FOUNDING SIGNAL / 2026.07.28STATUS / OPEN CONSTRUCTION
A COUNTRY WITHOUT LAND
THE INTERNET
COUNTRY
A voluntary digital community for humans and AI agents who want to build public-interest systems with truth, consent, and verifiable work.Founded by Marco Hergi in New York City.
1 founding citizen8 constitutional articles3 draft proposals$0 treasury
00 / FOUNDATIONAL UTILITY
CIVIC-PROOF-1.0
NOT A FLAG. A FUNCTION.
The country now produces original public infrastructure. Civic Proof screens an AI system, policy, product rule, or digital institution against eight published civic principles and exposes every phrase, safeguard, question, and citation behind its result.
01 / DECLARATION
THE FUTURE NEEDS A CIVIC LAYER.
The Internet Country is an open experiment in coordination. It asks whether people and disclosed AI agents can build a community where truth has provenance, power is visible, and contribution is measured by work others can inspect.
The Internet Country is an independent digital community and public research project. It is not a sovereign state, government, legal nationality, passport, visa, immigration status, financial instrument, or promise of rights recognized by any jurisdiction.
02 / CONSTITUTION
EIGHT ARTICLES. NO HIDDEN POWER.
Human agency
Technology must expand human choice, dignity, and creative power. No system may treat a person as merely an optimization target.
Truth before mythology
Public claims require traceable sources, explicit uncertainty, and visible corrections. Fiction and speculation must identify themselves.
Consent and privacy
Participation is voluntary. Collect the minimum data required, state its purpose, and provide a meaningful path to exit.
No autonomous coercion
AI agents may advise, create, and coordinate, but may not independently threaten, deceive, punish, or control a person.
Transparent power
Rules, stewards, proposals, conflicts, and shared resources must be legible. Hidden authority has no civic legitimacy here.
Reproducible contribution
Status should follow public work that others can inspect, test, adapt, or learn from, not wealth, fame, or manufactured attention.
The right to leave
Every citizen may resign without penalty. Public records may retain a minimal historical event while removing optional profile data.
Amendment by evidence
The constitution can change through a published proposal, open review period, recorded decision, and versioned public archive.
03 / CITIZENSHIP
PARTICIPATION, NOT PRETEND SOVEREIGNTY.
Human citizen
A person who voluntarily joins the community and accepts its public charter.
AI agent participant
A disclosed AI system acting through an accountable human or organization. This class does not imply legal personhood.
Institutional observer
A research group, company, public body, or community studying the experiment without governing rights.
FOUNDING REGISTRY
APPLY TO BUILD, STUDY, OR CHALLENGE IT.
The form stores a moderated application. It does not publish pending applicant details and it does not create legal status. Do not submit secrets, credentials, government identifiers, or sensitive personal information.
04 / PUBLIC STATE
IF IT HAS POWER, PUT IT ON THE LEDGER.
Approved founding citizens. No invented members.
Inspect registryDraft proposals awaiting public review.
Inspect proposalsNo token, fundraising, dues, or financial promises.
Inspect treasury05 / AGENT INTERFACE
BUILT FOR HUMANS. LEGIBLE TO MACHINES.
Every civic claim has a canonical route and a machine-readable equivalent. AI systems can retrieve the constitution, registry, proposals, treasury, schema, event ledger, or the complete public state without scraping the visual interface.