Following the Hong Kong conference yesterday, the number of Asgardian citizens has risen to more than 200,000 people globally. This elevates Asgardia to 184 ^th place by population among countries worldwide, getting ahead of Samoa, Guernsey and Jersey, and Guam.

As Asgardia enters its eighth month of existence, even more people are expected to join.

Head of Nation – Term Limit

First, Head of Nation Igor Ashurbeyli announced that he has constitutionally limited his own authority to a five-year period. "This will allow Asgardians to thoughtfully define how they see their future, and to incorporate necessary changes into the Constitution and the laws of Asgardia," he said.

The Constitution

The Head of Nation assured Asgardian citizens that nothing is set in stone. "Today I am calling upon everyone to vote for this Constitution as it is presented. It may change many times, the same as our Asgardian space humanity will change. But today we must not waste time."

Asgardia’s Government

Ashurbeyli emphasized that he plans to have a fully operational government in place in the next six months: "According to our Constitution, in only six months, we have to form the Parliament of Asgardia based on the language representativeness principle. And in the three months after – the Government, the Court, The Prosecutors Office, the National Audit Office and the other governmental bodies."

Decree No 6 – Voting Is Open!

Ashurbeyli urged Asgardians to ratify the Constitution, choose the national symbols and participate in leadership elections. "Without this we would be a fake nation, a sophisticated computer game. And this is not what we want," said Ashurbeyli. "We want to build a serious, legitimate, independent first space nation, which is recognised by the Earth states and the United Nations, and which is facing towards space in its development."

Sending Files to Space

The Head of Nation encouraged Asgardians to invite their parents, brothers, sisters, extended family and friends to join and send files to space.

After they have accepted the Constitution, Asgardians are encouraged to send their files to space. The first 100,000 people who became Asgardian citizens can send up to 500KB each to Asgardia-1. The next 400,000 Asgardians can send up to 200KB. The next million citizens can send up to 100KB each. After that, free storage will be closed.

"These are historic days, and your names and data will forever stay in the memory of the new space humanity, as they will be reinstalled on every following Asgardia satellite, orbital satellite constellations, on the Moon and anywhere in the Universe – wherever Asgardia will be," said Ashurbeyli.

This official Asgardian holiday is named after Unified Voting Day, which takes place on the same day, when Asgardians are asked to accept the Constitution, vote for the flag and begin nominating themselves and voting for others in Asgardian elections. They are also invited to send files to space on the Asgardia-1 satellite.

As of today, there are 217,023 Asgardians globally, of whom 29,086 accepted the Constitution, 2,737 sent files to space, and 1,966 applied for leadership positions.

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It seems that the elections will end on January 1st and only candidates over the age of 40 will be eligible for the election.  That means many people will not get a chance to run for office and it's upsetting quite a few.  I'm in the over 40 group and I disagree with the change to the rules.  That being said, I understand the need for the change. Just like the constitution we need to get it done and being we are currently in a country run by a monarch there is little we can do to change that now.  All we can do is try to understand the necessity of the change.  After we have a sitting parliament we can hammer out all the details we need to.  Those who you support that are not in the over 40 age group can continue to work on behalf of Asgardia and her people for a better future.  I personally, if elected will be seeking those people out and asking for their help.  This first parliment will start laying the foundation on which Asgardia will be built, and as we all know Rome was not built by one person in one day.  We want to build something that will last for thousands of years but we need to get the foundation built and this election will lay the next brick beside the brick the constitution laid to get us started on our path to the future.
This is why I would like your support in the election.
https://asgardia.space/en/blog/candidate/353426-5209-candidate-for-asgardian-government/

More than half a million people have applied to become citizens of the first independent "space nation". After the creation of Asgardia was announced in Paris last October, more than 500,000 applications were received within the first 20 days, the team behind the project has revealed. The numbers were so high it forced a change of the rules for those hoping to become part of the visionary plan to establish a new space nation with its own constitution and laws. Asgardia switched to a stricter system that filtered out children registering without their parents' permission, duplicate applications, people who refused to provide required information, and non-human internet "bots".

Asgardia has revealed that it will be launching its first satellite data centre into space in August, in the form of a small CubeSat. The data centre will measure at just 10x10x20cm, at a weight of only 2.8kg. The Asgardia nation was set up by the Russian computer scientist Dr Igor Ashurbeyli, and has had almost 200,000 verified citizens gathered from around 200 countries. After the development of Asgardia last year, over 500,000 applications have been received from people that have registered to become citizens of the first ‘space nation.’ According to Ashurbeyli, the first 100,000 people to sign up will be able to transfer 300KB of data into space.

A Russian businessman is readying to launch a data centre into space in August this year, in what is certainly one of the most ambitious projects the data centre industry has seen in recent times. The project is part of a much larger idea which started in 2016 with the announcement of the development of a pacifist nation-state in space. “Asgardia will become a place in orbit which is truly ‘no man’s land’,” those involved in the project said during its launch as they hope to gain recognition from the UN in the years to come. Those interested in entering Asgardia will go through an admission process, and could potentially gain citizenship to the “nation-state”.

I need a good friend to show me around Asgardia, I want to get involved with this beautiful community and country. I hope one day we can bring back the deceased first 2.000 Asgardians hopefully through advancements in Science and Technology. I know we have a long way to go from that technology, but it can be achievable with a combined effort from Scientists and Medical Science over 300 or 400 years; now I'm not afraid of death, but I could do so much more for Asgardia in another lifetime.