There should be at least 90 days for public commentary followed by a revised proposed constitution with an additional 30 days for public commentary followed by a preliminary non-binding vote followed by another revision or the scheduling of a final vote. But there does not seem to be time for such things.

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@ Papineau and Cristian_Mero , You gave a very good idea, but why no body to be involved in this discussion. It stops here.

I think that wherever company is, is good, we going to have something to our favor, we will be a Technological Nation. We could orient ourselves only to technology development and we could sell that technology to another company or country. Obviously, we would need to have our own technology. That’s a good form to earn money for our country.

I agree that eventually Asgardia will have to develop its own educational system and all that it entails, which might heavily rely on the use of the electronic medium. This could also generate employment, as online teachers and tutors would be needed, but also IT people that could create specialized software. Ultimately, I believe there's a need to understand that perhaps the greatest challenge will be unlearning in order to learn something new or something different. Asgardia's success might depend on the number of citizens that will be able to do this in order to create a better society.

Hello, fellow Asgardians. As user martinellijc pointed out already (thank you), please try to use the official topic to discuss this particular issue, so that Asgardia officials will be able to keep track of one thread only, instead of several. We'll be locking this topic and eventually archive it. Thank you for understanding. Again, use this thread if you'd like to discuss the language of Asgardia and all that it entails.

Please, see this topic https://asgardia.space/en/forum/forum/general-discussion-14/topic/official-thread-languages-of-asgardia-thoughts-and-proposals-732/?page=11

By and large, humans are racist, sexist, and most of the other -ists in the spectrum. That is a programmed response to things. We are taught that by visual, audio, and other forms of cues, but the fact of the matter is humans are exclusive to a fault. A quick word association exercise could tell you that. Creating a new language would just add one more division to the human race, and I do believe that the goal of Asgardia is to represent and possibly unite humanity as opposed to separate and run off. Humans as a whole want to be good. That is why we love the stories with the good endings. We pick the good side in video games. We sometimes help others in need. We want to be inclusive, but social mores put up so many blocks, it makes it difficult. My suggestion is take the 2 or 3 most spoken languages and make an amalgam of them (something like Firefly did (the tv show)). This way everyone understands everyone and you do not need people to translate. I also think that if we strive for this inclusion, then everyone should speak in that language. I know it is comforting to speak in your native tongue, but it isolates people from the conversation. True, someone might be eavesdropping, or butting in, but have you ever walked by a group of people and wondered what they are talking about because you do not know that language? Anyway, that is my 2 cents

I'm pretty sure that, even in space as on the Earth, people have usually *enough to do* (trivially said "to work") to have the time to stay all day, all minutes behind the government and the things this will have to do. That's why, usually, there is a ***representative democracy***, with (usuallly) "three distinct powers", to avoid each of them to overcome each other. In some democratic systems people vote for their own *representatives* only (which will form the *Parliament*), which in turn elects the *government*, into other democracies people vote for *representatives* **and** for the *President*. There are many other government forms but most of them, nearly all, prevides people is *represented*, not directly acting as a government. At the moment we're a few (less than 200.000 certified asgardians) so one may think we should take the *direct democracy* way. But Constitutions are made to last for long time, and in this horizon we'll grow as a Nation, so we should probably take a *representative democracy* way instead.

While I'm kicking my heels waiting for a requested update to my Asgardian status to be implemented, I'll just say this: I think these are terrible ideas. Not the specific thoughts you guys have come up with, but the overall concept of a special greeting and such between Asgardians. If I'm entirely honest, I feel the same about the idea of adopting a special anthem, and even a flag - although at least with a flag there's some precedent for humanitarian and treaty organisations and NGOs (the Red Cross, for example). The debatable flag aside, these are all bad ideas. I can see the reasoning behind them: they're intended to create a sense of belonging, and of unified endeavour. Which sounds fine, until you think about the necessary consequence, as I think we've seen throughout these forums and the Facebook groups: the unity and sense of belonging to Asgardia is quickly perverted into nationalism, exclusivity and elitism. I think Dr Ashurbeyli had a decent idea in trying to create a community that would exist to serve humanity's wider interests. But I think he was wrong to set out to model it as a nation. That's probably because I revile the concept of nations as divisive and inherently toxic and dangerous to humanity. For all the criticism religion gets for the wars it supposedly causes, nationalism and nationhood seem to get a free pass for the massive, devastating violence that's been wrought for their sake. But even aside my own bias, I genuinely believe Asgardia can't succeed unless, somehow, it sheds the trappings of nationhood that Dr Ashurbeyli has unfortunately chosen to tie around its neck. A global non-governmental organisation dedicated to peace, cooperation and education would be something I could fully get behind. But one more nation amongst hundreds, worrying first and foremost about its symbols and songs and handshakes and mottoes and what separates its people from others cannot - I don't think - succeed in making a difference, except to generate even more weak rationalisations for conflict.

All good ideas I'm reading so far. I'm glad to see people are excited about this and taking it seriously. I think a universally recognised salute is acceptable, and if we're going to use one it should be discussed, but it should by no means be mandatory to use. The same for a universal greeting. With a greeting however, we run into a more intricate problem with respect to culture and ability to pronounce based on your earthly language. We should consider simply using a new word we come up with as a society and begin incorporating it into a purely Asguardian language.