{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.nation-q597897","code":"thing-q597897","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q597897/","name":"nation","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"thing","plane":"SOC","domain":["SOC.ORG"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A nation is a historically constituted community whose members understand themselves as a distinct people through shared identity, collective memory, cultural ties or political commitments, often associated with a homeland and claims to self-determination, whether or not it possesses a sovereign state.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise a claimed nation, assess evidence of its collective identity and continuity, and distinguish actions concerning the nation from actions requiring authority over states, territories or individuals.","scope":{"in":["Names, self-identification and competing claims about the nation's existence and boundaries","Civic, cultural, historical and other accounts of national membership","Shared narratives, languages, symbols and practices associated with national identity","Homeland attachments, geographic distribution and diaspora relationships","Collective political aspirations, representative claims and changes in national identity"],"out":["Sovereign state institutions, diplomatic recognition of states and governmental powers","Citizenship administration, passports and individual legal nationality determinations","Territorial administration, cadastral boundaries and adjudication of sovereignty","Ethnic, linguistic or religious groups except where their relationship to nationhood is explicitly claimed","Internal governance and legal registration of organisations claiming to represent a nation"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["Look for an explicit claim to collective national peoplehood; shared language, residence or ancestry alone does not establish the model's subject.","Distinguish the collective from a state: record whether it is associated with no state, one state or multiple states without treating that association as proof of identity.","Distinguish national membership from citizenship: identify whether the asserted membership rule admits people outside the associated state's citizenry or excludes some citizens.","Distinguish a nation from an ethnic group by recording the national claim separately from ancestry or cultural similarity, including civic or multiethnic accounts.","Distinguish the nation from its purported representatives by requiring separate evidence for each organisation's constituency, mandate and acceptance."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"national-identity-and-boundaries","name":"National identity and boundaries","description":"Establishes which collective is being described and how its nationhood is asserted or disputed.","layers":[{"id":"names-and-peoplehood","name":"Names and peoplehood","description":"Records national designations and the actors who use them.","findings":[{"id":"attributed-national-claim","name":"Attributed national claim","description":"Record who describes the collective as a nation, what they mean by that description and when the claim applies.","questions":[{"text":"What collective does each national name denote, and how do its users define nationhood?","id":"attributed-national-claim-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Which self-descriptions and external accounts support or contest that designation, and from which periods?","id":"attributed-national-claim-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"neighbouring-collectives","name":"Neighbouring collectives","description":"Separates the national subject from associated states and other communities.","findings":[{"id":"nation-state-and-community-distinction","name":"Nation, state and community 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accommodate self-identification, newcomers and overlapping national identities.","questions":[{"text":"Which criteria do different constituencies use to describe national belonging?","id":"membership-accounts-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"How do those criteria handle mixed ancestry, migration, diaspora membership and identification with more than one nation?","id":"membership-accounts-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"identification-evidence","name":"Identification evidence","description":"Assesses observations and estimates of national identification.","findings":[{"id":"population-estimate-basis","name":"Population estimate basis","description":"Keep estimates tied to the population sampled, the category measured and the opportunity respondents had to express their identity.","questions":[{"text":"Does each estimate measure self-identified nationhood, citizenship, ancestry, language or an externally assigned category?","id":"population-estimate-basis-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"What survey wording, response options, coverage, date and uncertainty qualify the estimate?","id":"population-estimate-basis-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"cultural-and-historical-continuity","name":"Cultural and historical continuity","description":"Records how national identity is narrated, practised and transmitted through change.","layers":[{"id":"historical-narratives","name":"Historical narratives","description":"Captures accounts of emergence, continuity, rupture and revival.","findings":[{"id":"continuity-and-origin-claims","name":"Continuity and origin claims","description":"Separate documented historical developments from later narratives that interpret them as national origins or continuity.","questions":[{"text":"Which events or periods are presented as the nation's emergence, consolidation, rupture or revival, and by whom?","id":"continuity-and-origin-claims-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What supports treating earlier and later collectives as the same national subject, and where is that continuity disputed?","id":"continuity-and-origin-claims-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"identity-practices","name":"Identity practices","description":"Describes the practices and institutions through which national identity is expressed and transmitted.","findings":[{"id":"cultural-transmission-and-variation","name":"Cultural transmission and variation","description":"Record associated languages, symbols, commemorations, education and media with their reach, variation and contested meanings.","questions":[{"text":"Which practices and symbols are associated with national identity, and which constituencies use or reject them?","id":"cultural-transmission-and-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What evidence shows their transmission across generations and their variation across regions or diaspora communities?","id":"cultural-transmission-and-variation-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"homeland-and-diaspora","name":"Homeland and diaspora","description":"Describes geographic attachments and dispersed communities without presuming territorial authority.","layers":[{"id":"homeland-attachments","name":"Homeland attachments","description":"Distinguishes symbolic, historical, demographic and political relationships to places.","findings":[{"id":"territorial-relationship-types","name":"Territorial relationship types","description":"Record the basis and extent of each territorial attachment separately from jurisdiction and sovereignty claims.","questions":[{"text":"Which places are identified as homelands, and is each attachment cultural, historical, residential or explicitly political?","id":"territorial-relationship-types-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Where do claimed homelands overlap other national attachments or differ from current settlement and state borders?","id":"territorial-relationship-types-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"diaspora-and-cross-border-belonging","name":"Diaspora and cross-border belonging","description":"Records how communities outside an asserted homeland relate to the national collective.","findings":[{"id":"dispersed-community-connections","name":"Dispersed community connections","description":"Distinguish diaspora identification from citizenship abroad and record the relationships sustaining or contesting continued belonging.","questions":[{"text":"Which dispersed communities identify with the nation, and which are identified as members only by external actors?","id":"dispersed-community-connections-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"How do language, family ties, associations, return practices or political participation connect these communities to the asserted homeland?","id":"dispersed-community-connections-q02","kind":"definition"}]}]}]},{"id":"political-claims-and-representation","name":"Political 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state?","id":"plural-national-political-positions-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"mandates-and-permitted-actions","name":"Mandates and permitted actions","description":"Evaluates who may speak or act for a specified constituency and within which limits.","findings":[{"id":"representative-authority-limits","name":"Representative authority limits","description":"Record the evidence and limits of mandates before attributing statements, agreements or consent to the nation.","questions":[{"text":"How was each purported representative selected, which constituency is covered and what challenges to the mandate are documented?","id":"representative-authority-limits-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"For the proposed consultation, agreement or public attribution, whose mandate or consent is required and what remains unauthorised?","id":"representative-authority-limits-q02","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external 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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 nation 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 nation 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 nation 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 nation this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe a nation's history, culture and self-understanding with sources, including contested views.","Distinguish nation, state and ethnic group when explaining them."],"mustNot":["Deny the existence or identity of a people.","Promote hatred or violence between nations.","Present contested national claims to territory as settled.","Profile people by presumed nationality for exclusion."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing material on disputed national identity or territory in sensitive contexts."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["National identity is deeply held; denial or mockery can wound and inflame.","Claims of nationhood have driven both liberation and violence."],"affectedParties":["Members of the nation","Minorities within and across borders","Neighbouring peoples"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody owns a nation; it belongs to the people who identify with it.","roles":[],"masterSystems":[]},"relations":[{"target":"Q43229","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.nation-q597897","Wikidata: Q597897 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q597897)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"not-applicable","items":["Names and attribution: Self-designations, external names, historical names and contested labels, qualified by language, claimant and period","Accounts of nationhood: Civic, cultural, ethnonational, territorial, historical, mixed or otherwise self-described; multiple accounts permitted","Membership criteria: Attributed criteria involving self-identification, citizenship, ancestry, language, residence, participation or combinations","Identification prevalence: Count or percentage within a stated population, survey wording, date and sampling method; unknown where unmeasured","Territorial attachments: Claimed homeland, present settlement, historic association or diaspora connection, with claimant and period","State relationships: Attributed relationships to zero, one or multiple states, including titular, constituent, minority or cross-border status","Political aspirations: Attributed positions such as cultural continuity, equal recognition, autonomy, independence, unification, plural positions or undocumented","Representative mandate: Representative actor, claimed constituency, selection basis, mandate limits, acceptance evidence and validity 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