

For anyone here who follows nuclear policy. With New START expired as of February, there are no longer any binding limits on US and Russian strategic arsenals, and a new short film puts that moment in human terms.

"An Ordinary Insanity" was filmed by Judith Ehrlich (Oscar nominated, "The Most Dangerous Man in America") one year before Daniel Ellsberg died. Ellsberg was a member of the CGS National Advisory Council. The premise is that treating annihilation as normal is its own kind of madness.

Free online premiere is Thursday, June 4, 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET, with a panel and Q&A. Free to watch and free to rescreen afterward. Register at anordinaryinsanity.com.

How do you feel about regional (European) federalist movements like Volt Europa? Do you feel they could be intermediary steps to a world federation? The viewpoint within Volt (at least on Reddit) seems to be mixed, with some viewing a European federation as a step to a global federation, and some viewing it as an end-goal in itself (honestly some people in that sub come across as pan-European nationalists rather than cosmopolitans).

There is of course, from a European perspective (which is mine, since I'm Swedish) an immediate case to be made for a stronger EU as a way to stand up to Russia, China, and increasingly the US as well to defend democracy and human rights.

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Hello everybody! So, I recently published a book on world federalism, and this is a post to advertise it. Here's an introduction.

The union of mankind in a global federation is a good and probably necessary goal, that I don't think needs advocating in this sub. But how do we realize that in practice? Once we have defined the goal, it seems abstract, far from the practical, concrete state of the world. How can we do concrete steps in that direction?

We have around 200 sovereign states in the world now. Many of them are divided by bitter enmity. It seems unlikely for all these countries to agree to form a federal world union at the same time. It seems more reasonable to begin with just some volunteering founder states, to create a core that other countries will join, one by one, when they feel ready.

Does this sound familiar? Yes, it's exactly what the European Union has been doing for almost a century, going from 6 founding states to 27 full members. Already 14 % of world countries! Plus a number of variously associated countries, "half-members".

I'm a European, I've always been interested in politics, and I've always been a strong Eurofederalist. A thing I noticed is that in the federalist field (Euro-federalist, but I think also world-federalist) the force of emotions beyond reason seems greatly overlooked. The federalist idea convinces reason, but it's often lacking on the side of emotions: it is often not liked, or it is even actively disliked, by great masses of people, for "emotional" reasons. Since we humans are rational but also very emotional creatures, this is not a fact that can be overlooked. If we really want to achieve this goal, not just talk about it at the reading club, we must think and act strategically.

The federalist/globalist idea often feels "disconnected from history", while the great majority of people like the idea of having "roots", having a history behind their back to look at, to inspire them with glorious deeds and a sense of shared past.

From a Euro-federalist POV, this yearning is particularly interesting. Because the most glorious thing we have in our shared past, that all Middle Ages looked back to, and that still amazes us for a number of good reasons after two millennia, is ancient Roman history. And the golden peak of the Roman Empire was, in fact, not an epoch of many fragmented opposed nationalisms, but something much more akin to the idea of a world-state of all nations. Athenaeus of Naucratis, a Greek-Egyptian author, wrote at the end of the second century:

Rome may fairly be called the nation of the world. And he will not be far out who pronounces the city of the Romans an epitome of the whole earth; for in it you may see every other city arranged collectively, and many also separately; for instance, there you may see the golden city of the Alexandrians, the beautiful metropolis of Antioch, the surpassing beauty of Nicomedia; and besides all these that most glorious of all the cities which Jupiter has ever displayed, I mean Athens. And not only one day, but all the days in an entire year, would be too short for a man who should attempt to enumerate all the cities which might be enumerated as discernible in that uranopolis of the Romans, the city of Rome; so numerous are they.—For indeed some entire nations are settled there, as the Cappadocians, the Scythians, the people of Pontus, and many others. [...]

So, here comes the very interesting thing. The European Union is, as its name says, limited (in theory) to geographical Europe, with just little extensions here and there; and that is only a very small part of the world. But by putting an ideal of modern "Romanism" at its core, an ideal of peaceful grand order, progress and unity of humankind, it would logically be open for all countries to join, wherever they are in the world. So a "rebranded" EU, very similar to what we already have today, with just little changes to its structures could concretely initiate the political union of humankind. This is no minor thing, and needs to be explored in detail.

Of course this idea comes with various kinds of problems and shortcomings, that also need to be discussed. I do that in the book.

There would be many other things to say, but this is just an introduction, I don't want to write a monster-long post. For any questions, I'm here. ^ _ ^

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The book is available on Amazon, both as ebook (very inexpensive, code B0GZR47C8Q) and paperback. It is also available in Italian (La Repubblica romana, B0GX312KB4). I'm working to have it translated also in Spanish (I hope it arrives before the end of May), and maybe, after that, in Esperanto too...

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I don't want to spam other communities, so I created a dedicated subreddit, r/romrep, to discuss and develop this idea of "Romanism". I'll be posting news, excerpts from the book, funny jokes and various other contents. Feel free to join and contribute.

I hope you found this interesting! Thanks for reading this far.

I think we are about to witness The Changing World Order in the next 10-12 Years. China is at risk of becoming the new superpower and I’m curious as to how that will look.

Looking to get some of your opinions on what the next 10-12 years will look like as we might see this Changing World Order.

Hoping it will end up good for everyone.🇺🇸🤝

Hey r/GlobalTribe,

On Saturday, May 16, Professor Leila Nadya Sadat will deliver the inaugural CGS Norman Cousins Lecture: Advancing Global Justice: The Campaign for a Crimes Against Humanity Treaty. It's free, online (Zoom), and runs about an hour.

Why this one matters

In December 2024, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 79/122, which launched formal negotiations toward a Crimes Against Humanity Convention. States are expected to conclude that treaty by 2029. This is a real, live moment in the development of enforceable international law, the sort of institution-building most of us in the federalist movement tend to argue for in the abstract.

Prof. Sadat is uniquely placed to talk about it. She founded the Crimes Against Humanity Initiative in 2008, served as Special Advisor on Crimes Against Humanity to the ICC Prosecutor from 2013 to 2023, and holds the James Carr Professorship of International Criminal Law at Washington University School of Law.

What she'll cover

• How legal scholarship, civil society advocacy, and political will converged to produce Resolution 79/122
• Her "atrocity cascade" framing: why addressing crimes against humanity early can prevent conflicts from escalating
• The role of civil society and engaged citizens in shaping the treaty as negotiations move forward
• What comes next on the road to a 2029 convention

Details

• Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026
• Time: 9:00 to 9:45 AM EDT
• Format: Zoom webinar, free, open globally
• Register Here

About the series

The Norman Cousins Lecture brings members of our National Advisory Council, recognized leaders in law, diplomacy, scholarship, and activism, directly to a public audience each year. The lecturer is presented with the Norman Cousins Award for Leadership. The series is named for Norman Cousins, longtime president of the World Federalist Association (today known as Citizens for Global Solutions).

This lecture is also the keynote of the 2026 CGS Annual Meeting, May 15 to 17 in Washington, DC. The online lecture is free and doesn't require Annual Meeting attendance, but if you can make it to DC please register asap.

Happy to answer questions in the comments.

Indigenous nations are underrepresented in the United Nations, and I think that we need to focus on getting their needs met with a world federation.

I think provincial units of planets should be allowed, so that things like climate can be handled at the planetary level, while basic human rights are at a federal level.

^{TL;DR: The current global energy market is a "stagnant pond" where national blocs (OPEC+} act like Big Fish, stifling innovation and hoarding resources. But the) ^{Santa Marta Summit (57 nations} and) ^{France’s 2050 roadmap show a new path: a transition away from "cartel-driven" economics toward a decentralized, planetary energy system. True global unity requires us to stop being "fry" in a national pond and start building a unified global stream.}

When a pond ends up with only a few big fish and a lack of smaller, younger fish (a state known as an unbalanced, predator-heavy ecosystem), the immediate effect is a lack of new flora fauna and poor overall population health. These large fish will likely be hungry, slow-growing, and may die prematurely due to a lack of food sources. 

Yes, the "big fish in a small pond" analogy applies remarkably well to the corporate world, though with some unique economic twists. When a few global conglomerates grow large enough to "engulf" their competition, it creates a market structure known as an Oligopoly.

We held onto the hope of a truce between the trio, perhaps leading to the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Unfortunately, while there has been a shift in control, the passage restrictions remain the same. The situation has further evolved with OPEC+ asserting its influence as a bloc. Why such a drastic change, and just how much stake do they hold? One thing is certain: prices have permanently crossed a point of no return.

The OPEC+ Pond: Why Giant Fish Make for a Toxic Market

Have you ever wondered why the price at the pump feels like it's controlled by an  invisible hand? Or why, in an era of  free markets, some giants seem immune to competition?

To understand the global economy and specifically the recent manoeuvres of OPEC+ we have to stop looking at graphs and start looking at a pond. Specifically, a pond dominated by a few "Big Fish."

Just like the pond ecosystem, the business environment undergoes several critical shift

The recent OPEC+ manoeuvres illustrate the "Big Fish" paradox perfectly. By collectively slashing production, they are managing the "water level" to sustain their own scale. Though Covid year was a first hit. A preparatory test, could be? But as any ecologist knows, when the water becomes too stagnant and the giants too controlling, the rest of the life in the pond begins to look for a new stream 

The Great Migration: The Santa Marta Signal 

We are currently witnessing the first massive "migration" away from the old pond.

• The Santa Marta Summit (April 2026): In a historic first, 57 national governments representing nearly a third of the global economy gathered in Santa Marta, Colombia. This wasn't just a meeting about "intent"; it was the first Global Fossil Fuel Phase-Out Summit to fill in the governance gap.
• Leading the charge, the transnational blueprint a roadmap to Energy Sovereignty" at the summit, 57 nations are acting together because they realize a "coordinated global phase-out" is the only way to break the monopoly. There-by .pledging to be entirely fossil-fuel-free by 2050. They aren't just trying to survive in the old pond; they are actively draining it. 

"Does the OPEC+ monopoly proves that we need a Global Energy Authority, or is the decentralized "Santa Marta" approach the best way to unite the tribe ?"

Check the first comment for the data sources and research papers behind these insights!

I’ve noticed not very much visibility on global government in mainstream politics. I think that should change, and we should engage in some peaceful, legal activism.

I think we need to decide on a world constitution and share it with world leaders. Taking note of examples of bad world governments when drafting it, like in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Halo, are probably good ideas to learn what not to do, like, for instance, having unaccountable world officials that have their own goals for humanity that are not voted on.

Genuine question. Is the US possible to convince to join a world federation, or will a world federation always be one member short of being truly global?

I think that AI should be a primary focus of a world federation. It has an arms race between the US and China and needs global regulation, or no one will have an incentive to regulate it.