Complexity and Social Networks Blog

Georg elaborated further that there is no democratic representation of the individual on a transnational, global level. According to the founders of UTNR this leads to inherently undemocratic processes within globalisation. Currently, outside of the nation-states only consumer and national interests are being represented. Both the national as well as the consumer interests are in conflict with our global interest: the preservation of our environment, world peace, establishment of transnational legislation, etc. The UTNR thinks that in order to realize democracy on a global level, the current political system needs to be expanded by one more level of representation: citizen of a city, citizen of a country, and citizen of a Transnational Republic. In this system all citizens of the world will be represented by their Transnational Republic of choice; together, the various Transnational Republics are forming the UTNR, where they are representing their citizens’ transnational interests - just as the various nation-states are assembling into The United Nations representing the national interest of their citizens.

Within the assembly of the UTNR, each Transnational Republic (TNR) has the voting power in relation to the number of citizens it is representing. Following the principle "All power originates in the individual and is not alienable." each person keeps the free choice of TNR to be represented by. This does not only mean that changing between TNRs is always a possibility, but also to start a new TNR. Other than nation states, TNRs are communities based on similarity in mindset, rather than on birthplace or heritage. TNRs thereby are subject to an ongoing competition amongst each other.

In order to assure the independence of the UTNR from the nation-states and in order to establish money as the “fourth power” of democracy, the Central Bank of the UNTR is issuing the transnational citizen currency PAYOLA. (Sidenote: In the U.S. music industry PAYOLA is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio, in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast. very similar global monetary system (the BANCOR) was the British proposal promoted by Keynes at the Bretton Woods Conference of 1944.

Currently, the First Transnational Republic has more than 4.300 citizens from around 100 nation-states. Most members are from Germany which is not surprising since the project started there. By contrast only 115 U.S. citizens joined the project.

Marking its 6th year of existence the project has only gained very little of the global population it aims to attract. It seems that online social networking functionality could help to offer its members greater value. Having great interest in your thoughts about this project I am looking forward to your comments.