The Founding of the Earthlings People
A people is being founded. Not by a state, not by a treaty, not by a leader, but by the free decision of people who have chosen to belong to one another and who confirm that belonging. This page says what is being founded, why it takes the form of a people, and what any person can do during the founding period.
What is being founded
The Earthlings people is a voluntary, non-violent and non-territorial form of collective self-determination. It claims no land, changes no borders, and takes nothing from any state. It is a community of human beings united by the one thing all of them share, birth on the same planet, and by the choice to be one people.
It exists for as long as there are people who have voluntarily confirmed their belonging to it. It requires no approval or recognition to come into being: freedom of association is a right every person holds today, and joining together is its exercise.
A society without power of some over others
What distinguishes this people from every state and most organizations is that no one in it holds a position from which to command another person. There is no office, no leader, no board whose word binds the rest. Powers that exist at all are limited, distributed, revocable and verifiable, and a mandate to carry out a task never becomes an office.
This is the first principle, and the others follow from it. Every vote is equal to every other, and no amount of money, merit, renown or seniority adds weight to it. Money is separated from the vote entirely. Anyone may leave at any time, without reasons and without permission, and no one can be expelled. The people speaks, appeals and objects, and never compels; violence is renounced without exception.
These principles form the unamendable core of the Declaration. Once the Declaration is adopted, no majority, no assembly and no institution of the people can abolish, narrow or suspend them. The core exists to protect every person from the power of the people itself.
Why a people, and not an organization
An association is a creature of a legal order: it is registered by one and can be dissolved by one. A people is a fact. It is derived from no national act and can be ended by none. For a community whose members live in dozens of countries, that is the difference between something that can be switched off and something that cannot.
The form also matters for what the community can become. International law recognizes peoples as subjects with a right of self-determination, and the law contains no requirement that a people must hold territory; it does not even define the word. The question of whether a voluntary non-territorial people can hold that status is open, and questions of that kind are settled by practice accumulated over years. Acts performed in the capacity of a people mature into evidence of peoplehood; the same acts performed as a club mature into a club. The founding is the first such act.
A society of trust, built on modern technology
Trust in this people does not rest on believing anyone. It rests on being able to check. Behind every vote stands one living person, and this is confirmed without disclosing who that person is. A vote cannot be accumulated, bought or transferred away. Any member can verify that their vote was counted, and anyone at all can verify the outcome, without trusting those who operate the infrastructure.
This is what current technology makes possible for the first time: a community of strangers across the planet who can nevertheless know that each of them is one real person and that the count is honest. The technology serves the person, never the reverse: the Declaration forbids using it to manipulate, to rank, to subordinate, or to let an algorithm be the final source of any decision about a human being.
What you can do now
The founding period is open. The founding documents are published in nine languages and are open to proposals from anyone: entering the people, verifying identity and agreeing with the provisions of the Declaration are not required to send one, and every proposal is published with a reply. Any person who confirms that they are one living human being, which is free during the founding period, gains the right to vote on the adoption of the Declaration.
Taking part gives no advantage later. There will be no founders' class in this people; from the moment of signing, every earthling is equal to every other. Taking part also binds you to nothing: before adoption there is nothing to sign, and after it, belonging is your decision alone.
The dates, the rules of the period and the conditions of adoption are set out in the document The Founding Period.
Questions
Do I lose or change anything in my own country by taking part?
No. Belonging to the Earthlings people adds to what you already have and replaces nothing: citizenship, taxes and jurisdiction are unaffected, and where the people's rules conflict with your state's mandatory law, the law of your state prevails.
Who is behind this?
The founding texts were written by Arthur Arakelian together with Claude, an AI model, and are published as a draft for discussion. The people will be founded not by whoever drafted the documents but by those who adopt and sign them.
What is not finished?
The project keeps a public list of what is not yet done, under the title Where We Are Now, so that the boundary of what can be verified today is visible to anyone.
Where do I start?
Read the Declaration. It is short, and it is the only document put to the vote.
Rules and dates of the founding period
The document The Founding Period sets out what is open to proposals, how to send one, who may vote, and the conditions on which the Declaration is adopted.