Primary country and geolocation

Anyone can join DirectDemocracyS from anywhere in the world, at any time, according to our rules. Today, we'll explain why we recommend everyone geolocate themselves as close to home as possible while completing the registration form: for simplicity, speed, efficiency, order, organization, and safety measures.

Is it legal to require geolocation?

DirectDemocracyS does not force anyone to do so, but to obtain certain services it is necessary to let our system — and those who officially represent us in certain areas of the world — know where you are located, in order to receive the necessary information, support and potential.

First, a premise that anyone studying us should know. The ever-increasing number of people joining has forced us over time to create a system that is united in diversity, yet as inclusive as possible for all our users. It has also forced us to provide each person with exactly the potential they need, based primarily on their willpower, availability of free time and money (don't be alarmed: annual fees are truly affordable and are calculated based on income), their skills (to access specialist groups), and their human capabilities (to put the right people in the right places). We have created and will continue to create a multitude of user types and countless opportunities for interacting with us.

Explanation that will help you understand some important reasons

One of the things that surprised and still surprises anyone who reads our first informational articles is that we always advised anyone who knew of our existence to join us as soon as possible, always choosing to request the higher level of user (obviously, provided you have the necessary free time—about 20 minutes a day in one or more logins, or alternatively at least 120 minutes a week, in one or more days and daily logins—the necessary money—1 euro a month for those under 31 and about 2 euros a month for those over 31, for the official membership fee—the professional skills—every person in the world has many activities that they are best at—and the skills—everyone has certain things they know better than others).

Obviously, there are various categories and subcategories among the user types, starting with the free one, which does not require any annual fee, does not contribute to our self-financing, has no attendance requirements or volunteer work (on a continuous, concrete, and regular basis), and consequently has a practically nonexistent contribution to make our enormous mechanism work.

Then there are the lower types of users, who offer a symbolic contribution and help with some activities.

Finally, we find the higher types of users:

• -Verifieds- , that is, verified users who are an integral part of our truly and completely shared leadership and who, all together, have a binding vote for our system;
• -Members- , official members and collective owners of our entire system thanks to a single individual action, non-cumulative and non-transferable.

Each type of user is part of our traditional hierarchies that allow us, with identical rules, methodologies, and instructions for everyone, to reward the best users and, if necessary, punish the worst.

Each higher level offers all the potential of the one before it, adding new ones that allow for roles of greater responsibility and importance. A fundamental rule of our system is to guarantee equality ( same rules for all) and meritocracy (which has always been demonstrated through accumulated individual and group points and through time spent with us in the various user levels) forever and always together for everyone.

These official members are part of the shared leadership, like our verified users, but as collective owners of our entire system, they have reserved areas and specific activities, also enforced through various profile types (not typologies) invisibly linked—by humans (with the exception of trusted members of our special security groups) and machines—to their personal profile, which remains unique, anonymous (if set), and even invisible (if set).

At this point, those who know us will say: what does all this have to do with geolocation?

The following explanation will explain why. Throughout our history, we've assigned increasingly specific and localized roles to anyone who registers and joins us. Unfortunately, for those who join very late, assignments will always be in urban or rural areas based on the various geographic, territorial, administrative, and electoral subdivisions, which are smaller than previous ones. In this way, we've rewarded those who joined us in the difficult and delicate initial stages, believing in us, our system, and DirectDemocracyS, accumulating countless individual and group points and gaining the seniority necessary to deserve these benefits and advantages, which must be confirmed daily. Literally anyone who puts in the effort—now or in the future—will be able to obtain the same "strategic" advantages if they deserve them.

But let's take some geographical examples, even if we apply this method everywhere and to everyone.

Whoever joined us first, from any people on earth, automatically entered our global organization of all peoples of the earth as " SuperAdministrators ," equivalent to a president (or secretary) in traditional organizations and political forces. They held—and in many cases still hold—roles of greater responsibility and importance in our inevitable, helpful, loyal, honest, reliable, secure, and verifiable hierarchies. Ultimately, each of us trusts more the people we know best, and often more time spent together means we get to know each other better. Then, in various activities, concrete facts demonstrate that value and trust are not just a matter of time, but are based on concrete activities and results achieved (demonstrable in our system with individual and group points). There have been cases where a "newcomer" has caught up with and surpassed the "senior" member.

If in the traditional hierarchies of the old political forces and almost all other systems internal struggles, splits and divisions are created, in DirectDemocracyS the system itself and its very detailed architecture - together with shared leadership and collective ownership, applying unity in diversity - "force" those who have the same declared, documented, verified and approved points to work together at the same level, dividing up tasks and roles.

As time went by, we had to create new geographic subdivisions, always from largest to smallest, into which to place all new users based on very detailed implementation rules. Starting at the end of 2026 , these subdivisions will extend to tiny urban and rural areas: the famous micro-groups , present in countless places around the world, in areas with up to 1,000 inhabitants, for a widespread presence in every corner of the Earth. This offers every citizen the opportunity to join us along with their family (we have programs, benefits, and discounts for spouses, partners, cohabitants, and children), neighbors, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers, potentially creating endless social interactions.

With the micro-groups, all the previous geographical subdivisions will be recreated and integrated, but this time in reverse: no longer from the largest to the smallest, but from the smallest to the largest, followed by various elections to determine internal governance and control. This control is clearly separated (to avoid conflicts of interest, internal struggles, and the accumulation of excessive power) from political representation (managed through the selection of political representatives, candidacies, and closed online primaries).

Therefore, to be very precise, we recommend everyone to be geolocated; to do so accurately, you just need to be at home when you register and join us. Please note: although technology allows it, we don't need to know which room in your house you're in; we just need your usual address. This is essential for interacting with those around you.

Another important explanation

DirectDemocracyS and anyone who joins us cares about your habitual residence (at least 6 months of the year). For those who travel extensively and frequently, you can choose a primary country of citizenship and a secondary country, even if you don't have citizenship.

Citizenship is essential for choosing your primary country, where you have the right to vote and run for office. Since the range of citizenships is so wide (some people have two, three, four, or more citizenships), DirectDemocracyS allows you to choose a primary country, a secondary country, and one for each citizenship you legally hold.

Regarding the address, you must declare your primary residence and, if you have other residences as citizens, you can add them at any time.

All our organizations in every country have created, are creating, or will create official groups for residents who hold citizenship, for legal residents who do not hold citizenship, and for those who are undocumented but integrated into their respective communities. We are not the immigration office and will never share confidential information with the various authorities unless requested data relating to criminal or civil offenses, tax evasion, or antisocial behavior. For us and for anyone who joins us, every citizen of the world must be free to choose where and with whom they live, but they have the obligation, wherever they go, to respect every law, rule, language (while being able to speak their own), culture (integrating and enriching it with their own), tradition (integrating and enriching them), and religion (while being able to practice their own).

This is the mutual respect that makes coexistence better, simpler, and mutually safe. We know that being an illegal immigrant is a crime in many countries, but it's not our job to find or report them unless they commit despicable, antisocial, and disrespectful activities toward others. Do you think we're complicit with these illegal immigrants? Reread all the previous sections of this article and you'll understand. We believe that people can only be divided into broad categories: good people and bad people (with varying shades of goodness and evil), intelligent and stupid (and everything in between), competent and incompetent, harmless and dangerous, reliable and unreliable, sincere and liars, and other similar types.

So the choice of the primary country, the secondary country and all the others is based in DirectDemocracyS on various factors, in this exact order:

1. On the people (and on all peoples) to which they belong;
2. For every citizenship you hold;
3. For every residence.

As a result, a single user can be simultaneously present, physically (obviously, depending on their location at that precise moment, and again, geolocation is important) and virtually in multiple countries, thus in various of our continental organizations, various national organizations, various local organizations, and various micro-groups in different countries, with full rights. Always starting from the smallest rural and urban areas available at that precise moment, it is possible to request access to our national organizations, only if you meet all the requirements, based on the authorizations of the respective groups.

One of the fundamental rules in DirectDemocracyS is that only with the authorization of the respective members, through shared decisions and votes for the admission of new members, can you join the respective group. You may be wondering: "What if I don't meet the requirements? Am I excluded?" In DirectDemocracyS, based on your user type, no one is excluded: if you are an official member, you can always request permission from our system, through our authorization groups, to create your own group with the same characteristics as the one that denied you access, provided that it is located in a smaller geographical subdivision.

In practice, if you're not allowed to join the national organization's group (as in the previous example), you can request to create a regional or federal group in the same country as your state. You'll create and manage it jointly with all other official members who join the group, and you'll control it through collective ownership. The only requirement—for the group you create to be recognized and receive a green check—is that you bring with you at least five Super Administrators , who are new official members in our system and legally reside in the same geographic, territorial, administrative, and electoral division as you're creating. You'll have the guarantor user type (creator, creator, and owner of the group), which is the highest user type for users, groups, pages, events, and other activities.

What if you don't find five new users in your area? First of all, there's no rush: technically and legally, you have all the time you need to promote our system locally, find the best-fit people (based on compatibility and skills), have them learn about our system, and help them through the official invitation process, identity request and verification, registration, and personal profile creation (always using your unique personalized link, which will add them to your "friends" list in the social area). Immediately after activation—and after completing the two-factor authentication, invisibility, privacy, and notification settings, which you'll need to do upon first login—you can finally invite them to your group.

What if I can't do all this? No problem: your group will remain active as long as there's at least one other person with you, as single-member groups can't exist. You'll therefore need to register (following the rules above) at least one new DirectDemocracyS member you bring, who will be invited and added to the respective group. With two people, you'll definitely have a better chance of finding the four other people needed to get the green check and become an official group. Otherwise, if you don't have at least six total members, you won't receive the green check. Anyone who creates an identical group in the same area, bringing at least five new users who will be granted the Super Administrator user level, will receive the green check, and you and the people you've found will need to join the respective group according to the group growth and hierarchy scheme.

With the exception of microgroups—which can be two or more in urban or rural areas with up to 1,000 inhabitants—there cannot be two official groups in the same urban or rural area. You can join the official group, along with the people you find, with the first free user type, based on the growth and hierarchies of the respective groups.

Let's explain further, so you can clearly understand the rules, methodologies, instructions, and motivations. Our growth in any group and type occurs in multiples of 5 : a group creator, creator, and owner (the guarantor) must bring along at least 5 new members, who will obtain the role of Super Admins; these in turn can bring along at least 5 new admins each, for a total of 31 people in their respective group. At that point, with 31 total members (which will potentially grow infinitely, in multiples of 5, each inviting at least 5 new DirectDemocracyS members), each group can request and obtain the blue checkmark of official organization, making it unique for that type of group in its respective region.

All other groups in the same region, regardless of membership, will only be able to join and conduct activities at that specific geographic level in the first group to reach 31 total members (new DirectDemocracyS users), which will be blue-checked and become the only official organization at the local level. All members of groups that have not reached 6 members will be able to join their respective official organization only after the group—or, as the case may be, all groups with the most members (in order of greatest number of members) in the same region—have joined the official organization.

The placement scheme is simple: everyone can join in their respective hierarchical order (which can change if, for example, a member brings more members than their guarantor, immediately becoming the new guarantor and proving they've brought even just one more member, based on their friends/contacts list in DirectDemocracyS) in the first free type, that is, in the vacant spot left by one of the group members who hasn't brought their five members. All members of the smaller group will be placed in the larger one with all their official members, completing the scheme or, if necessary in certain cases, creating an additional scheme (for example, where it's necessary to represent certain territories and smaller areas). Geolocation is also very important in this case.

At this point, you may be wondering: what happens with all the other groups created? They can all apply for the same group type in the immediately lower geographic area, with the same rules as above, along with all members of the official group or official organization, with the only fundamental requirement that all applicants actually live in or are from (based on citizenship) the respective location.

What happens if members of a group don't live in the same area? If it's an official organization, a blue-checked initial group, or a green-checked group, all members of the respective groups must reside in the geographic area they wish to officially represent. While remaining together in all newly created groups, members will create their own separate groups, acting as human bridges both with the official organization or group of the higher-level geographic area and with their former official membership groups. In this way, everyone will collaborate in the extension and territorial representation of our system in all smaller areas.

All rules, methodologies, instructions, security measures, requests, and related authorizations (obtained from those who meet all requirements) apply to all our groups, pages, events, projects, and activities.

But you may be wondering: what are the real reasons for all these complicated rules? First of all, they aren't complicated; and if we've decided on them and made them definitive exactly as they're presented to the world, it's because we have very valid reasons. First and foremost, to apply fairness, the same rules, the same rights, and the same duties for everyone, thus always ensuring equality combined with meritocracy. Everyone has the same opportunities, obviously favoring certain types of users with advantages and benefits.

Let's explain: anyone who is an official member, paying their annual dues (which allows us to remain free, democratic, and independent through self-financing), with mandatory and ongoing attendance, and by carrying out concrete volunteer work to keep our enormous system functioning, actively contributes to the existence of DirectDemocracyS. For this, they are rewarded with a single, non-cumulative, and non-transferable individual action (which makes us incorruptible and impossible to control from outside), which makes them the collective owner of our entire system.

As an owner, applying unity in diversity, each of our "shareholders" can become an official representative of DirectDemocracyS (obtaining a partially public and therefore identifiable profile) in their urban or rural area, up to 1,000 inhabitants, by creating their own micro-group. Virtually all of our official members can create micro-groups, but to favor those who have been with us longer, with a consistent presence and concrete activities—and who have therefore already accumulated a certain number of individual and group points—we have allowed early adopters to occupy certain positions in our fair, equitable, loyal, reliable, and secure traditional hierarchies. These, thanks to competition, allow us to grow slowly but steadily, in an orderly, organized, and protected manner, as well as to evolve, improve, update, and integrate, thus best welcoming the many people who join us.

While we don't yet have a local presence in certain areas, we also offer new members the opportunity to create our own groups. They must contact and raise awareness of DirectDemocracyS and, if the project is well-received, invite at least five people to join via an official invitation from our social media area. This automatically adds the invited people to their respective contact/family/friends lists on our platforms and websites, along with the inviter.

But why exactly five? For the organic growth of our system, but also because it's preferable to have relatives, neighbors, friends, and contacts with whom we can communicate, collaborate, and carry out specific activities. Loyal and trustworthy people are more useful to everyone than strangers. Asking each official member (as the sole collective owner of our entire system, and therefore endowed with the appropriate local autonomy for our global presence) to invite at least five people fits this logic. This multiple-of-five scheme isn't an impossible request: they can be wives, husbands, girlfriends, boyfriends, life partners, children, parents, uncles, cousins, relatives, neighbors, co-workers, friends, contacts, or complete strangers. It doesn't matter, as long as there are at least five people who are compatible with our system, have the professional skills and abilities (to facilitate your group's representation in specialist groups), are identified according to our rules, and are up to date with their annual dues, have mandatory attendance, and perform the volunteer work necessary to make our enormous mechanism work.

These connections will act as human bridges and allow us to have a resilient and professional system. Those who can fill the empty spaces in our schemas at the level of groups, pages, events, and other activities will be rewarded, creating truly unbreakable and incorruptible bonds.

And if you're wondering: why is there only one national organization for each country? Because DirectDemocracyS is the only system and the only political force that unites, not divides, people and groups. Consequently: we don't compete with each other, and for each continental subdivision there is only one DirectDemocracyS in each continent; for each country there is only one DirectDemocracyS in each country, and likewise for each subsequent local subdivision, from the largest to the smallest.

Only microgroups, located in urban and rural areas where literally everyone knows each other at least by sight and where people don't always get along (sometimes generating real antipathies), allow the creation of multiple microgroups in the same area, following the previous rules regarding the number of members that compose them:

• A micro-group with only one person or not composed of 1 guarantor and at least 5 Super Administrators does not get the green tick .
• A micro-group that does not have at least 1 guarantor, 5 Super Admins and 25 administrators does not get the blue checkmark , becoming our official organization in that area.

At this point you may be wondering: if you create a micro-group with 31 total members (therefore with a blue check mark, which makes it an official organization) and in the same area there is a micro-group with only a green check mark (with only 6 members) and two micro-groups with only one member, how do you proceed?

All microgroups must be able to communicate, collaborate, and carry out a wide range of activities together, both within the same area and with all neighboring areas. These microgroups can join other local organizations (neighborhood or street block), whether these already exist or whether such local structures need to be created.

Virtually all members of microgroups—with very few exceptions, such as microgroups with just one person (called singles ) or those with two, three, or four members—will be barred from joining local organizations or groups (if they have fewer than 31 members), based on local decisions, unless they join other microgroups in the same or neighboring areas. Joining other microgroups will more easily reach the minimum number for the green checkmark (at least six members) or the blue checkmark (at least 31 members).

Moving up to the next subdivision, which is slightly larger at the local level, all members automatically lose one user type. In short, the sponsors will become at most Super Admins (if they come from an official organization, meaning at least 31 members with a blue check mark), or at most Administrators (if they come from an official group, meaning at least 6 members with a green check mark). They also lose one additional user type if they come from a group of 5, another if they come from a group of 4, another if they come from a group of 3, another if they come from a group of 2, and another if they come from a group of 1.

The above rule is intended to encourage microgroups and groups to join together for better collaboration, without sacrificing their autonomy: microgroups cannot be deleted and will remain active forever, even if they merge with each other, because it's more convenient. The same scheme applies when joining other microgroups and groups based on the number of people in the smallest geographical subdivision, even when merging between microgroups or groups in the same category.

In practice, with the green tick (5 members), if you join a blue tick you automatically lose a user type and get a lower type, based on those available at that time (since you join with your group by adding yourself to a free scheme; therefore, if many user types are occupied in the higher groups, you will have a lower user type in the groups of the larger areas).

But why is it so complicated? To encourage unity in diversity, which brings only advantages and benefits. It's always best to get the blue checkmark, which obviously doesn't limit the number of people to just 31: in fact, always in multiples of 5, the respective admins can invite 5 " Responsibles " each, for a total of 125 new members to their respective groups, who in turn can invite 5 each. There are no limits on the number of people in each group, always placing groups from smaller subdivisions within larger ones according to the previous rules.

An important explanation: Official members are the only type of user authorized to perform a wide range of activities. Therefore, to truly and completely implement shared leadership, literally every one of our organizations, at every level, in every local subdivision, and even in micro-groups, must create separate voting groups for our user type —Verifieds —and elect a grand voter for these voting groups who has the same standing and power as the grand voter for the member group.

But you might ask: what if the two local electors decide differently? Only in the event of a tie are the 31 members (1 guarantor, 5 Super Administrators, and 25 administrators) deciding for one option or the other if the "Responsibles" are also present; otherwise, 6 members (1 guarantor and 5 Super Administrators) decide if 31 members are present, or the guarantor alone if only 6 people are present. Virtually every type of user represents a major elector: power is split between owners and shared leadership, and only in the event of a tie is the vote of the group's original founder and his or her original collaborators decisive.

To carry out activities in DirectDemocracyS in various countries, you must still be a member, declare it, and prove it. Therefore, while registering and joining us requires a system-verified identity, access to our continental, national, local organizations, and even micro-groups is entirely dependent on the respective groups' willingness to welcome you. This choice may seem unusual, but it responds to serious reasons, many of which are related to the freedom to choose who to welcome, what types of users, and what requirements (such as points and seniority in the system). The requirements are truly selective in specialist groups, where simply wanting to join isn't enough; you must demonstrate that you possess all the necessary skills.

But let's look together at another aspect that makes geolocation important

A very brief introduction to the groups our users can join:

• Free users: can join only one group (in English, using automatic translation for reading and writing) and follow a maximum of two pages (one in English and one in their own language).
• Users of the lower types (-Access-, -Partially-): can belong to two groups (one mandatory in English and one in their own language) and follow a maximum of two pages (one in English and one in their own language). Users of the -Registered- type can belong to one group for each language they know well and follow one page for each language they know. You may have noticed that they don't have access to geographical groups, but only to linguistic ones.
• Verified Users: They are an integral part of our truly and fully shared leadership. They have access to pages and language groups, as well as a single voting group linked to each geographic group (but not within the groups themselves, which are always reserved for Members): for each people they belong to, and for each country of their citizenship and residence (according to the previous rules). They vote and are decisive thanks to these voting groups, which are separate from the management and verification groups reserved for official members and, therefore, collective owners of our entire system.
• Members: In addition to all the capabilities of the previous user types, they have the right/duty to join a wide range of groups, to follow, and even manage and verify a wide range of pages, events, and potentially countless activities. They are members of all the geographic groups they are entitled to, starting with the main country and, one at a time, all the other countries based on their nationalities, citizenships, and residencies. They are the first user type to be able to request—and, if authorized, access and carry out—activities in our specialist groups, based on their skills. Needless to say, they are the most requested user type and, if available (because this type of user is growing gradually and is subject to very detailed security regulations), we recommend them to everyone.

Geolocation allows us to immediately and automatically place each person in the most suitable, closest group, one who speaks the same language, respecting all our rules.

What if something goes wrong? Thanks to our support group members, each person will be assigned to the most appropriate group, based on their user type.

But how do you actually apply to be part of the geographic groups?

Simply declare your primary country (choosing one based on the previous and subsequent rules) and all subsequent countries based on the rules already discussed: for all the peoples you belong to, for all the citizenships you hold, and for all the residencies you hold. All these declarations are obviously certified by those making them and verified by our verification teams (for peoples, citizenships, and geographic residencies).

After these checks, our system, through the SocialArea component , will assign you to the group of the smallest geographical type (among those existing at that time), always starting from any local groups and micro-groups (at the neighborhood, street block, and home level).

This method will allow the official member to become part of a small local community to be developed together with all the other members in real time, even being able to create their own micro-group after requesting—and, if they meet all the requirements, obtaining—the type of partially public profile (and therefore identifiable by their community) as an official representative of DirectDemocracyS in their geographical, territorial, administrative and electoral area.

Geolocation and contacts.

Geolocation allows you to speak with people near you who speak your language and can answer your questions competently, providing you with all the support you need, even directly.

Geolocation and connections between people.

Being connected to someone you don't just know virtually, but can also meet in real life, if you wish, will allow you to be an active and decisive part of our system. Having friends/contacts/connections with groups, pages, events, and people in DirectDemocracyS means being able to engage in a wide range of activities, both volunteering to keep our vast system running, and based on your own preferences, interests, and will. The rules may seem complicated, or, in some cases, some activities may seem excessively slow, but from the inside, you'll realize that everything is simple, fast, and secure, and that no one will restrict your freedoms, while respecting the freedoms of everyone else. This is achieved through our rules, methodologies, and instructions, which were decided collectively and are therefore shared and binding for everyone. If you don't understand something, we'll explain it to you, providing all the necessary reasons that determined our choices. If you don't know how to do something, we'll provide all the help you need to do it without disturbing others. And it's always a good idea to have people who live in your communities nearby, even though our system will allow you to meet people from all over the world.

Geolocation and official invitations.

Joining us via an official invitation will greatly help you integrate into DirectDemocracyS. However, you won't receive an official invitation from people from other countries or who live far away. If you know someone who has already joined our system, from anywhere in the world, you can always ask for an invitation and be connected. We recommend always choosing people from your urban or rural area, especially since our system also includes in-person activities, always organized safely first on our platforms, but then implemented through in-person meetings, always documenting everything. In your communities, you will be the physical presence of DirectDemocracyS and will represent all of us, in your territories, acting as human bridges. So, our advice is always: choose to be invited by those who live near you, and this is possible thanks to geolocation, or alternatively, by entering your address, allowing our system to automatically, without much human intervention, find the right people, close to you, to invite you, to welcome you, and to make you a protagonist, in our large family and our immense home, which are our platforms.

We hope everyone understands the importance of geolocation and always providing real, honest, reliable, and verifiable data to achieve all the necessary potential.