{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T11:31:46Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 23.5, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a09562-2e4a-7d72-a982-708be6d2ceab\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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authority over states, territories or individuals.", "definition": "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.", "scope_statement": "This model owns nationhood as a historically situated collective identity and claim to peoplehood, including competing accounts of membership, shared narratives, territorial attachments and political aspirations; it does not presume sovereign statehood, a single ethnicity or an authorised representative.", "in_scope": [ "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_of_scope": [ "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" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "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." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Names and attribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Self-designations, external names, historical names and contested labels, qualified by language, claimant and period", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a label used by one actor from silently becoming the collective's universally accepted name." }, { "name": "Accounts of nationhood", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Civic, cultural, ethnonational, territorial, historical, mixed or otherwise self-described; multiple accounts permitted", "why_it_matters": "Makes the basis of the national claim explicit without forcing competing accounts into one definition." }, { "name": "Membership criteria", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attributed criteria involving self-identification, citizenship, ancestry, language, residence, participation or combinations", "why_it_matters": "Allows membership claims to be compared without inferring an individual's identity from a proxy." }, { "name": "Identification prevalence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Count or percentage within a stated population, survey wording, date and sampling method; unknown where unmeasured", "why_it_matters": "Separates measured identification from assumed population totals." }, { "name": "Territorial attachments", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Claimed homeland, present settlement, historic association or diaspora connection, with claimant and period", "why_it_matters": "Records the meaning of geographic relationships without converting them into ownership or jurisdiction." }, { "name": "State relationships", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Attributed relationships to zero, one or multiple states, including titular, constituent, minority or cross-border status", "why_it_matters": "Supports distinctions among the national collective, state population and state apparatus." }, { "name": "Political aspirations", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Attributed positions such as cultural continuity, equal recognition, autonomy, independence, unification, plural positions or undocumented", "why_it_matters": "Prevents the programme of one movement from being treated as the will of the whole nation." }, { "name": "Representative mandate", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Representative actor, claimed constituency, selection basis, mandate limits, acceptance evidence and validity period", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether consultation or a decision can legitimately be attributed to a particular constituency." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare accounts of national identity while preserving their claimants, dates and disagreements.", "Map homeland, settlement and diaspora relationships separately from sovereign borders.", "Assess whether a population estimate measures national identification, citizenship, ancestry or another category.", "Identify relevant interlocutors and assess the limits of their claimed representative mandates.", "Trace changes in names, membership accounts, cultural practices and political aspirations over time.", "Check whether a proposed action requires individual consent, organisational authority or state jurisdiction beyond a national identity claim." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe a nation's history, culture and self-understanding with sources, including contested views.", "Distinguish nation, state and ethnic group when explaining them." ], "must_not": [ "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." ], "requires_human": [ "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." ], "affected_parties": [ "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.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Exclusive definitions of a nation can lead to discrimination and expulsion.", "National rivalries can escalate into conflict." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, United Nations." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q597897: nation", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q597897", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Nation (university)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_%28university%29", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "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.", "rationale": "With no registry definition, the model must resolve the subject without silently substituting a state, ethnicity or population.", "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?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-national-claim-q01" }, { "text": "Which self-descriptions and external accounts support or contest that designation, and from which periods?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-national-claim-q02" } ] } ] }, { "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 distinction", "description": "Record overlaps and differences among the nation, citizenries, ethnic groups, language communities and regional populations.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where do asserted national boundaries differ from citizenship, ethnicity, language or residence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nation-state-and-community-distinction-q01" }, { "text": "Do similarly named collectives denote the same nation, a constituent community or a distinct national claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "nation-state-and-community-distinction-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "membership-and-identification", "name": "Membership and identification", "description": "Describes how belonging is understood, expressed and measured.", "rationale": "National membership can be contested and cannot be reliably derived from an administrative or cultural proxy alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "belonging-criteria", "name": "Belonging criteria", "description": "Captures competing understandings of inclusion, exclusion and multiple belonging.", "findings": [ { "id": "membership-accounts", "name": "Membership accounts", "description": "Record attributed membership criteria and how they accommodate self-identification, newcomers and overlapping national identities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which criteria do different constituencies use to describe national belonging?", "kind": "definition", "id": "membership-accounts-q01" }, { "text": "How do those criteria handle mixed ancestry, migration, diaspora membership and identification with more than one nation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "membership-accounts-q02" } ] } ] }, { "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?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-estimate-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What survey wording, response options, coverage, date and uncertainty qualify the estimate?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "population-estimate-basis-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cultural-and-historical-continuity", "name": "Cultural and historical continuity", "description": "Records how national identity is narrated, practised and transmitted through change.", "rationale": "A nation model needs to assess continuity claims without assuming cultural uniformity or an uncontested origin.", "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?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-and-origin-claims-q01" }, { "text": "What supports treating earlier and later collectives as the same national subject, and where is that continuity disputed?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-and-origin-claims-q02" } ] } ] }, { "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?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "cultural-transmission-and-variation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows their transmission across generations and their variation across regions or diaspora communities?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "cultural-transmission-and-variation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "homeland-and-diaspora", "name": "Homeland and diaspora", "description": "Describes geographic attachments and dispersed communities without presuming territorial authority.", "rationale": "National geography may involve overlapping homelands, changing settlement and communities beyond state borders.", "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?", "kind": "definition", "id": "territorial-relationship-types-q01" }, { "text": "Where do claimed homelands overlap other national attachments or differ from current settlement and state borders?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "territorial-relationship-types-q02" } ] } ] }, { "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?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dispersed-community-connections-q01" }, { "text": "How do language, family ties, associations, return practices or political participation connect these communities to the asserted homeland?", "kind": "definition", "id": "dispersed-community-connections-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "political-claims-and-representation", "name": "Political claims and representation", "description": "Tracks aspirations, recognition and representative authority as distinct, attributed matters.", "rationale": "Agents must not turn a claim of nationhood into assumed unanimity, statehood or permission to act for people.", "layers": [ { "id": "aspirations-and-recognition", "name": "Aspirations and recognition", "description": "Records political programmes and external treatment of the national collective.", "findings": [ { "id": "plural-national-political-positions", "name": "Plural national political positions", "description": "Record political aspirations and recognition statements with their proponents, constituencies, dates and precise objects.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which actors advocate cultural recognition, autonomy, independence, unification or other arrangements, and what evidence indicates support?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "plural-national-political-positions-q01" }, { "text": "Does each recognition statement concern a nation, a minority, a representative organisation or a sovereign state?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "plural-national-political-positions-q02" } ] } ] }, { "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?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "representative-authority-limits-q01" }, { "text": "For the proposed consultation, agreement or public attribution, whose mandate or consent is required and what remains unauthorised?", "kind": "action", "id": "representative-authority-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "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.", "evidence": [ "Nation is a contested concept with no universally accepted membership test; the listed kinds overlap and civic versus ethnic nationhood is an analytical distinction.", "The SOC.ORG classification should not imply that a nation is necessarily a legal organisation or incorporated institution.", "No universal identifier scheme for nations as peoples is supplied; ISO 3166 and UN M49 identify countries or areas rather than national communities as such." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of nation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Civic nation", "Ethnic nation", "Stateless nation", "Indigenous nation" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of nation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "Expressing collective identity and belonging.", "Framing claims to self-government, autonomy or independence.", "Organising cultural preservation and language revitalisation.", "Providing a basis for political solidarity across regional or state boundaries." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of nation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ "Conflating nation with state obscures stateless nations and states containing multiple national communities.", "Treating national membership as objectively fixed can misrepresent overlapping, changing or contested identities.", "Exclusionary nationalism can support discrimination, forced assimilation or violence.", "Competing claims to a homeland or political representation can contribute to conflict.", "Assuming every nation has one language, ancestry or religion erases internal diversity." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of nation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "In some contexts, nation primarily denotes a political community associated with citizenship; in others, it primarily denotes a cultural or historical people.", "Some Indigenous peoples use nation as a designation of peoplehood and political continuity; its legal recognition varies by jurisdiction.", "National communities may extend across several states, while a single state may encompass several national communities." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of nation this model covers, and on what evidence?", "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.", "evidence": [ { "name": "state", "difference": "A state is an institutional political authority governing territory and population; a nation is a community of peoplehood and need not possess state institutions." }, { "name": "nation-state", "difference": "A nation-state is a state understood or organised as the political expression of a nation; nation alone does not imply sovereign statehood." }, { "name": "ethnic group", "difference": "An ethnic group centres on perceived shared ancestry and cultural distinctiveness; nationhood additionally expresses peoplehood, often with political aspirations, and can encompass multiple ethnic groups." }, { "name": "country", "difference": "Country usually denotes a territorial or political entity; nation denotes a people, although everyday usage often overlaps." }, { "name": "citizenry", "difference": "Citizenry is defined by citizenship in a polity; national identification can include noncitizens and exclude some citizens in particular understandings." }, { "name": "organisation", "difference": "A formal organisation has constituted membership and governance; a nation need not have incorporation, a single governing body or an authoritative membership register." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "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?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does registry item vr.tr.nation-q597897 intend nation as collective peoplehood, or does its source use the term to include countries or sovereign states?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "What evidence threshold should distinguish a sustained national identification from a newly asserted or narrowly supported national claim?", "How should the model preserve incompatible self-definitions without granting one claimant authority to determine everyone else's membership?", "Which research methods can assess identification and representative support where available categories, access restrictions or pressure limit reliable evidence?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 26 } }