Ever heard of citizenship in space? You can become a citizen of Asgardia is the first-ever space nation — a global humanitarian project for everyone on the planet.
Asgarida is a ‘global humanitarian project’ which hopes to one day set up human colonies on the Moon. It was founded in October 2016 and already has about 2,00,000 citizens, a constitution and an elected parliament, Economic times reported. In Norse religion, Asgard is one of the Nine Worlds and home to the Æsir tribe of gods.
Announced on 12 October 2016, the ultimate aim of the project is to create a new nation that allows access to outer space free of the control of existing nations.
Asgardia was created with three top goals in mind: to ensure the peaceful use of space, to protect the Earth from space hazards, and to create a demilitarized and free scientific base of knowledge in space. Asgardia also has a long-term objective of setting up habitable platforms in space and building settlements on the Moon including Arks.
Asgardia, also known as the Space Kingdom of Asgardia, is a group of people who have launched a satellite into Earth orbit. Asgardia intends to launch a series of satellites into Earth orbit. Its first satellite was successfully launched by Orbital ATK on 12 November 2017 as part of an International Space Station resupply mission The Cygnus spacecraft that carried Asgardia-1 into space released Asgardia-1 and two other satellites on 6 December 2017. The Space Kingdom of Asgardia has claimed that it is now “the first nation to have all of its territory in space.”
The Asgardians have adopted a constitution and they intend to access outer space free of the control of existing nations.
Asgardia will be a fully fledged, independent nation inhabited on a low Earth orbit. It began with a satellite, Asgardia-1, that was launched in 2017, to be followed by an orbital satellite constellation launch in 2019-2020, and later by other satellite constellations and Space Arks, as well as by settlements on the Moon. Arks are man-made platforms that the citizens of Asgardia will be able to inhabit in the future as a part of Asgardia’s territory in space.
Passport
Any citizen of Asgardia will be able to get a passport. It will be a real document, like any other passport. Asgardia is working on this. Indeed, the eventual goal is to allow international travel with passport of Asgardia.
Space Citizenship of Asgardia
People are invited to register for citizenship, with the aim of Asgardia then applying to the United Nations for recognition as a nation state.
Anyone over the age of 18 who agrees to Asgardia’s Constitution may apply for citizenship. They then have the right to submits their digital files to Asgardia’s first satellite, Asgardia-1.
Space citizenship of Asgardia is a special type of citizenship and does not constitute dual or multiple citizenship for the purposes of Earth nation citizenship.
According to the constitution of Asgardia…
Article 6. Asgardian Citizens
- Anyone over the age of 18 who agrees to Asgardia’s Declaration of Unity and Constitution, and consciously submits his/her digital personal data to Asgardia’s Space Database may become an Asgardian citizen.
- The space citizenship of Asgardia is a special type of citizenship and does not constitute dual or second citizenship for the purposes of Earth State citizenship. A citizen of an Earth state becoming a space citizen does not confer multiple citizenship status, unless otherwise stipulated by an international treaty to which Asgardia is a party.
- A child gains space citizenship of Asgardia at birth if one or both parents is/are space citizen(s) of Asgardia. A child born before the foundation of Asgardia may become a citizen on the request of his/her parent(s) who is(are) citizen(s) of Asgardia.
- Space citizenship may be terminated by the Asgardian citizen waiving citizenship or by Asgardia revoking citizenship. Space citizenship can also be temporarily suspended by Asgardia.
- Grounds for the revocation or suspension of space citizenship, as well as restrictions on the acceptance of new citizens, shall be set by Asgardia’s laws.
Article 7. Location of Citizens
- Asgardian citizens possess the right of free movement in Asgardian localities and the right to choose their location in the Earth States in line with the respective legal, organisational, and physical capabilities.
- An Asgardian citizen’s permanent residence in an Earth State shall not deprive or diminish his/her rights or freedoms, suspend or terminate his/her space citizenship, and annul his/her obligations towards Asgardia.
Currency
Asgardia will have its own currency, with the SOLAR as a unit of currency. The SOLAR is registered with the European Union Intellectual Property Office. SOLAR is Asgardia’s official monetary unit — a cryptocurrency that will be freely exchangeable into all main Earthly currencies on the free market on the Earth, in accordance with Asgardia’s laws. The National Bank of Asgardia will also be a lender of last resort.
Bank
Asgardia has its National Bank, which is responsible for the exchange rate, circulation and stability of the national currency and the liquidity of the banking system. Activities of the National Bank are regulated in accordance with the law of Asgardia.
Who created it?
Igor Ashurbeyli, the founder of the Aerospace International Research Center, proposed the establishment of Asgardia on 12 October 2016.
Read more: https://asgardia.space/
