Theory of 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 improved quality of life, certain factions—such as nations—can enter into superficial and limited agreements of private land ownership, such as for farming and building dwellings. It is assumed that all persons who are capable of understanding these agreements and who share the value of improving the standard of living are bound by these agreements. Persons who do not share the value of improving the standard of living and refuse to abide by these agreements are enemies of civilization, and they can either fight against civilization or retreat into the wilderness (especially The Wild, 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 for any reason 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 should only apply to the most grievous acts and the greatest violations of people’s quality of life. However, to maintain the 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 should compete over people the way that businesses compete over market-share. Thus, countries must enter into a global “territory reallocation treaty”––adjudicated by a body like the United Nations—such that if a significant number of people are migrating from one country to another and exchanging the citizenship of their former country for the citizenship of the new country, then the country from which people are emigrating will lose a proportionate amount of land to the other country. The number of exchanged citizenships will be tallied and published every 5 years. The lost or gained portions of land will be traded every 25 years among all countries 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 the land that they are determined to lose will be invaded by a “coalition of the willing”, and they will lose twice the land that they were determined to lose. All inhabitants of the lost land will then either apply to exchange their citizenship for the citizenship of the new country 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 nations, pressed into societies to which they do not want 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 the secession of the lands of any nation numbering approximately 46,000 people (23,000 voting-age adults and their children) for their own self-rule.
     The amount and the location of seceding lands will be settled by a country-wide census of all citizens every 25 years to determine the proportions of all respondents, specifically their national preference and the area of residence. The lands to be released will have borders negotiated by the parties involved, with any disputes being 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 a participant in 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” level of civilization—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 must maintain a portion of their land as “The Wild”. The Wild will be proportional in size to the distribution of the host country’s population.
     The laws of the host 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 host country, 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 internal rules of any unofficial expedition from the host country that dares to venture into The Wild.