This document describes the procedure for entering and for changing status. Where they diverge, the Charter prevails; where the Charter diverges from the Declaration, the Declaration prevails. During the founding period - from 22 November 2026 until the Declaration is adopted - signing the Declaration and entering the people are suspended: a people defined by an adopted text does not yet exist. During this period identity verification is carried out free of charge, and on its completion a temporary document of a participant in the founding is issued, rather than a passport (the document "The Founding Period", Part 2, section 5). The temporary document is issued in the same contract as the passport (the document "Where We Are Now"). What follows describes the main regime, which will begin after the Declaration is adopted.
1. What you need to enter
Age - 18 years or over.
Consent - signing the Earthlings Declaration.
Identity verification - confirmation that you are a living human being and that there is only one of you. Verification rests on an identity document: a person without documents cannot enter today. This contradicts Article 8 of the Declaration and remains an open question: the guarantee is written down but not yet fulfilled.
There are no other conditions. Nationality, race, religion, sex, social position, citizenship, and place of residence have no bearing on whether you can enter.
The one-time contribution - the equivalent of 79 USD - covers identity verification, the issuance of the passport, and the upkeep of the infrastructure. It is not a condition of belonging.
If you cannot make the contribution, once entry requires payment, you will be able to join an open queue, and the contribution for you could then be made by another person or by the Treasury; there is no guarantee that it will be. This is covered in section 9. Nothing has to be proven or explained. The contribution does not buy belonging to the people: belonging arises by signing the Declaration.
2. Six steps
1. Reading. Read the Declaration, the Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy, and the Biometric Verification Policy. All the documents are open before entry and require nothing in return for reading them.
2. Registration. Your email address (confirmed with a code), country of residence, your first and last names in Latin script as they appear in your document (they are needed to check against it), and a public name: a pseudonym or name of your choosing.
3. Identity verification. A face scan and a check against an identity document.
4. Signing the Declaration. Confirmation of agreement with the people's principles. It is this act that creates belonging.
5. Paying the contribution. In cryptocurrency (ETH, USDT, USDC). Payment by bank card is under development. If you have no money, once entry requires payment there will be a second button in the same place - "I need the contribution"; it will ask nothing and will lead to the open queue (section 9).
6. Receiving the passport. A non-transferable digital passport is issued automatically to your wallet address and confirms your status as a participant.
What happens to your biometrics. The original images and scans of documents are not retained after verification. What exactly remains and why is in the Biometric Verification Policy.
3. What you receive
You cannot be expelled. No procedure for expulsion from the Earthlings people exists under any circumstances or for any majority. Belonging ends only by your own decision or on your death.
Your vote cannot be taken away for how you think and how you vote. Not for your views, not for how you voted, not for disagreement with decisions, and not as a general measure of liability. The single exception is a proven attack on the voting mechanism itself; the procedure and time limits are set out in the Charter, Article 22 bis.
Your vote is equal to any other. It depends neither on money, nor on reputation, nor on length of participation, nor on the number of units of account in your wallet.
You can leave at any time - on your own, without giving reasons, and no one can prevent it, the founder included.
You take part directly - submitting proposals and voting on every question, rather than once every few years.
4. What the passport does not give you
This is important to know before paying, not after.
it gives no visa rights and has no bearing on crossing borders;
it does not replace the documents of your state and is not an identity document;
it has no force in the state institutions of any country;
it does not affect citizenship, taxes, or jurisdiction - all of that stays as it was;
it gives no income and is not a financial investment.
Inside the people, you have everything: an equal vote, participation in decisions, inalienable belonging; they arise by signing the Declaration, and the passport confirms them. Outside, the people's legal visibility is as yet only accumulating - through practice, time, and the number of participants.
5. What is expected of you
to observe the principles of the Declaration;
to treat other participants with respect;
to take part in votes in good faith;
to be transparent in delivering projects and to account for the use of common funds.
These are duties, not conditions for keeping your status: breaching them entails neither expulsion nor loss of the vote. There is one measure addressed to a person for gross breaches - a warning, and it takes nothing away: not the vote, not the right to submit proposals, not the right to create Cells and to join them, not access to services, nothing at all. The other measures are addressed to a project or a Cell: the people may stop giving common money and withdraw its own name, and this does not concern the rights of a person (Charter, Article 22).
6. Change of status
Active. Full access to everything available.
Suspended. A pause by your own decision. The passport is retained, the right to vote is suspended by you yourself, units of account remain in your wallet, and access to information is retained. The maximum period is 12 months. Resumption is by a statement through your personal account, and repeat identity verification is not required.
Inactive. Assigned automatically if you have taken no action for 12 months and have not replied to an enquiry. The passport is retained, the right to vote is retained in full and may be exercised at any time; an inactive earthling is not included in the number of earthlings on which the quorum is calculated, so as not to raise the quorum requirement for everyone else. On your first action the status is restored automatically.
Exit. A statement through your personal account, then, by default, a pause of 72 hours, which you are entitled to waive - protection against an impulsive decision. Then you burn the passport with your own key: the server does not store your keys and cannot prevent your exit; no one is entitled to burn the passport for you, but until the contract owner's rights are transferred to a multisignature, issuing and burning a passport are technically available to a single key (the document "Where We Are Now"). The exit takes effect from the moment the passport is burned or, if there is no valid passport, on expiry of the pause or from the moment you waived it.
Return. You can return at any time by going through the standard procedure again - identity verification and the contribution covering its cost. A previously burned passport is no obstacle to returning.
7. When it is not you who burns the passport
As a general rule you alone burn your passport. The Charter (Article 21) establishes two and only two exceptions, and this list cannot be extended.
1. Annulment of an invalid issuance. It applies where it is established that more than one valid passport has been issued to one person, or that verification was passed using falsified data or another person's identity, or that a passport was issued to a person below the age set by the Charter.
This is not a measure of liability for conduct and not expulsion from the people: what is established is only that the issuance never lawfully took place. The procedure protects you at every step - notice, a period for objection, an opinion of the Independent Council, a secret ballot with a higher majority, a right of appeal; the time limits and thresholds are set out in the Charter, Article 21. If the obstacle to lawful issuance is removed, you are entitled to undergo verification again on general terms.
2. Technical reissue. At your own request on loss of access to your wallet or on migration of the contract. The passport is burned and immediately issued anew; belonging is not interrupted, and no vote is required.
No other grounds exist, and against your will a passport may be burned only in the first case. The death of the holder is not among them: belonging ends of its own accord, with no decision by anyone, and the passport remains in the registry. The people has no access to death records worldwide, and such a ground would rest on information there is no way to verify.
8. About the contribution
It is paid once: after you receive the passport there are no annual or monthly payments. It goes into the common treasury and is allocated in the shares published in the document Treasury.
Units of account you have received for what you have put in remain your property and are neither confiscated nor annulled on exit.
There is no exemption from the contribution. There is something else: the contribution for you may be made by someone else, but there is no guarantee that it will be.
What this looks like for you. Once entry requires payment, the payment step will have a second button next to the "pay" button - "I need the contribution". It will not ask for your country, your income, or your reason: you do not have to prove anything or say anything about yourself. One press, and you are in the open queue.
Only a number and a date are visible in the queue. No name, no country, no reason. The queue must not become a shop window for people in need.
If the contribution is made for you, the passport is issued automatically and you receive an email. The passport is then exactly like everyone else's: the registry does not record who made the contribution for it, and it is impossible to tell from the passport who paid for themselves and who was paid for by another person. There are no first-class and second-class passports in this people.
You will have to wait for the passport to be issued, and there is no way to know in advance how long: payment for you is possible but not guaranteed. Belonging to the people does not depend on this: it arises by signing the Declaration, not by the contribution.
What this looks like for the person paying. Any person - earthling or not - can see how many people are in the queue and may pay for one, for five, or for as many as they wish. Payment is made by the same method and to the same address as when paying for oneself.
A particular person cannot be chosen: payment is made for whoever is at the head of the queue. This is deliberate. As soon as one can choose exactly whom to pay for, a patron appears, and dependence follows; in a people where everyone is equal there is no place for that. The payer does not know whom they paid for. The person paid for does not know who paid.
How many people are in the queue and how many have already been paid for is publicly visible. The payer's name is published if they wish; anonymous payment is also possible.
Why it is done this way rather than through an exemption. An exemption requires a person to declare their poverty and requires us to verify it. There is no way to verify it across the whole world, and we do not want to make a person prove need in order to enter a people that speaks of dignity. Here no one declares anything about themselves: a person says not "I am poor" but "I need the contribution", and what decides the matter next is not their words but someone else's willingness to pay.
The contribution is always paid in full. The same sum reaches the treasury for every passport, and no one gets in cheaper than anyone else.
