Sorkia

Apply for Sorkia citizenship

NMT reads every application and approves or rejects it. No ID is needed. About Sorkia

  1. Name and password
  2. Required questions
  3. Optional questions
  4. Message and agreements

Name and password

Your name in Sorkia. You log in with it, with or without spaces; capitals do not matter.

Your name has

Each part may contain spaces. Use letters of any script, digits, apostrophes, hyphens and periods.

Shown next to your messages in Sorkia chat.

Login password

At least 12 characters. With your name, it signs you in to Sorkia in Element.

  • Use a password you use nowhere else.
  • It is not part of your application, so NMT never sees it there. On sending, it goes straight to Sorkia's login server (auth.sorkia.org), which stores only an irreversible hash (argon2).
  • Your account stays locked until approval. If the application is refused, withdrawn or lapses, the account is deleted.
  • “Make a password” creates one in this browser and sends it nowhere. Save it before you go on.

Required questions

Agerequired
Languages you want to use in Sorkiarequired

Optional questions

Answer the three required questions. Each optional question you answer earns the Sorki shown next to it when you are approved, up to 510 in all.

Up to 510 Sorki for optional answers.

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  • Purpose: research, statistics and publication of aggregate counts. My optional answers are not used to decide my application.
  • Items: my answers to the optional questions that are not sensitive.
  • Retention: as in box 3, or until I withdraw this consent.
  • Because the charts update live, a change right after I join can hint at my answers.
  • My right to refuse: I can leave this box unchecked and still apply. The optional questions are then disabled, and I do not earn the 10 or 20 Sorki per optional answer. The state gives Sorki no monetary value. I can withdraw this consent at any time; my optional answers are then deleted, Sorki already earned are kept, and statistics already published stay.
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  • Purpose: research, statistics and publication of aggregate counts. My sensitive answers are not used to decide my application.
  • Retention: as in box 3, or until I withdraw this consent.
  • My individual answers are not shown to other citizens. Charts for these questions are not published by default. If they are published, any answer chosen by fewer than 10 people is shown as "<10", and because the charts update live, a change right after I join can hint at my answers. To keep an answer out of every chart, I can leave the question blank.
  • My right to refuse: I can leave this box unchecked and still apply. These questions are then disabled, and I do not earn the 30 Sorki per answer. The state gives Sorki no monetary value. I can withdraw this consent at any time; my answers are then deleted, Sorki already earned are kept, and statistics already published stay.

Switch on one of the two agreements above to answer optional questions.

How did you find Sorkia?optional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
What do you want to do in Sorkia?optional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
Have you used Matrix or Element before?optional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
Have you been a member of another micronation?optional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
Highest education leveloptional, tier 2: 20 Sorki
How many languages do you speak?optional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
Have you learned a constructed language (such as Esperanto)?optional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
Can you program?optional, tier 2: 20 Sorki
How often do you use AI tools?optional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
Have you contributed to open source?optional, tier 2: 20 Sorki
Hours per week you may spend on Sorkiaoptional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
Which do you dislike more?optional, tier 2: 20 Sorki
Have you used cryptocurrency?optional, tier 2: 20 Sorki
Would you recommend Sorkia to others?optional, tier 1: 10 Sorki
Political leaningoptional, tier 3: 30 Sorki
Economic leaningoptional, tier 3: 30 Sorki
Preferred way to decideoptional, tier 3: 30 Sorki
Religionoptional, tier 3: 30 Sorki
Genderoptional, tier 2: 20 Sorki
Where do you live?optional, tier 2: 20 Sorki
How satisfied are you with the politics of the country you live in?optional, tier 3: 30 Sorki
Have you experienced internet censorship?optional, tier 3: 30 Sorki
Do you use Tor or a VPN?optional, tier 3: 30 Sorki
Sorki for your answers0 / 510

Message and agreements

At least 30 characters.

An approval is sent here, and a reset link if you forget your password. Without it, your status link shows the decision.

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  • Sorkia is NMT's non-profit experiment, not a state recognised by any country, and gives me no legal status outside Sorkia;
  • messages are not end-to-end encrypted, and the state and NMT can read every message and file, including direct chats, and may use them to enforce the Terms;
  • NMT may intervene in or overturn anything in Sorkia at any time, is not bound by Sorkia's own laws, and may suspend or revoke my citizenship;
  • Sork, Sorki and other Sorkia currencies have no monetary value from the state and cannot be bought or exchanged for real money through the state;
  • NMT's liability is limited (USD 100 in total; not for intent or gross negligence);
  • one person may hold only one account.
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  • Processed with this consent: network information derived from my IP address when I submit: its country, network (AS number and name), whether it is a Tor exit, an estimate of whether it is a hosting or VPN network, and a keyed hash of the address for same-address comparison. Its purpose is only to detect fraud and duplicate applications. My IP address itself is not stored.
  • Processed without consent because citizenship needs them: Sorkia name, login name, display nickname, password (stored only in hashed form by the login gateway), site language, my message to the state, application status and times, and my answers to the 3 required questions: the place I live (its country, and its state where the age of majority is set by state; it decides which age of majority applies), my age band (it confirms I am at least 18) and the languages I will use in Sorkia (they place me in language channels). Purpose: to decide my application and run my account and the registry.
  • E-mail address (optional): used only if I give it, to tell me the result and help me recover my account. Giving it is my consent.
  • Answers and network information are also counted in Sorkia's public statistics. Because the charts update live, a change right after I join can hint at my answers, including my required answers.
  • Retention: while I am a citizen, and deleted 1 year after my citizenship ends unless a law requires longer. If my application is refused, withdrawn or expires: 3 years from that date. Both periods serve to detect repeat or fraudulent applications and to handle disputes. Published aggregate statistics are kept without limit.
  • My right to refuse: I can refuse. If I refuse, I cannot apply. Withdrawing this consent later withdraws my application or ends my citizenship.
  • My information is stored on servers in Canada and uses providers in the United States and Switzerland, as the Privacy Policy explains. For the EU, this box is acceptance of the notice; the legal bases are in section 3.2 of the Privacy Policy.
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