{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.citizen","code":"thing-citizen","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/citizen/","name":"citizen","alternateNames":["constituent","active citizen","civilian","crossover voter","crossover","floater","freedperson","freeperson","private citizen","repatriate","swing voter","floating voter"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"noun.person","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.PER"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"social","origin":"conceptual","agency":"inert","mobility":"not-applicable","scale":"not-applicable","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"A citizen is a person recognized as a member of a state or other political community, by birth, naturalization or another recognized route, whose membership carries rights and duties defined by that community.","purpose":"Enable an AI agent to recognise a citizen's membership in a particular political community, assess the evidence and current status of that membership, and identify which actions require jurisdiction-specific checks.","scope":{"in":["The relationship between a person and the political community of citizenship","Acquisition, recognition, continuity and cessation of citizenship","Evidence supporting or disputing a citizenship claim","Citizenship-dependent rights, duties and eligibility conditions","Concurrent citizenships and distinctions between citizenship, nationality and residence"],"out":["The person's complete biography, demographic profile or ancestry","The political community's constitution and institutional structure as a whole","Immigration permission, domicile and residence independently of citizenship","Ethnic, cultural or linguistic identity","Election administration, passport processing and public-service delivery workflows","Occupations, employment roles and professional qualifications"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["The membership claim identifies a political community; describing someone as a citizen without identifying that community leaves the relationship incomplete.","Birthplace, residence, language and ancestry may be relevant evidence under applicable rules, but the model does not treat any of them alone as proof of citizenship.","The model can distinguish a person applying for citizenship from a person whose citizenship has taken effect.","The model tests whether citizenship and nationality have the same meaning in the relevant jurisdiction instead of assuming equivalence.","The membership has an ascertainable basis or an explicitly unresolved claim; civic participation, loyalty or self-description alone does not establish its recognised status."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"political-membership","name":"Political membership","description":"Establish whose membership is being described and what citizen 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rule and facts establish acquisition at birth, naturalisation or another recognised route?","id":"basis-and-effective-event-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"On what date did citizenship take effect, and is that date distinct from application, approval or document issuance?","id":"basis-and-effective-event-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]},{"id":"membership-continuity","name":"Membership continuity","description":"Assess events that may interrupt, terminate or restore membership.","findings":[{"id":"cessation-and-restoration","name":"Cessation and restoration","description":"Record alleged changes and their evidential status without assuming that a request, expired document or absence ends citizenship.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence establishes any cessation or restoration of citizenship and its effective date?","id":"cessation-and-restoration-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Is the reported event an effective membership change, a pending procedure or a change only to supporting documentation?","id":"cessation-and-restoration-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-recognition","name":"Evidence and recognition","description":"Assess documentary support, authority recognition and unresolved claims.","layers":[{"id":"membership-evidence","name":"Membership evidence","description":"Evaluate records against the specific claim and intended use.","findings":[{"id":"documentary-support","name":"Documentary support","description":"Assess what each record establishes, who issued it and whether it remains usable for the intended purpose.","questions":[{"text":"Which records support the citizenship claim, and what does each issuing authority say those records establish?","id":"documentary-support-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does an expired, missing or inconsistent document affect proof for this purpose, membership itself, or an unresolved combination?","id":"documentary-support-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"recognition-and-dispute","name":"Recognition and dispute","description":"Attribute official determinations and preserve disagreement.","findings":[{"id":"authority-specific-assessment","name":"Authority-specific assessment","description":"Keep authority decisions, personal assertions and agent assessments separately attributable.","questions":[{"text":"Which authority has recognised, denied or questioned this citizenship, and what is the scope and date of its determination?","id":"authority-specific-assessment-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What evidence or competent review is needed before an agent can rely on the disputed claim for the proposed action?","id":"authority-specific-assessment-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"membership-consequences","name":"Membership consequences","description":"Connect citizenship to specific rights, participation opportunities and duties.","layers":[{"id":"rights-and-participation","name":"Rights and participation","description":"Assess particular entitlements without treating citizenship as sufficient for all of them.","findings":[{"id":"conditional-entitlements","name":"Conditional entitlements","description":"Link proposed entitlements, such as voting or access to consular assistance, to applicable rules and qualifying conditions.","questions":[{"text":"Which applicable rule connects citizenship to the particular entitlement being considered?","id":"conditional-entitlements-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What additional conditions, such as age, residence, registration or location, must be satisfied before the agent can treat the person as eligible?","id":"conditional-entitlements-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"duties-and-obligations","name":"Duties and obligations","description":"Distinguish citizenship-based duties from obligations arising through other relationships.","findings":[{"id":"obligation-trigger","name":"Obligation trigger","description":"Establish whether a specified duty follows from citizenship and which exceptions or additional conditions apply.","questions":[{"text":"Does the duty under consideration arise from citizenship, residence, income, presence or another basis?","id":"obligation-trigger-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What applicable conditions, exemptions and procedures must be verified before advising an action concerning this duty?","id":"obligation-trigger-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"concurrent-and-changing-memberships","name":"Concurrent and changing memberships","description":"Handle multiple communities and changes to the political context of membership.","layers":[{"id":"multiple-citizenships","name":"Multiple citizenships","description":"Assess each citizenship relationship independently and then examine relevant interactions.","findings":[{"id":"membership-interactions","name":"Membership 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community associated with this citizenship claim?","id":"membership-through-political-change-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which transitional rules or determinations establish continued, replaced or unresolved membership for this person?","id":"membership-through-political-change-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of citizen this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-kinds","name":"Kinds and varieties","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of citizen this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-kinds-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation","name":"Standards and regulation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of citizen this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of citizen this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of citizen this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of citizen this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of citizen this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain citizenship rules and procedures in general terms with the jurisdiction and source.","Help a person gather and track documents for their own application.","Point people to official authorities and qualified legal help."],"mustNot":["Decide, grant or revoke a person's citizenship or status.","Help forge, alter or misuse identity or nationality documents.","Share a person's nationality, immigration or voting data without consent or legal basis.","Profile people by nationality or ethnicity for suspicion or exclusion."],"requiresHuman":["Filing an application or appeal on a person's behalf.","Any advice a person will rely on for their legal status."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Citizenship decides access to rights, so errors can leave people stateless.","Nationality data has been used to persecute minorities."],"affectedParties":["Applicants and their families","Stateless people","Minority communities"]},"owners":{"steward":"The person holds their own status; the state's civil registry and immigration authority hold the record.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Civil registries","National population and immigration registers"]},"relations":[{"target":"oewn-09648571-n","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.citizen","Open English WordNet: oewn-09943131-n"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Political community of membership: Identified state or other political community","Membership category: Community-specific citizenship category, with its original term and definition","Acquisition basis: Applicable basis such as acquisition at birth, naturalisation, restoration or another specified route; 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representation?","What evidence and authority determinations are sufficient for each intended use, especially when records conflict or citizenship is disputed?","Does an existing Vercy world model already own this citizenship relationship, requiring this registry entry to link to that model instead of creating a duplicate?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-citizen/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 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