Principal
Undertakings of its own
New states conceived and carried forward on the company’s own account. Where one comes to hold assets or admit investors, it may be placed in a dedicated project company.
The country-creation company
Building new countries by agreement.
Mondikos originates and establishes new states through peaceful, lawful and consensual arrangements with the nations of today.
01 The company
A company established to build countries.
A state needs more than land, a name or a declaration. It needs agreed territory, a lawful arrangement with an existing state, institutions, physical foundations, an identity and the capacity to function. Mondikos brings these together.
Undertakings of its own.
Mondikos is organised around the new states it originates and develops itself. These receive first call on its attention and resources.
Engagements by introduction.
Alongside them, Mondikos accepts a select number of engagements from founders, consortia, institutions and governments, including existing states that wish to see a new state formed.
02 Capabilities
From agreement to establishment.
Five capabilities, held in one structure, from first approach to working public services.
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Territory and treaty
Identifying suitable state counterparts and negotiating the arrangements through which a new state may be established: constitutive treaties, long-term leases and, where appropriate, acquisitions. Legal advice is given by qualified international counsel.
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Institutions and charters
Founding charters, frameworks of government and public institutions. A charter should answer to its geography, its people and its trade, as a building answers to its site.
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Identity and reputation
Name, flag, seal, arms and national narrative, together with the international standing that grows from them. The same work is open to existing states marking a new chapter.
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Development and infrastructure
Master planning, infrastructure, housing and public buildings, delivered by established developers, engineers and architects under our direction. We hold the programme; they hold the trowel.
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Public services, by contract
Registries, licensing, permits, digital services and utilities, run for the government concerned through a separate operating company. The government keeps ultimate authority and may end the appointment. Legislation, courts, policing and citizenship remain with the state.
We administer by contract. We do not govern.
03 Approach
We lay no stone ourselves.
Our work is to make it possible for the right people to lay them, under terms written to hold for generations.
Held by Mondikos
- Origination and negotiation
- Strategy and commercial structuring
- Institutional design
- Direction of the whole
Engaged for each undertaking
- International counsel
- Architects and master planners
- Engineers and developers
- Specialist service providers
Agreement is the keystone. Everything else rests on it.
A country should begin the way it means to continue: in the open, within the law and with the consent of those it concerns.
04 Standards
Five standards. No exceptions.
Applied to every lease, acquisition and treaty, on our own account or for others.
Unencumbered territory
The territory is uninhabited or, where a small population lives there, its people have given their free consent. It is clear of competing claims and material disputes.
Demonstrable title
The granting state holds clear legal title and the lawful authority to agree.
A suitable counterpart
The counterpart is a member of the United Nations, stable and governed through democratic institutions.
Constitutional legitimacy
Every arrangement complies with the granting state’s own laws and procedures, including legislative approval and referendums where required.
Transparent consideration
Every benefit accrues to the state itself, on terms disclosed to the public. None passes to officials or intermediaries.
Where these standards cannot be met, we do not proceed.
Mondikos takes no part in coercion, dispossession or the displacement of unwilling people. Every state it helps to establish must respect individual rights and freedoms and the rule of law.
05 Undertakings
Two activities, in a clear order.
Selective
External engagements
For founders, consortia, governments and institutions. Each is undertaken on written terms and held in confidence.
06 Particulars
Plain answers.
Is Mondikos a law firm or a financial institution?
Neither. Mondikos leads origination, strategy, negotiation and coordination. It gives no legal or investment advice and holds no funds on behalf of others. Qualified counsel and advisers are appointed for each undertaking.
Will Mondikos govern the states it helps to establish?
No. Any public services it provides are rendered under contract to the government, which retains ultimate authority and may bring the contract to an end.
Is statehood or recognition ever guaranteed?
No. A new state requires the consent and proper authority of the granting state, working institutions and regard for international law. Recognition rests with other states. Mondikos promises neither.
How does an engagement begin?
With an introduction or a recommendation. Mondikos does not advertise its services, and it accepts engagements at its discretion.
What is the present status of Mondikos?
Mondikos is a company in formation. This page sets out its purpose, its standards and the way it intends to work. It does not describe completed undertakings.
07 The Startup States Society
The Startup States Society is an institute devoted to research and scholarship on the peaceful formation of new states. Mondikos is its prospective commercial counterpart, intended to put those ideas into practice.
The two are complementary and distinct, and each keeps to its own purpose.