The Answer To the Dangers of Authoritarian Decadence Is To Unilaterally Establish Community With Fellow Freedom Builders
The evils and dangers of authoritarian decadence are on display. Never before in the USA has the danger of freedom being extinquished been graver. For many, the answer seems to be to market freedom to the masses in the hopes of defeating the freedom takers.
For Peers of Upadaria, people who have adopted a unique but Christian spiritual nationhood, and Freedomists who embrace a Pledge of Common Unity, the answer isn’t marketing.
Marketing is meant to pursuade. Upadaria, as a spiritual nation and an international non-territorial Commonwealth, is not something to be marketed. It is more about making a logical case, drawing boundaries, and building community around our shared freedom-building ideas.
The goal is not to convince the majority that something is right. We are at a place where we must all be done “negotiating” about fundamental God-given spiritual sovereignty. We cannot negotiate things like the individual’s wyrd, which is a God-ordained scroll of destiny and purpose unique for each person.
Those who will join the cause or become allies will come forth and together will do exploits. Those who oppose will oppose and all that can be done is to leave them to God’s care.
There is a war on freedom caused by a civilization-wide leftward lurch toward authoritarian decadence. It is necessary to resist this, peacefully, and at least to protect the innocent and the righteous as much as possible. But it is also important to realize that authoritarian decadence is an unavoidable consequence of a civilization in spiritual, moral, cultural, and creative decline.
We live in the days of decline. Every major world civilization today is in a similar state of decline. The problem is way beyond America. It is a global problem.
Some believe elections will save us. If only we get the right people in we can defeat the bad guys, or so the logic runs.
In truth, and to be brutally honest, voting will not save us. Winning elections is not the real solution.
Voting is a power we use as best we can to stave off the greatest threat, the Democrats, who, as a Party, are far worse than the Republicans. The Republicans are not “good”, but their flaws are a minor crime compared to the Democrats.
(*Note, our litmus test is whether a politician will vote to ensure some sorts of status and shanding for Upadarians as a spiritual nation more than anything else and for our non-territorial international Commonwealth. This means, only under such circumstances, a Democrat who will vote for our status and standing would be preferable to a Republican who won’t.)
If voting is mostly just a holding action, what is the answer to our quandry?
The creation of community is the answer.
We who call ourselves Upadarians believe that a spiritual form of nationhood is the most viable way to build community. People intentionally adopt something we call “organic cohesiveness” through the agency of shared nationhood. For Freedomists, a Pledge of Common Unity provides a larger and more pluralistic foundation for collaboration and mutual support.
First we begin with spiritual nationhood. This is important because the stakeholders of our international virtual Commonwealth are conformed Peers of our spiritual nation (Electors).
Let’s dig into nationhood, cohesiveness, and that which makes all this organic.
How can a small group of people overcome large-scale problems that the majority do not even acknowledge as problems? The answer is that they need to be able to act in unity and with discipline and purpose. This is cohesiveness.
When a small group of people are extremely cohesive, the larger but less cohesive groups fall before them.
We aren’t interested in anyone falling before us. We are interested in not falling before the “popular” waves of moral barbarism and authoritarianism that the Democratic Party is all about.
The Democrats and their propaganda organs in the press, academia, Madison Avenue, Wall Street, and Hollywierd are totalitarian perverts. We don’t want to be ruled by their anticulture and their authoritarianism.
Republicans are not the noble and good opposite of the Democrats. They may be seen as either feckless opposition to the Democrats, sometimes collaborators, or slow motion corpostate shills. But they are not anything near a threat to us as the Democrats are.
A cohesive core of a minority of people is more than a match to the balkanized majority coalition the Democrats have cobbled together.
Cohesiveness is needed.
But our idea is that it should be oragnic. This means a few things. First, there is the idea it should come from the heart and be natural, not forced. It should have great depth such that any two people who have this organic cohesiveness instantly know they will almost always agree.
They will be able to predict how the other person will act or respond. They will know that honor and honesty are required as a prerequisite for being a Peer of our nation or a Freedomist in our Commonwealth.
This instant agreement is never forced, it flows from having the same core beliefs and values. It happens by making these shared ideals visible and transparent. It happens we agreement on these matters becomes the very qualification for claiming the shared identity.
What we call nationhood in many ways is “community writ large.” It is a shared identity that defines how those who adopt it will behave with one another and with reference to the outside world. It creates predictability and trust which would normally take a long time to build, thus making an effectice cohesive response difficult.
People adopt the Upadarian nationality when they learn the ideals, principles, practices, and goals that define this identity. These things are expressed through the 17 Protocols of Upadaria which guide the way we treat each other and the way we work together. Others, who we call Freedomists, agree to a Pledge of Common Unity by which they become Citizen Freeholders of our international Commonwealth.
(*Note, people who become Peers take a Pledge of Peers and automatically also agree to the Pledge of Common Unity. People who agree to the Pledge of Common Unity are not Upadarians by nationality and may not even be Christians, but they embrace the ideals and principles upon which freedom is built. Thus we have Peers and Freedomists.)
By this means, many small groups in many locations who gather under our banner can work autonomously. Meanwhile, it looks like a mass movement is being centrally organized and activated. In reality, aside from a support structure and a means of protecting the brand and providing standards, no such control exists.
Any larger scale hierarchy is captains of tens, fifties, hundreds, thousands, and etcetera. To pool resources and facilitate communication and cooperation across great distances and among millions of people some hierarchy is needed. Hierarchical structures with a light touch that support autonomous local groups are ideal.
Through the power of organic cohesiveness, even if that hierarchy was destroyed, a whole new organic hierarchy could emerge from any of the smaller pieces. These smaller peices, like groups of a few people even, become a fractal of the whole. They can then grow through cellular division into a new copy of the whole.
Imagine a small town of perhaps 5,000 adults. Imagine only 300 to 500 adults embracing our nationhood or at least virtual citizenship in our international Commonwealth, and building community amongst themselves. This “Microshire Community” or around 2-5 Shireholds would have an outsized INFLUENCE without asserting any control.
(*Note, the wors “Shirehold” combines the words “shire” and “hold”, as in household. It is a modern adaptation of the ancient tribal band or village in which some form of kinship connection is a condition of membership.)
Even when only a few dozen families share this identity as Peers of Upadaria or embrace the status of Freedomists within our Commonwealth, a lot of good can be done.
In that town, the likelihood any elected official would run afoul of these people is slim. If they voted en bloc, as a group, they would be courted, not persecuted. If they also were not interested in much more than basic human rights for all and to be left in peace to serve their God, they are also not any kind of threat.
Spiritual nationhood is the means of building organic cohesiveness within distributed intentional communities. This is the key to our peaceful and spiritual revolution.
While the degree to which Freedomists are cohesive with Upadarians may be lesser, it is substantial and chances are a Freedomist would engage in some other form of shared nationhood with others within the larger international Commonwealth.
This, or something like this by similar groups who love freedom, is the real solution to our problem. Our problem is authoritarian decadence promoted by a globalist corpostate establishment that has lost its very humanity.
We aren’t trying to convince the majority to reject this. We are not trying to win over the corpostaters or their minions. We will vote to hold the line and disrupt the use of political power as a weapon against freedom. At the same time, we will unilaterally build community through the agency of spiritual nationhood which creates organic cohesiveness.
Our goal is to find, inform, gather, and help yo organize Peers of Upadaria and eCitizens of our virtual commonwealth who are not Peers at the local level. By empowering them to autonomously build community together, we win back a tiny portion of the people and land for freedom.
Electors are confirmed Peers who are citizens of our non-territorial international Commonwealth. Freeholders are active eCitizens and confirmed Freedomists of our commonwealth. They are all called “Upos” and we believe they already exist. What lies before us is the task of calling them and serving them so that they can build their own local Upo Communities.
We use a term “Upoverse” to describe a social, economic, civil, and civic environment based on a new civilizational paradigm. By building the Upoverse online and then face-to-face at the local level, we win more people and spaces for freedom.
As others may do the same, albeit in their own ways, new alliances and coalitions emerge. These alliances and coalitions fly the same banner. It is a banner of freedom through virtue, liberty, and independence and adherence to the same set of core ideals.
People who want freedom and who are destined to become Electors or Freeholders within our globally-distributed community already exist. We do not need to convince them. We need to reach them, gather them, and activate them.
TLDR: Social conservatives who love freedom have a new nationality they can call their own and a new digital homeland that will welcome and support them, both in terms of financial stability and material well-being and in terms of their rights and the pursuit of their own God-given spiritual sovereignty.
or, “WHY SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES IN AMERICA SHOULD ALL CONSIDER BECOMING UPADARIANS?”
If the globalist corpostate types had their wicked way in America, we social conservative freedom builders would have already been outlawed. That’s a fact we cannot ignore. We represent only 30-40 million voters and perhaps only around 10% of us have consciousness of the true nature and aims of this totalitarian party of depraved lunatics.
We wish to, with your backing and participation, gather together and mobilize all of the 3-4 million truly aware social conservative freedom builders. We will do this by reaching the 30-40 million social conservatives in this country repeatedly and as quickly as possible with our message of unilateral self-determination and civic activism. Our main vehicle to achieve this end is the Freedomist, but we are also building the genesis or pilot local chapter community and our international digital homeland.
If you are a social conservative in America, then, whether you are yet aware of it or not, your true spiritual homeland on this earth is a distributed but virtual-to-local homeland called Upadaria and if you are also a Christ-follower according to historic Christian orthodoxy, then your spiritual nationality outside of the universal Christian identity is probably Upadarian.
If you are looking for a blueprint to create a true counter-culture with its own sociocultural and socioeconomic structures that are independent of the corrupt ruling class and their influence, there is nothing that has the depth and scalability of Upadaria and that can transcend ethnic and racial barriers created to keep us divided.
We who call ourselves Upadarians are a nation. It is important to understand that our concept of a nation is an intentionally massive and unprecedented departure from the globalist/corpostate view of nationhood rooted in a soft authoritarianism and top-down political control over culture and faith. While our concept of a nation is spiritual and therefore a departure from the existing convention, it is also more ancient and traditional and rooted in universals that represent the spiritual DNA of the Kingdom of God. When God ordains “nations” which have this same spiritual DNA they do not grow and are not maintained as secular, godless states which rely on force and politics alone.
The Upadarian nation as a movement of people with the same sociocultural and socioeconomic values is heir to the mantle of manifest destiny first vouchsafed to future generations by the Pilgrims, the Puritans, and William Penn. It is no accident that the genesis of this spiritual nation as the vanguard people of a new civilization founded upon Christian ideals occured in Pennsylvania.
We make no bones about it: unless a movement of comparable depth and scalability as ours, with comprehensive blueprints ready to hand, can be found, then you can safely say that if you honor the vision of America’s first founders and want to see it fulfilled, then what we call Upadaria is for you!
And yet, we have no history. We have no past or baggage. We have never opporessed or been oppressed. Every human being of any race or ancestry in any land, especially America which we view as the cradle of our new civilization, can adopt and become a Upadarian by chosen nationality.
If you are a social conservative freedom builder, you are in spirit already a sort of “citizen” of our spiritual Commonwealth and if you also follow Christ, you may already be called and ordained to become a Peer of our spiritual Nation.
We are building a massive distributed global community. Within America we are building an alternative sociocultural collaborative community. This is both for mutual support and to save this country from the horrible fruits our present ruling class are causing to be reaped through their depraved authoritarianism. We are gathering people who can commit time and energy, and through a paid subscription financially back, our movement.
We are gathering pioneers who can participate in these early stages with active engagement and financial backing even when the things we wish to do are mostly still in a planning and design stage.
Majorities in many countries are voting away freedom and ushering in a sort of democratic Caesarism and cancel culture extremism that are aimed at destroying religious freedom, especially for Christians and Jews, but really for everyone. We propose a peaceful and ambitious response using the vehicles of national identity and religious freedom, recognized under international law, to assert our rights to build our own parallel structures on the basis of that identity and our religious convictions.
Our response to the growing Caesarism is to use a form of nationhood that will insulate us from these freedom-denying trends and that will perpetuate and protect freedom for future generations.
By creating a “nationality” as an ethnic group or national people, based on a shared faith, we have a ready-made and established vehicle for asserting our own sociocultural and socioeconomic life that is reocnginzed under international law for all peoples and that can become the basis of creating new parallel structures which perpetuate and protect our way of life.
Through a modern adaptation of the ancient extended multi-family household community (Oikos), based on this intentional nationhood, we have a ready-made local structure for transmitting a Christian culture and way of life for multiple generations even in an un-Christian sociocultural setting.
Understand this and understand it well: ONLY the vehicle of “ethnicity” allows us this opportunity to assert our rights to self-determination under international law. Only the claim to be a unique ethnicity, which organizes as local kinship communities, shields us from all attempts to violate our sacred rights to build communities and structures for the primary benefit of our fellow Peers. Only this status as an ethnic group allows us to preserve our unique way of life on sociocultural grounds, not on the grounds of individual rights alone.
Ethnicity based on a spiritual foundation of beliefs and values and way of life, nationhood as we call it, is ESSENTIAL to building our freedoms in a hostile culture. We have to both differentiate ourselves and engage the world around us. The balance here is both separation based on preserving our way of life and Christian witness and in being a salt and light witness of truth and love to others outside our faith and national communities. Nationhood allows us to find that balance in a peaceful and proactive manner.
Such a form of nationhood must both be broad enough to possibly include millions of people but narrow enough to make it distinct as its own identity and lifestyle and therefore legally protected from discrimination and suppression by existing national peoples or even any political state. It is a more narrowly defined identity than the universal elements of historic Christian doctrinal and ethical orthodoxy, for instance, and would be distinct from existing national people groups.
Upadarians may have things like African tribal, German, English, Chinese, Jewish, or other ancestries, but the Upadarian nationality is distinct and separate from these nationalities. Upadarians in America may be patriotic to their country, but they are a distinct nationality like unto an indigenous tribal nation or other ethnic groups.
If your concern is freedom and your desire is to live a Christian lifestyle in peace, then nationhood is the best path for liberation and prosperity in the face of a growing Caesarism. The idea of intentionally creating a NEW nationality based on Christian ideals, principles, and practices may seem “far fetched” but every single nationality of people, of which there are around 10,000 on the planet, was at some point “created” from one or more other existing national peoples.
The major flaw in a strictly individual application of freedom, the rights you own as a human being, is that there is no at-scale legal structure that can gurantee those rights, especially when Caesarism stalks your land. But if we use the definition of ethnicity under international law and the special legal protections against ethnic discrimination as well as for ethnic self-determination we begin to build the basis of freedom that both protects your individual rights and provides at-scale structures more or less reocnginzed under international law to uphold those rights.
If the Upadarian nation as a PEOPLE, and ethnicity, has its own Society as a legal structure to represent the rights of its people then any effort to violate the rights of Upadarians to live our way of life becomes ethnic discrimination and also engages the perpetrators with a much larger-scale entity that cannot be easily cowed. In creating our own ethnic identity as a spiritual nation without well-defined standards and norms we insulate ourselves from discrimination and we create at-scale entities to represent us to the larger society and international community.
Let’s stipulate that nobody has a right to vote away our freedom to live, practice, and share your beliefs, values, and freedom with whomever you choose. Even when a majority vote against freedom, being fooled or cowed or otherwise convinced to do so, we owe them no loyalty or subnission where it violates our inherent human dignity and human rights, or spiritual sovereignty. But in practical terms we have to use available means and methods to preserve and build freedom in the face of Caesarism.
Our approach to building freedom is probably way outside of your realm expectations and experience, but, we submit, it is the right approach. Indeed, it is the only viable approach.
Our approach to personal and corporate liberation and to building freedom is this thing we call intentional nationhood. It is something we own a sacred right to build among ourselves. Nobody has any right to prevent us from doing this. It is something with its own social, cultural, economic, and civic relationships and structures which can exist in parallel with existing structures and independently of them. Moreover, building such structures remains a sacred right that comes from God, who has ordained nations, and cannot be denied by man.
We desire this freedom not only for ourselves but for everyone in the world.
Violence and insurrection, rebellion and sedition, secession or revolution are not any kind of answers we seek. Our concept comes from ancient history, it reflects an historic process whereby a small plurality of people inwardly withdraw from the old system and unilaterally create a new nationality of people based on the kinds of ideals that permeate a new civilization in its emergence. The new emerges as the old flails about and tries to use Caesar to replace its destroyed inner spiritual and creative life.
Let’s be clear, and this is difficult to convey as well as hard to grasp, nationhood as a concept and as an adopted shared identity is as essential to surviving the Caesarism of a late civilization as it is to ensure the birth of a new civilization during a time when the old civilization experiences collapse and ruin. Mere ideology and political activities confined within the old systems are inadequate and no serious lover of freedom would rely on such a shallow approach. Trying to reform 9r restructure an existing and dying civilization has not once succeeded in human history!
The fundamental problem is a civilizational paradigm imposed by a top-down system of control created to perpetuate a ruling class with a “world-as-spoil” ideology. The old identities, even our precious identity as Americans, lose their original spirit and intent, are watered down to absurdity, and change into something of a monstrosity. The need of the hour is, foremost, for the deliberate creation of a new national identity that deliberately follows the ideals of a new civilization and eschews the decadent worldview and lifestyle of the old.
What we call “Upadaria” is a new form of shared national identity based on the core ideals of an essentially Christian civilization that promotes equality of freedom and justice for all human beings. By adopting this nationality you change your own paradigm, you deliberately re-create the ancient ways of a new civilization, and you reclaim your spiritual sovereignty as a free human being.
We will NEED this nationality to unify people on a grand scale without having to create a centralized top-down hierarchy that could easily be destroyed by a Caesarist regime. Everyone who has the core spiritual and then social, cultural, economic, and civic DNA of our spiritual nation has the raw ingredients for building a life of material independency from the Caesarist structures. These people can act alone or locally with a few fellow Upadarians to build relationships, associations, and organizations that nurture this most Christian way of life and holistically provide for their own basic needs.
Without this nationhood, we will flounder and fail because nothing will stop this present civilization and every country under its purview from turning to Caesarism.
INTENTIONAL NATIONHOOD BASED ON SPIRITUAL SOVEREIGNTY IS THE SECRET HACK TO PRODUCE FREEDOM IN THE 21ST CENTURY
If you are Christian or a socially conservative person living in a morally backwards, increasingly authoritarian cancel culture society and you desire to live and love in peace and freedom where you can prosper and be a faithful witness to the Gospel, then, we humbly submit, the concept and practice of a Biblical form of nationhood is going to be essential to your future.
Our desire is not to reform this present sociocultural and socioeconomic system, nor to impose our most Christian sociocultural norms on others. Our desire is to remain free to prosper, to live and love in peace, and to be a positive witness and influence through words, examples, deeds, and service to others. We desire to build the social farbic of a Christian way of life and witness to the world through the concepts and practices of a Biblical form of nationhood which connects people of like beliefs, values, and convictions in an organic way, in freewill participation as opposed to any form of coercive control through top-down centralized hierarchies.
It is clear to us from the Bible that God desires a multitude of diverse nations of people, each unique but all with the same core Kingdom DNA, to occupy (as in inhabit and be a witness to) this world and to actually govern the world to come.
We are witnessing the classic story of the Tower of Babel over and over with some playing the role of Nimrod, trying to make of many diverse people one top-down nationality that is based on authoritarianism and centralized hierarchies. The Bible shows us in Acts 17:26-27 how God sees and ordains nations as diverse manifestations of the same spiritual DNA, all with the same God and faith, but all solely through freewill participation, all with their own unique place in history, and all with their own homelands.
Through a Biblical understanding and application of nationhood many people all over the world can begin to act as one without a centralized hierarchical system of top-down control. Additionally, and importantly, there are provisions and blessings reserved unto such nations of people that are released ONLY to and through them.
There is a KEY to understanding nationhood from a Biblical perspective and how it relates to an authoritarian overreach within the existing sociocultural and socioeconomic structures. That key is that spiritual nations whose God is the Lord can tap into and release blessings of provision and protection that are only reserved for such nations. Through God’s blessings of provision and favor all the people within a nation whose God is the Lord live within a Divine sacred border (pomerium) which is protected by the Armies of Heaven.
Our spiritual nation, called “Upadaria” after the UPDR Ideals of a Christian civilization, will be blessed according to that Biblical promise and the people and their lands will come within this pomerium of God’s provision and protection. Our nation is intended to play a unique role in being a contemporary example of a spiritual nation of people whose God is the Lord and in being a vanguard people of a new Christian civilization.
Many existing national peoples will use this example to redefine their national identity and way of life to center on the person and works of Yeshua and many new and intentional spiritual nations will emerge, all within the framework of Kingdom essentials and a new Christian civilization.
We will not say that “Upadaria” will be the only such vanguard people in the coming age wherein nationhood as a concept drives a global Christian witness to the nations. We can say that this role is essential to the shared sense of mission and destiny that guides the way we, as a nation of people distributed all over the world, will live and act together.
A “Upadarian”, or Peer of our spiritual nation, wherever they live and whatever their ancestry and church affiliation, is a Christian with a heart for the lost in every nation and in every land or country in this world. A Upadarian desires to practice a Christ-centered and Kingdom-focused lifestyle, they desire to fulfill God’s best for their lives with excellence, and they desire to both individually and as a nation be an effective witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations.
Key to the Upadarian way of life is the intentional re-creation of the lost ancient, but essential, institutions such as the extended family and multi-family households of faith as well as kinship communities where kinship is a spiritual identity as opposed to being limited to blood or race.
A Upadarian Household Community, called a Shirehold, is envisioned as a kinship community of around 120 peers of our spiritual nation who behave as an ancient extended multi-family household community that cares for its members not unlike a single nuclear family would. This is the key to understanding a Upadarian way of life: organizing and living within your own marriage and nuclear family, a kinship group of 3-5 or so Upadarian nuclear families, and a kinship community of around 120 or so Peers of our spiritual nation.
Put another way, only sociocultural and socioeconomic structures like our Shirehold community, which cater mostly to people of the same national identity, can convey culture and faith for generations to come and preserve a Christian lifestyle even in a hostile social and cultural setting.
Only the dual claims of religious freedom and ethnic self-determination can buttress such communities from unjust external interference. We say our concept of family is a multi-family kinship community of around 120 adults of the same ethnicity, even though we also say OUR ethnicity is based on spiritual and then sociocultural beliefs and convictions as opposed to solely blood ties or biological ancestry. We claim that it is our firm religious belief that being part of such a nation is our calling from God and that being part of such a family is essential to our national identity and religious faith.
From a “religious freedom” perspective, we believe it is God’s will for us to cluster together as extended familial household communities and that the essence of family in our belief system, as ordained for us by God, is this multi-family extended household community of around 120 adults. The idea that such a familial community cannot exclusively hold land in common and cohabitate therein is a violation of our religious freedom because we believe God intends and ordains us to live in such a manner.
Moreover, what we view as our “national homeland” consists of all the Estates and larger hubs and hub communities created for the primary use and benefit of Upadarians and our core shared mandates to the greater world, such as being missional in reaching others for Yeshua and helping Christian refugees. While our national pomerium covers all lands and property owned or controlled by all peers of Upadaria, and every single Upadarian, our “distributed homeland of heart and hearth”, includes specific lands held under trust by a national institution of Upadaria for the primary benefit of Upadarians and to carry out our shared mandates.
In the beginning we believe most Shirehold communities will be distributed, with conmon facilities somewhere in the vicinity of members, that also serve subscribers of our virtual commonwealth and the surrounding Christian and natural community. It is not EVER mandatory that anyone live within a Shirehold’s Estate to be part of that Shirehold. But it is their RIGHT to do so, provided they fulfill the practical requirements (e.g. cost-sharing). As we proceed, most Shireholds may HAVE an Estate or Villa but they are not defined by this, they can exist without this if need be, and nobody is REQUIRED to live therein.
As noted, only the Estates/Villas of a kinship group (around 15 or so adults) or an entire Shirehold community, and larger hubs and hub communities, are considered part of our globally-distributed homeland. We do not need or require political sovereignty to preserve our homelands provided the host countries recognize and respect our nationhood as a tribal sovereignty and our lands as a tribal homeland. All of our political activities are directed toward achieving this status.
Normally, and we foresee in the future for us, blood kinship and nationhood are connected to a substantial degree. Initially, as our spiritual nation is intentional and our familial household communities are based on our shared nationhood, most of the members of our first Shireholds will not be blood related. Moreover, even as and when we begin to see most members of Upadarian Shireholds are more or less also blood related, Peerage in our nation and acceptance into a Shirehold community will not be strictly limited to and will not be defined in terms of blood relations.
It is of extreme sensitivity that we remember always: being in freewill participation with a Upadarian Shirehold does not disconnect you from your own blood kin or ancestors, it isn’t a substitute for your local church, and it isn’t a substitute for your citizenship as a loyal member of your country (whether by birth or choice).
While it may be more “convenient” when blood kin are ALSO members of your Shirehold community, it remains true that you owe a responsibility of mutual care to your blood kin regardless of whether they are called to be a Peer of our spiritual nation!
Upadarians believe that we should serve God first and foremost, then our spouses and children and people under our care, our blood relations, and then our national community, church community, fellow Christians, and fellow citizens, in balance and all for the Glory of God. Being part of Upadaria should FACILITATE you being able to do this and never detract from you doing this.
Anyone who uses their Upadarian identity to cut themselves off from relatives, friends, fellow Christians, their church, or their fellow citizens and their country does not understand the vision or ethics of Upadaria!
We envision these kinship communities as the core constituent entities of our spiritual nation, of the area to regional Ecclesia of ALL Believers of any national identity and church affiliation, of every country, and of the whole of Christian civilization. To be painfully and abundantly clear, in our view, according to our religious conviction, “family” is nothing less than a whole kinship community, generally cohabitating something like a small village or large estate within a larger pluralistic community of diverse people. This includes other Christian national communities, fellow Believers, and even non-Christians on the basis of a common freedom standard.
This isn’t a top-down thing. These kinds of kinship communities, where kinship is defined in spiritual terms through freewill participation, emerge organically but use a common blueprint and framework. Even when most of the people in a kinship community are blood related, it is the spiritual connection through freewill participation in a shared nationhood that defines who and what they are. Even people born into a kinship community must at some time decide that this is part of who they are and part of their own scroll of destiny and purpose in order to remain a stakeholder in that community.
In cases where someone born into a kinship community decides this Upadarian nationality doesn’t fit their scroll of destiny and purpose, these people may not be stakeholders but they are also not shunned or shamed or physically removed or otherwise disconnected from the people in that community. We recognize that nationhood from a spiritual perspective is always based on freewill participation and that it isn’t for everyone.
Where legal structures that can make this type of community a legal entity recognized under law are lacking, a multi-faceted approach may be necessary with a number of legal structures like a mutual benefit society, mutual benefit corporations, land trust, club, or whatever is necessary. All political activity by the larger networks, chapters, branch societies, and international society will be directed toward gaining legal standing and protection from the country where these communities are located and under international law.
Having our own well-defined ethnicity as per the legal requirements under international law is a strong step in this direction and is essential to any claims for a carve-out from laws, regulations, and policies that would inhibit our way of life according to our shared religious and sociocultural beliefs, values, and convictions.
We have to be very careful to limit our political activities to preserving or creating and then preserving our way of life and status, namely as a tribal sovereignty or domestic nation and for our lands to become like unto reservations or homelands. We do not aim to re-create or fashion existing countries into homelands for our nation alone. Our larger vision for society is to become a free and pluralistic society of equals which allows many diverse nations and individuals to enjoy maximum self-determination and individual liberty.
Despite there being various larger-scale organizations planned around the Upadarian nationality, like branch societies and the international society, there isn’t a centralized system of control to dictate the who and where about these parallel sociocultural and socioeconomic structures, mostly within the Shirehold community, which any group of people animated by our common nationhood can create unilaterally without asking for anyone’s permission.
These kinship communities can exist outside any “official” affiliation with other entities, though doing so definitely has its legal advantages. This is especially true when the international society is recognized as representing our ethnicity under international law and if the branch society is reocnginzed as the “government” of a tribal entity representing all Upadarians within that country. Moreover, the more such such communities affiliate with and pool resources to support the international society and branch societies the more likely such recognition will come!
In the early days of building our nationality, using things like a website, a platform, and a book, we have no such recognition, but we do have the recognition and mandate of heaven and we do have the pomerium of God’s protection which surrounds every piece of land owned or controlled by every peer of our nation. It is certain that earthly recognition will follow Heavenly recognition!
Being connected to our nation, as a Peer, adds a layer of spiritual protection and provision beyond that which is available to individuals just as being married adds another layer of love and affection from God which can only come through Holy Matrimony. This is ALWAYS a good thing, but it is especially necessary during the emergence of an era of Caesarism!
It always bears repeating that our kinship communities fall within the unique element of spiritual nationhood. A Upadarian kinship community doesn’t replace your church. It doesn’t replace your country and citizenship in your country. It doesn’t erase your own unqiue ancestry. It doesn’t replace your blood kin, to whom you also owe responsibilities. It certainly doesn’t impinge on your own individuality but it enhances and increases the odds for the successful fulfillment of God’s scroll of destiny and purpose for your life.
If we have any hope or vision for society at large, it is to perpetuate and nurture a form of free and pluralistic unity in diversity which allows diverse forms of nationhood among the people in any given locality or land. We cannot even dictate this vision, and our expectations are not very high, but we can promote this kind of pluralistic freedom and equality of justice and opportunity for all as a common standard for every country on this planet.
Our political agenda is basically designed around perpetuating these kinship communities and gaining legal protection for them and gaining some form of legal standing for our branch societies as tribal entities, our lands as tribal homelands, and our international society as a distributed non-territorial sovereignty with equal standing to political states under international law.
We do not eschew political engagement: we encourage Peers to vote and envision a Caucus system to identify candidates and issues which might be deemed so essential that all Peers are urged to vote “en bloc” to support or protect against. Our first priority is our own status and standing both under international law and with regard to the country where we live. Our second priority is Christians in general, advocating for those facing discrimination and persecution and for religious freedom in general. Our third priority is freedom in general with respect to human dignity and human rights to promote equitable and just human flourishing.
That all being said, politics and political activism are not the means by which Upadaria will emerge. They remain a reality of power with which we can advocate for ourselves but with full realization that our sovereignty, mandate, and recognition comes from Heaven and not from this earth.
We are not into top-down control, we don’t have gurus or special ruling class authorities, we don’t isolate from other Christians or the world, and we don’t do secession or revolution against our countries where we live. Our form of nationhood is unique as a diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood in Yeshua, it isn’t divisive or hostile toward the surrounding Christian community or to our own blood kin, our ancestors, and our own country. Again and again we say: to be a Upadarian doesn’t require you to join anything, submit to any human agency or authority, or buy anything. It is something you adopt and become because it fits God’s scroll of destiny and purpose for your life.
But to become a Peer of Upadaria, our spiritual nation, as well as, additionally, our global virtual commonwealth, is to desire and seek to fulfill the manifestation of these forms of kinship communities among fellow Peers as a means of creating islands for freedom, as a means of providing refuge to ourselves and especially persecuted Christians, and as a means of being a living witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations of people around us.
Becoming a Peer of our spiritual nation is something between God and you alone. You make a formal pledge to God to UTILIZE and be guided by our 17 Protocols as God leads and provides and in connection to those you believe God wants you to associate with. You don’t pledge to or submit to another set of human beings who lord over you as kings or prelates or anything like that. If you CHOOSE to join our planned international society your Peerage will need to be confirmed, but this doesn’t mean your Peerage within our spiritual nation comes from people, it comes from God and your pledge to live out this way of life is only ever between God and you.
The intentional planting of these Upadarian Shireholds (kinship communities), and larger scale distributed communities within areas and regions all over the world, is essential to a sort of spiritual revolution within, a peaceful and organic movement that will help usher in the emergence of a new civilizational paradigm forged in Kingdom Essentials adapted to the 21st century and beyond.
Unlike worldy revolutions, based on force and militarism, the Upadarian Revolution is a totally peaceful and emergent movement based only on freewill participation that seeks only to be that which we proclaim without imposing itself on anyone else. By providing the spiritual DNA of our nation, and its blueprints and frameworks for parallel structures within a hostile and authoritarian system, we ensure the emergence of “Upadaria” as one of many diverse “Kingdom Nations” that will reach all the nations of this world for Yeshua.
Our concept of nationhood does not replace the local church or the universal church, it is in fact its own separate and distinct element within the Kingdom, an element little understood or never taught within the modern-day religious establishment. Upadaria is a nation, not a church or denomination, and people of all Christian churches and denominations who hold to historic Christian moral and doctrinal orthodoxy are welcome to become Peers of our spiritual nation without in any way giving up their present church affiliation.
We assert and propose that forms of nationhood such as we intend to proclaim, impart, and practice are essential in the 21st century to building a form of freedom that cannot be suppressed or denied by a top-down hierarchical sociocultural and socioeconomic system that is becoming hostile to Christians and authoritarian in its essence.
As and when the organic cohesiveness provided by this form of spiritual nationhood allows people to readily build these kinship communities in their midst and through freewill participation, it becomes impossible for political and military force to sweep them aside: they are everywhere and they can disperse and reconstitute anywhere at any time, therefore they cannot be controlled or destroyed.
Nationhood is based on shared identity, shared purposes, and shared convictions about social, cultural, economic, and civic life that are not necessarily universal to the whole Body of Christ but that are all forged in Kingdom Essentials, such as historical Christian doctrinal and ethical orthodoxy. Nationhood, and by this we mean DIVERSE FORMS OF NATIONHOOD IN CHRIST, is essential to a Kingdom Age in which the spiritual sovereignty of each Believer can be actualized and the nations of this world can be reached in word, deed, example, and service.
The intentional creation of a globally-distributed spiritual nation of people whose God is the Lord is part of a larger civilizational paradigm shift within the whole Body of Christ that will see all the core elements of the Kingdom, including the church, develop more into a more mature and powerful manifestation of the Kingdom of God among us.
While the world becomes more primed for the ultimate fulfillment of history and the last days, we believe the Kingdom of God will be made more manifest and visible among humanity and within all the lands and among all the peoples of this earth. The wicked will get worse but the righteous will get better.
No centralized hierarchical system of top-down control can usher in the coming Kingdom Age among the Elect or the final conclusion of the history of this present world before the world to come arrives. Our particular vision and diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood in Yeshua is not the totality of what is coming, but it is in the vanguard of that emergence.
To be free in the 21st century will demand movements and structures based on a form of Biblical nationhood that stands on freewill participation and not coercion or control, a type of revolution that emerges from within people and their freewill associations and not through political control or violence, and parallel structures that are formed unilaterally among people to suit their needs and circumstances.
Politics can be employed to protect the rights, persons, and property of those who engage in such a revolution within, but they cannot be the vehicle for that organic emergence that must only ever come from the heart and be expressed by means of freewill participation.
We, as a nation of people whose God is the Lord and as a constituent community within the whole universal nationhood of all Believers, are not trying to reform the world. Our aim is to reach the nations for Yeshua until His Return in Glory.
Through this form of nationhood we will build freedom in the 21st century and beyond both for ourselves and, through our example and service, for others. As the worldlings fall for the trap of Caesarism, we will enjoy the kind of true freedom that flows from God to every nation of people whose God is the Lord.
We assert that without this kind of nationhood all attempts in this century and beyond to protect people from the trend toward a hostile Caesarism will utterly fail because they don’t go deep enough or far enough and because they depend too much on changing a fallen world through politics and force. Only the use and practice of nationhood forged in Kingdom Essentials will avail us in the coming worldlings’ era of Caesarism and will allow us to experience the Kingdom Age of the Elect.
Our claims and approach are twofold:
First, we believe we can build and become our own nationality as our own ethnicity by choice and that, as such under international law, to prevent us from living as Upadarian nationals is ethnicity discrimination and violates our national self-determination which rests on our ethnicity and not statehood.
Second, we believe that it is our religious conviction that both being connected to such a national people and being part of a family, defined by us as nothing short of an extended kinship community, is part of our calling as ordained by God and you deny or neglect this is to disobey our God and our conscience.
In creating our nation as an intentional ethnicity based on our shared faith and on the basis of our explicit ideals, principles, practices, and mandates as a nation called into being by God as a witness for Yeshua to the nations, we are also laying the groundwork for similar such national peoples and in defense of the rights of self-determination for all peoples and the human dignity and human rights of all individuals.
The call to become a peer of our spiritual nation is indeed a call to build freedom for ourselves and others on the basis of Kingdom Essentials and through using existing legal standards and norms under international law to preserve our way of life and basic rights even within a hostile, Caesarist, cancel culture society.
If we build our nationality and its attendant structures, like our virtual commonwealth platform and our international society, it will, first and foremost, enjoy the protection and provision of God because it is reocnginzed in heaven and protected by the Armies of Heaven. Second, and importantly from a practical perspective, it uses international law and even existing laws in many countries which protect the rights and self-determination of ethnic groups.
While today the number of people calling themselves Upadarians is low, below 100 as of September 2021, the more people identify with this nationality and engage in building its structures the more we will get closer to some form of recognition that protects us from the freedom-takers that rule Western Civilization as it devolves into hedonism and Caesarism.
If the majority of people want this, they can have it, but as for us, our national people and our families, defined as Shireholds, want no part in this and own an inherent right to opt out and remain free.
Imagine an international network of hubs and communities where God’s standards of righteousness and justice prevail and therefore everyone within these spaces enjoys freedom and prosperity regardless of what is happening in the society around them.
Freedom is not a wish, it is something we build, preserve, and protect regardless of how anyone else feels and regardless of the majority “opinion” or vote: it is an absolute standard of human dignity, human rights, and human flourishing, based on virtue, liberty, and independence, that nobody, not a dictatorship nor a democratic majority, has any legitimate authority to violate.
Let’s be perfectly and abundantly clear to the point of repetition if need be: we own freedom, as we have defined it, and nobody, no organization or institution, by any means has any legitimate authority to try to prevent us from being free people, from serving and worshipping our God in peace, or from living and proclaiming our own Biblical way of life.
Eschatology does not matter, we own this freedom forever, whether here before the so-called “tribulation”, or during it if we are still around, and certainly after it. Our rights and duties to preserve freedom for ourselves and our progeny are not suspended at any time, even if they are violated through coercion or force.
What we call a “Upo Hub Community” may look like a small village with space set aside for peers of our nation, fellow Christians, other groups who want to cluster together, refugees, and the public. A global network may eventually include thousands of these Upo Hub Communities all over the world in many countries, most all of them built autonomously by local Upadarian Branch Societies and/or their local chapters. Through broadcasting the core Gideon’s call, building model hubs and hub communities, and providing blueprints and frameworks, many groups of people all over the world can autonomously fulfill this vision for themselves.
To build hubs and communities that are islands of freedom we have come to the realization and firm conviction that a high degree of what is called “organic cohesiveness” is needed. Organic cohesiveness comes when some form of a shared identity based on things like shared ideals and standards, shared goals, and a shared way of life, comes from the heart and soul of each person, voluntarily, and allows them all to flow and act as one without very much top-down hierarchical command and control structures.
We have further concluded, after studying forms of organic cohesiveness in the Bible, that some form of nationhood, as in nations of people whose God is the Lord, is both ideal and prescribed by God for human civilization to have such cohesiveness without the need to resort to governance systems that violate our God-given freedom.
Broader “Kingdom alliances” between different, unique, Christian nations and between diverse familial and kinship groups at the local level, all under the banner of our universal shared nationhood, are necessary and will emerge. But these will flow from the emergence of intentional forms of nationhood by which bodies of people can act with very tight unanimity that comes organically from shared ideals, principles, practices, and shared goals, standards, and norms. This is, as we say, “our breakthrough idea.”
There are blessings and provisions which flow to us from God ONLY through His blueprints being followed. God has given us a blueprint for nationhood as a spiritual construct instead of a mere political construct defined by statehood and instead of something rooted in race or blood ancestry. Nations of people whose God is the Lord are uniquely blessed and provided for in a special way and are ordained by God to exist. They are not defined in God’s Word by statehood or by race or blood ancestry.
Even Israel was allowed, some say encouraged, to induct people into their tribes and nation who weren’t of the blood ancestry. And we all know Israel existed as a stateless nation well before the creation of the first commonwealth and then the Kingdom and long after these states disappeared.
Our specific vision for a stateless nation founded on Kingdom essentials and spiritual sovereignty in Christ is itself also a model other bodies of Christians will use and adapt as they see fit to either form new forms of nationhood or to revive and restore or convert whole nations of people through the penetration of the Gospel of the Jesus Christ into all aspects of their society and among all their people.
This concept of intentional nationhood as the foundation for an organic cohesiveness that makes close cooperation possible without resorting to the authoritarian systems being used in many countries and lands is essential to how we intend to build hubs and communities for freedom.
It is a novel concept and innovation, even if we see and claim it has ancient roots in the Bible, that many will tend to struggle to comprehend. Only after the Gideonites, people who answer a Gideon’s call to build the genesis structures of this globally-distributed spiritual nation, have established physical spaces and enterprises based on this form of nationhood will people have an easy time grasping and buying into this vision.
We must therefore insist that to proceed to build these islands of freedom we will need a form of nationhood that people can adopt because they feel called and led to embrace the shared ideals, principles, practices, and mandates of our spiritual nation. We propose that we cannot build things like an intentional extended kinship community or a distributed free city as well as physical hubs and whole hub communities without this shared nationhood animating the core builders and administrators of these structures.
A spiritual nation whose God is the Lord can serve and reach other nations, it can serve the whole Body of Christ, and it can serve the public and whatever lands and countries its members dwell in. The hubs and hub communities as well as kinship communities, distributed cities, and even whole physical cities or “homelands” hosted by various countries, can serve peers of our nation, fellow Christians, and the public and form a pluralistic and free society as an oasis of freedom in an otherwise unfree world.
The legal structures and devices used to allow for these distributed free cities, local kinship communities, hubs, hub communities, and privately owned and managed free cities hosted by different countries will vary from country to country. Many will require multiple interdependent structures and organizations, some being groups of people and some being private individuals or enterprises.
Things like mutual benefit corporations, housing covenants, land trusts, fraternal benefit societies, clubs, corporations, non-profit organizations, and the such will all be utilized to find a legal structure that de facto allows for the operation of these hubs and etc to freely exist as an island of freedom. The ability of the people who are the core of these islands for freedom to cooperate closely in economic and civic matters and to provide their own social, cultural, and other needs and services will be strongly facilitated by their shared nationhood, as in an adopted spiritual nationality.
Shared identity that has Christ as its head and that is based on clearly defined commonly held ideals and etc is essential to this work. We theorize that no freedom-building movement aimed at creating islands of freedom will succeed deeply, on a large scale, and on a long-term basis if this organic cohesiveness is not animating at least its core builders and leaders.
The mere fact God prescribes nationhood in the Bible both now and for eternity tells us how important nationhood is even though the modern religious establishment seems to have zero interest in or understanding of this.
Are there other forms and means of creating this organic cohesiveness? Certainly. But few or any can offer a scalable form of organic cohesiveness that had the closeness and warmth of a familial connection that comes from the heart. Nationhood is to us as essential to building these islands of freedom all over the world as is an understanding of what freedom is and a commitment to a pluralism that invites and serves the greater world to partake of that freedom.
Through adopting a shared form of nationality based on clearly defined ideals and etc large bodies of people with minimal governance structures (some are needed, as Moses himself learned in appointing captains of tens, hundreds, and thousands) can build incredible things that scale up, have great depth, and last for many generations.
An extended kinship community is the restoration and adaptation of the ancient multi-family household and local village made up of a few of these “extended households.”
A hub is a clustered living space with common facilities that serves both residents and non-resident members who live nearby.
A hub community is a larger contiguous community with multiple areas set asifr for diverse groups of people in a more pluralistic arrangement, even if the core builders and managers are from a single spiritual nation.
A distributed free city is an area-wide network of hubs, hub communities, and common facilities distributed here and there throughout an area and within its various locales and communities but that is in fact a self-sustaining and mutually self-reliant community within the larger area. It is as if one took a city in area and distributed its parts within all the communities and cities within an area: it may have small plots in many separate places but it is a unitary city in the eyes of its participants.
A free private city is an entire city hosted by a country that grants it a charter as a special zone wherein its social, cultural, civic, and economic life are governed by its own rules autonomously of the host country’s laws, but with its charter.
Our global network of all these things as well as their legal structures, including an international society, NGOs, and Branch Societies for every country, will be called a virtual commonwealth and will enable cohesive collaboration and mutual support between all these entities which are a part of it.
Where hubs begin is through friendships, new kinship connections made intentionally, and the local gathering of people who have been led to be part of a spiritual nation by adopting its ideals and etc as their own way of life. First the website and then the platform as well as a large book, using a fictional future history to impart its vision, will make it easier for people to connect, gather, collaborate, and build together with a more directed and disciplined focus.
As the message and vision of this spiritual nation and of nationhood in general spreads, people will organically form connections and gather, and then collaborate and cluster, until these islands of freedom naturally emerge all over the world. What is more, as we, the people participating in our specific virtual commonwealth and our spiritual nation, advance, others will “copy” and adapt these ideas until even more such islands of freedom emerge.
Like Gideon of old, we face an army of modern Midianites who have spread like locusts on the land, devouring our wealth and freedom. An effective response is needed that shifts the battle from the realm of human and earthly power to the spiritual dimension where nations of people whose God is the Lord enjoy His Divine favor and protection.
Bill Collier- What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be part of a Christian nation? What do you do when the very meaning of being an American has been watered down to nothing and your nation and country are positively hostile to the Christian way of life and also to liberty as defined by the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights?
The need to be part of a nation whose God is the Lord is not necessarily a felt need, it’s not something many consciously think about, although subconsciously the instinct can almost become a bit jingoistic and intolerant of people who one might not consider to be “Americans” based on some perceived sociocultural or religious definition. But love of freedom and love of God are strictly voluntary and, as a matter of fact, American citizenship or residency here are not conditioned on those beliefs.
For many who wish to define being an American in such terms as at least a Judeo-Christian worldview and love of liberty, as defined by the Bill of Rights in their more classic and generous definitions, the deeper instinct is a desire to be part of a freedom-loving nation whose God is the Lord. The desire to be connected to an entire, larger-scale body of people whose affections and convictions mirror your own, is perfectly natural and noble.
But the horse is out of the barn, as it were, and the definition of an American as a shared national identity has in fact been watered down to the point where general consensus as to any definition is impossible. Efforts to redefine our national identity in a more freedom-loving and Judeo-Christian manner are bound to exclude fellow citizens and would potentially violate the rights of others or lead to further catastrophic division among the populace.
While our proposal to develop a new form of spiritual nationhood is not limited to the United States of America, the development of an intentional nationality that is in fact explicitly Christian and freedom-loving while being strictly voluntary and open to men and women of any race or ancestry, answers the instinctive desire to be part of a nation whose God is the Lord and whose very spirit is a freedom-loving spirit. The proliferation and adoption of this identity in the US and around the world is a deeply spiritual and then sociocultural and socioeconomic response to the overt top-down, hierarchical systems of control perpetuated by a corrupt ruling class through coercion and manipulation.
Essentially, this new intentional nationality compliments your present citizenship as an American and your own ancestry, without replacing these identities, and nurtures your core spiritual identity as a follower of Yeshua who is the Christ. It is a way to connect to a national people whose God is the Lord and it is a unique and positive response to the top-down systems of control that uses purely voluntary and cultural means to carve out gaps for freedom through peaceful means.
We call this new and intentional nationality “Upadarian”, that is, being a peer of a spiritual nation whose God is the Lord, a spiritual nation distributed all over the world and peopled by individuals who simply adopt this nationality through a common Pledge before God, and God alone, to live a certain way of life and share certain goals and purposes.
Your ancestral nationality, or nationalities, is something you are born with and in many cases, your citizenship is also inherited or, in other cases, adopted. These are forms of nationhood in their own way, but spiritual nationhood, as we propose it, is not inherited. In the same way being a follower of Yeshua cannot be inherited but must be chosen, this kind of nationhood must be chosen.
For those who love freedom and love God, a form of nationhood that reflect these values provides a nurturing connection at scale with everyone else who adopts the same nationality. Everyone who does this knows that everyone else who does the same has the same values. When they encounter each other they can be reasonably certain of behavioral standards and norms and have expectations of ethical principles that will be followed in any transaction.
This form of nationhood doesn’t replace any other identity, such as your ancestry or citizenship. As an American you can love your country and pursue its good while adopting a nested national identity that truly reflects your beliefs, values, and convictions and allows you to easily and quickly connect with anyone else who goes by the same shared national identity.
What does the Upadarian identity entail and can other identies be used to the same effect? The latter question has a simple answer: in God’s schema for human civilization a multiplicity of nations of people, defined in spiritual as opposed to political terms, through freewill participation and not merely inheritance, is perfectly normal and desirable. As to what being a Upadarian entails, it is basically an intentional and purely voluntary adoption of 17 Protocols which define a shared way of life.
This isn’t a system of rules and regulations enforced by a human authority or a top-down controlling hierarchy, it is strictly something each participant commits to before God and only God. It may be confirmed and recognized by others in a formal way, but this is neither essential nor required. Anyone who is drawn to our 17 Protocols and who seeks before God to utilize them to fulfill His scrolls of purpose and destiny and God’s best for their lives as well as our shared purposes and destiny is a peer of our spiritual nation. This is a commitment made by each person before God alone and no human agency as well as no permission is required for one to do this.
We are not redefining nationhood so much as we are resorting that form of nationhood we find within the Kingdom of God, a Kingdom of many diverse nations of people all whose God is the Lord. While for some nations of people, things like ancestry and where one lives may be part of their identity, the spiritual and sociocultural basis of that form of nationhood are always strictly based on voluntary freewill participation.
But the vision and purpose of Upadaria as a spiritual nation is unique in that the homeland of our nation is envisioned as being distributed all over the world, here and there, and ancestry plays no role in determining who can become a peer of our nation. Our goals as a people include raising the banner of freedom for all human beings, ushering in and nurturing the Kingdom Age and universal nationhood in Christ among the Elect, and being the vanguard people of a new civilization through the creation of our own genesis structures.
For American Christians in particular, especially those who remain faithful to the doctrinal and moral orthodoxy of historic Christianity, becoming a Upadarian by adopting our 17 Protocols as a guide to their own way of life and a means of connecting and collaborating with others, is a viable and useful means of reconnecting to America’s Judeo-Christian foundations and manifest destiny without alienating others who may neither be Christians nor as committed to freedom.
Basically, we propose, the Upadarian nationality is in fact the succesor peoplehood to America’s founders, especially people like the Pilgrims and the Puritans and people like William Bradford and William Penn. But this isn’t merely a throwback to the past, it is an advancement built upon the previous successes that also learns from previous mistakes and failures.
The Upadarian nationality is a new spiritual form of nationhood one adopts as a nested idenity that is complimentary of your ancestral nationality and your present citizenship. It certainly doesn’t stop you from loving your country and it positively affirms and nurtures your core identity as a spiritual citizen of the Kingdom of God.
There is power in nationhood when that form of nationhood has Jesus Christ as its head. This cannot be imposed. People either adopt it or they don’t, they need no human permission to do so and no human authority may compel them to do so! But everyone who sincerely adopts such an identity is part of nation whose God is the Lord and everyone who is part of such a nation is eligible to share in the supernatural blessings and provisions which God reserves for such nations of people.
Through the intentional adoption of a form of nationhood whose head is Christ and whose frameworks and blueprints reflect the core spiritual DNA of the very Kingdom of God, we remove the battle for freedom from the realm of human and earthly power into the realm of spiritual sovereignty powered by the supernatural provision of God. As and when millions of Americans and millions of other people around the world adopt this shared form of intentional spiritual nationhood, by adopting the 17 Protocols as their chosen way of life and the very core of their mutual support, we can literally expect the same God who blessed ancient Israel to protect and defend this nation.
There are many practical and useful ideas and principles which one can glean from the Upadarian nationality and make part of mutual support groups and networks of similar people. But the supernatural protection and provision of God for all such nations of people is essential to understanding how becoming a Upadarian will tend to make you more free.
What we call “The 17 Protocols of Upadaria” is a roadmap you can use to individually and in concert with others build freedom and prosperity in your life and family on a strong foundation of faith in Yeshua, our King, and in service of advancing His Kingdom among ourselves and the world around us.
A protocol in diplomatic terms is something agreed to as in the terms of a treaty. Individuals who pledge to God alone to work toward the fulfillment of these Protocols, inasmuch as God provides the means and guidance, are Peers of our spiritual nation.
These are aspirational goals we agree, before God who also provides for and leads us in this effort, to seek to fulfill. By agreeing to these Protocols you are not saying you will follow them like rules, you are saying you desire to see them fulfilled and, as God leads and provides, you will do what you can to use them in your life, to help others use them, and to use them in anything you agree to do with other people. When groups of people come together on the basis of our shared spiritual nationhood they utilize these Protocols as a sort of guide and roadmap for how they will conduct themselves and what things they will do.
These “Protocols” are well-researched and Biblically sound ideas and methods, they explain good standards and noble goals which can improve your ability to thrive and prosper no matter what is happening in the greater society around you, but without losing your presence, witness, and influence within that society.
When you look at a protocol, consider that, whatever its ultimate proposed goals, it begins with things that start in your own thinking and decisions. As you internalize its deeper foundation of truth and yet also envision what it would be like if it was fulfilled for your life and community, you begin a process of liberation and renwal from within your own heart and relationships.
All these truths are in the Bible, what we are doing is making them plain, organizing them, and showing a concrete and modern application of them which you can put to work in your own life.
The aim is never to be legalistic, these are aspirational aims after all, not rules or standards for being “right with God” as such.
But they are important and, generally, there is an expectation that people who pledge their freewill participation to be part of our nation are devoted to the utilization of these protocols in pursuit of their own fulfillment of God’s best for their lives and our spiritual nation as a whole, but through the power of Christ and the Holy Spirit and the blessings and favor of God, not by human might.
You will notice that we start with the big picture at the global and universal scale and then drill down to the individual from there. It is important to understand that we need the big picture vision to always be before us, calling us and unifying us, even though the organic emergence of that vision is an inner conviction shared and followed from individual to individual and group to group: no two people or groups of people will follow a cookie-cutter mold in how they will use these protocols.
While we are convinced the basic blueprint as laid out here will remain unchanged, we are also convinced that the ultimate realization of this vision and its corresponding structures will have many surprises and innovations that we could not see.
Indeed, not everyone, everywhere, who pursues and actualizes this vision together with other people will follow the exact same pattern or methodology, but all will have the same spiritual blueprint or DNA. In fact, if anyone who follows these protocols encounters a community of people anywhere based on them, then those people will easily fit in and feel at home.
The way the 17 Protocols work in practice and they way they are understood is different,
To understand them, we start at the highest level on the largest scale, covering the universal and global, and then we narrow the focus down to the individual simply learning and fulfilling their individual scroll of destiny and purpose for their own individual life.
To practice them begins with an overall understanding, which includes all aspects at every level and scale, but once this is obtained, it starts with our inner self, at the level of understanding the seeking to carry out our scroll of destiny and purpose.
Basically, we understand the 17 Protocols from the highest to the smallest scale but we pursue them from the lowest to the highest scale. We present them in the order in which they must be understood, but the order in which they must be practices begins at the end and works backwards.
What is more, this is like layers upon layers, each time we go deeper in understanding it begins with the broadest scale of understanding that leads to going back to the lowest scale of practice and on to the highest scale, and over and over as we develop and grow “from glory to glory.”
This concept applies more broadly than the 17 Protocols, and even the concept of intentionally spelling out the protocols of your life and your shared existence with others should follow this pattern of understanding from the larger to the smaller and practicing from the smaller to the larger.
Kingdom Nationhood
WE ARE REGENTS OF YESHUA, THE CHRIST AND CITIZENS OF HIS KINGDOM
Fulfilling our Regency as Kings, Priests, and joint-Heirs with Yeshua in His Kingdom is something we seek daily through practicing fellowship with all Believers where we live, work, and worship. We exercise our spiritual sovereignty and fulfill God’s best for our lives with excellence.
“Kingdom thinking” affects how we relate and connect to fellow Believers and as we are deliberate about being in relationship with them, through our faith in Yeshua, true unity organically emerges.
From this a sense of community among believers in any given location emerges and so then does the power of ecclesia, the whole community of all Believers acting as one, like a spiritual city-state of the elect, thus fulfilling the promise that the very gates of hell cannot prevail against the ecclesia!
The New Civilization
A NEW CIVILIZATION OF BELIEVERS EMERGES AS OLD CIVILIZATIONS FALTER
Understanding times and seasons and cycles and patterns allows us to see that we are living in a time of visitation. The existing paradigms have resulted in a centralized corpostate that politicizes all aspects of society, such as a church system and culture that is limited by religion and Western practices. These will be lawfully and peacefully transcended over time as the new civilization emerges.
As individuals we begin to understand what is happening around is and how it fits within the patterns and cycles of human civilization. This knowledge equips is to make sound decisions and to foresee probable future outcomes and events.
As groups of people connect with this deeper understanding guiding them, they can navigate possibilities, probabilities, dangers, and outcomes more successfully than all the people around them.
The Spiritual Nation
WE ARE A SPIRITUAL NATION OF PEOPLE WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD
God ordains the nations and calls them into being. His Word establishes the boundaries of their habitation and time of their existence. We believe God has called and ordained us to be Peers of a new spiritual nation, defined by spiritual sovereignty, whose God is the Lord.
As individuals we see how we are not alone, we are connected to the spiritual nation of ALL fellow Believers and we can CHOOSE our own spiritual nationhood with others.
Realizing you are part of something larger, something God has ordained from the beginning to guide humanity into a form of connectedness that isn’t hateful or divisive, gives you both purpose and a feeling of mutual support without separating you from others in a way that God did not intend.
Living Nationhood
NATIONHOOD IS A PATH TO FULFILL GOD’S RIGHTEOUS STANDARDS THROUGH IDEALS, PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, AND MANDATES
As kingdom essentials are honored and practiced personally, relationally, and professionally, righteousness will exalt our nation.
Spiritual nationhood isn’t race or political citizenship, it is a form of shared identity and purpose that provides a level or organic cohesiveness whereby you can easily connect to other people you don’t personally know but that you are safe to trust.
Living out nationhood begins as you personally apply the shared ideals, principles, practices, and mandates that define your nationhood to your own decisions and to the way you interact with and relate to other people. It begins within you but extends into relationships, associations, and trust communities with others, all founded upon freewill participation, and never manipulation or coercion.
Living Regency
WE EXERCISE OUR INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE REGENCY TO PROVIDE A REFUGE TO OURSELVES AND OTHERS
As Believers, by practicing individual and corporate Regency through the framework of our spiritual nation, we serve as Kings and Priests who sovereignly steward all God has entrusted through a network of trust communities called Shires.
If you begin to truly SEE and FEEL yourself to be a “regent” of Christ, your relationships and your life will change. You didn’t earn this, it is through grace, but you get to use this to define yourself in God’s terms, not being defined or limited by others.
When people connect and collaborate who all feel and see themselves as regents of Christ, they will tend toward mutual self-reliance that is always beneficial to all and that balances individual autonomy with the common good, and all without some uber-hierarchy dictating to them.
A Trust Community
WE PRACTICE THE WAYS OF A TRUST COMMUNITY CENTERED ON YESHUA, THE CHRIST
Through building intentional community, Believers can connect with others for mutual profit, support, empowerment, liberation, and fulfillment of individual and shared purpose.
Within ourselves we use this protocol to purposefully decide who is within our circle of trust and on what terms, we learn and use boundaries in a Biblical manner to both keep our own freedom intact and to nurture freedom in others.
As trust communities emerge, especially based on faith and then a form of organic cohesiveness like nationhood, you begin to be surrounded and protected by a sort or maternal enclosure and “getting you” requires going through your protective community that surrounds you.
The Shirehold
WE INTENTIONALLY PRACTICE EXTENDED KINSHIP
People are not made to be isolated and separated. Life in the Kingdom is not just about what we do individually, but how we live with others. Our lifestyle is an expression of agape love in family, community, and collaboration. A Shirehold is an intentional multifamily extended household community in close geographical proximity.
Shirehold is both what we call a very local chapter community and a concept and way of life where we, as individuals, decide to be intentional about how we treat our own biological families and how we determine who we will be in close proximity with in terms of mutual support. We can both love and support our biological families, as much as possible, and build intentional familial connections with people whose beliefs, values, and conviction more closely approximate our own.
The practicing of Shirehold almost requires either blood kinship or deeply held and shared beliefs, values, and convictions, usually, and Biblically, expressed in the form of a share spiritual nationality that isn’t just based on common ancestry.
This is organic cohesiveness and without it any effort to create and practice Shirehold, restoring the ancient extended kinship group in modern times, could become a top-down, controlling affair that inhibits your individual spiritual sovereignty. But if Shirehold is practices using organic cohesiveness it will nurture and enhance your individual spiritual sovereignty,
The Kinship Mandate
WE IMPART THE PRACTICES AND VIRTUE OF KINSHIP
We form small, extended familial groups and practice mutual care and support with our relatives, fellow Upadarians, and fellow Believers according to a Biblical blueprint. We refer to these as Kinship Groups wherein we view the success and well-being of those we are connected to as equally important as our own.
Kinship is something we share as individuals with blood kin, with fellow Believers, with people in our country (fellow citizens), and with people who share or form or forms of nationhood, whether they be our ancestral nationhood or intentional nationhood, like Upadaria.
Kinship is a form of mutual support and shared identity that all participants choose and that comes with mutual obligations, commitments, and standards and norms which all agree to adhere to faithfully. While some will recoil at the kinship mandate thinking they are solo grandees in need of nobody else, as human none of us would survive for long in our earliest years without the embrace of some form of kinship: otherwise, others would not have even fed us!
When kinship is understood and intentionally practiced by groups of people it becomes a powerful means for navigating the uncertainties and dangers of life and a special way to build our own futures so that we can fulfill God’s best for our lives with excellence.
The Missionary Mandate
WE PURSUE MISSIONAL LIVES AND SUPPORT WORLD MISSIONS
We embrace a holistic approach as witnesses in word, deed, and influence. We seek to live as examples of the gospel, support those carrying the gospel, and distribute the benefits of the gospel to the oppressed.
As individuals, we become ever more aware of the lost and needy around us and through the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit we actively seek to be a witness and influence for Yeshua. Having a heart for the lost and needy is what Yeshua was all about and part of the transfiguration of the Holy Spirit is to give us the same heart, which, if we do not sense it now, we seek with diligence and prayer.
Every group of people who connects on some basis of extending the witness and influence of the Kingdom should be intentional about how it serves the lost and needy in order to give glory to God and draw people to Him.
The Refuge Mandate
WE PROVIDE REFUGE FOR OURSELVES AND OTHERS
We provide refuge in emergency and crisis situations by offering security, safety, and medical supplies and services for ourselves and those we grant refuge to, especially fellow Christians. Everyone who flies our flag is committed to providing refuge to people in need and aiding refugees by connecting them with local resources.
As individuals, we intentionally seek to ensure we have our needs supplied through our own hard work and our emergency needs supplied through preparedness and frugality. We must learn to be a refuge to ourselves and then to others, because a dry well cannot provide water to others.
Beyond our own refuge, which we can also pursue in cooperation with others by means of freewill participation, we desire to help people in crisis, in particular Christian and other refugees, who need sanctuary. We do this mostly to serve but also knowing the very safe havens, as in actual facilities and communities, we build to help others may serve us as well.
Heavenly Blueprints
WE BUILD STRUCTURES AND PHYSICIAL SPACES THAT REFLECT HEAVEN’S BLUEPRINTS
The very design of our spaces and structures where we live, work, or gather facilitate healthy, living, and prosperous relationships and associations which occur within them.
Changing the very STRUCTURES, as in the physical space around ourselves, to match our convictions and goals is something few give conscious thought to. As individuals, we may live in a “traditional” house, per our culture, but we can often rearrange the space in ways that match our needs and convictions.
Beyond individuals changing their physical space to reflect and nurture their convictions, groups of people can work together to build alternative spaces and domiciles that nurture the kinds of things they wish to pursue. Our desire to is to be quite deliberate and intentional about our space, including appearance, functionality, arrangement, design, and architecture.
Fulfilling The Revolution Within
WE GROW IN WISDOM TO FULFILL GOD’S BEST FOR OUR LIVES
The Revolution Within is inspired by a commitment to learn “line upon line” and “precept upon precept.” Maturation involves moving beyond milk to meat to actualize our purposes and bolster the Kingdom.
As individuals, we understand that any ideology or “revolution” that cannot offer benefits on the basis of individual practice alone is perfectly useless, perhaps even dangerous. God has much more for us than what the world or even we ourselves offer. We take personal responsibility for our lives and purpose, to find and fulfill God’s best for our lives with excellence, we make this a higher ethical standard.
As groups of people pursue this together, through Round Table Groups, using participatory and immersive learning, even role-playing and imagination, the horizon of opportunities and possibilities for each person grows massively.
The Marriage Covenant
WE ARE DEVOTED TO BOTH THE UNIVERSAL MARRIAGE TO YESHUA, THE CHRIST AND OUR MARRIAGES
We believe that the purpose of marriage is to reflect the relationship of Yeshua, the Christ to His Beloved and to be the means by which a man and woman reflect the divine model of love in covenant.
We are each married to Christ, both as individuals and as members of the Body of Christ, and this relationship is essential to understanding the relationship between a man and a woman, who alone embody this fractal of the larger marriage between Christ and the Body of Christ.
Aside from those few who were meant to be celibate as unto the Lord, we are all made more whole and achieve our potential through the marriage covenant, and we know of no other save one man and one woman who are not close blood kin and who remain together for life. Nurturing our marriages is essential to developing our potential as human beings.
Family Honor
WE ARE COMMITTED AND CONNECTED TO OUR NUCLEAR FAMILY, RELATIVES, INTENTIONAL KIN, AND FELLOW BELIEVERS
The people in our circle of closest relationships, from relatives to those we choose to adopt into our family, should be honored and cared for as God gives us the means and opportunity to. This honor begins with our nuclear family and continues to our close relatives and others in our inner circle of relationships.
The nuclear family and our immediate circle of familial relations, including dear friends and fellow Believers, is the building block of society. To intentionally honor our familial relations, however we define them, is a necessary part of our own individual development and growth,
Without family we are atomized individuals, easy prey to everything and everyone that might threaten our individual spiritual sovereignty, and we cannot experience life as God intends it. Family is part of God’s blueprint for humanity and is a necessity.
The Duty To Progeny
WE NURTURE OUR PROGENY AND BUILD FOR THEIR FUTURE
We have a sacred duty to build up and nurture our spiritual and physical descendants and leave them a birthright of value and worth. We impart our beliefs, values, and convictions so they may find God if they seek him. We build structures that will benefit future generations for centuries to come.
The ideal of an advanced human civilization predicated on God’s standards of righteousness and justice, is for children to be raised by their own biological parents in a loving home or for orphaned or abandoned children to be adopted into such a home.
Raising your progeny in a loving home with your spouse and giving them a patrimony, as much as you are able, while imparting your faith and values as well as good life skills, is an essential element of your individual scroll of destiny and purpose. Building supportive associations and networks, including clustered housing communities if need be, that support people in this is also essential to the advancement of human civilization.
Our Gideon’s Call
WE PROCLAIM OUR VISION FOR A SPIRITUAL NATION TO THOSE WHO WOULD ANSWER THE CALL
In the Book of Judges, Gideon called and over 30,000 answered. God chose only 300 to take the first step toward liberating Israel from the Midianites before the rest of the nation rejoined them. Likewise, we broadcast the call and offer the resources needed to be a Peer of our spiritual nation. The call to Peerage is between God and the individual alone.
As individuals we can and should share our call to nationhood, albeit always without any form of “selling” or “recruiting” and with the intent of letting God sort the called from the not called. We should never feel pressured, nor give pressure to others, to adopt the Upadarian nationality or even our faith in Christ, from other human beings.
As people hear our call and respond and as groups emerge the nature of this call must always be an un-pressured opportunity to engage in freewill participation as led and empowered by God.
Fulfilling Our Scroll
WE STRIVE TO FULFILL GOD’S BEST FOR OUR LIVES WITH EXCELLENCE
The scroll of our life is a gift from God reflecting our unique identities in Yeshua, the Christ. Each scroll was written non-linearly before natural birth. It is the guiding “wyrd” we are invited to daily align our willful intents with. In accordance with our scroll, we aim to empower ourselves and others through intimacy with God.
We understand that our individual scrolls of destiny and purpose, our wyrd, also include shared scrolls with people God connects us to, whether for a season or for life (as with your spouse). Too often destiny is mystified and individualized in ways that render the concept too ephemeral and impractical.
As groups of people emerge who are determined to fulfill their wyrd, and who may have a shared wyrd, the nature of their relationship, associations, standards, and norms must be such that each person is freed to fulfill their own destiny and doesn’t have to subordinate that destiny to “the group”, even if aspects of that destiny are shared with others.
Protocol One: Kingdom Nationhood
WE ARE REGENTS OF YESHUA, THE CHRIST AND CITIZENS OF HIS KINGDOM
Fulfilling our Regency as Kings, Priests, and joint-Heirs with Yeshua in His Kingdom is something we seek daily through practicing fellowship with all Believers where we live, work, and worship. We exercise our spiritual sovereignty and fulfill God’s best for our lives with excellence.
Yeshua is sovereign. We say, “Amra Yshua ta Pisches es Hundura-Rikith”, The Lord of Light and Love, Yeshua the Messiah, is all-powerfully sovereign.”
We are Rege’, our sovereignty is derived it is as a regent awaiting a king, but to their peers they are as the king. (Our word for human kings or queens is “Reyki.”)
This is what we walk in. And so we proclaim and live this: The “Kingdom Age of the Elect” among Believers has come. It is not the kuriakos era of “churchianity.” The universal commonwealth of the Elect is no longer just a mostly religious society, nor was it ever meant to be.
The Kingdom of God is the spiritual commonwealth of the Elect and transcends church structures as we know them. Among us, citizens of the Kingdom, governance comes through the Ecclesia as the governing assembly for a spiritual city-state of the Elect.
This is our regency, our spiritual sovereignty. It begins with us as individuals and extends to our freewill covenant association and our consensual communities.
When truly adhered to, Ecclesia as a practice, not merely a structure, takes on a holistic form and mission much like a local spiritual city-state of the Elect and a globally dispersed “eternal nation.” We affirm that spiritual Israel is our universal nation, our Holy Commonwealth.
Our spiritual nation which is called “Upadaria” is a part of that Commonwealth of the whole Elect.
There is one eternal Nation of People manifesting the Kingdom of God among us, as citizens together of that Kingdom, a Kingdom in which we are all “kings and priests unto the Lord”, of which our unique and distinct spiritual nation is a part.
We are committed to living up to those most noble roles, to be regents of the King.
Protocol Two: The New Civilization
A NEW CIVILIZATION OF BELIEVERS EMERGES AS OLD CIVILIZATIONS FALTER
Understanding times and seasons and cycles and patterns allows us to see that we are living in a time of visitation. The existing paradigms have resulted in a centralized corpostate that politicizes all aspects of society, such as a church system and culture that is limited by religion and Western practices. These will be lawfully and peacefully transcended over time as the new civilization emerges.
We proclaim the emergence of a new civilization based on the four core ideals which include a Biblical understanding and a balanced application of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. We apply a Biblical understanding of these ideals in balance with one another as the basis of our nation and of a Christian civilization.
We will be a people-centered nation of people, not a political state where politics rules all and only a few rule politics (politocracy). This new civilization based on such nations as follow these ideals will emerge as old civilizations which have run their course die in a convulsion of Caesarism and godless hubris (the politocracy).
These will suffer under the laws of causality for their decadence even as God protects nations of people whose God is the Lord. This nation will be the vanguard of the new civilization, should the Lord tarry, as many nations of people make the Lord their God in fulfillment of the promise that Abraham would be the father of MANY nations
Protocol Three: The Spiritual Nation WE ARE A SPIRITUAL NATION OF PEOPLE WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD
We proclaim ourselves to be a spiritual nation of people whose God is the Lord. We proclaim that this nation is born as we bear its seed from God. We come together solely through freewill participation as we beleive God has called and led us.
As God has ordained nations, described in Acts 17:26-27, so we believe God has ordained our nation for to dwell upon this earth, establishing the time of our existence and the boundaries of our habitation, so that people may find God is haply they seek Him.
We proclaim that it has been named by God as “Upadaria” (you-pah-daria) through a series of prophetic encounters which revealed the form, structural blueprint, and mandates of this nation. These mandates are Kinship, Missions, and Refuge.
We affirm that this nation is among the vanguard nations which we foresee will promote the Kingdom Age of The Elect and the New Civilization. We further proclaim our intention to be a globally dispersed nation served by an international missionary and Christian refugee society consisting of many local community chapters (consensual Christian missionary and refugee communities) that will provide shelter and sanctuary for Believers during times of crisis.
We declare and ordain, as from the hand of God, and by His provision and favor, that our nation and its people will respect and adhere to the idea that ours is a nation wherein the People rule by the wisdom of God for the prosperity of all and the Glory of the Name of God.
Protocol Four: Living Nationhood
NATIONHOOD IS A PATH TO FULFILL GOD’S RIGHTEOUS STANDARDS THROUGH IDEALS, PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, AND MANDATES
As sacred Kingdom essentials are honored and practiced personally, relationally, and professionally, righteousness will exalt our nation.
We will individually follow and use the Ideals, Principles, and Practices of Upadaria in our ceaseless and daily pursuit of God’s best for our life, which we will pursue together with excellence.
The Ideals are a BIBLICAL and balanced application of Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law and these guide our common standards for relationships, associations, partnerships, governance, and government in general.
Our principles includes our social vision (cooperation, sustainability, consensus), social ethic (well-being, justice, autonomy), freedom vision (virtue, liberty, and independence), and Prosperity Vision (investment, land, ownership, protection).
The Practices include the practices of Ecclesia as a spiritual city-state both with the whole Body of Christ and among our Peers in our own Regencies, Ethne as a form of spiritual nationhood in Christ, Oikos as a form of extended multi-family households of faith, and Koinonia as a form of freewill covenant association for consensual community based on God’s righteous standards.
We will work to practice a way of life that would lend itself to covenant-based and intentional missionary and refuge communities within a globally distributed nation that transcends bigotry, racism, elitism, intolerance, hatred, and anti-Christian bias. We will do this through the means of a fraternal Christian society.
Even if we are alone, we will behave in a manner that reflect our commitment to the ideals, principles, and practices of our spiritual nation, to the best of ability and means and by the Grace of God, not through the strength of our own flesh.
By this new and intentional nationality, we believe that millions of people will escape their old racial and tribal hatreds, their denominational differences, and anti-Christian persecution as they choose to adopt this new nationality of their own free-will.
They will do this by following this Protocol and learning the new nation’s ideals, principle, and practices, They will eventually lean the nation’s language (as it is developed), thus becoming a new nation of people whose God is the Lord based solely on freewill covenant-based relationships in which Jesus Christ is the head.
These local freewill covenant associations of individuals within extended multi-family household groups will pursue all possible forms of self-reliance, self-determination, and local sustainability as well technological autonomy but for the Glory of God and the Praise of His Name.
Protocol Five: Living Regency
WE EXERCISE OUR INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE REGENCY TO PROVIDE A REFUGE TO OURSELVES AND OTHERS
As Believers, by practicing individual and corporate Regency through the framework of our spiritual nation, we serve as Kings and Priests who sovereignly steward all God has entrusted through a network of trust communities called Shires.
Working online and in person, we will strive to see the emergence, wherever possible, of regional distributed intentional covenant communities that support smaller communities (freewill covenant-based missionary and refugee communities).
These will empower and equip members to be self-reliant and self-sustaining for basic needs. They will model and be based upon the Biblical concept of Ecclesia as the governing assembly of the Elect over a spiritual city-state within the villages, towns, and neighborhoods served in that region.
They will assume territorial responsibility to serve the mandates of Kinship, Mission, and Refuge for members, the Body of Christ, and their physical community, which have a sacred pomerium of Divine Protection for all their members, and which are led through consensual decision-making by a Nobility of Merit.
Where we cannot formally gather and organize the systems and structures of these Regencies we will use whatever means we have to deliberately connect not only virtually and locally but regionally with fellow Peers wherever we find them.
As and when we can, each Regency will be served by a regional missionary and refugee support hub and various Embassies and Missions distributed throughout the region. In areas where there is no established Regency, new Shireholds will assume the role of a Pioneer Shirehold to deliberately stake out the whole area of territorial responsibility for the Regency and to build a spiritual government of Confirmed Peers who will plant new groups through a Gideon’s Call to establish Shireholds throughout the region.
The purpose and concept of our regency is to promote and facilitate kinship bonds among Peers of Upadaria and fellow Christians in general, to promote and facilitate missional living and missions work in the region, and to aid and support Christians refugees and Christians in crisis.
Protocol Six: A Trust Community
WE PRACTICE THE WAYS OF A TRUST COMMUNITY CENTERED ON YESHUA, THE CHRIST Through building intentional community, Believers can connect with others for mutual profit, support, empowerment, liberation, and purpose fulfillment.
We will work locally to establish distributed self-reliant and self-governing communities based on freewill participation called “Shires” or “Distributed Private Cities.”
A Shire is a an intentional, distributed private city based on freewill participation alone that will promote and aid in the development of the spiritual sovereignty of each Peer, fellow Christians, and freedom seekers, equipping them to be spiritually, mentally, and materially independent of negative external influences and control that aren’t in their own best interests.
This “shire” word hearkens to the original meaning of a Shire as a relatively self-contained community of freeholders who are capable of self-government and self-reliance but which is connected in an interdependent way with other communities within a single dominion.
These will be like a distributed autonomous (technologically speaking) city of people distributed here and there WITHIN AND AMONG the various communities and locales of the area or territorial responsibility. Through their material and technologically autonomous self-sustainability these distributed consensual communities will be an effective missionary presence, also empowering their participants to live missionaly, and they will be able to support and minister to Christians in need or crisis as internal or external refugees.
They will be self-governed by a consensual decision-making process of their stakeholders, peers of our nation in that area who back their area chapter community, and led in day to day affairs by acclaimed and affirmed leaders who earn “noble standing by merit” (Shires will generally be subdivided into multiple Bergs with multiple Manors, each with 3-5 Microshires and a special Manor called a Demesne, although different terms may be used.)
Protocol Seven: The Shirehold
WE INTENTIONALLY PRACTICE EXTENDED KINSHIP
People are not made to be isolated and separated. Life in the Kingdom is not just about what we do individually, but how we live with others. Our lifestyle is an expression of agape love in family, community, and collaboration. A Shirehold is an intentional multifamily extended household community in close geographical proximity.
We aim to restore a modern adaptation of the ancient multi-family household community through shared responsibilities and the practice of intentional kinship rooted in our shared faith and in the Biblical model of nationhood. For our model, we rely on the ancient extended household of multiple families, or “oikos” in Greek, However our version is adapted to this era and our technology.
Toward this end, we will seek to establish among ourselves, to the best of our ability, neighborhood missional, fraternal, and refugee fellowships and intentional distributed extended households called “Shireholds.” Groupings of Shireholds will form a larger distributed community called a Manor.
Each Shirehold will behave, as much as is possible, as if they are an extended family and each Manor will behave as a sort of distributed intentional community and extended kindred group within our globally distributed spiritual nation.
The Shireholds will be self-governing with day-to-day administration provided by their Patrons who serve the members and coordinate efforts for the common good and to achieve their shared fraternal, missionary, and refugee purpose.
The threefold purpose of a Shirehold is:
-to promote and nurture fatherhood and motherhood within a lifelong marital bond in order to ensure that our children are raised in a loving home by their own biological or adopted parents
-to support and nurture individuals in such a manner that they have assurance of help in crisis or time of need and can become fully empowered to find and fulfill God’s for their life with excellence, to make their calling their career, and to be an effective and powerful witness and influence for Jesus
-to serve our shared kinship, missionary, and Christian refugee supporting mandates as a salt and light witness and influence for Jesus
While Shireholds are based on the number of Peers and are restricted in size to no more than 30 or so Peers and their families (5-10 nuclear families and attached single adults, like unto an extended multi-family household or Oikos of the 1st century), Manors are to be arranged on the basis of a territory which they are responsible for in terms of our three mandates and being a salt and light witness and influence for Jesus.
A Microshire is a grouping of 5 or so Shireholds within a Manor which operates as a larger extended kinship group while the Manor consists of ALL Peers within its area of territorial responsibility and is a consensual community.
As with other forms of community among us, Manors, Microshires, and Shireholds are all given unique names, as opposed to be called the Upadarian Manor of such and such town.
The purpose of this is to demonstrate that our community is part of the greater Christian community and secular community but that our communities are autonomous spiritually, socially, and culturally as well as economically from the secular community. We wish to live IN this world and be actively engaged without being OF this world by coming under its influence or control through dependence.
Protocol Eight: The Kinship Mandate
WE IMPART THE PRACTICES AND VIRTUE OF KINSHIP
We form small, extended familial groups and practice mutual care and support with our relatives, fellow Upadarians, and fellow Believers according to a Biblical blueprint. We refer to these as Kinship Groups wherein we view the success and well-being of those we are connected to as equally important as our own.
We will always strive together as one body to provide mutual assurance, mutual self-reliance, and mutual independence and cooperation
By this means we can individually, and as a whole, become self-sustaining for our individual and shared sacred, social, civic, and economic needs in order to be equipped to serve as witnesses and salt and light for Jesus to the nations.
In this manner we can fulfill God’s best for our lives with excellence, make our callings our career, and be effective and powerful witnesses for Jesus Christ to the nations. Our spiritual kinship results in a form of mutual care that extends first to our families and to one another and then the whole Body of Christ and also our local community. Kinship is mutual and may be by blood or intentional, through freewill covenant association. Each participant in any kindred relationship agrees to mutuality in terms of accountability, support, shared purpose, assurance of help in time of need, advocacy for one another, and every means of aid and comfort necessary.
The ancient oikos of daily kinship bonds with the koinonia of mutual support must be intentionally restored among us, albeit in a modern adaptation suited to local needs and circumstances. Our basic kinship is this: each person pledges to each other mutually of aid and comfort and to see that the welfare and success of their Peers is equal in value to their own welfare and success. We will seek kinship with our blood kin, as much as possible, and introduce them to our convictions of kinship toward the end they might even become part of our nation, if first they make Jesus their Lord.
We will seek intentional kinship with fellow Christians solely on the basis of our shared faith and with people we know to also be Peers of Upadaria who we may encounter.
We believe that such kinship is ordained by God, that no Christ follower is meant to live this life alone and without comfort and support, and that through such kinship we might extend the presence and domain of the Kingdom of God among us.
Protocol Nine: The Missionary Mandate
WE PURSUE MISSIONAL LIVES AND SUPPORT WORLD MISSIONS
We embrace a holistic approach as witnesses in word, deed, and influence. We seek to live as examples of the gospel, support those carrying the gospel, and distribute the benefits of the gospel to the oppressed.
We will always seek to live out our shared commitment to be an evangelistic nation within and among the nations as a witness to the nations.
We will do this in order to make disciples (after the lost are converted) from the individual to the corporate level through direct proclamation of the Gospel, benevolence, and exampleship in word, deed, and power (going “first to the worst” at the point of need).
All of our work and effort as well as our message must continually point to and preach Christ, and Him crucified and risen, as well as the Cross and the eventual Return of Christ in Glory. We proclaim foremost the Kingdom of God has come and is among us now. To live a missional life is to be deliberate about our witness and example.
Protocol Ten: The Refuge Mandate
WE PROVIDE REFUGE FOR OURSELVES AND OTHERS
We provide refuge in emergency and crisis situations by offering security, safety, and medical supplies and services for ourselves and those we grant refuge to, especially fellow Christians. Everyone who flies our flag is committed to providing refuge to people in need and aiding refugees by connecting them with local resources.
We will always seek, as individuals and through our local chapter communities, to provide sanctuary, shelter, support, aid, comfort, and assistance to internal and external refugees, to Christians first but also to others on the basis of Christian love.
This will include services to support integration into the general community as well as, if they choose, our Society. We will establish Refugee Communities at points of need around the world and distributed hosting of refugees among local Society chapters.
All who come in aid and who are properly vetted will be aided to the best of our ability and according to our means, including Christians in recovery from life-controlling addictions or Christians in crisis who have lost their home or income and Christians fleeing terrible circumstances such as wars, famine, corrupt governments, persecution, and the such.
We will not discriminate or show favor on the basis of age, race, sex, ancestry, citizenship, or church affiliation. One way we will show our Refuge Mandate commitment is by preparing ourselves to help others and learning local resources to help the poor and needy and flying the Upadarian Flag to show that anyone seeking refuge can come to this place and seek help, even if that help is referring them to agencies or ministries in the area.
Protocol Eleven: Heavenly Blueprints
WE BUILD STRUCTURES AND PHYSICIAL SPACES THAT REFLECT HEAVEN’S BLUEPRINTS
The very design of our spaces and structures where we live, work, or gather facilitate healthy, living, and prosperous relationships and associations which occur within them.
We will develop both an online and a physical architecture and infrastructure to support our Christian way life of life and empower us to use our ideals, principles, and practices in pursuit of our Mandates as a nation. Whatever we can do to organize our virtual or physical space we will do and, if we have the means and knowledge, we will assist others in doing.
This includes a web 3.0 cryptonation platform but for the individual it includes being a witness, influence, and example online to their best of our ability in a manner that gives glory to God and is a credit to your fellow Peers. We will work on the development of various local facilities and structures to support members as well as our kinship, missionary, and refuge mandates.
In the physical this may include Chapter Houses, Common Houses, Mission Houses, Villas, Grand Villas, Community Chapels, Regal Villas, Palaces, Castles, Royal Castles, Villa Estates, Farmsteads, Homestead Estates, Refugee Communities, Regional and Global Missionary and Refugee Support Hubs, and Autonomous Village.
As individuals we may rearrange our own homes, as God provides the means, to act as a host Chapter House or Common House or to simply help people who may comes seeking aid and comfort when they see our Standard flying.
This is also meant to provide affordable housing for members who desire or need it, refugee housing, housing for staff, shared common use facilities, ministry and missionary facilities, market space, and even housing for the general public.
Our new architecture will focus on sustainability and using local, renewable resources, alternative building that is more cost-effective, and, as much as possible, volunteer work by members. Our aim is total technological autonomy.
Our structures will incorporate our ideals, principles, and practices through consensual decision-making process and a nobility of merit. New spaces meant to facilitate a multi-family household or “householding” lifestyle will also benefit the general public who might wish to copy these designs.
As God provides, we will build among ourselves Villas, Estates, Farmsteads, or Homestead Estates for freewill participatory community and extended multi-family households as well as Common Houses and other common facilities that make daily Oikos possible and practicable among us.
But while the new architecture will be modern in its methods, it will also be rooted in the styles and traditions of historical societies and cultures from around the world and be made attractive and memorable to the public at large.
Protocol Twelve: Revolution Within
WE GROW IN WISDOM TO FULFILL GOD’S BEST FOR OUR LIVES
The Revolution Within is inspired by a commitment to learn “line upon line” and “precept upon precept.” Maturation involves moving beyond milk to meat to actualize our purposes and bolster the Kingdom.
We will pursue our own “revolution within” following the pathway of “Believe, Think, Act, Feel, Relate, Communicate, Cooperate, Build, and Fulfill” in order to find and follow God’s Best for our lives with excellence as a witness and salt and light influence for Jesus to the nations.
We will do this all for the Glory of God and the Praise of His Name by practicing Biblical literacy, walking in the Spirit, being mutually accountable, and remaining a living sacrifice with a heart for the lost.
As we proceed we will look at our life and relationships from the perspective of the Gospel, the Bible, and then these Mandates seeking ever to align and harmonize with the ways of Christ and the way of our Christian nation. We will look at our beliefs, thoughts and etc. starting from within our lives and immediate relationships and we will seek to connect and align with others on the basis of following the same path in every increasing reach and scale.
As these Protocols are Biblical, we can and should use them as a litmus test for how we are proceeding and advancing ever closer toward fulfillment.
Our purpose in doing this is to make our calling our career, to find and fulfill God’s best for our lives and relationships with excellence, to spread and proclaim freedom for all. We endeavor to provide aid and comfort to Christians in crisis by being equipped and knowledgeable in ways to direct people who come to us to the help they need.
We aim foremost to be a salt and light witness and influence for Jesus to the nations of people around us and around the world.
Protocol Thirteen: The Marriage Covenant
WE ARE DEVOTED TO BOTH THE UNIVERSAL MARRIAGE TO YESHUA, THE CHRIST AND OUR MARRIAGES
We believe that the purpose of marriage is to reflect the relationship of Yeshua, the Christ to His Beloved and to be the means by which a man and woman reflect the divine model of love in covenant.
We will strive to live up to our affirmation of the sacredness of fatherhood and motherhood and the monogamous marriage between a man and a woman.
Our sacred ideal in the home is to preserve fatherhood and motherhood within the bonds of a lifelong marital union as the highest social aim in order to ensure that most children most of the time are raised in a loving home by their own biological parents.
We will pursue with gusto our shared mission of building strong marriages intentionally as living examples of Christ’s relationship to the Bride, the Body of Christ, or the Church.
We will make and fulfill a public commitment before fellow members to lifelong fidelity from this point on whatever the past might have been. We will commit to uphold one another and to encourage those who are single and unmarried to choose celibacy or marriage as led by God in a positive and affirming manner without being judgmental or intolerant toward others whose faith and convictions differ from our own.
We are positively FOR our chosen way of life rooted in preserving fatherhood and motherhood within a lifelong marital bond. But as to the larger secular society we embrace mutual respect and tolerance of all people and cultures based on common freedom standards and we accept all fellow human beings as equals in value and worth regardless of their own chosen or accepted preferences and lifestyles.
We expect and rightfully are owed the same level of respect, tolerance, and acceptance as we ourselves give to others. Our nation is a nation of people whose God is the Lord and our marital form and ethics are our tradition and way of life which God has ordained for each of us who joins themselves to this spiritual nation.
Protocol Fourteen: Family Honor
WE ARE COMMITTED AND CONNECTED TO OUR NUCLEAR FAMILY, RELATIVES, INTENTIONAL KIN, AND FELLOW BELIEVERS
The people in our circle of closest relationships, from relatives to those we choose to adopt into our family, should be honored and cared for as God gives us the means and opportunity to. This honor begins with our nuclear family and continues to our close relatives and others in our inner circle of relationships.
We will make conscious commitments to serve our natural or blood family accepting that God destined us to be born into that family, our immediate family which we must care for within our God-given roles (mother, father, children, brothers, and sisters), and the covenant family we may choose if our blood kin do not also embrace our chosen way of life.
We will seek to commit ourselves as individuals to mutual aide and comfort toward others with a willingness to form such familial bonds both among Society members and with fellow Christians whom God places in our lives.
This will begin with our own blood kin and immediate families. We will do all of this in a manner which gives Glory to God and which seeks to place Jesus at the center of every relationship.
We will treat all of our kinships, whether by blood or intentional, with honor, dignity, and mutual respect. This does not mean we owe it to anyone, in the name of any kinship, to violate our persons or degrade us or treat us in a manner that is undignified or to demand we compromise our way of life to satisfy them. Kinship is mutual and can and must be conditioned on ongoing mutuality of respect and honor for the dignity of each person.
We endeavor to instill in ourselves and urge all with whom we have kinship to utilize our core ideals and such standards of mutuality and respect for our mutual dignity to govern our kinship and make it fruitful and beneficial to all.
Protocol Fifteen: The Duty To Progeny
WE NURTURE OUR PROGENY AND BUILD FOR THEIR FUTURE
We have a sacred duty to build up and nurture our spiritual and physical descendants and leave them a birthright of value and worth. We impart our beliefs, values, and convictions so they may find God if they seek him. We build structures that will benefit future generations for centuries to come.
We are committed to the process of raising children into adulthood, including our own version of the rumspringa concept (which parents shall set according to their conviction), rites of initiation, and a formal “covenant making” which includes our membership in the Body of Christ as citizens of the Kingdom of God, and our membership in our “nation within the nations.”
As part of acceptance into our nation as Peers, all persons who come of age must make this formal covenant with God in the sight of their fellow Peers in the same manner. Our aim and intention in raising children who, first and foremost, follow Jesus and who then may also choose to join themselves with us through covenant with God, is to raise up men and women of faith, integrity, and nobility.
Our obligation to our progeny, both of the blood and of the spirit, is to see to it they have their needs meet in a holistic manner, to provide wisdom and counsel that dignifies them and edifies them for their good and not our own, and that instructs them first in the ways of Christ and then in our ways, that it may profit them body and soul for all their days.
We are dedicated to, first, preserving a Christian witness for generations to come and, secondarily, to ensuring the future existence and prosperity of our nation by raising up new generations of noble character and integrity.
Protocol Sixteen: Our Gideon’s Call
WE PROCLAIM OUR VISION FOR A SPIRITUAL NATION TO THOSE WHO WOULD ANSWER THE CALL
In the Book of Judges, Gideon called and over 30,000 answered. God chose only 300 to take the first step toward liberating Israel from the Midianites before the rest of the nation rejoined them. Likewise, we broadcast the call and offer the resources needed to be a Peer of our spiritual nation. The call to Peerage is between God and the individual alone.
We are each committed to using whatever means we have to broadcast a Gideon’s call to see who God is calling to our Standard, but we are not recruiting people.
Finding and affirming new Peers of Upadaria involves a “Gideon’s Call” which requires that these people be called by God and be qualified by their character. We do not recruit people or SELL our vision.
Each Peer of Upadaria commits to sharing our vision in a manner that is unobtrusive and that is merely meant to draw in those whom God draws. Our aim is to discover those whom God has called, not to “recruit as many people as possible.” (We do aim to broadcast our vision and message to as many people as possible.)
For this reason we have flags, banners, badges, pins, and the such which you can use as conversation starters.
We do not recruit: we believe God must call people to this nation. This nation, as a tribe unto the Lord, will do great works for the Glory of God and for the positive benefit of the whole Body of Christ and for the cause of freedom in this world.
Men and women of faith who are drawn to this nation need only commit to memory these 17 Protocols and make covenant with God to utilize them not as rules but as a blueprint and as a promise: for God will make a way to begin fulfilling these things in your life and He will enable you to connect with others for mutuality of assurance and support toward these ends. This is what we believe.
We will also Confirm Peers who feel led to become participants in the various structures which will emerge that proclaim our nation and work to fulfill its mandates and vision as well as to serve its people. Toward this end a Society will exist among us as an international agency that will certify and confirm such structures to protect the integrity of our name and symbols and to ensure against misuse and abuse.
While being confirmed as a Peer is necessary for the purpose of engaging in one or more structures affiliated with our nation, all who sincerely and before God pursue these protocols for the Glory of God and by His blessing and provision are Peers of our nation.
The pursuit of these Protocols is not a requirement or set of rules, these Protocols represent God’s promises and ordained will for our nation. To pursue them in a spirit of legalism would be wrong and miss the spirit and intent behind them.
Every Peer pursues these Protocols as a blueprint for their way of life to the best of their knowledge, ability, and means and solely through the grace, power, provision, and favor of God who shall change us and bless us toward the end of their fulfillment. This is not for our enrichment to consume upon ourselves but for the Glory of God to fulfill all these things as a witness for Jesus to others, that they might be saved.
If a Peer cannot do but so much, as much as they can do will be blessed and as they step forward, God will make a new way that they may experience more and live more, day by day. For we are a nation whose God is the Lord and God is our means by which we do all He has given our nation to be and do. All who are Peers of our nation will be blessed by God in that manner by which He blesses nations whose God is the Lord.
Our Gideon’s Call is for men and women of faith to align and join themselves to a Christian nation whose sovereignty is spiritual and which they join solely through a freewill covenant association between themselves and God to pursue these Protocols as God leads, enables, and provides for the Glory of God and the Praise of His Name.
We recognize that in God’s eternal blueprint there are many nations of people whose God is the Lord, ours is not the sole way to be part of such a nation and in no way is being part of such a nation a condition of salvation or eternal life. Those who hear our Gideon’s Call and are ordained to heed it should do so solely because this is written into the scroll of their life.
Those who follow Jesus but for whom this call does not apply are justified in not answering the call, because it is not for them.
Each Peer will do their part, guided by God, to issue this call and to aid and instruct new Peers as God provides. But let no Peer place the urgency of our missionary mandate to proclaim the Gospel behind this commitment to issue the Gideon’s call to become a Peer of our nation.
First and foremost and always proclaim the Gospel and look for ways and opportunities to issue the Gideon’s call that do not distract from or diminish the Gospel message.
Protocol Seventeen: Fulfilling Our Scroll
WE STRIVE TO FULFILL GOD’S BEST FOR OUR LIVES WITH EXCELLENCE
The scroll of our life is a gift from God reflecting our unique identities in Yeshua, the Christ. Each scroll was written non-linearly before natural birth. It is the guiding “wyrd” we are invited to daily align our willful intents with. In accordance with our scroll, we aim to empower ourselves and others through intimacy with God.
We believe in fulfilling our relationship and commitment to and our responsibility to behave as an integral part of the Christian Community as the governing assembly of a spiritual city-state of the Elect whose head is Christ.
Our highest ethic among ourselves is to find and fulfill God’s best for our lives with excellence. We seek this for ourselves and together so that we might be a witness and influence for our Lord to the nations. For to be a witness and influence for Yeshua is our highest good toward our fellow man. While to love and worship God is our highest good toward God.
We embrace our role as a witness and salt and light influence within the physical community based on our territorial responsibility. We consider our own nation to be a corporate witness for Jesus to the nations, this is essential to our identity and purpose as a People.
We seek to make our calling our career, inasmuch as is possible, or to make our career a witness and influence for the Lord our God to our fellow man.
We embrace our current citizenship and will seek to overall good and welfare of the country where we live and/or where we hold our citizenship as a salt and light witness and influence for Jesus and in the most patriotic manner possible.
Our nation is a spiritual sovereignty, it is a fractal and shadow of the Kingdom of God among us, it is not a political or territorial state or sovereignty.
Our goal is to broadcast the Gospel, to be an example of the Gospel in word and deed, to demonstrate the power of the Gospel, and to distribute the benefits of the Gospel both as individuals and as a spiritual nation distributed globally among the nations and peoples of this world.
To accomplish this we rely on the protection of God within our own internal Pomerium. This is a sacred border protected by God and His Hosts which surrounds every peer, ever property and all land owned of held by Peers, and all lands and property held by the various structures and entities which are affiliated with our spiritual nation.
All Peers of Upadaria are within our pomerium and God’s Host protects you. This is part of the blessings of being part of a nation whose God is the Lord.
To represent this and to declare our witness we urge every Peer and structure of Upadaria, unless doing so is life-endangering, to fly our flag in representation of our presence, of our witness, and of our availability to help all who come and seek aid: for it shall be that those who see this flag shall know this is a place where the refugee and the person in crisis can seek aid and comfort.
We recognize and are committed to human dignity and freedom rooted in virtue, liberty, and independence for all based on the original spirit and intent of the US Bill of Rights. To declare and promote freedom is essential to who we are, for therein may we freely declare the Gospel and be a witness for Christ.
For our growth together we will advance along the Course of Honor, also known as the Karygma A’ Regita, and adhere to the Kha Yasa, which is based on these 17 Protocols of our Nation of People Whose God is the Lord.
In doing these things we ensure that both as individuals and as a nation we live out and fulfill our vision to be a witness and influence for Jesus to the nations of people around us and throughout the world. A Nation Whose God Is The Lord-
BECOMING A UPADARIAN-
The Pledge In order to count yourself a Upadarian, you make a pledge before God. What is important about this pledge is that it is not irrevocable and that to fulfill this pledge you rely on the Holy Spirit empowering you as well as the provision, favor, and blessings of God.
The entire focus is on fulfilling this pledge to the best of your ability, according to your actual means, and in light of your present circumstances.
The GOAL of this pledge is to become a more effective and powerful witness for Jesus, to fulfill God’s best for your life with excellence, and to both live missionally and aid your fellow Christians in their need as God provides for you.
I (give your CHOSEN Upadarian Name), do pledge before God, this commitment to and affirmation of my identity within the spiritual nation of fellow Peers to abide by the UPDR Ideals in my relationships and treatment toward others.
I pledge to make the pursuit of God’s best for my life and being a witness for Jesus to the nations my chief aim.
I pledge to utilize, seek to fulfill, and adipt the 17 Protocols of Upadaria in an aspirational but not legalistic manner, for the Glory of God and the praise of His Name, through the power of the Holy Spirit, and according to the blessings, provisions, and favor which God may bestow upon me. I call myself a Yeshuan as a follower of Yeshua, a Christian as part of the Body of a Christ, and a Upadarian as my spiritual nationality.
I will abide by this pledge by all the means God provides, SO HELP ME GOD, AMEN.
And so after seeking God I bid my fellow Upadarians to use my name, which is this (state the name).
The assembled will then repeat the name and the highest Peer will declare: on this day of the Lord in His year (say the year) we declare (say the person’s new name) is among us and has declared for us as a fellow and equal Peer.
Then you will say, I bid you keep my given name in confidence and to call me by my Upadarian name henceforth among us.
And for my cognomen I declare myself to be (use a name that describes your calling or profession).
Having made such a pledge before God you are therefore considered by God to be a member of a nation whose God is the Lord and you can and should expect the blessings reserved for such nations to flow from God to you and, through you, in witness to others.
Why are things like marriage, the nuclear family, and happy childhoods so under threat of extinction and what did we all get wrong in raising our own children too quickly, at age 18, become autonomous beings cut off from the family home?
We emphasize freedom. But most people think freedom is purely an individual thing. However, in practical terms, if freedom is only an individual thing, then every lone individual or detached nuclear family stands as a sole figure against mega forces, like monopoly corporations and the central government, and the vagaries of life and nature, defenseless and vulnerable.
Freedom must necessarily include shared identity and the shared sovereignty to define that identity in terms and according to standards reflective of the individual’s beliefs, values, and convictions. This is not something the culture of today even grasps, which is why the atomization of individuals and their emotional and economic vulnerability is only getting worse.
This leads to the introduction of something we have lost in our culture, not merely an extended family of around 20 or so adults clustered near each other, but a cluster of such extended family groups consisting of around 120 adults which is self-contained, self-sustaining economic and sociocultural unit, a fractal of an entire nation or even an entire civilization.
The Shirehold
WE INTENTIONALLY PRACTICE EXTENDED KINSHIP
People are not made to be isolated and separated. Life in the Kingdom is not just about what we do individually, but how we live with others. Our lifestyle is an expression of agape love in family, community, and collaboration. A Shirehold is an intentional multifamily extended household community in close geographical proximity.
From The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Seven
Clustering together with people you warmly feel kinship toward is essential to both personal freedom and shared freedom that shields you from external influence and control that isn’t in your best interest. We can say, regardless of the politics of the hour, that without a deliberate restoration of this kind of extended kinship, at the scale of a tribal band or village, freedom itself will continue to fade and centralized top-down control will increase until we are all atomized cogs in a machine that uses us like a commodity.
When family as an idea lost that sense that it was, organizationally, a self-sustaining and self-contained socioeconomic unit, a fractal of the whole national people and of civilization, it became insular and fragmented. Only self-actualization and the benefits, of love and affection, for the individual mattered.
It’s not that tribal bands of around 120 adults and their extended households of around 15 adults didn’t in some way also emphasize these benefits to the individual. The more healthy ones did and likely endured for centuries. But in practical, material matters, the outsider would see them as economic or corporate bodies as well as social and cultural familial groups.
When people mostly see family as two adults under the same roof or a single person and children, and when they only “marry for love”, then the atomized little “family” is hopelessly weak and incapable of meeting its basic needs without dependency on external structures. When the FEELING of love decreases this “family” is split or when external pressures grow beyond what two people can bear, there is suffering and even a potential breakdown.
In the Upadarian sociocultural and spiritual belief system, what we call a Shirehold, as a community of individuals within extended multi-family household groups, is for us the essence of family and such family ought to cluster together in the same physical space wherever possible. As some say, “family can be anything you want”, we agree, and while we certainly don’t want to compel anyone to adopt our Shirehold model for what family means, we also desire to be free and do so in peace.
Extended multi-family kinship groups connected to each other as a community of such groups, what we call a Shirehold, is for us the core constituency for our civilization. It, and only it, is a fractal of the whole civilization. While the individual, the nuclear family, and the kinship group of around 20 or so adults are essential elements of the Shirehold, the Shirehold is for us the true family. It is this and nothing less than this.
We are not proposing that people who don’t buy into this and whose idea of family differs aren’t families. Family, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But for us, family isn’t its elements alone, like the individual and a nuclear family, it is this collaborative and mutualist community of around 120 adults who have a high degree of organic cohesiveness.
The argument against, say, having a cluster of around 30 to 50 nuclear families and related single adults living in the same space exclusively together, is rooted in the fair housing law. This law is in many ways perfectly useful, in principle and spirit. It prevent discrimination in housing. But its focus is too narrow, it isn’t based on the core fractal of human civilization. This fractal isn’t the nuclear family, it is these 120 adult extended kinship communities.
A Shirehold estate of a few houses and apartments belonging to a mutual benefit corporation owned by Shirehold members is essentially a self-contained sociocultural and socioeconomic body or, as we say, the core constituent entity and fractal of human civilization. Without this fractal being alive and well, civilization will further devolve in every way. Atomization leads to dissolution.
As noted, what we call the Shirehold is the smallest possible fractal of an entire civilization. Our concept of pluralism is based on kinship groups of people who cluster together as a household community, that is, a self-sustaining sociocultural and socioeconomic fractal of civilization.
Throughout history, most of these tribal bands of around 120 or so adults had a form of kinship not connected to blood. In most cases where remains can be tested, where one of these bands existed, the blood ties of their members were not prevelant. In other words, kinship wasn’t usually limited to blood kin. Wheoever shared your values and shared in the common good was kin.
There are potential pitfalls and real tradeoffs in seeking to revive this extended multi-family household community in the form of something like a Shirehold community.
In the past, extended multi-family households tended to relegate women to menial roles, though this was neither universal nor essential to the model. Additionally, there is the problem of feeling surrounded and suffocated or even feeling controlled or limited. This isn’t a feature of healthy Shireholds, by whatever name you call them, but of unhealthy ones. Stratified gender roles and interference with individual spiritual sovereignty are not essential to or an inevitable feature of these tribal bands, extended multi-family household communities, or, as we call them, Shireholds.
But it is true that when you decide to be connected to other people there are some seeming limits on your own scope of choices. The tradeoff of total individual autonomy is loneliness and vulnerability to mega corporations and the government, against whose mechanisms of influence and control you have no defense.
Shireholds would be massively empowering to individuals, give you more say in the social and cultural as well as economic milieu of your life than ever before, and shield you from external mechanisms of influence and control that pressure you to conform to things not suitable to your interests or values.
They would, however, spell the end of your lone ranger life and require some level of commitment and participation in the lives of others. Nothing good is free of any cost or inconvenience, but the tradeoff is always well worth the cost. The benefits are far greater than whatever you have left behind.
We argue that something like a Shirehold community is essential to the individual, marriage, the nuclear family, and childhood. It is also essential to a prosperous, healthy, and free society. If we desire to build freedom anew we have to find a way to develop these intentional Shirehold communities based on some form of organic cohesiveness that is strictly based on freewill participation by consensus among equal peers.
Around 120 adults, and whatever other connections they have as a body to other adults, living in close harmony, both physically and spiritually, both socioculturally and economically, is the core fractal and constituent entity of any nation of people, of the area-wide Ecclesia as a spiritual city-state of the Elect, of any country, of any civilization, and of the entirety of human civilization.
This is a shared conviction and value, it’s neither a doctrine nor a proposed law. The same concept of a single house or apartment and a single nuclear family applies to these Shirehold communities which may include 30 or 50 houses/apartments in a clustered living space with its own economic and material self-reliance resources capable of ensuring the physical well-being of every member. Legally, the ability of individuals to form such communities as an extended multi-family household community based on some form of adoptive kinship, should be as sacred as any human right.
The ability and power to choose and be part of a clustered living arrangement of around 120 adults who have a shared kinship of some kind must be asserted and respected by the greater society as it should any form of family people desire. The arbitrary limitation on what constitutes a family is a form of intolerance and bigotry against a broad spectrum of choices each individual should be free to make.
An entire book could be written about the Shirehold: what it is, why it must exist, why it is essential to Christian culture and a Biblical lifestyle, what its advantages and costs are, its governance in the modern world, its structures and functions, and why its right to exist must be codified into laws which only envision single home “families” and which do not take into account multi-house familial living arrangements where “family” is much larger than a nuclear family.
We do not propose these Shireholds as a racial or genetic construct: they would best be purely voluntary freewill participatory kinships based on a shared identity rooted in a common set of beliefs, values, and convictions. In our case, we propose a form of intentional spiritual nationhood within the larger universal nationhood of all Believers in Yeshua.
Our ideal communities are pluralistic communities made up of diverse individuals and nuclear families who still use the Western model of individualism and diverse clustered living estates or neighborhoods for different types of multi-family extended household communities, what we call Shireholds.
The only reason we want these estates, which are where Shireholds would cluster together, to be more or less exclusive to members of the same Shirehold is because, for us, a Shirehold is the basic family unit, while the individual, the nuclear family, and the kinship group are all elements of this family unit.
We recognize the danger of discrimination in housing, but this danger can be mitigated through a legal limit on the size of an estate, much as a single house can limit who lives there. An estate conjointly owned through a mutual benefit corporation whose shares must be owned by people of the same Shirehold, for instance, doesn’t discriminate any more than a single house occupied exclusively by members of the same nuclear family.
We further recommend that a Shirehold estate have space for helping internal refugees and asylees as well as offer housing and retail space to the public to offset costs for members. These housing options would certainly not discriminate in any way.
Regardless of all that, people clustered together as an extended multi-family household community of around 120 adults will form the basis of the emergent civilization. These structures will endure through whatever upheavals and crises will come because the old and dying civilization that surrounds us continues its detachment and atomization.
The development of these Shireholds as our basic family model and their eventual clustered living lifestyle as a single self-contained and mutually self-reliant sociocultural and socioeconomic body of people is essential to building resilient freedom. The ultimate proof against corporate and/or government gigantism and centralized control of your life is the restoration, in modern form, of what were once self-contained tribal bands.
Who can you trust during those times when you are vulnerable or when a crisis vurges on a major tragic upheaval? For most people, there is no good answer to this question. For most people, trust beyond perhaps their immediate nuclear family is difficult, they just aren’t sure who really is on their side without an ulterior motive.
A trust community is a larger body of people who are reasonably confident that through shared identity and participation they can trust one another. For practical reasons, they tend to live within reasonable driving distance of each other. We may not know everyone in a trust community personally, but we know that if they have been confirmed as members of the community by people who do know them that they have the kind of character, integrity, and values that make them trustworthy.
Our concept of a Trust Community comes from Protocol Six of The 17 Protocols of Upadaria.
A Trust Community
WE PRACTICE THE WAYS OF A TRUST COMMUNITY CENTERED ON YESHUA, THE CHRIST
Through intentionally building trust communities, Believers can connect with others for mutual profit, support, empowerment, liberation, and fulfillment of purpose.
– From The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Six
The entire concept of what we call “the Upadarian Revolution” is unilateral change from within our own lives, relationships, and associations that never seeks to impose itself through politics or force on other people. This is important in the concept of a trust community, because while these communities use the language of a distinct village, town, or city, they aren’t political entities and their members consist only of those who freely desire to participate in them.
A trust community is a larger than neighborhood scale collection of people who use trust as their basis of connection and freewill participation. A trust community is capable of providing for most all the basic needs of its participants and of assuring the safety and sanctity of their liberty, their well-being, and their wealth and property from all hazards. To be part of a trust community you share an identity with others and the basis of that identity are the ideals, principles, and practices you all agree are the common standards and norms of behavior, of relationships, and of your association.
Imagine a city of, say, 100,000 souls, like the heart of London, and 30 square miles of land distributed in chunks and pieces throughout an area of 1,000 square miles containing 800,000 people. This is a larger-scale trust community embedded within an entire area, distinct and unique in its diversity expression of community, but also connected to the whole area as a constituent community.
This may sound rather theoretical, but the implementation of trust community is practical and to be intentional about creating such communities is a very peaceful, revolutionary act. It removes much of your social, cultural, and economic life from the influence and control of a corrupt ruling class who are presiding over a dying civilization and its abusive structures.
Our ideal larger scale trust community is a Shire, a term from old England that basically became equivalent to a county but that invokes the idea of an area which is self-contained, self-sufficient, and self-governing but which is an interdependent part of a larger commonwealth. Another way we present this is through a concept we call a distributed private city, a city-like organizational structure that has various facilities and participants spread all throughout an area that has many physical cities.
At the smallest level, the trust community is like an intentional community that just has parts of itself, as well as its individual participants, spread throughout a local area. They may not all live within the same plot of land, but they have structures and associations they regularly participate in that essentially give them the self-reliance of an intentional community.
One of our key breakthrough ideas, and one we often repeat, is that trust community requires something equivalent to a shared national identity. And by this we do not mean race or ancestry, nations are far more than collections of people whose common trait is race or ancestry. In their purest form, nations are ideals and values that are freely adopted as the basis of a shared identity.
A trust community without something equivalent to a shared nationality either begins to become disjointed as people argue over basic assumptions and norms or it stays together through a strong-armed, top-down system of control. If that something that connects everyone isn’t fairly cohesive in terms of ideals and values, then only some use of manipulation, control, or coercion will keep it together. A trust community has no manipulation, control, or coercion, what keeps it together is trust and that trust organically flows from shared ideals, principles, and practices.
We use the term “organic cohesiveness” to describe the cohesiveness of a trust community and even a spiritual nation. In our approach, the broader trust community is based on freedom ideas and standards but the heart of the community consists of a core of people who share our spiritual nationality as their own nationality. What makes this cohesiveness organic, as opposed to artificial, is that it comes through strictly voluntary freewill participation in a commonly shared identity based on shared ideals and values.
Trust communities are based on nested shared identities, so they can be diverse and pluralistic in their broader application and close-knit and unanimous in their more narrow application. It isn’t either-or. Christians can connect over an entire area and behave together like a spiritual city-state. People who love freedom, Freedomists, can form area and county level freewill participatory associations called Freedom Shires which focus on upholding the rights, persons, and property of themsleves and their fellow citizens.
A Upadarian trust community is a Shire which includes constituent communities called Cantons, Villages, and Manors. These are all groupings of people who at some level adopt the shared Upo, Ecclesian, Freedomist, or Upadarian identities. Thinking in these terms of a massive shift away from the atomized life and from assumed identities that may not reflect your innermost beliefs, values, and convictions.
When someone is using trust community and connected to others, they see themselves as virtual or spiritual citizens of a distributed city-state that has its own social, cultural, economic, and civic structures and associations that are not controlled by the present civilization’s ruling class.
Building economic structures where trade and commerce are governed by the ideals and values you believe in cannot just be an individual thing. You need virtual and physical spaces to conduct business and norms and standards everyone agrees to follow with integrity. A trust community creates these things and, through something like a subscription or membership, funds the kinds of spaces needed for this activity.
What we are proposing with a trust community is that we have to be quite intentional about our larger scale activities with people who are within driving distance of each other and who share the same ideals and values. Our platform helps people make these area-level connections and formalize them through prescribed frameworks and blueprints, including decision-making processes and even physical facilities.
If we want to be part of a society and nation we can proudly say are centered on Yeshua, we should be intentional about connecting and associating with people of like convictions to create our own internal social, cultural, economic, and civic structures, resources, and services that aren’t controlled by anyone but us. Our concept of trust community applies broadly to any body of people whose organic cohesiveness is such that it distinguishes them from a society whose values they cannot cosign or support and certainly don’t want to be governed by.
It is a practical and existential necessity to build trust communities when the society in which you live operates and is governed by values which, if you were to follow them, would violate your own beliefs, values, and convictions.
Through a practical application of trust community it is not our intention to reform or change society, it is our intention to sow the seeds of a new spiritual nation as the vanguard people of a new civilization. Our peaceful and spiritual revolution is all about unilateral change from within ourselves, our relationships, and our associations.
Regency is a word that basically has two meanings in our vernacular: it speaks to our individual spiritual sovereignty as Yeshua’s joint-heirs and ambassadors on this earth and it also describes a regional network of such regents which provides support for its peers and serves the populace at large within its service area.
Regency as a concept is all about us as individuals embracing our role and spiritual sovereignty as ambassadors of Christ, as joint-heirs, and as kings and priests unto the Lord. Regency as a structure describes a regional chapter organization of the Upadarian Society and a regional network of people who subscribe to the Upadaria platform. Both aspects of regency as we use the term are inter-related and speak to a deeper truth about freedom, which is that we not only own this spiritual sovereignty as individuals but, through freewill participation, we own the authority to choose the spiritual, sociocultural, and sociocultural substance and norms which will govern our lives, relationships, and associations.
We gain this insight into regency as a both a specific aspect of our Kingdom-centered, Christian freedom-building platform and as broader freedom-building concept from the 17 Protocols of Upadaria, namely Protocol Five.
WE EXERCISE OUR INDIVIDUAL AND CORPORATE REGENCY TO PROVIDE A REFUGE TO OURSELVES AND OTHERS
As Believers, by practicing individual and corporate Regency through the framework of our spiritual nation, we serve as Kings and Priests who sovereignly steward all God has entrusted through a network of trust communities called Shires.
– From The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Five
A key aspect of regency is the idea of refuge, which shows up in the Upadarian lifestyle and governance philosophy as “The Refuge Mandate”, but here we are looking at the regional development of the idea actualized within a supporting structure. Regency supports refuge.
When we exercise our spiritual sovereignty, individual regency, we experience an inner refuge from all external influence and control that connects us supernaturally to God and preserves our inner man from everything outside of Yeshua. When we develop this idea into a regional combination of such “regents” who are intentionally exercising their regency, we start to realize concrete, physical spaces wherein the follower of Yeshua and Peers of our spiritual nation can all find real refuge.
A Regency in our parlance is a specific term that applies to a regional virtual-to-local network within our platform and a regional chapter organization for our planned Society. In both cases, the organizational structure is a reflection of our substantive efforts to empower individuals to practice and experience regency within a broad support system that includes physical spaces, like common facilities and even clustered housing developments.
In many ways we can describe a Regency as a sort of ideal “province within the provinces”, like a larger regional subdivision of a country that is distributed throughout another region but that has a distinct and separate identity as well as spiritual, sociocultural, and socioeconomic life. This isn’t separation. It is both automous in a spiritual and sociocultural sense especially and yet totally connected to and supportive of the larger regional grouping of communities within its service area.
Regency at an individual level is easier to grasp. It’s basically you actualizing the fact you are a regent of the King. Your roles as a regent of the King include being nurtured and transformed into a joint-heir with Yeshua who is the Christ and Son of God, being a spiritually sovereign being made in the image of God, and actively pursuing your own and shared scroll of destiny and purpose (wyrd) which comes from God.
Often Christian writers will focus on calling and destiny. We go deeper and broader in two ways: we consider destiny and purpose as a whole-life mission and experience and we consider also shared destiny and purpose which you enter into solely on the basis of freewill participation as you believe God leads you.
But regency as a structure manifesting individual regency at scale is a regional network like a sort of smaller contiguous province distributed within a larger region and acting as both a socioculturally autonomous network of communities and individuals and yet also as a vibrant and connected part of the whole region. Regency as a structure creates a much larger network of regents that can substantively support the individual in ways nothing of a smaller scale can.
One root of this concept comes when we consider the whole book of Galatians. Historians and scholars debate the exact location or boundaries of this Galatia but almost all agree that it was a decent-sized regional identity, connected possibly to the ancient “Kingdom of Galatia”, but an area whose exact boundaries likely crossed over prinvoncial borders. The concept of an “Ecclesia” as a spiritual city-state of the elect spanning such a region, wherein each of the cities and areas in the region also had their own Ecclesia, informs our concept of a Regency.
The “Galatian Christians” and their regional network of spiritual city-states composed a sort of spiritual province whose King is Yeshua that was distributed throughout the Galatian region, a region that probably spanned prvoncial borders within the Roman Empire. So for us, a Regency is a distributed spiritual province consisting of everyone who is a peer of our spiritual nation and everyone who is a subscriber to our virtual platform but that serves all fellow Christians and the whole population within its service area.
As we work our way down from the regional to the individual level, we find that a Regency is made up of many different entities and structures, from Shires down to Shireholds and Kinship Groups. A Regency provides a regional networking and governance structure so that many individuals and different organizations and communities of people can cooperate and collaborate for shared purposes and mutual profit without a centralized, top-down over-controlling hierarchy.
The purpose of a Regency includes being an effective witness and influence for Yeshua to everyone in the regional service area, providing governance support and standards oversight to Upadarian peers, organizations, structures, and communities within the region, creating sociocultural and socioeconomic structures that engender total material and economic freedom for all participants, ministry and benevolence to the poor and needy, and physical refuge for local Christians in crisis and external Christian asylees, basically all refugees, who are in need.
Freedom-builders of various religious or philosophical backgrounds and convictions can use the same basic model so that a single region may have multiple virtual/distributed Regencies which could all cooperate on the basis of freedom fundamentals, like the US Bill of Rights in their original spirit and intent.
A Upadarian Regency is like a smaller province, somewhat autonomous of its larger Commonwealth (as an empire of freedom predicated on virtue, liberty, and independence with justice and equality for all), distributed throughout smaller charter communities and chapter groups within the whole region it serves.
The basic governance structure of a Regency includes a plurality of leadership, the regional operation of the nine governments, and the participation of its peers as well as a feedback system for its subscribers. The titular head and public face of a Regency is its Regent, who heads the regional Regium government but the Lord Protector of the Magisterium and the Proconsul of the Ethnium are also co-leaders while all are subjected both to the Crown Republic (a territorial chapter equivalent to a small country) and to a special Regency Council of 120 Electors chosen by lot.
Unlike the international virtual commonwealth, the 9 governments are concentrated in three: the Regium is still just the Regium, the Magistrate includes the Governate, the Agorate, and the Civitas, and the Ethnium includes the Societas, the Ecclesium, and the Comunis.
The Regium includes the Regency Tribunate of a High Tribune and 120 Tribunes who manage and oversee judicial issues and conflict between various entities within the Regency, a Regency Council of 120 Censors headed by the Regent, and the other two heads of government, including the Lord Protector and the Prconsul.
The Magisterium includes a Regency Senate made up of two Senators appointed by the Vicegerents of a Shire (or equivalent) and a Magisterial Council consisting of a Chancellor who assists the Lord Protector, and Minsters who heads such Regency Minsitries as Administration, the Governate, the Agorate, and the Civitas. These in turn have specific Departments but all Department Heads and Ministers are considered equal within the Magisterial Council.
The Ethnium includes a Regency Assembly consisting of 200 Delegates chosen by 200 roughly equal-sized Caucuses of everyone within the Regency’s service area who is an Elector or higher. The Ethnium also includes a Ministerium which includes the Administrative, Societas, Ecclesium, and Comunis Ministers and their Department Heads.
To support a Regency various facilities are envisioned, including Embassies, Missions, and Hub Communities.
Embassies are facilities for area to local gatherings and activities as well as administrative facilities planted by the Regency Government to begin a process of broadcasting our Gideon’s Call to find people who are called to be Peers and to service and promote subscriptions to the virtual platform.
Missions are facilities that may provide benevolence or ministry to the poor and needy and Christians in crisis as well as help for people with life-controlling problems or addictions.
Hub Communities are area-wide intentional communities that include clustered housing for Peers and Subscribers, space for refugees, clustered housing for any group that wants to use the mutual benefit housing model, and both residential and commercial space for public leasing based on fair housing laws. They also include larger scale facilities like health and wellness centers, recreation facilities, art and science resources, training, and administrative facilities.
Each Regency will have a central hub community, known as a Regency Hub that is a larger almost town-sized grouping of multiple little communities surrounding an area called a Citadel which in turn surrounds a Regency Castle.
These are all specific types of Upo Communities, which may also exist within a Regency as individuals create their own intentional communities using the Upo Model. This includes things like residents as customers/subscribers, promoting a free and pluralistic society of equals, mutual benefit corporations to facilitate clustered housing, a plurality of leadership, mutual self-reliance and self-preservation, and the use of our ideals, principles, practices, and mandates as their guiding standards.
The difference between a Upo Hub Community and a Upo Community is that the Hub Community is an official hub for a Upadarian platform and/or society chapter group, community, or organization, while a Upo Community is chartered by the Regency but is an autonomous development adminstered by Peers of Upadaria who form a corporate body of some kind.
While most Peers and Subscribers within a Regency will tend to live as they do now, some will desire to live within some sort of Upo Hub Community, Upo Community, or smaller clustered housing development. What is more, every Peers and Subscriber who is an eCitizen of the platform will have a guarantee of help and shelter within any of these clustered housing developments, Upo Communities, or Upo Hub Communities.
A Regency is planned in a cooperative way from the genesis plan and build team to autonomous area and local design and build teams down to the Shirehold and Kinship Group. The genesis team are the first certified Regency Builders who work together within their service area toward the goal of developing a strong Subscriber base and thereby finding and mobilizing Peers of the spiritual nation.
All this shows how the core concept of being a regent for Yeshua is expanded and applied to a regional network whereby many thousands of individuals can connect and collaborate to exercise their regency as a distributed regional body of Peers who have the same spiritual nationhood and who all serve the same King, who is Yeshua. A Regency will likely begin as a virtual-to-local community within our international platform and as qualified Electors and Nobles emerge these will eventually form the genesis planning and building team who adapt our blueprint to their regional needs and circumstances until they have created a functioning Regency.
This is like the “planting” model of the New Testament whereby Apostles tended to gather Believers after a period of evangelism and then find qualified people to become area-wide leaders who in turn appointed local leaders, all of whom took territorial responsibility to build the church and reach the lost. It may seem like a top-down model, but, while the core planning and design team leaders are essential recruited and assigned by the higher level leaders, it quickly emerges that all these local groups act autonomously and the “appointed” leaders become accountable to the people they directly serve.
From an organizational perspective, a Regency is the first major self-contained structure that truly acts like a provincial entity, even though it doesn’t have any political autonomy from the existing political state wherein it is located. It is, after all, a chapter ORGANIZATION within a virtual platform and an international Christian society, not an actual political subdivision of its host country.
Upo Regencies include special types such as Principalities as the designation of urban regencies, Shire Republics as regencies that are the home chapter organization for a Crown Republic (our territorial chapter organization), Crown Regencies as the home regional chapter organization of Commonwealths, Dominions, or Branch Societies, and Crown Principalities as physical regencies of notable importance wherein the land is actually owned by the Society in some form of special economic or autonomous zone arrangement.
A word on Crown Principalities is that they are quite far off in the future. We envision a world HQ for the entire international society and the virtual platform called “The Crown Principality of Upadaria” which might be likened unto Vatican City if our international society gained standing under international law. Mostly they would be special zones with a charter from a host country that allowed for sociocultural and socioeconomic autonomy.
The 17 Missionary Tribes, for instance, may operate a Royal Crown Principality as their HQ and may seek to develop one for each of the 20 Dominions around the world they serve, which are basically areas where they provide missions and refugee support and serve any Upo nationals. Other Regal Support Hubs would be established by the Society and its 9 “governments” for specific purposes and/or to serve different population groups in advancing our global vision to reach the nations and serve Christians in crisis.
It should be clear that while most subscribers to our platform and peers of our spiritual nation will not live within any sort of clustered housing development or Upo Community, we intend to build physical spaces and hubs wherein any peers, subscribers, or fellow Christians can seek help or sanctuary, missionary work can be supported, and provisions and ministries to the poor and needy can be conducted.
Unlike every other platform, the Upadarian platform is designed to eventually result in physical facilities, spaces, clustered living developments, hubs, and whole communities the size of cities or even whole regions, all created and administered according to our ideals, principles, practices, and mandates. Our Virtual Commonwealth is meant to eventually have a status like unto the Vatican with multiple versions of facilities/communities that are like Vatican City, even though most subscribers to the platform and most Peers of the city do not live in these places.
How far and how much these aspirations are actualized we shall see, but our abilities to plant Regencies and build some level of clustered housing, hubs, and communities will only grow in time as our subscriber base and Society membership grow in a given region.
Regency as both a concept of individual spiritual sovereignty and as a concept of regional community building for mutual profit and to support mutual goals is the practical way to actualize true freedom that flows from material and economic independency. As always, even if you do not adopt our exact model and become certified to begin building your own Regency you can use these general ideas to establish some sort of regionally distributed network of communities that reflect your own ideals and the such.
Living nationhood, which is to live the ways of a spiritual form of national idenity, may seem a bit esoteric, but if you mentally try on the idea, we propose you’ll find it is a practical means of improving your quality of life and building freedom for yourself and your family.
Once we grasp the true meaning of nationhood we take a further step forward and understand nationhood not just as an idea and identity but as a way of life and as daily practices. The Bible tells us to be IN this “kosmos”, as in the present world system, but not to be OF it. Our aim as Believers is to be a salt and light witness and influence for Yeshua to the nations. We do this without taking on their sociocultural and socioeconomic norms of the surrounding society.
We must avoid following those norms that contradict the sacred Kingdom essentials which are incumbent upon all followers of Yeshua. For this reason, we must be as materially as independent as possible from external influence and control. Additionally, we cannot replace the unaligned ways, ways not aligned with Kingdom essentials, without consciously replacing them with ways that align with Kingdom essentials.
Nationhood allows us to both find and use these ways to live in material independency but also allows is to organically connect and collaborate with others who adopt the same ways on a purely voluntary basis.
Living Spiritual Nationhood
NATIONHOOD IS A PATH TO FULFILL GOD’S STANDARDS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE THROUGH IDEALS, PRINCIPLES, PRACTICES, AND MANDATES
As the sacred core Kingdom essentials are honored and practiced in our diversity manifestation of Kingdom Nationhood through personal, relational, and professional standards and norms, righteousness will exalt our nation.
– From The 17 Protocols of Upadaria, Protocol Four
Our approach to self-improvement, which is the improvement of yourself but NOT you improving yourself through your own power, is quite original.
Imagine approaching self-improvement, which is the process whereby God transfiguratively improves us, through the concepts and methodologies we find in a Biblical view of nations and nationhood. This could be difficult because nationhood to modern humans has devolved into a crude mixture of political states as agents of coercion or racial/racist notions whereby one’s actual genetic/biological ancestry defines who and what they are.
Nationhood comes from spiritual sovereignty, sociocultural and socioeconomic cohesivenes, mutually beneficial freewill participation, and the intentionality of forming communities of trust.
We propose that when nationhood is understood as a way of life whereby we seek, through the guiding and power of the Holy Spirit, to fulfill God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations, which is for all human beings. Remember, nations are ordained by God and a big hint as to their meaning comes from the phrase in Acts 17 “so that men might find God if they haply seek him.”
As we adopt nationhood, in our proposed case through what we call the Upadarian nation, but through any diversity manifestation of Kingdom Nationhood you want to choose, we create or adopt a set of standards and norms that manifest God’s righteous and justice in our inner lives, relationships, and professional conduct.
When we adopt a form of nationhood that is predicated on ideals, principles, practices, and mandates (practicing a shared vision and mission), it provides a ready-made means to guide and discipline our behavior and choices to suit our own wyrd, which is God’s scroll of destiny and purpose for our lives.
Every form of nationhood that is a diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood should be able to be expressed in its ideals, principles, practices, and mandates through clear language and clear standards and norms that are utilized in a spirit of grace, not legalistically. These things should definitely align with Kingdom essentials, they should be practical, and they should be directed toward your own quality of life and the wyrd of your life.
In a sense, we’ve taken the foundation of what we know about how nations are seen by God and what their purpose in terms of God’s standards for the nations and human civilization and built a logical and practical ideational structure. Nationhood is a path for individuals AND vast groups of individuals, to manifest and fulfill God’s standards of righteousness and justice for the nations on a strictly voluntary, freewill participatory basis.
In describing OUR unique form of nationhood, the Upadarian nation of people as a spiritual nation, we are also introducing the broader concept of nationhood as a lifestyle and a personal growth discipline.
Our form of nationhood has four core ideals, four core principles, four core sets of practices based on the core elements of the Kingdom, and three core mandates which animate and guide our shared purpose and vision. If you understand and memorize these things and make them a daily tool for helping to make better decisions, build better relationships, and create better associations with others, especially if they also use these things, your quality of life, level of freedom, and your effectiveness as a witness and influence for Yeshua will improve over time.
Briefly, here is a description of our ideals, principles, practices, and mandates.
Our four core ideals come from our vision for a new civilization and include Unity in diversity, Popular sovereignty, Democratic equality, and Rule of law. From the UPDR of these ideals we derive the name UPaDaRia.
Our principles includes our social vision (cooperation, sustainability, consensus), social ethics (well-being, justice, autonomy), freedom vision (virtue, liberty, and independence), and Prosperity Vision (investment, land, ownership, protection).
Our practices comes from the core practices associated with four Kingdom elements, namely the practices of Ecclesium as the realm of the spiritual city-state and commonwealth of the Elect, Ethnium as both a universal and diversity manifestation of Kingdom nationhood in Christ, Oikosium as the small to global scale manifestation of a familial connection for mutual profit and mutual assurance, and Koiononium as the freewill participatory association and basis of a voluntary community of trust within God’s standards of righteousness and justice.
Our mandates include Kinship whereby we support and build up one another, Missions whereby we are a witness to others and support missionary efforts not limited by Western church culture, and Refuge whereby we provide refuge for ourselves and we both advocate for and serve Christian asylees and Christians in crisis.
These are Biblically sound, Kingdom-focused methods and means which not only define our unique form of spiritual nationhood as a diversity expression of Kingdom Nationhood, but they provide a ready-made means for groups of people to cooperate and collaborate without needing top-down control.
As the Bible says, righteousness exalts a nation but sin brings it down, to paraphrase. It also says “blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” We asked ourselves, “what does this mean practically speaking, how can we measure and quantity what it means to be righteous as a nation and how does this translate to the individual in terms of behavior and shared blessings?”
What we find is that the clear proclamation of ideals, principles, practices, and mandates, such as we have done, fulfills these things. It provides an accessible understanding of how we pursue God’s standards of righteousness and justice. It explains how individuals participate, by using these things, and how thereby we all who are peers of this spiritual nation walk in God’s blessings for such a nation of people whose God is the Lord.
One key idea we propose is that as nations of people explicitly define these things about themselves and as these things, which will vary from nation to nation, align with sacred Kingdom essentials, there will be a global “witness to the nations”, on an individual and corporate basis, that will reap a massive harvest of souls. We also foresee as the new civilization emerges, as a result of the deliberate practice of nationhood rooted in Yeshua, that there will be a flourishing of freedom and elevation of the Body of Christ to reach the nations and people of this earth more effectively.
If you want to build freedom beyond just words and political activism, if you want to build it unilaterally without being controlled by the present godless sociocultural and socioeconomic structures, nationhood as a personal discipline and lifestyle is a very practical and powerful tool.
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