book stewardship and free culture

This book is a freely-given cultural object.

If you’re holding a hardcopy of the book, the price covers only the minimum printer’s fee and whatever the distributor required—nothing more.
The author—you might think this is folly—receives no money from the book. And the e-book is freely available for download and printing.
Furthermore, the entire text is released to the international public domain*, to be freely reproduced and improved.

*(The rights to certain photos and illustrations which were made by others remain with those photographers and artists. Though if you’re going to
copy the book, you might as well include them too.)

And so I ask that the holder of this book practice thinking of your role as something different than an owner. The bookholder is invited to take on
the mantle of stewardship—as the steward of this book. Instead of the usual economic role of consumer/customer, this role of Book Steward is a
freely-received and freely-offered cultural role, like a deacon, or sponsor, or arts patron.

the role of stewardship

A Book Steward has two tasks:

1) The steward agrees to refrain from throwing the book away. If the steward is done with the book, they pass the book to another person who is
interested...or donates the book to a library...or leaves the book to be picked up by a passerby—it’s okay to leave the book in the hands of destiny.
They’re also welcome to return the book to the author.

If, for some reason, the steward ends up discarding the book (missions sometimes fail in everyday life), the steward is forgiven ahead of time. C’est
la vie. Compost in the earth is a worthy end too.

2) The steward agrees to refrain from selling the book. It’s not the end of the world if the book ends up in a resale store, or yard sale, or
marketplace, yet that is not within the spirit of the book, or within the role of free cultural stewardship, for the book to be bought and sold.
Commodities (food, clothing, shelter) are good, yet not everything in life is supposed to be a commodity.

If the bookholder agrees to this role, they are invited to take some scissors and ceremonially cut off the bar code from the back cover—thereby
permanently de-commoditizing the book. Subsequent stewards are welcome to write their name or nickname, and the date, in the line of stewards
below. The stewardship mantle is offered to anyone who finds this book, at any time, in any place. If the steward is a library, the agreement is that
each borrower is welcome to serve as temporary steward and sign their name. This is one library book which is meant to be written in.

If the bookholder doesn’t agree to this role, then no one will wrangle with the fact that they own the physical book outright—of course they did
pay for its material existence—to be disposed of as they wish.

freely given + freely supported = free culture

As an entirely separate matter, the reader is welcome, but not obliged, to donate to the work of Threefold Now:
https://sites.google.com/site/threefoldnow/donate

Even one or three dollars, or one cent, or a good thought sent our way, is something. Wishing our obstacles well is a valuable gift. Or even donating
to another free initiative or charity of the reader’s choice. And there are no strings of soul-guilt attached if you don’t get around to it.

But that’s all separate from whether you are welcome to this book and to the stewardship role. The author’s economic needs are met—I receive
my daily bread. I’m just glad to share the idea with you.

the line of stewards

First Edition: February 7th, 2015
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Author ________________Henry T.________________________ Date: August 31 , 2015 (2 Edition) Place: __Austerlitz, New York, United States_
(If you’d like me to sign this by hand, I’m willing to sign it when we meet in person, as long as the place and moment is fitting for signing a book. Or you’re welcome to
send a S.A.S.E. and, as long as I’m not whelmed with other tasks, I’ll send a signed slip of paper you could glue or tape here.)

Steward ______________________________________________ Date: ___________________ Place: _____________________________________

(Where the stewarty role was taken up.)
Steward ______________________________________________ Date: ___________________ Place: _____________________________________

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(If we run out of room, there’s space to continue on the front and back covers.)
“The thoughts which underlie these goals are based on reality; they are to be pursued in all human communities.”
—Rudolf Steiner

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This is the fourth in a series which depicts what the salvation of humanity looks like in the 21 century...Our Century.

Volume One lays out The Idea—the separation of business, state, and culture; which could be enacted through three constitutional amendments.
There is also a detailed chapter about the necessary separation of cultural nationhood and political statehood. Lastly, we show what America, the
Roman Empire of our time, would or could look like if we were to take up the idea and vigorously transform our National-Security State into a true,
beautiful, and good republic...the Threefold Republic.

Volume Two, entitled World Wide Trisecting, depicts what the rest of humanity’s world could look like as a true and worthy social organism. There
is a brief history of the passing Century of Nightmare. A grand strategy is sketched. There is also guidance for perceiving the underlying subtleties.

Volume Three is a slender booklet which is solely about the separation of nation and state...the practical differentiation of cultural nationality and
political citizenship. There are timely examples of Ukraine and the Holy Land. The nation-state has become a desolating idol which is standing
where it should not be.

This fourth volume covers the 156 countries which were not included in Volume Two. While Volume Two focuses on some nations which are most
familiar to an English-speaking audience, Volume Four affirms that the idea is for all human communities.

the format
For each country, three flags are displayed: an economic flag, a political (“rights”) flag, and a cultural flag.

In a Threefold Republic, the economy becomes a sovereign sector, with its own leadership, separate from the government. The economy literally
becomes independent from the political state. The economy itself declares and achieves independence, as an association of all the businesses,
labor unions, and consumer federations—a kind of sovereign, country-wide “Chamber of Association”, with its own “president”, capital city,
embassy network, and flag. The executive organ of this “Economic Republic” even takes on all of the economic powers which are presently wielded
by the national government, such as trade negotiations and agreements, customs and tariff policies, utilities and transportation infrastructure,
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postal services...and even the central bank and the issuance of currency. This chamber of economic governance, perhaps named the “Economic
Forum”, would have an equivalent stature as the political legislature and executive. The offered flag for this Economic Republic is shown on the left
side of each page.

Besides the sovereign economic organism, a third sector composed of the non-profit, religious, and charitable organizations coalesces as a
sovereign sector with its own leadership, capital, embassy network, and flag. This “Cultural Republic” also takes over and frees up the culture-
forming functions of the government, most notably the government (public) school system and state universities. The judicial branch is also
transferred to the Cultural Republic. The co-ordinative body of the cultural sector, perhaps named the “Cultural Council”, stands as tall as the
Economic Forum and the Political Congress. The offered flag for this Cultural Republic is shown on the right side of each page.

What’s left of the “government” is a streamlined, humane rights-state. When all economic- and culture-forming powers have been jettisoned from
the State, its only remaining purposes are 1) sensing and enacting human rights and humane law, 2) ensuring that each citizen is treated equally by
the law, 3) articulating the legal framework for all three sectors, without itself owning, micro-managing, or funding any economic or cultural
enterprise, 4) sensing and legislating what “benefits” the Economic Republic and Cultural Republic must provide each citizen, such as the right for
all child-citizens to receive, say, a $10,000 yearly subsidy directly from the Economic Republic which their guardians may use for tuition at any
school of their family’s choice, including their own homeschool, and 5) providing what public security is truly necessary. Instead of the intrusive and
tributary personal income tax, the rights governance is funded by a legislated, yearly lump sum transmitted directly from the economic chamber.
And in a genuine rights-state, all elections are 100% funded by the rights sector itself, so that economic and cultural lobbies (including “political
parties”, which are non-governmental clubs) have no voice whatsoever. Only the individual adult citizen, representing only themself, has any
access to, or voice within, any organ of the political-rights governance. We evolve from purchased “democracy” to authentic “humanocracy.” The
offered flag for this purified Rights Republic is shown in the middle of each page.

The three republics become as sovereign and independent from each other as are national governments today. However, they are united by the
fact that each individual human being in that territory is a participant in all three of the republics, and by the presence of a Threefold Senate—one-
third of whose membership is appointed by each of the republics—which co-ordinates the relationship between, but does not rule over, the three
republics.

about the names and flags

“A country starts out from a name and a flag, and it then becomes them, just like a human being fulfills their destiny.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
why don’t the sectoral republics just keep the national name?
The overarching “societal names” are not fanciful names pulled out of thin air. They are poetic names taken from ancient predecessors
(“Phoenicia” for Lebanon) or modern-day nicknames which are already in use (“The Smiling Coast of Africa” for the Gambia). These poetic names
are offered for a simple, structural reason: fresh names for the sectoral administrations are needed to distinguish them from the nation (the NCO)
from whence they sprang. The three republics and their co-ordinative Threefold Senate must be anational (the economic republic and rights
republic) and plurinational (the cultural republic)...otherwise it remains a quasi-nation-state.

A “keyword” adjective was selected for each of the three sectors. For those countries which already have a threefold motto, such as Cameroon’s
Paix—Travail—Patrie (Peace, Work, and Fatherland) these become the keywords: a Peaceable Culture, a Working Governance, and a Patriotic
Economy. Other details of the names, such as the various synonyms for “threefold” (Islamic “singular”, Spanish “tri-membered”, Buddhist “triple”)
are explained in Volume Two. The foundational words for the ternary Singularity are included on the Saudi Arabia page in this book.

There are a few countries whose symbology calls for a Fourfold Republic; namely, Comoros, Mauritius, Palau, and Seychelles (along with Iceland
and Nigeria in book two). These are depicted as Fourfold Social Systems, with a fourth sector composed of the churches, mosques, synagogues, and
other “worldview” providers, including spiritual, philosophic, or humanistic organizations such as the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and
the Anthroposophic Society. The Fourfold Republic is the idea of German philosopher Johannes Heinrichs.

how i designed the trisected flags

In short, I studied the historical evolution of each national flag, along with the other national symbology (such as the national emblem, logos of the
ministries of commerce and culture, and the colors of the national soccer team). Then I applied a transformation. For example, to trisect the
national flags which have three vertical stripes: the flyward color becomes the cultural color, the middle color becomes the political-rights color,
and the hoistward color becomes the economic color. The artistic-scientific process is fully described in Volume Two.

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
—Georgia O’Keefe

These images are here to evoke interest and willingness for the Threefold Idea. Yet if a national community were to take up the Threefold Republic
impulse, but despised and discarded my offered names and flags, I would be humbly grateful. Though some effort went into making the pictures as
evocative and finely tuned as feasible, they cannot be “perfect.” If you have a connection with a specific country or countries, you’re welcome to
send me your impression, and suggestions for improvement.

Henry T. 30 Old Wagon Road, Ghent, NY 12075, UNITED STATES (Attn: THREEFOLD REPUBLIC); email: beholdtheblueflower@gmail.com
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the separation of nationality and citizenship
On the lower right-hand corner of each page, there are smaller flags. These are the “nations.”

One of the most evolutionary features of a Threefold Republic is that it brings a complete end to a nation-state structure. This is fully described in
Volumes One and Three, but to summarize: in political science, the “nation” is the cultural identity of a country, while the “state” is the political
identity of a country. “Nationality” is membership in the cultural identity, while “citizenship” is membership in the political identity—though
presently the two terms are legally fused. Currently, saying that someone is a “national” of a country is another way of saying they are a “citizen.”
Since the Napoleonic Wars, the nation has become more and more fused with the government. Now all countries in the world are hyphenated,
mixed beasts...nation-states. Any government, no matter how “multi-ethnic”, which wields culture-forming powers, is a nation-state.

In a Threefold Republic, all the cultural assets which are presently owned by the national government (or its provincial government branches) are
divested to a cultural organization which will, from thenceforth, embody the national identity. This “national-cultural organization” (NCO) retains
the national flag as its organizational symbol, and retains title to all of the formerly government (public) schools and colleges, national libraries and
museums, national arts agencies, national parks and national monuments. The NCO becomes a voluntary, non-governmental organization. The
political state is no longer affiliated with a particular national culture, and so becomes literally “anational” (nation-free). Anational governance is
omni-lingual—meaning that the public rights organs may be addressed by a citizen in any language of humanity, in a similar way that presently, the
U.S. judicial branch mandates that defendants have the right to address the court in their native tongue. The NCOs will be free to offer cultural
services, such as their national school system and colleges, across political boundaries.

For example, the Mexican NCO would be free to offer the Mexican national school system throughout North America. As a voluntary organization,
no parent would have to patronize it, but it could be there. The Mexican NCO could administer these cultural assets via newly delineated cultural
areas (such as “Alta California”) which freely overlap with the U.S. political service area and the U.S. national-cultural homeland. Likewise, the U.S.
national-cultural organization would be free to offer American schools and universities throughout Mexico, Canada, and all continents.

The administration of such cultural services could be depicted on the map as an extension of that NCO’s “cultural service area”...in other words, the
“national homeland.” National (cultural) homelands would be free to overlap with each other in a meaningful, concrete way, in a similar way that
the service areas of religious denominations have been free to overlap with each other since the separation of religion and state. Volume Three of
Threefold Now depicts how the Russian Homeland and Ukrainian Homeland would be free to overlap, and also the Israeli Homeland and Palestinian
Homeland. Participation and patronage of NCOs would be a voluntary, private affair. An individual could participate in one or several national
cultures, or none. In contrast, citizenship would remain a mandatory political identity. And the political borders remain. The separation of nation
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and state would allow for the cultures to flow like water, while respecting the status quo in regard to police, military, and electoral service areas.

aspirant nations
The divested, state-formed nation is called the “civic nation” or “civic NCO.” Once they are detached from the state and its security apparatus, all
193 civic nations could delineate cultural provinces which cover the widest extent of their national Golden Age. NCOs would be free to depict their
national (cultural) homeland on maps with its ideal boundaries. It’s no one else’s business how a voluntary third sector organization draws the
shape of its cultural service area. Furthermore, beyond their homeland, the 193 nations could offer cultural services to their emigrant diaspora...or
to anyone who is freely interested in their national heritage and identity. Basically, all 193 could delineate new cultural districts which cover the
whole world.

Yet there are many, many more national identities in humanity’s world besides the 193 UN-recognized nations. The 193 are only those few which,
through economic or political might, or luck, managed to put a nation-state on the map. There are probably more than 10,000 national cultures in
the world: the thousands of American Indian nations—including uncontacted humanity in the vast Amazon ocean of forest—the Aboriginal
Australian nations, the traditional kingdoms, chiefdoms, and peoples in Africa (such as the Zulu) and Oceania (such as the Māori), the highland
forest peoples of Southeast Asia (“Montagnards”) and the Indian Subcontinent (known as the Adivasi or “Scheduled Tribes”), the original peoples
of Siberia, the stateless European nationalities (Basque, Catalan, Romani “gypsies”, Saami “Laplanders”, Scots), and aspirant identities or folk
cultures which have recently coalesced in the Americas: Québécois, “Cajuns” (Acadian French), the Cascadian bioregionalists of the Pacific
Northwest, the Texas and Vermont independence movements, and the Appalachian mountain culture.

Even for the 193 civic nations, there are potential variants, such as deposed royal houses (the French House of Bourbon or Russian House of
Romanov, both of which still exist as cultural organizations) or alternative social justice identities (such as the Spanish Republicans). All of these
would be free to declare and achieve cultural independence as NCOs. In this way, these nations and peoples could freely transmit and unfold their
identity through voluntary cultural endeavors, such as their own independent school system offering immersion in their language and formative
values...it only takes a single independent kindergarten or pre-school play-group to begin.

There is no such thing as authentic cultural freedom without structural plurinationalism—meaning that every civic and aspirant nation is free to
offer its national school system within every political jurisdiction in the world. This would be a Springtime of Nations which has never been seen

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A similar proposal for the structural separation of nationality and statehood is voiced by Gidon Gottlieb in the article “Nations Without States” from the May/June
1994 issue of Foreign Affairs. What Threefold Now calls a “national-cultural homeland”, Gottlieb calls a “Historical Homeland.”

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before. The third sector becomes a space wherein radical diversity can breathe and blossom, while at the same time, political and economic unity
are maintained.

This book attempts to show many of the possibilities for aspirant NCOs, while acknowledging that aspirations continue to sprout, and so the
depiction cannot be complete. For some countries, there are so many possibilities that there wasn’t enough room to fit them all neatly in the lower
right corner of the page...so they spread out across the bottom of the page. Please note that this doesn’t mean that NCOs have anything to do with
the political sector or economic sector.

There are a few points about NCOs which need defining or explaining:

 “Sponsoring” the formation of NCOs. NCOs would be free to “sponsor” their own “version” of any other nationality/ethnicity, and
thereby propagate their essential formative values via another ethno-national culture. For example, the Chinese civic NCO might sponsor
its own “version” of the Tibetan nationality, distinct from the Tibetan NCO headed by the Dalai Lama. And the British Monarchy might
offer a royalist “version” of the formerly British colonies which became republics. Such “sponsored” families of NCOs might culturally
associate with each other in a way similar to the existing (British) Commonwealth or La Francophonie, as “commonwealths of national-
cultural organizations” (CWONCOs).

 A CWONCO would be a cultural organization which serves as an umbrella for multiple NCOs which are otherwise culturally independent.
Four examples of CWONCOs are included in this volume: a “Great Arab Nation” CWONCO which would be sponsored by the Arab League,
thereby culturally embodying the pan-Arab national aspiration; and CWONCOS embodying the historic confederations in Spanish America
which later fell apart, but which are still held as ideals: a “Federal Republic of Central America” CWONCO; a “Republic of Gran Colombia
CWONCO”; and a “Peru-Bolivian Confederation CWONCO.”

 Republican NCOs versus royalist NCOs. For many countries, there would be a republican NCO and a royalist NCO. Both would be free to
sponsor NCOs for ethno-linguistic communities within their area of interest. Republican NCOs would have an elected cultural head of
nation, while the cultural head of nation of royalist NCOs would be inherited.

 “Linguistic-Cultural Organization” (LCO) and “Folk-Cultural Organization” (FCO). These are variant synonyms for “NCO”, as optional
terms to be adopted by language communities and regional folk cultures who do not wish to be called a “nationality”, yet who wish to
preserve and cultivate their language variety and folk culture, distinct from the civic national language and identity. For example, the
Chinese and French civic NCOs might sponsor an LCO for each of the regional varieties of the Chinese and French languages. In this book
there are suggested LCOs for the Malay and Chinese speech varieties spoken in Brunei, and for the Mirandese and Barranquanian
languages in Portugal. The Csangos in Romania are depicted in this book as an FCO. Volume 2 shows the Cossacks in Russia and Ukraine,
and the Pomors in Russia as FCOs. The difference between “NCO”, “LCO”, and “FCO” is essentially aesthetic and symbolic.

 Arab and Islamic civic subtitles. The Arab and Islamic civic NCOs usually have a “subtitle”, such as the “The Saudi Arabian Nationality of
the Arab and Islamic Nation.” The wording for these subtitles is taken straight from their national constitutions. These subtitles are there
to show that the Arab identity and the Islamic identity have an inherent aversion to the nation-state system.

 Marxian and Post-Marxian multinational peoples. The Chinese, Ethiopian, Lao, Russian, Transnistrian, and Vietnamese NCOs contain a
“multinational” qualifier in their names (for example: “The Chinese People of All Nationalities”) because that’s how they refer to
themselves constitutionally. This is a legacy of Marxian sociology which intentionally shaped a country’s various ethnic groups and
indigenous peoples into state-defined nationalities, subordinate to the overarching “peoplehood” of the State.

a few NCO flag designs

As far as the national flags—the flags of the NCOs—nearly all of them depicted in this book already exist. Yet in some instances I offer flag designs
for NCOs—usually to illustrate the idea of “sponsored NCOs” (a concept described in Volume One). Here are the few I designed:

 Flags for the Black national diaspora in the Caribbean, Central, and South America, as cultural organs of the Republic of New Afrika NCO.
 Flags for nationalities co-sponsored by the Russian NCO and its like-minded allies: Abkhazia (Svan, Mingrelian, Georgian), Armenia (Yezed,
Assyrian, Udi, Azerbaijani), Belarus (Polish, Ukrainian, Jewish), Ajars in Georgia, Kazakhstan (Uzbek and Ukrainian), Kyrgyzstan (Dungan
and Uzbek), Russian-sponsored Moldavians and Gagauz in Moldova, Nagorno-Karabakh (Greek, Ukrainian, Georgian, Azerbaijani), South
Ossetia (Georgian and Ossetian), and Tajikistan (Uzbek).
 Flags for Azerbaijan-sponsored nationalities, to be co-sponsored by the Turkish NCO.
 The Red Legs folk culture of Irish origin in Barbados.
 Flags for cultural counterparts of the ELN and EPL rebel armies in Colombia. From army (ejército) to identity (identidad): ILN and IPL.
 German expellee association (Landsmanschaft) flags, based on existing vertical banners. For some of these I may have the colors upside
down.
 Flags for the 18 Lebanese-sponsored confessions, including the Maronite confession.
 The Kuršininkai folk culture in Lithuania.
 Turkish-sponsored Gagauz in Moldova.
 What the Montenegrin census reports as “Muslim by nationality”, distinct from the Bosniak identity.
 The Namibian Coloured community. Though the word “coloured” is taboo in America, there are communities in Namibia who still claim
this identity.
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  Habsburg-sponsored Royal Slovene and Royal Slovak flags. The Habsburg monarchy would be free to return in the third sector.
 A suggested update of the Uzbek flag to add 3 more stars once those 3 provinces are restored as part of the national-cultural homeland.
 Arab League-sponsored linguistic NCOs, beginning in the Sudan with the Beja and Fur language communities.

Like James Minahan’s series of books, such as Nations without States: A Historical Dictionary of Contemporary National Movements or Christopher
F. Roth’s Let’s Split! A Complete Guide to Separatist Movements and Aspirant Nations, from Abkhazia to Zanzibar, the lower right-hand corner of
this book offers one of the most extensive depictions of humanity’s national-cultural sphere. Yet Threefold Now goes further, in that we offer a
pragmatic yet ideal endgame picture of cultural independence which doesn’t involve the political-military and economic grasping and
fragmentation which are inherent to the nation-state concept.

what the flags don’t show

NCOs are just one kind of cultural organization
The NCOs are just one of many kinds of cultural organizations. The NCOs are depicted here because the separation of nationality and statehood is a
difficult yet vital concept to convey. This is the elephant in the room, which, once removed, will bring most wars to a humane end.

Yet every kind of non-profit, religious, or charitable organization would also be members of the Third Sector. Properly, there should be thousands
or millions of logos depicted beneath the Cultural Council. In Volume One, there is an illustration which depicts a Cultural Republic in America
composed of all sorts of cultural organizations—not only NCOs.

In the nascent U.S. third sector, there are presently about 1.5 million non-profit organizations, each of which would become an “independent
cultural organization” (ICO)—meaning it isn’t owned by the national identity (NCO). In countries which have a more statist-governmentalist-
socialist bent, many cultural initiatives are owned by the State, and so even after the separation of culture and state, the NCO in these countries
would have a relatively large presence in the cultural sector. Yet that’s a fine beginning. Before long, all the national cultures and independent
cultural initiatives would begin to penetrate into every political jurisdiction. An independent Cultural Republic is the ultimate fruition of civil
society.

there are economic associations and rights agencies too

Though it is beyond the scope of this book, there should also be thousands or millions of logos under the economic flag; namely, the industry
associations, corporations, co-operatives, labor unions, and consumer federations. In an economy the size of the U.S. national-political economy,
there are about 30 million economic corporations, 7,600 industry associations, 7,000 chambers of commerce (most of which are members of the
overarching U.S. chamber), 90 labor unions (most of which are members of two umbrella unions: AFL-CIO and Change to Win), and about 12
consumer organizations. Volume One includes an illustration of the logos which would comprise an Economic Republic in America.

And under the Rights Republic flag, there should be constituent rights-states (such as the fifty “humanocratized”, “anationalized” U.S. states) and
rights agencies (such as the Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency). Volume One depicts what agencies would make up a
Rights Republic in America. For illustrative purposes, Threefold Now is designing rights flags for the constituent political divisions of each country,
such as the fifty U.S. states. These are slated to appear in a further volume.

the economic and cultural sectors are not governments

Even though a united Cultural Republic is depicted for each country, that is only the beginning. Any NCO (or other cultural organization) would be
free to form their own sovereign Cultural Council. No cultural organization would have to participate in the mainstream Cultural Council. It is not a
tragedy if some orthodox or evangelical cultural organizations form their own Cultural Council. Free means free. From the perspective of the Rights
Republic, various Cultural Councils would be legally incorporated as just another cultural organization in the third sector. Since any cultural
organization, no matter how small (such as a single independent church with only one congregation), is free to consider themselves to be totally
sovereign in the cultural sector, all of the NCO flags in this book could’ve just as well been placed above the Cultural Council flag.

Similarly, there could be more than one Economic Republic operating in the same territory. Freedom of association is also maintained in the
economic sector. A business wouldn’t have to participate in the mainstream Economic Forum. From the perspective of the Rights Republic, such
“breakaway” or “overlapping” Economic Forums would be legally incorporated as just another economic corporation or association.

the political future

The Rights Republic is more about Equality than about Liberty per se. Equality isn’t Freedom. Citizenship in the rights-state remains compulsory for
the immediate future. The political borders, including police and military service areas, also remain the same for the immediate future.
Threefolding isn’t about splitting into secessionist nation-states or lumping into continental supra-nation-states. Threefolding is not about lumping
or splitting, but about uplifting and humanizing the existing social organisms by enacting a threefold separation of powers.

Yet Volume Two does offer some possibilities for the political sector in the further future: namely, the Symbolic Trisector Condominium, the
Trisector Parallel Organism, the Velvet Plebiscite, and Humanocratic Municipalism. In the case of a territorial dispute between two nation-states, or
with an incipient breakaway nation-state (such as the State of Palestine or the Union of People’s Republics in eastern Ukraine), the Symbolic
Trisector Condominium concept allows for the pragmatic political-military facts on the ground to be mutually recognized, through offering an
endgame picture which is satisfactory to both national aspirations. The entire disputed area becomes a “Symbolic Trisector Condominium”, with
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both countries agreeing to show the entire claimed area as part of their political, economic, and cultural territory. The two countries overlap, yet
the police-military line of control becomes the pragmatic administrative border, and both countries allow for a symbolic presence of the other’s
cultural, economic, and political organs within both sides of the area, in the form of symbolic political, economic, and cultural offices which hold
powers identical to a consulate.

Wherever there is a patch of territory which is effectively controlled by a rebel army which seeks political independence or seeks to institute a
completely different political identity (such as the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or the ethnic armies in Myanmar), we suggest that it become an
international norm to immediately staunch the bloodletting by recognizing that the area within the actual line of control is in fact a human statelet,
a human economy, and a human cultural sector—a Trisector Parallel Organism. The mainstream administration would be welcome to forever
consider the rebel area to be a symbolic part of its political, economic, and cultural territory. When there is a mutually satisfactory endgame
picture, the practical details, such as demilitarization, can be hammered out. This is better than killing off the rebel segments of humanity.

The Velvet Plebiscite is this: when humanity has matured to the point when the nation-state is no longer something to kill for, then—like was
witnessed in the split of the Czechoslovak nation-state—it ought to become an international norm for any electoral area to hold a plebiscite and
form an independent rights-state. This is the healthy place for nationally-inspired political self-determination. Even though NCOs would have no
voice in a genuine Rights Republic, ethno-national commonality could be one factor in inspiring the citizenry to vote for a newly delineated political
state. As long as the resulting polity is itself humanocratic and omni-lingual, favoring no particular language or national culture, it’s fine.

“Let us accept the fact that states have lifecycles similar to those of human beings who created them. Hardly any Member State of the
United Nations has existed within its present borders for longer than five generations. The attempt to freeze human evolution has in the
past been a futile undertaking and has probably brought about more violence than if such a process had been controlled peacefully.
Restrictions on self-determination threaten not only democracy itself but the state which seeks its legitimation in democracy."

—Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, 2001

In the further future, the velvet plebiscite could even take place at the granular scale of the city, town, or village. Humanocratic Municipalism is
the vision of humanity’s nation-states dissolving into city-, town-, or village-sized rights-states. The economic and cultural organizations would
continue to flow across these miniature Rights Republics. The future of political-rights articulation lies in the human-scaled, warm-hearted City.

rebels are humanity too

Like Volume Two, this book includes several nation-states or statelets which are only partially recognized by the international community:

 the New Zealand-associated states of Cook Islands and Niue. New Zealand is nicely transitioning these two communities toward nation-
statehood...even though the world doesn’t need another nation-state or national economy.
 Northern/Turkish Cyprus
 the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, a.k.a. Western Sahara
 the Russian satellite states in the Caucasus: Abkhazia and South Ossetia

or which are completely unrecognized but functional human statelets:

 the Armenian satellite state of Nagorno-Karabakh

 the breakaway Republic of Somaliland

Plus the two competing Syrian administrations: Assad’s government and the rebel Syrian National Coalition. And the Knights of Malta, who have an
international status similar to a state, but who are a religious service organization, not a nation.

There are also a few threefold depictions of rebel, insurgent forces which actually administer some patches of earth:

 the ELN in Colombia. This is the one area of our world which is most pervaded with Liberation Theology—an idea which fell to Marxism.
 four examples of the 51 ethnic armies in Myanmar
 the Islamic Emirates in Afghanistan and Somalia

These are, after all, human communities. If Western humanity had ourselves understood and begun to enact the threefold separation of powers,
we could have evoked similarly healthy evolutions in Weimar Germany, in pre-Year Zero Japan, in Korea, and in Vietnam. The idea has been in our
toolbox since 1919, and was spoken of in The New York Times and in leading U.S. economic journals in the 1920s. Many sorrows would have been,
and still could be, sidestepped. The Threefold Idea is for uplifting every branch and twig of humanity—even those who are stuck in the narrow ruts
of the socialist idea or Islamicist idea...as well as the vast core of humanity, composed of both liberals and conservatives, which has deeply
burrowed into the wide and seemingly unquestionable rut of the corporatist, national-security state idea.

"Humanity will have no say in matters if it cannot arrange its social organism in a threefold way. This is what will have to be regarded as the only
healing, the true salvation of humanity."
—Rudolf Steiner
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This index includes the flag designs from Threefold Now book one (just one set of flags: Threefold America) and book two (78 sets of threefold flags
for countries). The 156 sets of threefold flags within this fourth book are in red boldface.

Abkhazia Costa Rica

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
supersessionist Islamic Emirate Croatia...book two
Reconciled Afghanistan...book two Cuba...book two
Albania Cyprus
Algeria Northern Cyprus (Turkish Cypriot State)
America...book one Reunited Cyprus...book two
supersessionist Occupy...book two Czech Republic...book two
supersessionist Libertarian...book two Denmark...book two
supersessionist Haudenosauneega (Iroquoia)...book two Djibouti
supersessionist Vermont...book two Dominica
Andorra Dominican Republic
Angola Ecuador...book two
Antigua and Barbuda Egypt...book two
Argentina ...book two (East Timor: see “Timor-Leste”)
Armenia El Salvador
Australia...book two Equatorial Guinea
Austria...book two Eritrea
Azerbaijan Estonia
supersessionist Nagorno-Karabakh Ethiopia
Reconciled Azerbaijan + Nagorno-Karabakh...book two Fiji...book two
The Bahamas Finland...book two
Bahrain France...book two
Bangladesh Gabon
Barbados The Gambia
Belarus Georgia
Belgium...book two Reconciled Georgia + South Ossetia...book two
Belize Germany...book two
Benin Ghana
Bhutan Greece...book two
Bolivia Grenada
Bosnia and Herzegovina...book two Guatemala
Botswana Guinea
Brazil...book two Guinea-Bissau
Britain...book two Guyana
supersessionist Scotland...book two Haiti
Brunei Honduras
Bulgaria Hungary
Burkina Faso Iceland...book two
(Burma: see “Myanmar”) India...book two
Burundi Indonesia
Cambodia Iran...book two
Cameroon Iraq...book two
Canada...70 supersessionist Islamic State...book two
Cape Verde Ireland...book two
Central African Republic Israel...book two
Chad Reconciled Israel + Palestine = Holy Land...book two
Chile Italy...book two
People’s Republic of China...book two Jamaica
Republic of China (Chinese Taipei/Taiwan)...book two Japan...book two
Reunified China...book two Jordan
Colombia Kazakhstan
supersessionist People’s Army...book two Kenya...book two
supersessionist ELN Kiribati
Comoros Knights of Malta
Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the North Side)
Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) Republic of Korea (the South Side)
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 Reunified Korea...book two Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR/Western Sahara)
Kosovo...book two Saint Christopher and Nevis
Kuwait Saint Lucia
Kyrgyzstan Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Laos Samoa
Latvia San Marino
Lebanon São Tomé and Príncipe
Lesotho Saudi Arabia
Liberia Senegal
Libya...book two Serbia...book two
Liechtenstein Seychelles
Lithuania Sierra Leone
Luxembourg Singapore...book two
Macedonia Slovakia
Madagascar Slovenia
Malawi Solomon Islands
Malaysia Somalia
Maldives supersessionist Somaliland
Mali supersessionist Islamic Emirate
Malta Reconciled Somalia...book two
Marshall Islands South Africa...book two
Mauritania South Ossetia
Mauritius Reconciled South Ossetia + Georgia...book two
Mexico...book two South Sudan
supersessionist Zapatista...book two Spain...book two
Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) Sri Lanka...book two
Moldova Sudan
supersessionist Pridnestrovie (Transnistria)...book two Suriname
Reconciled Moldova + Pridnestrovie...book two Swaziland
Monaco Sweden...book two
Mongolia Switzerland...book two
Montenegro Syria (Assad)
Morocco Syria (Rebels)
Reconciled Morocco + SADR (Western Sahara)...book two supersessionist Kurdish Supreme Committee...book two
Mozambique supersessionist Islamic State...book two
Myanmar (Burma) Reconciled Syria...book two
Myanmar ethnic armies Tajikistan
Namibia (Taiwan: see “China, Republic of”)
Nauru Tanzania
Nepal...book two Thailand
Netherlands...book two Timor-Leste (East Timor)
New Zealand...book two Togo
Cook Islands Tonga
Niue Trinidad and Tobago
Nicaragua Tunisia...book two
Niger Turkey...book two
Nigeria...book two Turkmenistan
Norway...book two Tuvalu
Oman Uganda
Pakistan...book two Ukraine...book two
Palau supersessionist Novorossiya...book two
Palestine...book two United Arab Emirates
Reconciled Palestine + Israel = Holy Land...book two United Kingdom...book two
Panama United States...book one
Papua New Guinea Uruguay
Paraguay Uzbekistan
Peru Vanuatu
Philippines...book two Vatican City (the Holy See)...book two
Poland...book two Venezuela...book two
Portugal Vietnam
Qatar (Western Sahara: see “SADR”)
Romania Yemen
Russia...book two Zambia
Rwanda Zimbabwe...book two
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