# Citizen Continuity **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / State Capacity / Personhood **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Corpus synthesis ## Definition **Citizen Continuity** is preservation of a citizen's legally significant identity, rights, records, and potentially protected computational state across biological death, institutional failure, migration, or substrate transition. ## Continuity Significance It distinguishes continuity of government from continuity of the governed person. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence Governments currently guarantee fragments such as civil records, estates, identity, and essential services; no general post-biological citizen-continuity duty exists. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Do not infer person-level continuity from state continuity. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]] · [[wiki/Citizen Identity Continuity|Citizen Identity Continuity]] · [[wiki/Government Continuity vs Citizen Continuity|Government Continuity vs Citizen Continuity]] · [[wiki/Residual Sovereign|Residual Sovereign]]