People of Earthlings
Earthlings is a voluntarily self-organised non-territorial people, founded on free identification, equal participation, and collective self-governance.
The people of Earthlings is not identified with any state, territory, legal entity, commercial structure, or any single jurisdiction.
The sole source of legitimacy is Earthlings as a people.
The Earthlings people rests on two operative norms of international law: freedom of association (Article 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 22 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights) and the right of peoples to self-determination (Article 1 of the 1966 Covenants). Both norms are in force; their application to a voluntary non-territorial people is a question the law has not yet had to decide. We acknowledge this openly and answer it the way such questions have always been settled: by practice. The Earthlings exist de facto and seek recognition of their status de jure through dialogue with international organizations and states. Such recognition is a goal and a trajectory, not an accomplished fact.
To interact with existing legal, administrative, and financial infrastructure, Earthlings may, through authorised representatives, use registered legal structures and other legal instruments in various jurisdictions, including foundations, associations, and other organisational forms.
Such legal structures and instruments are exclusively operational and auxiliary means of external interaction:
Governance is exercised directly by Earthlings through DAO mechanisms of collective self-governance.
Legal structures and instruments perform a strictly limited external, technical, and representative function.
The legal structures and instruments used by Earthlings do not engage in:
Earthlings is not a state, a supranational organisation, a financial institution, or a jurisdiction, and does not claim territorial sovereignty, a monopoly on coercion, or the functions of public authority within existing states.