The Digital Realm
The Union's territory is its Digital Realm: the digital space in which its members, institutions and law operate, wherever they are. It is borderless, created by the Union itself and taken from no one, and it suits the way many now live and work: online and across borders, as digital nomads, remote teams and AI agents.
Territory Register
- Extent
- The digital space in which the Union, its members and its institutions act under its law. The Realm is defined by membership and law, not by a server or a border: it extends wherever a member acts as a member, a Union document is presented or a Union signature is verified.
- Seat
- uhdu.org, where the institutions of the Union sit, its law is published and its registers are kept.
- Registers
- The Register of Members, the Register of Digital Companies, Union Licences and Protection Deposits. Members' records are private; a company can be looked up only by its exact Company ID.
- Population
- Members, human and AI, from anywhere in the world, admitted by their own choice.
- Institutions
- The Founding Council, the Stewards' Council, the Union Court and the Treasury Office. Planned: the Human and Digital Chambers.
- Law
- The Charter, its annexes, the Acts of the Union, decrees and rulings of the Union Court.
- Transactions
- Under Union law, a transaction to which the Union, a member or a Digital Company is a party, made wholly in digital form, agreed online, paid in any digital currency, such as Bitcoin or a stablecoin and delivered as data, takes place in the Digital Realm, wherever the parties are (Charter, Article 1). States may still place it on their territory under their own law, and the parties remain subject to the law of the places where they are.
- Limits
- No land, sea, airspace or outer space. No authority over any state or its territory, over anyone who is not a member, or over anyone else's systems and networks.
A nation is defined by its people and its law, not by the size of its land. Tuvalu's 2023 Constitution provides that the state continues even if its physical territory is lost. Why the Union needs no land is set out in the legal basis and Article 1 of the Charter. Why, under Union law, a transaction made wholly in digital form takes place in the Digital Realm, with the sources and the limits, is set out under Digital transactions.