The 80% Milestone: Liberterra Is Pioneering Governance for Startup Nations

A startup nation needs more than a name, a flag, or a promise of future territory. It needs institutions that work, services people can use, and a community with a meaningful voice in its own future.

Liberterra is building exactly that.

In August, we announced that we had crossed the 60% mark in our plan to establish fair, transparent, reliable, and collective governance. Today, we estimate that our governance and administration have reached roughly 80% of the original development plan.

This is a development milestone, not a finish line. But the progress behind it is tangible: operational community services, more adaptable decision-making, a completed constitution draft undergoing public review, and a significant technical breakthrough for our future identity documents.

Liberterra is becoming a pioneering startup nation—not by waiting for every piece to be finished, but by building and using the foundations of governance now.

Real Services, Already Available

Our community already has access to a growing range of civil, administrative, governance, and community services through the Liberterra app.

Identity, Family, and Organizations

• E-Residency and Citizenship Titles: Identity applications, membership titles, and downloadable title certificates.
• Marriage Registration and Certification: Marriage proposals, registration workflows, and verifiable marriage certificates.
• Child Registration and Guardianship: Records for children, guardian-managed identities, and processes for reviewing sensitive changes.
• Heirs and Inheritance Records: Designation and management of heirs within our community’s administrative framework.
• Legal Entity Registration and Governance: Registration workflows for businesses and organizations, name reservations, director management, and internal governance proposals.
• Document Services: Document applications and ordering, payment and order tracking, and available certificate downloads. The next-generation biometric passports and electronic IDs remain in development, as described below.

Property and Justice

• Real Estate and Cadastral Registry: Property records, cadastral maps, claims, and offers.
• Property Transaction Workflows: Integrated submission, payment, and ownership-transfer processes.
• Vehicle, Vessel, and Aircraft Registries: Registration applications, supporting evidence, review workflows, registration numbers, and ownership-transfer tools.
• Dispute Resolution: A system for submitting disputes, exchanging messages and evidence, and receiving judicial rulings.

Governance and Public Accountability

• Congress: A representative decision-making body actively considering and concluding governance matters.
• Chancellery: The administration responsible for day-to-day operations and implementing decisions.
• Public Referendums: An alternative decision-making path alongside Congress, with proposal, review, support, voting, and discussion workflows.
• Legislation and Constitutional Review: Access to legislative material, proposed changes, and community commentary.
• Contribution and Reward Systems: Initiative submissions, contribution reviews, Virtues, and merit-based recognition for participation and support.
• Financial Transparency: Public financial reporting, including double-entry bookkeeping reports, cashflow, revenue and expenditure, and balance-sheet information.

Community and Everyday Participation

• Community Hub: Public profiles, an organization directory, discussion boards, events, news, and community statistics.
• Referrals and Commissions: Tools to invite new members, track referrals, and access the referral reward system.
• Wallets and Merits: Wallet connection and management, merit balances, and Rooted Merits purchases and subscriptions.
• Notifications: In-app updates and configurable email notifications to help members follow relevant activity.
• Public Inquiries: Channels for requesting assistance and communicating with the administration.
• Community Kiosk and Orders: Merchandise ordering, checkout, shipping options, order tracking, and invoices.

These services form the practical infrastructure of a startup nation: tools for people to organize, register relationships and property, resolve disagreements, contribute, and govern together. Access depends on the relevant membership, authority, and service requirements.

A Breakthrough for Biometric Passports and Electronic IDs

We have reached a significant milestone in developing Liberterra’s biometric passports and electronic IDs: a working software prototype for the chips that will power these documents.

That moves an important part of the project from design into a functioning prototype. The work now continues toward the physical documents themselves, including their design and manufacturing.

Our current target is to complete physical design and manufacturing by the end of 2026. This remains a development target, not a guarantee of an individual delivery date.

Congress Can Now Decide Beyond “Yes” or “No”

Governance is not only about having institutions. It is also about improving how those institutions reach decisions.

On September 21, Congress passed a substantial reform of its decision-making process. The new system supports more nuanced choices and counter-proposals, while retaining a path for urgent decisions.

Key changes include:

• Custom Voting Options: Proposals can present several substantive alternatives rather than only “Yes” and “No.”
• Counter-Proposals: Congress members and the Chancellor can introduce additional options before a matter concludes.
• Single- or Multiple-Choice Ballots: A proposal can allow members to choose one option or support several.
• An Explicit “Indifferent” Option: Members can register indifference without that option competing to become the winning outcome.
• Changeable Votes: Members can revise their choices while voting remains open.
• A Seven-Day Limit: Voting normally lasts up to 168 hours, capped by the end of the current Congress term. At the deadline, the substantive option with the most votes wins, unless there is a tie.
• Fast Decisions With Time to Reconsider: A qualifying majority for a single option starts a three-hour early-conclusion countdown, during which members can still change their votes. If the qualifying condition is lost, the countdown stops.
• A Defined Tie-Breaking Process: The Chancellor resolves a tie between the leading options after the deadline.
• Independent Judgment Before Seeing Tallies: Congress members first cast their own vote before gaining access to current voting statistics.

The result is a process better suited to real decisions, where compromise and alternatives often matter more than a binary answer.

Our Final Constitution Draft Is in Public Review

The final constitution draft is complete and currently undergoing public review through the Constitution Ratification proposal. It has not yet been adopted.

The draft brings together months of research, writing, debate, and community input. It addresses individual rights, limits on public power, accountable institutions, judicial independence, transparent public finances, and the relationship between technology and lawful authority.

Its central idea is straightforward: government exists to protect liberty, not to grant it.

Public review is an essential part of this milestone. Community members can examine the proposed text and contribute to the discussion before potential adoption.

Read the draft and join the constitutional review.

Building Paths to Settlement

Our September call for private settlement initiatives invited capable teams to create real opportunities for our community to live and build together.

Three diplomatic settlement ventures are now in their early stages. These are developing initiatives, not completed agreements or places already open for settlement.

The approach is practical: settlement ventures work to create viable opportunities, while Liberterra develops the governance and community services that future settlers may choose to adopt.

We are not limiting our future to a single territory or a single venture. We are building infrastructure that can support a community across emerging settlement opportunities.

Meanwhile, we continue organizing in-person meetups around the world. Our event registry has included gatherings in Christchurch, Warsaw, Cape Coral, Phnom Penh, and Cincinnati—bringing an international online community into real-world conversation and connection.

What Comes Next

Our next priorities are clear:

1. Liquid Democracy: Our community is extensively working on an advanced vote-delegation system for public referendums. Referendums already provide an alternative decision-making path alongside Congress; delegation is the next layer being developed, not a feature we are announcing as live today.
2. Physical Passports and Electronic IDs: Continue from the working chip software prototype toward physical design and manufacturing, targeting completion by the end of 2026.
3. The First Basic Laws: Draft the initial laws needed to turn constitutional principles into clear, practical rules.
4. Settlement Opportunities: Put greater emphasis on developing viable paths to settlement and supporting serious ventures.

The remaining work matters. Reaching approximately 80% of the original plan means we have built much of the foundation—not that governance should stop evolving.

Join the Conversation

Progress depends on people who participate. Here are the next opportunities to stay informed and help shape our direction. All times below are UTC.

Weekly Open Congress Meeting

Mondays at 16:00 UTC. The next meeting is October 12, 2026.

Hear a recap of recent decisions, learn about upcoming matters, and voice your opinions in the collective discussion.

The event is listed for E-Residents and higher, with an online attendance reward of 20 Rooted Merits, subject to the event’s participation and claim requirements.

View the Congress meeting.

Roundtable Community Discussions

The event registry currently lists two weekly sessions, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 16:00 UTC, open without a membership-title requirement.

The next sessions are Thursday, October 8, and Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Join fellow community members for constructive discussion about what comes next and how to get there.

View the Thursday roundtable or the Tuesday roundtable.

Congress Election Conclusion

The next Congress election conclusion is scheduled for October 31, 2026.

Visit the Congress election page to follow the projected composition of the next Congress and the election countdown.

Check the app for current event details and any schedule updates.

Pioneering Governance, Together

Liberterra is demonstrating that a startup nation can build substantial governance and citizen-service infrastructure while its settlement opportunities are still developing.

We already have institutions making decisions, services supporting community life, a constitution draft ready for public scrutiny, and people working on the next generation of democratic participation.

We are not only imagining a startup nation. We are building the systems that allow one to work.

Join a meeting. Review the constitution. Bring forward an initiative. Help create a settlement opportunity.

The next chapter of Liberterra will be built by the people who take part.