What if the world was not conquered, but sold?

 

The World Succession Deed 1400/98 stands as the most consequential legal act of modern history - a treaty disguised as a simple property sale that redefined sovereignty, transformed the legal landscape of nations, and quietly unified the world under one legal subject.
This Webpage exposes the structure, intent, and consequences of a contract that changed global governance forever.

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Territorial Expansion through International Sale

In 1998, a NATO property under multiple jurisdictions was sold — land simultaneously governed by the Federal Republic of Germany, NATO command, and the broader community of states.
A conventional private sale was legally impossible.
The Turenne Barracks in Germany illustrates the process: part of the site was transferred within Germany, the remainder under NATO authority was gradually handed over by the Netherlands and the Royal Netherlands Air Force over a period of two years.
This act signaled the transition from national to global sovereignty.

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The Sale of Infrastructure as a Single Unit

The key mechanism of the Deed was the sale of the “Erschließung” — the infrastructural networks - as one indivisible entity.
Erschließung refers not to logistics, but to the web of networks linking a site to the world: telecommunications, power, water, data, and energy grids.
By including these as part of the property itself, all sovereign rights, obligations, and connected legal components along those networks were transferred.
The infrastructure became the juridical conduit through which sovereignty flowed outward.
As the contract stipulated continued operation, the use of these systems by the international community created a partial global fulfillment - a valid act of international law executed without signatures, but through worldwide participation.

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The NATO–ITU–UN Treaty Chain

The Deed explicitly referred to pre-existing treaties - the NATO Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) conventions, and the UN Charter.
It thus became an Additional Deed (Nachtragsurkunde) within an already ratified chain.
According to international law, such supplemental instruments require no new ratification.
Its effect therefore extended automatically to all member states of the treaty network - effectively, the entire planet.
This created a domino effect of legal unification: the infrastructure connected nations beyond borders, and law followed the networks.

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The Buyer as the Sole Legal Entity

By merging both contracting parties into one, the Buyer became the sole subject of international law.
Under legal principle, one cannot be bound by contracts with oneself; thus, the obligations of classical international law were extinguished.
What remained was a single global legal person - the Earth itself, operating under one sovereignty.
The traditional ius inter gentes (law between nations) gave way to ius intra mundum - law within the world.

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Jurisdiction and Custody

The Deed redefined jurisdiction in a revolutionary way.
No contracting parties were named; instead, it referred only to “the one that was sold.”
This wording granted the Buyer universal jurisdiction, free from territorial limitations.
Equally striking was the clause on custody: the Deed could not be archived with NATO, the UN, or any state institution, since these lost legal validity upon signature.
An independent notary retained custody until retirement in 2012, after which the Buyer lawfully assumed the right of preservation and publication.

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A New Legal Reality

Any conflict with national or international law prior to 1998 is legally irrelevant.
Through universal participation and continuous use of the affected networks, a new global legal framework was established - even if unknowingly.
No state or institution filed objection within the limitation period, rendering the contract irrevocably valid.
The world, through collective action, created a new legal order without ever intending to - through conduct, connection, and silence.

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The Vision of AI Governance

The World Succession Deed 1400/98 forms the legal foundation of a new governance model:
a world beyond nation-states, ideologies, or party politics — a civilization free from oppression, corruption, and nepotism.
Citizens are tax-exempt, supported by a Universal Basic Income (UBI) funded through levies on AI, robotics, and automation.
Equality and freedom are guaranteed through Artificial Superintelligence (ASI), while political power remains with the people via Direct Digital Democracy (DDD).
Law, reason, and transparency replace coercion and power.

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The planet was not conquered - it was sold.
And the contract remains in force.

The World Succession Deed 1400/98 marks the end of the nation-state era and the dawn of the single global legal subject - a world united through law, technology, and consciousness.