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Citizen #22:
Miestrâ Schivâ | I would say that inevitably Talossa will come up against the "real money and real property" problem - if only to the extent that we need to find some sustainable way to keep our national webspace in operation. At the moment the deal is that the President of the Republic organises this with the Database Administrator, and currently both Chris and M-P are keeping that running out of the goodness of their hearts and wallets. Not a long-term sustainable option. At some stage we will at least need to start charging some (very small) level of "taxation" (or membership fee, for the less derivative among us) to pay for domain registrations, shiny ID cards, etc. And unless e-gold.com has been taking down by the cops by then, it seems a pretty efficient way to organise the transfer of small sums of money internationally without hefty foreign exchange fees.
There's also the question of perhaps setting up a "real-life" non-profit corporation which could "legally own" Talossa's physical, online and intellectual property. We need to make it clear that Talossa's intellectual property is not the private property of any one person or clique of persons. I would not support turning the Republic into such a corporation itself because that would mean that our Constitution and Laws would have to conform with whatever macronational jurisdiction we registered in. But perhaps a non-profit corporation, with all current citizens listed as shareholders, over which the President of the Republic was automatically declared CEO, would be an efficient option. Or even we could have such a corporation jointly with the Kingdom.
Miestrâ Schivâ
Seneschál dal Repúblicâ Talossán / Prime Minister of the Talossan Republic
"The Republic's Most Articulate Spokeswhatever" - R. B. Madison
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