Planet Earth and Land Ownership; Freedom of Migration and Practical Restrictions; Local Autonomy; Territorial Reallocation; Decolonization of the World; The Wild

Section 1.    
Planet Earth equally belongs to all of its inhabitants. The only natural sense of land ownership beyond that is owning only the land that you are currently using, which is the land on which you are currently standing or sitting.    
     However, for the sake of increased productivity and raised quality of life, certain factions, such as hominids, can enter into superficial and limited agreements of land ownership, such as for farming or building dwellings. It is assumed that all those who are capable of understanding such agreements and share our value of raising our standard of living are bound by them. Those who do not share our value of raising our standard of living, they may forfeit the benefits of civilization to utilize their portion of land, which will be kept in a permanent state of wilderness (addressed in Section 6).

Section 2.
Fundamentally, all people should be able to migrate around the planet freely. However, societies do have the right to regulate immigration in order to maintain the stability of local markets, worker capital, and the fairness of land distribution among societies. No country has the right to ever completely restrict immigration. No country has the right to restrict emigration in any way other than orderly border control.

Section 3.
Division of power being the most basic safeguard against abuse of power, countries and their subdivisions must have appropriate leeway in self-rule, relative to their size and diversity of peoples. International law shall only contain the most grievous of crimes and the greatest violations of people’s quality of life. But to maintain a division of power, international law can be legitimately enforced by at most only a “coalition of the willing”.

Section 4.
In order to incentivize countries to strive toward providing their people with the highest quality of life, countries shall compete over people the way that businesses compete over market-share. Thus, countries shall enter into a global “territory reallocation treaty”––adjudicated by a body like the United Nations—such that if significant numbers of people are migrating from one country to another and exchanging the citizenship of their former country for citizenship of the new country, the country from which people are emigrating will lose a proportionate amount of land to the country to which people are immigrating. The number of exchanged citizenships will be tallied and published every 5 years. The lost or gained portions of land shall be traded every 25 years among nations to minimize exclaves and enclaves. Any people already living on the traded pieces of land will be considered as immigrants with temporary residency.
     Any country refusing to forfeit their the land that they are determined to lose will be invaded by a “coalition of the willing”, and they will lose double the land that they were determined to lose. All inhabitants of the lost land will either apply to exchange their citizenship for the new authority or they will lose all entitlements to the land, including being deported.

Section 5.
The world in which we currently live is the product of societies warring, conquering, and colonizing one another for millennia. As such, there are thousands of nations and ethnic groups that are under the domination and rule of other groups, pressed into societies to which they do not wish to belong.
     To correct for this injustice, we must recognize that all nations of people are entitled to self-determination and sovereignty over their own lands, regardless of their oppressor’s overwhelming size. Therefore, we must allow for secession from our modern empire-states the lands of the members of any nation numbering at least 4,600 people for their own self-rule.
     The amount and location of seceding lands shall be settled by a country-wide census of all citizens every 25 years to determine the proportions of all respondents, especially their national preference and their residence. The lands to be released will have borders negotiated by the parties involved, adjudicated by a body like the UN. If the secession becomes fulfilled, the people who expressed preference for the parting nation will lose the citizenship of the departed nation.
     To ensure that the results of the census are not manipulated through infiltration by a hostile nation, the seceding nation and their territory will forever be bound by the “territory reallocation treaty”, and they will not be allowed to unite with any country or nation that is not also party to the “territory reallocation treaty”.

Section 6.
To honor the fact that some people do not want to live in a modern civilization and that they would prefer to live a primitive way of life—best classified as the “stone age”—and to honor the fact that some people do want to participate in a system of taxation for the collective benefit of their society, each country shall maintain a portion of their land as “The Wild”. The Wild will be proportional in size to the distribution of the country’s population.
     The laws of the country will not apply in The Wild, with only two exceptions. The first exception will be that The Wild will always be maintained as sovereign territory of the country that is hosting The Wild, and this sovereignty will be maintained by the military of the host country. The second exception will be that the host country will make regular military expeditions into The Wild to ensure that no one is collecting taxes. Anyone found to be violating this law will be subject to a military tribunal with the only penalty being immediate execution. The way of life in The Wild will otherwise be maintained solely through the cultures of the resident tribes and the rules of any unofficial expedition from the host country that dares to venture into The Wild.