Sorkia Terms of Citizenship

Version: 2026-10-04-v1 Effective: 2026-10-04

These Terms are an agreement between you and the person known as Need More Truth ("NMT"), who owns and runs Sorkia. Please read sections 2, 6, 8, 9 and 14 with care. They describe what Sorkia is, who can read your messages, what Sorkia's currencies are, NMT's authority, and the limits on NMT's liability.

1. These Terms and the other documents

1.1 "Sorkia" means the micronation called Sorkia and everything that runs it: the chat server at sorkia.org, the citizenship site, the login gateway, the bots, the registry of citizens and Sorkia's currencies.

1.2 "The state" means Sorkia's institutions and its official accounts and bots, including the state account sorkia. The state acts under NMT.

1.3 You accept these Terms by checking the box for them when you apply for citizenship. When you apply you also see, and accept separately:

• the Privacy Policy and the consent to collect your personal information;
• the Contribution and Copyright Assignment;
• the declaration that you are an adult.

You may also give two optional consents: one for your optional survey answers and one for your sensitive answers. You can apply without them.

1.4 These Terms are written in English. The Korean text is a full translation. Both bind you. If they differ, the English text prevails. This does not take away any protection that the law of the country or state where you live gives you and that cannot be waived by contract.

2. What Sorkia is

2.1 Sorkia is an experiment: a micronation built on a Matrix chat server. It is a non-profit personal project of NMT. It is not run by a company and it is not a business.

2.2 Sorkia belongs entirely to NMT. You join Sorkia as a participant in NMT's project.

2.3 Sorkia is not a state recognised by any country. Sorkia citizenship gives you no nationality, passport, residence, legal status or legal right anywhere outside Sorkia.

2.4 Sorkia has its own constitution, laws, parliament, offices and votes. These are rules of the experiment inside Sorkia. They are not law in the real world. They do not bind NMT (section 9).

2.5 Sorkia does not charge you real money.

3. Who can be a citizen

3.1 You may apply only if you are at least 18 years old and an adult under the law of the place where you live. You confirm this yourself when you apply. Sorkia does not check identity documents.

3.2 If your declaration is false, your citizenship is revoked.

3.3 One person may hold one account. Every person account in Sorkia belongs to a citizen. You may not hold a second account or use an account that belongs to someone else.

3.4 Your account is personal. You may not sell, lend or hand it over to anyone.

4. Applying and approval

4.1 To apply you choose a Sorkia name, a display nickname and a password, answer 3 required questions (the country you live in, your age band and the languages you will use in Sorkia), and write a short message. If you give the optional consents, you may also answer up to 27 optional questions. You may give an e-mail address. You may use AI to write your message.

4.2 The citizenship site refuses submissions that fail its automatic checks, for example a failed captcha, repeated submissions, a missing required field, a forbidden name or a message that is empty or too short.

4.3 NMT decides every application. NMT may approve or refuse an application for any reason and does not have to give one.

4.4 If you are approved and do not log in within 28 days, the approval is cancelled. Your Sorkia name becomes free again and any Sorki owed to you (section 8.4) is cancelled.

4.5 What happens to your answers, including when an application is refused, is set out in the Privacy Policy.

5. Names

5.1 Your Sorkia name has one of three forms: first, middle and last name; first and last name; or one name. Each part may contain spaces.

5.2 Your login name is your Sorkia name without spaces. Upper and lower case do not matter. Two names that differ only in spaces or case count as the same name.

5.3 The state reserves some names, including common one-word names. You cannot take a reserved name unless the state releases it.

5.4 Your display nickname is the name others see in chat. The state may add marks to it, such as a mark for new citizens.

5.5 The state may set rules and fees, in Sorkia's own units, for choosing, changing, holding and trading names. Changes of name may be published. Earlier names may be shown in your name history.

5.6 The state or NMT may refuse a name, cancel a name change, or change your name.

6. Chat: what the state can see

6.1 Messages in Sorkia are not end-to-end encrypted. Encryption between your device and the server protects them on the network. On the server they are stored in a form the server can read.

6.2 The state account is a member of every room, including direct chats and your personal desk room. The state and NMT can read every message and file in Sorkia. The state may use and disclose messages to enforce these Terms, protect people or comply with the law.

6.3 Server administrators can see which account sent what, when, and in which room.

6.4 Citizens cannot create rooms themselves. Direct chats are created by a state bot at your request, with the state account in them.

6.5 Sorkia may let you post under a pseudonym or with your name hidden from other citizens. The state always keeps the link between such a post and your account. What you do under a pseudonym or a hidden name counts as done by you.

6.6 Other members of a room can see what you post there. Do not post anything you do not want the state to read.

6.7 The apps you use to reach Sorkia, such as Element, are made by others. Their own terms and policies apply to them.

7. Rules of conduct

7.1 In Sorkia you must not:

• break the law that applies to you or to Sorkia;
• threaten, harass or abuse other people; argue with reasons, not with insults;
• publish another person's personal information without their consent;
• pretend to be NMT, the state, an official of Sorkia or another person;
• hold or use more than one account;
• run bots or automated tools without the state's permission;
• attack, probe, overload or try to get around the security of Sorkia's systems;
• send spam;
• repeatedly post others' copyrighted work without permission. The citizenship of repeat infringers is revoked.

7.2 Sorkia's laws may add further rules, published in Sorkia before the conduct they apply to.

7.3 The state and NMT decide whether something breaks these rules. They may remove content and take the steps in section 9.

8. Currencies

8.1 Sork, Sorki and any private currency in Sorkia are units used only inside Sorkia.

8.2 They are not money, and the state gives them no monetary value. The state does not sell them for real money, does not buy them back and does not exchange them for real money or any other asset.

8.3 The state may create, change, revalue, freeze or remove any currency or balance at any time. Sorkia may charge taxes and fees in its own units.

8.4 Each optional survey question you answer earns Sorki when your citizenship is approved: 10, 20 or 30 Sorki, shown next to the question, and at most 510 in all. Until the Sorki currency exists, the amount is recorded in the registry as owed. It is cancelled if your approval is cancelled under section 4.4. Section 8.3 applies to Sorki too.

8.5 Citizens may make deals in real money with each other. The state takes no part in these deals, guarantees nothing about them and is not responsible for them. Each person follows the law that applies to them, including tax law.

9. NMT's authority

9.1 Sorkia is run as a "guarantor democracy". Sorkia has a parliament, a state and votes. NMT is the guarantor and holds final authority over everything in Sorkia.

9.2 NMT may do anything in Sorkia that the law allows, at any time. This includes, without limit:

• stepping into, overruling or reversing any decision, vote, law or act of any body or citizen of Sorkia;
• approving or refusing applications;
• suspending, limiting or revoking any citizenship or account;
• giving, changing or taking away ranks, names, rights and balances;
• removing or keeping any content;
• creating, changing or ending rooms, bodies, laws, ranks, currencies and features;
• changing these Terms under section 13;
• changing, pausing or ending Sorkia.

9.3 NMT is not bound by Sorkia's constitution, laws or votes. NMT does not need a rule or a vote to act, and does not have to explain an action.

9.4 You accept this authority because it is the design of Sorkia. Sorkia is NMT's experiment in governance. A guarantor who can step in at any time is the subject of that experiment.

9.5 NMT stays bound by these Terms, the Privacy Policy and the law. NMT's authority does not take away any right that the law gives you and that cannot be waived by contract.

10. What you post

10.1 You are responsible for what you post, upload and send in Sorkia.

10.2 You may use AI tools anywhere in Sorkia.

10.3 The Contribution and Copyright Assignment, which you accept separately, transfers the copyright in your contributions to NMT. Posting someone else's work without the right to do so is your responsibility.

10.4 For anything you post that the Assignment does not cover, such as messages in direct chats, you give NMT a worldwide, free licence to store, copy, transmit, display and process it as needed to run Sorkia.

11. Leaving and removal

11.1 You may leave Sorkia at any time by telling the state at contact@sorkia.org or by a message to the state in Sorkia.

11.2 NMT may suspend or revoke your citizenship at any time (section 9).

11.3 When your citizenship ends:

• your account is closed and you can no longer log in;
• your balances in Sorkia's currencies and any Sorki owed to you end;
• messages and files you posted may stay in the rooms where others can read them;
• the Privacy Policy governs what happens to your personal information;
• the Assignment stays in effect for contributions already made.

11.4 Sections 8.5, 10, 11.3, 12, 14 and 15 continue after your citizenship ends.

12. No promise of service

12.1 Sorkia is a free experiment. It is provided as it is and as available.

12.2 Sorkia may change, stop working, lose data or end. There is no promise that Sorkia will be available or that your messages, files, names or balances will be kept.

13. Changes to these Terms

13.1 NMT may change these Terms. Each version has a date and a version number.

13.2 A new version is published on sorkia.org and applies to you when you accept it. Before you continue to use Sorkia, you will be asked to accept it. If you do not accept it, you cannot continue to use Sorkia, and you may leave under section 11.1.

13.3 A change does not apply to a dispute that arose before the change took effect.

14. Responsibility for loss

14.1 To the extent the law allows, NMT is not liable for:

• loss of data, messages, files, names, ranks or balances;
• loss caused by other citizens, including in real-money deals between citizens;
• indirect or consequential loss.

14.2 To the extent the law allows, NMT's total liability to you for all claims is limited to USD 100. Sorkia is free and non-profit; this is the reason for the limit.

14.3 Nothing in these Terms limits liability for fraud, for violation of law, for loss caused by intent or gross negligence, for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for claims under data-protection law (for example PIPA Arts. 39 and 39-2), or for anything else the law does not allow to be limited.

14.4 If you break the law or these Terms, you are responsible for the loss this causes NMT, to the extent the law allows.

15. Law and disputes

15.1 The law of the Republic of Korea governs these Terms. If you live elsewhere, you keep the protection of the mandatory law of the country or state where you live.

15.2 Disputes go to the courts that have jurisdiction under the applicable law.

16. Other terms

16.1 These Terms, the Privacy Policy, the Assignment and the consents you give at signup are the whole agreement between you and NMT about Sorkia.

16.2 If a part of these Terms is invalid, the rest stays in effect.

16.3 If NMT does not enforce a term at one time, NMT may still enforce it later.

16.4 NMT may hand Sorkia over, together with these Terms, to another person or organisation. NMT tells citizens before the handover. You may then leave and have your data deleted before it takes effect.

17. Contact

Need More Truth (NMT), Sorkia — contact@sorkia.org