The rebirth of JOSEON as a sovereign nation-state with its currency as its

source of self determination to provide a system of equity in education,

access to goods and services and a desirable quality of life are exciting and an

equivalent to the declaration of universal human rights.

“I’m glad to see that the first nation-state to issue a blockchain based

currency is doing it to empower individuals rather than to control them

“A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for

collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually

gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.”

Our goal … is to bring back the Wild Wild West that we loved so much,

because it creates a system in which people are able to learn what they wish

to learn, say what they wish to say, experience what they wish to experience,

and create what they wish to create. I know this sounds corny, but an internet

without boundaries or limitations, in which we can achieve our dreams, is our

goal.

I would like to see change. I understand that a single lifetime is limited and

only so much can be accomplished. However, there are things that cause pain,

suffering and stress that we can really make trivial with the use of technology.

In 50 years, I hope to be alive on Earth. However, if I am not, I hope to be

known in history as a man who helped bring ‘happiness’ to this world.

 

t's been 10 years since I made this statement, 11 years after I declined joining Ripple’s

leadership for 6% of all of the XRP coins, and 12 years since I voluntarily left the world's

leading Bitcoin exchange while serving as the first president of its North American

subsidiary.

In 2012, Jed McCaleb, founder of Ripple and Stellar, emailed me and asked, I am

curious what you guys are going to do instead?"

"It's time for us to step up and change the world for the better too Jed (sic). We look up to

you, and we will certainly follow your footsteps. Please keep improving the world so we

can always have someone great to chase after," was my response.

So it was that I, and those around me, began our long journey toward the same goal that

everyone in the Crypto Wars

3

longed for, but the path, that I felt was necessary, contrasted

greatly with the overall consensus among technologists in the space – for I had

experienced what many had yet to fully appreciate – the frictions and hardships of trying

to force an enormous circle into a small square. Existing laws and policies were unfit for

the advancements brought with computing, the internet and, more specifically,

cryptocurrencies. I still remember the day a banker at Wells Fargo, a company once

convicted of theft and creating fraudulent bank accounts, called me a criminal simply for

asking to open up a bank account for a company that accepted cryptocurrencies as a form

of payment for a service.

The excitement brought by new technology, especially blockchain, caused an exorbitant

number of groups to rush into the space and race toward the goal of achieving widespread

adoption of various cryptocurrencies. However, blockchain does not exist in a vacuum –

it exists within a social, legislative and commercial infrastructure built by states, societies

and individuals over the years. Legislation already prohibits most of the projects in this

space – essentially making most projects non-starters. And further, legacy players in the

finance industry have done their best to reduce the potential for further blockchain

developments.

3 Lee, Andrew. “Why I Hired Mt. Gox ex-CEO Mark Karpeles as CTO of London Trust Media.” Privacy Online News, April 24, 2018,

I share an old adage:

When a dog is separated from a bone by a fence, he will try to claw and

gnaw his way in a direct path to the bone, but he will fail. However, some

dogs walk along the fence, seemingly away from the bone, until there is no

more fence, and then they are able to take a direct path without resistance

to the bone.

Until now, all of the amazing innovators and activists in the blockchain space have been

moving toward the right goal, but the direct path was, as it often is, the wrong path from

the beginning.

Today, Ripple is embroiled in a massive lawsuit with the SEC.

4

I hope Ripple wins, but

fitting a beautiful, enormous circle into a small square has proven to be quite difficult.

For us, we walked along the fence in a direction that seemed, at the surface, quite distant

from the original objective. In 2018, I was named the heir to the Joseon Empire by King

Yi Seok.

5 With Joseon as our nation, we have, in just a few years, reaffirmed our status

through diplomatic recognition as a nation-state, gaining all of the rights and capabilities

of a “Network State.”

6 After a decade, we have arrived at the starting line and control our

own independent and legal jurisdiction – where our laws are driven by our ideals.

We’re around the fence.

I would like to introduce you to Joseon, the first cyber nation-state recognized by a UN

member nation. It is an honor and privilege to have you with us on our journey, as we

change the world to create happiness through greater equality.

Contents

Abstract 13

On Sovereignty 13

1. The Status of Joseon 17

1.1 National Recognition 18

2. Joseon’s Relations With Other States 18

2.1 Introduction 18

2.2 Treaties 18

2.2.1 New Treaties 18

2.2.2 Historic Treaties 18

3. Joseon Denizenship 19

4. Jurisdiction 20

5. Closing Remarks 21

Equalizing Opportunity: Joseon’s Companies Act of 2023 22

6. Inspired by King Sejong the Great 22

6.1 Contemporary Disparity 23

6.2 Failed Attempts at Addressing Disparity 23

7. Joseon Companies Act of 2023 24

7.1 The Joseon Blockchain 24

7.1.1 Blockchain in Other Jurisdictions 24

7.1.2 Blockchain in Joseon 25

7.1.3 Joseon Blockchain Attributes 25

7.1.3.1 Corporate Ownership Tokenization 25

7.1.3.1.1 Smart, Zero-Trust Corporate

Controls 25

7.1.3.1.2 Raise Capital Efficiently 26

7.1.3.1.3 Pay Salaries with Tokens 27

7.1.3.1.4 Shared Ownership 27

7.1.3.1.5 Mergers and Acquisitions 27

7.1.3.1.6 Investor Benefits 28

7.1.3.2 Political and Economic Freedom 28

7.2 Blockchain Custodial Department

7.3 The Mun Currency 29

7.3.1 Mun Monetary Policy 29

7.3.2 Mun Supply and Allocation 30

7.4 Closing the Wealth Gap 31

7.4.1 Joseon is Truly Borderless 31

8. Partnership of Ministry of Patronage and Sovereign Wealth 32

9. Closing Remarks

ome parts of this document are graphic in detail. Korea, the forgotten nation and its

people, has been forced into a culture of silence as it relates to its own history. Much of

this history is not common knowledge. History is about people. We therefore believe

people must be the priority, not any nation, its borders, or its legal recognitions thereof.

Victims, and the atrocities they experience, deserve to be heard. Further, we all must learn

to make sure these types of events are not repeated.

Joseon’s legacy, the Korean legacy, is no exception.

Abstract

Joseon is the non-territorial successor state to the Joseon Empire which was founded in

1392. Reconstituted as a cyber nation, Joseon is engaged in humanitarian efforts to

expand its global impact. As the first sovereign cyber nation, Joseon is introducing the

legal concept of a personal interest corporation (“Denizen”), decoupling identity and

reputation from a physical person. By deploying the Mun, a fiat blockchain

cryptocurrency in its own jurisdiction, Joseon is able both to (i) develop its own

regulatory environment designed to maximize the native benefits of blockchain

technology and (ii) issue a national currency with the benefits of a cryptocurrency.

Denizens will be able to conduct business activity with significantly less friction and

greater benefit from smart, “zero-trust” corporate controls. To encourage and support

entrepreneurship, Joseon intends to launch a fund to help capitalize credible business

initiatives started by Denizens in Joseon. As studies show that entrepreneurial activity

reduces the wealth gap, it is Joseon’s belief that its business ecosystem will help facilitate

humanity’s journey toward greater systemic equality.

On Sovereignty

Joseon is the successor state to the Joseon Empire, which was founded in 1392 on the

Korean Peninsula by Sung Gyeh Lee. Once known as the “hermit kingdom,”

7

it practiced

a policy of extreme isolation, sinking foreign ships that attempted to sail near its shores,

8

including those of the United States of America. After over a decade of arduous

courting,

9

in 1882 the U.S. successfully entered into a treaty of perpetual friendship with

the Joseon Empire, with both governments pledging, pacta sunt servanda, to protect each

other from unjust or oppressive acts.

10 Subsequently, the Joseon Empire executed eight

more near identical treaties with the world’s great powers, opening its borders and its

economy to foreigners.

10 Joseon and the USA. “Treaty of Amity and Commerce.”

https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/asset-management/2A3BF1O0T8DCM?FR_=1&W=1164&H=564

Upon the arrival of the 20th century, despite the existence of the “everlasting”

11

treaty of

friendship between the Joseon Empire and its “elder brother,”

12 and continuous calls for

assistance therewith,

13, 14

the U.S. breached said treaty by negotiating a secret treaty

15 with

Japan to permit the invasion of the Joseon Empire,

16

resulting in the annexation of Korea

by Japan at swordpoint,

17, 18 and the subsequent invasion of Japan’s military and police

forces. Thus was fulfilled President Teddy Roosevelt’s wish of seeing “Japan have

Korea,”

19 which he regarded as a “degenerate state.”

20

This marked the beginning of a half century of hardships, including the attempted

eradication of Korean language and culture through forced adoption of the Japanese

language and names,

21

in addition to wartime depredations including enslavement

22

,

systemic rape

23 and arbitrary killing.

24

In 1945, when Japan surrendered to the U.S. – the

very nation that had handed it the Joseon Empire – Koreans believed they had been

liberated. Instead, the U.S., without plan,

25 made the decision to invade and occupy “its

enemy”,

26 Korea, as U.S. General John Hodge called it. Contemporaneously, the Soviet

Union entered Korea from the north. Thus, the U.S. created, and the Soviet Union agreed

to, a line at the 38th parallel,

27 dividing Korea without input from any Koreans.

27 Wilz, John Edward. “United States Policy vis-a-vis Korea.” 1992. https://www.usafa.edu/app/uploads/Harmon35.pdf. Page 5.

26 Stueck, William and Yi, Boram. “‘An Alliance Forged in Blood’: The American Occupation of Korea, the Korean War, and the US–South

Korean Alliance.” The Journal of Strategic Studies (2010) , 33:2, 177-209, DOI: 10.1080/01402391003590200. Page 183

25 Schnabel, James F., Chief Historian of the US Military. “UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE KOREAN WAR.”

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA353574.pdf. Page 20.

24 Yamada, Shoji. “What happened in the area of Greater Tokyo right after the Great Kanto Earthquake.”

http://www.cgs.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/download/cgs03_01_yamada

23 Adamek, Rachel. “Korean ‘Comfort Women’ of WWII: Cultural Trauma and Formation of National Identity.” (2021)

https://scholarworks.seattleu.edu/intl-std-theses/2/

22 Kim, Tong-Hyung. “South Korea plans fund to compensate forced labor victims.”

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-business-government-tokyo-seoul-fe50b12fc101a604c397cd32de964e10

21 Chee, Alexander. “My Family’s Shrouded History is Also a National One for Korea.” New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/magazine/korea-japanese-occupation-surrender-ww2.html

20 Métraux, Daniel A. “George Kennan’s Influential 1905 Depiction of Korea as a ‘Degenerate State’ and Japan as its Gracious Savior.” 2016.

https://asian.fiu.edu/projects-and-grants/japan-studies-review/journal-archive/volume-xx-2016/metraux-daniel-kennan-and-korea-for-jsr-2.pdf

19 Bradley, James. “The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War.” https://erenow.net/ww/the-imperial-cruise/12.php.

18 Wilz, John Edward. “Did the United States Betray Korea in 1905?” Pacific Historical Review 54, no. 3 (1985): 243–70.

https://doi.org/10.2307/3639632. Page 20.

17 This Treaty was neither endorsed or signed by the King and was eventually found to be null and void by the Treaty on Basic Relations of 1965

(see footnote 60).

16 The Taft and Katsura Memorandum (Agreement)

15 108th Congress, 2nd Session. “Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis, and Interpretation - 2002 Edition.”

https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-CONAN-2002/GPO-CONAN-2002-8-3

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2002/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2002-8-3.pdf. Page 96.

14 Kim, Ki-Seok. “Emperor Gwangmu’s Diplomatic Struggles to Protect His Sovereignty before and after 1905.”

https://kj.accesson.kr/assets/pdf/8120/journal-46-2-233.pdf

13 Wilz, John Edward. “Did the United States Betray Korea in 1905?” Pacific Historical Review 54, no. 3 (1985): 243–70.

https://doi.org/10.2307/3639632. Page 14.

12 Wilz, John Edward. “Did the United States Betray Korea in 1905?” Pacific Historical Review 54, no. 3 (1985): 243–70.

https://doi.org/10.2307/3639632. Page 8.

11 U.S. Government. "Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the 125th anniversary of the 1882 Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce and

Navigation between the Kingdom of Chosun (Korea) and the United States."

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110sres279is/html/BILLS-110sres279is.htm

In the end, perhaps as many as 810,000 Koreans were killed during 35 years of Japanese

occupation

28 and perhaps as many as 800,000 more, including prominent members of the

Koreans’ self-determined government,

29 were killed during the “well-documented but

little publicly known”

30 period from 1945-1949 when the U.S. maintained a military

occupation

31 of the southern part of the peninsula which “violently suppressed”

32 Koreans

due to overzealous policies “promoting democracy to discredit the Soviet Union.”

33 We

recall one of the many massacres, in particular in Jeju, where at least 30,000 were killed

34

in less than a month, with many victims “forced to have sex before being beheaded while

loved ones were forced first to watch while clapping with their hands” and then

subsequently to carry the severed heads of their family members in front of U.S. soldiers

thereafter.

35 Finally, the Korean War, which was effectively a proxy war between the U.S.

and the Soviet Union,

36 broke out, as some analysts say mostly due to U.S. policies,

37

resulting in the deaths of over five million soldiers and civilians.

38 The end result was that

the Joseon Empire and the Korean people suffered one of the largest recorded acts of

brutality in modern history.

Prior to the Korean War, the 1st Republic of Korea (“ROK”) was established by

subjecting the southern half of the peninsula to rule by an autocratic military dictatorship

installed by the U.S. After 40 years, a truly democratic election took place with the

launch of the 5th ROK.

39 Since then, the ROK has become a beautiful and powerful

country, primarily due to the great Korean people and continued support and protection

from its ally, the U.S. However, with this arrangement, the U.S. continues to exercise

control, summa potestas, over the Korean Military, resources and people.

40 All male

Korean citizens are required to serve in the Korean Military and, additionally, are forced

40 Robertson, Jeffery S. “Anti-Americanism in South Korea and the Future of the U.S. Presence.” JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND

AREA STUDIES Volume 9, Number 2, 2002, pp. 87-103.

39 To be clear, this was the fifth complete rewrite of the Constitution of the Republic of Korea.

38 History.com Editors. “Korean War - Causes, Timeline & Veterans.” History.com.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230116074008/https://www.history.com/topics/asian-history/korean-war

37 Wilz, John Edward. “United States Policy vis-a-vis Korea.” 1992. https://www.usafa.edu/app/uploads/Harmon35.pdf. Page 8.

36 National Geographic. “US Enters Korean War.” https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/us-enters-korean-war/

35 Willson, S. Brian. “History of US Sabotage of Korean Peace and Reunification.”

https://www.brianwillson.com/history-of-u-s-sabotage-of-korean-peace-and-reunification/

34 Kuhn, Anthony. “Survivors of a massacre in South Korea are still seeking an apology from the U.S.”

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121427407/survivors-of-a-massacre-in-south-korea-are-still-seeking-an-apology-from-the-u-s

33 Matray, James I. “Development Delayed: U.S. Economic Policy in Occupied Korea, 1945—1948.” The Journal of American-East Asian

Relations, vol. 10, no. 1/2, 2001, pp. 29–52. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/23613032.

32 Moon, Yumi. “Korean Uprisings in 1946: Was the US Occupation Responsible for the Korean War?”

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/korean-uprisings-1946-was-us-occupation-responsible-korean-war

31 Kim, Hakjoon. “THE AMERICAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT IN SOUTH KOREA, 1945-1948: ITS FORMATION, POLICIES, AND

LEGACIES.” Asian Perspective, vol. 12, no. 1, 1988, pp. 51–83. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/42703907.

30 Willson, S. Brian. “History of US Sabotage of Korean Peace and Reunification.”

https://www.brianwillson.com/history-of-u-s-sabotage-of-korean-peace-and-reunification/

29 Jung, Chang-hyun. “Assassin of Kim Gu Had Links Both to U.S. and to Terror Unit.” Korea Joong Ang Daily

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=1894423

28 Rummel, R.J. “Statistics of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900.” Charlottesville, Virginia, Center for National Security Law,

School of Law, University of Virginia, 1997; and Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University. Chapter 3.

to fight, with many dying, in wars that primarily serve the interests of the U.S.

41, 42

Furthermore, the U.S. has established military bases across the nation, including in

downtown Seoul at the old Japanese Imperial headquarters used during the Japanese

occupation.

43 U.S. Soldiers have appeared in reports due to incidents such as the rape and

sex-trade

44 of Korean girls

45, 46, 47, 48, 49 as well as civilian deaths.

50, 51

Separately, the northern half of the peninsula has been under rule by an authoritarian

military dictatorship, installed by the Soviet Union,

52 a predecessor to the current state of

Russia. Founded in 1948, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (“DPRK”), due to

being traumatized by the history of the peninsula and its people being subjected to

belligerent occupation, adopted an ideology called “juche” which is based on, but goes

beyond, the idea of self-dependence.

53 Eventually, as there was limited land suitable for

agriculture in the north, famine led to significant loss of life and, with it, loss of economic

growth. This pain has been exacerbated by the DPRK’s refusal to accept outside help due

to its isolationist policies

54 and additionally, as some analysts say, due to its strict

adherence to its monolithic policies.

55 The DPRK, mainly due its defensive, yet hostile,

55 Silberstein, Benjamin Katzeff. “Let Them Eat Potatoes: Communism, Famine and the Case of North Korea.” North Korean Review, vol. 17, no.

2, 2021, pp. 34–55. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/27067135.

54 Kim, Joseph. “North Korea Should Not Repeat the 1990s Famine Response.” George W. Bush Institute.

https://www.bushcenter.org/publications/north-korea-should-not-repeat-the-1990s-famine-response

53 Song, Hyang. “The Juche Idea.” https://www.north-korea-travel.com/juche.html

52 Tertitski, Konstantin. “The Personal File of Jin Richeng (Kim Il-sung): New Information on the Early Years of the First Ruler of North Korea.”

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/756413

51 Jin, Myeong-seon. “Tenth anniversary of girls killed by US military armored vehicle.” Hankyoreh. 2012.

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/537291.html

50 Kim, Gamel and Yoo, Kyong Chang. “Crash involving US armored vehicle kills four South Koreans, prompts military to suspend training near

northern range.” Stars and Stripes. 2020.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/crash-involving-us-armored-vehicle-kills-four-south-koreans-prompts-military-to-suspend-training-

near-northern-range-1.643265

49 Kim, Gamel and Yoo, Kyong Chang. “US soldier accused of sexually assaulting woman in South Korea.” Stars and Stripes. 2017.

https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us-soldier-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-woman-in-south-korea-1.455351

48 Brown, Lee. “US serviceman in South Korea arrested for allegedly raping woman.” New York Post. 2020.

https://nypost.com/2020/10/15/us-serviceman-in-south-korea-arrested-for-raping-woman/

47 Choe, Kil-song. “The Origins of the US Army’s Korean Comfort Women.” https://www.sdh-fact.com/book-article/597/

46 Sohn, Jie Ae. “Heat's on U.S. military in Korea, too.” CNN. http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/9510/skorea_usforces/index.html

45 Choe, Sang-Hun. “South Korea Sentences U.S. Soldier to 10 Years.” New York Times. 2011.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/world/asia/american-soldier-sentenced-for-raping-a-south-korean-woman.html

44 Choe, Sang-Hun. “Ex-Prostitutes Say South Korea and U.S. Enabled Sex Trade Near Bases.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/world/asia/08korea.html

43 Robertson, Jeffery S. “Anti-Americanism in South Korea and the Future of the U.S. Presence.” JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AND

AREA STUDIES Volume 9, Number 2, 2002, pp. 87-103.

42 Bandow, Doug. “South Korea: Forever Dependent on America.” Cato Institute.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/south-korea-forever-dependent-america

41 Botto, Kathryn. “Why Doesn’t South Korea Have Full Control Over Its Military?” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/08/21/why-doesn-t-south-korea-have-full-control-over-its-military-pub-79702

nuclear threats,

56 has been labeled as a member of the “axis of evil”

57 by the U.S., adding

strain to the hopes for reconciliation with the ROK.

58

Today, the people of the peninsula and its resources remain divided. Initially, with the

majority of suitable agriculture being in the south and the majority of industry, including

fertilizer production, being in the north, this divide severely hindered any chance for

Korean independence.

59 However, a new era has slowly dawned, and gradually, the ROK

with the support of the U.S., and the DPRK with the support of Russia and China, are

becoming two separate, sovereign and distinct nations, each representing half of the

whole of the Korean people. Yet the scar runs deep, with an imaginary boundary drawn

on the 38th parallel by outsiders, serving as a constant reminder of the millions of lives

lost, the destruction of families, separation of blood relations, and the loss of a strong,

self-determined, independent and unified Korea.

Joseon harbors no ill-will toward Japan or the U.S. However, Joseon, because of its

history, has earned the right to be skeptical of the bounds of modern borders. The ability

of people to live safe, self-determined lives should be the priority. Thus, although Joseon

no longer maintains nor seeks territory on the Korean Peninsula, and further, respects the

self-determination of the people of the Korean Peninsula, the Joseon sovereign, imperial

lineage continues,

60 and Joseon has been reconstituted in cyberspace. This document

outlines the existing and new relationships of Joseon with the world, our future goals and

ambitions, and the unique opportunities made possible as we open our borderless nation

in cyberspace to all people of the world.

1. The Status of Joseon

Joseon has adopted a new constitution, named the Code of National Governance, and is

enacting and implementing a full suite of legislation in order to ensure stability and

provide benefits to its constituents. As a fully independent and sovereign nation-state,

60 Wikipedia. “Treaty on Basic Relations Between Japan and the Republic of Korea.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Basic_Relations_Between_Japan_and_the_Republic_of_Korea

Joseon continues to engage in diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to expand its global

presence, recognition, and contributions.

1.1 National Recognition

While international law recognizes the capacity of groups of individuals to form states

and declare themselves free and independent of other sovereigns, the purest measure of a

state’s recognized legal sovereignty is its reception by other sovereign states who may

trade with it, recognize its independence and extend to it full diplomatic relations.

2. Joseon’s Relations With Other States

2.1 Introduction

Joseon unequivocally makes no claim to any territory on the Korean Peninsula and seeks

friendly relations with those who now live in and govern dominions once considered to

be under the imperium of the Joseon Empire. Furthermore, Joseon seeks friendly,

peaceful and productive relations with all other states who extend to it the same.

2.2 Treaties

2.2.1 New Treaties

- The 2022 Agreement of Peace, Amity and Commerce between Joseon and

Antigua, extending Joseon conditional recognition;

- The 2023 Amendment to the Treaty of Peace, Amity and Commerce between

Joseon and Antigua, giving Joseon full recognition and diplomatic relations with

Antigua.

Furthermore, Joseon is in discussions with additional UN-member nation-states, with

hopes to execute additional treaties in 2023.

2.2.2 Historic Treaties

The Joseon Empire executed a series of treaties with a collection of states in the

1882-1902 period. Joseon, its successor state, looks forward to re-establishing diplomatic

relations with these states in accordance with the following treaties:

The 1882 Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce and Navigation between Joseon and

the United States of America;

- The 1883 Treaty between Joseon and the United Kingdom;

- The 1883 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Joseon and Germany;

- The 1884 Treaty of Friendship and Commerce between Joseon and Italy;

- The 1885 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between Joseon and Russia;

- The 1886 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Joseon and

France;

- The 1892 Treaty of Amity and Commerce, between Joseon and Austria;

- The 1901 Treaty of Amity and Commerce, between Joseon and the Kingdom of

Belgium; and

- The 1902 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation between Joseon and the

Kingdom of Denmark.

Joseon finds inspiration in the “everlasting” treaty between the Joseon Empire and the

U.S. which served as the model for the other treaties and contains nearly identical

provisions. The treaty with the U.S. auspiciously begins:

“There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the President of the

United States and the King of Joseon and the citizens and subjects of their

respective Governments. If other powers deal unjustly or oppressively with either

Government, the other will exert their good of ices on being informed of the case

to bring about an amicable arrangement, thus showing their friendly feelings.”

3. Joseon Denizenship

Rather than coupling a personal identity and reputation with a physical person, in Joseon,

Denizenship is proxied through a special, personal interest corporation, or “Denizen”, a

special type of company that is both non-transferrable and is limited to a single physical

shareholder, and importantly, such physical shareholder is limited to a single instantiation

thereof at any point in time.

Corporations, particularly closely-held ones, sometimes echo the reputations of its

founders or majority shareholders. The Denizen company is no exception. Denizens act

as the legal entity of an individual and provide an opportunity to bifurcate its identity and

reputation from the physical person (where the physical person is, herein, a “Person”), at

the sole discretion of the Person. Denizens allow Joseon to introduce a new social

onstruct wherein reputation is both paramount and, in some circumstances, fungible.

With the optional decoupling of a Person from a corporate identity, a Person is able to

build a reputation with its Denizen serving as the medium. Should the Denizen’s

reputation falter or if the Person wishes to restart for any reason of any kind, the Person

can retire the Denizen and instantiate another, with the consent of the Ministry of

Denization. The Denizen is, thus, a legally recognized pseudonym-as-an-entity providing

optional pseudonymity to Persons who wish to associate with Joseon through its

Denization.

People and objects within a defined physical territory are subject to the regulations of

said territory. However, individuals who wish to subject themselves to Joseon’s

jurisdiction and regulations can encapsulate their activity within a Denizen corporation.

Although special, as a Denizen corporation is simply a corporation domiciled in Joseon,

legally, it is a separate person from the physical person that created it. Therefore, it is not

subject to the jurisdiction of the physical territory wherein said Person is located. Also,

this structure legally creates a vehicle whereby actions can be taken on behalf of the

Person, within the domicile of Joseon, completely separating jurisdiction over the Person

versus jurisdiction over the Denizen, jus gentium.

The Denizen corporation is a resident of Joseon. The ability to register a Denizen

corporation is no longer dependent on ethnic, religious, or other sociocultural regional

markers, or in fact, bound by any physical territorial spaces. Joseon welcomes and opens

Denizenship registration to any individual in the world. Joseon’s Denizenship model will

protect and advance Joseon’s global interests by increasing Joseon’s dominion while

simultaneously and equally providing value

61, 62

to its global Denizenry.

4. Jurisdiction

It remains the right of each nation to maintain its own domestic law and practice to

determine how it interacts or refrains therefrom with other nations. The Supreme Court of

the U.S. has upheld the fundamental notion that every sovereign state is bound to respect

the independence of every other sovereign state, and that the courts of one nation shall

not sit in judgment of another nation’s sovereign acts within its own territory. Aptly, the

Cypherpunk Manifesto confirms, “even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a

62 To be explained in subsequent sections.

61 Ben-Porath, Sigal R. and Smith, Rogers M. “Introduction to Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship.” University of Pennsylvania, 2012,

nation's border and the arm of its violence.”

63 Since states that lack power comparable to

that of the great nations are no less sovereign within their respective borders,

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the

jurisdictional sovereignty of Joseon within its cyber dominion is absolute.

Before the Peace of Westphalia, sovereignty was neither territorial or exclusive.

65 With

the formation and expansion of the internet which is also a-territorial and non-exclusive,

territorial sovereignty is no longer tied to the geographical concept of land. The original

concept of sovereignty by consent of jurisdiction, strikingly similar to the sovereignty by

allegiance prevalent prior to the Peace of Westphalia, has once again become the de facto

system of order – essentially, the people of the world choose in which jurisdictions their

businesses will incorporate, and separately, the people of the world consent to the laws of

various jurisdictions as defined within the “click-wrapped” and “browse-wrapped”

agreements they accept when visiting and/or utilizing websites.

Yet, the international principles of law fundamentally sprout from territory defined by

borders. Territory is also defined as a container “over which an authority exercises

supreme and exclusive power. … the territory is the substratum of state authority whereas

borders define the allocation of authority between states.”

66 Joseon-domiciled companies

and Denizens incorporate by consenting to the laws and jurisdiction of Joseon, thus

establishing a legal entity, or container, over which Joseon exercises supreme and

exclusive power. Expressing these containers as A and the total allocation of authority, or

dominion, as D, then the sum of all containers A is the total allocation of authority D, or

D = ΣA. Thus, the entities, which are Denizens and their Joseon registered companies,

represent the dominion over which Joseon maintains imperium. Therefore, Joseon has

both a territory (the dominion, denoted as D) and a border, that is, the total allocation of

authority over the territory (denoted as ΣA) to which no other nation-state can stake a

claim.

5. Closing Remarks

As the first cyber nation-state to be recognized by a UN member nation, Joseon hopes to

be a harbinger of cyber states and a new era in which people’s needs are the genuine

66 Tsagourias, N. “Law, borders and the territorialisation of cyberspace.” Indonesian Journal of International Law (2018), 18 (4). ISSN 1693-5594.

priority. This seachange will allow societies to organize in new ways – ultimately leading

to true self-determination for all people of the world.

Equalizing Opportunity: Joseon’s Companies Act

of 2023

6. Inspired by King Sejong the Great

During Joseon’s infancy, King Sejong the Great

67 observed a large disparity in wealth

between the well-heeled and the less fortunate members of Joseon society. He felt

strongly that the impoverished would have greater opportunities to achieve economic

viability if they learned how to read and write. However, the method of reading and

writing in Joseon was Chinese, a language which only rich, aristocratic males had the

luxury of both time and opportunity to learn.

Rather than attempting to educate his citizens on Chinese, which had proven to be

impossible to learn without an abundance of time, King Sejong sought to directly address

the widespread illiteracy among his subjects by taking a novel, indirect approach by

creating a new writing system which required a much shorter learning period and was

equally accessible to everyone, regardless of wealth or societal rank. Thus was born

Hunminjeongeum, later shortened to Onmun, the written Korean language, which was far

easier

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to learn than the Chinese writing system. By creating a new, widely accessible

and easy to learn writing system, King Sejong completely and beneficially altered the

requirements and opportunities for his subjects to gain literacy. Per the adage of the dog

and the fence, he walked around the fence. As a direct result of increased literacy rates,

Joseon’s economic playing field was leveled more quickly than would have been possible

by any other means, short of an unfair and arbitrary redistribution of wealth among his

subjects. King Sejong breathed life into the Confucian adage that “it is better to teach a

person to fish rather than to give him a fish.”

As would be expected, certain segments of society – the rich, aristocratic males – took

severe umbrage with and fought against King Sejong’s efforts to increase literacy within

Joseon. But, the detractors failed. As King Sejong had hoped, the less fortunate, the

68 Onmun can generally be learned in less than an hour. It has also been called Hangul and Joseongul.

Conclusion:

Joseon Mun represents a bold step towards a future where finance, technology, and inclusivity converge. As the national cryptocurrency of the cyber nation of Joseon, it offers a glimpse into the transformative potential of digital finance. By embracing cutting-edge blockchain technology, fostering financial inclusion, and navigating regulatory challenges, Joseon Mun sets the stage for a new era of financial possibilities. As investors, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts explore the potential of Joseon Mun, they become pioneers in shaping the future of digital finance, unlocking a world of opportunities and driving us closer to a more connected and prosperous global economy.

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