# Substrate-Neutral Citizenship **Domain:** Digital Afterlife / Citizenship / Equality **Doc Type:** Canonical Concept **Maturity:** Developed **Evidence / Concept Status:** Normative constitutional concept ## Definition **Substrate-Neutral Citizenship** is the principle that citizenship rights and duties should not depend solely on whether the recognized person is biological, synthetic, hybrid, or computational once relevant legal identity/personhood criteria are satisfied. ## Continuity Significance It is the citizenship analogue of substrate-neutral moral patienthood. ## Existing Architecture / Evidence No jurisdiction currently recognizes this rule for computational persons. ## Evidentiary Boundary / Red-Team Note Neutrality does not eliminate legitimate identity, security, competence, or jurisdictional criteria. ## Related Ontology [[wiki/Computational Citizenship|Computational Citizenship]] · [[wiki/Continuity Citizenship|Continuity Citizenship]] · [[wiki/Substrate-Neutral Moral Patienthood|Substrate-Neutral Moral Patienthood]] · [[wiki/Biological Exclusivity|Biological Exclusivity]] <!-- BEGIN DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE --> ## Deep-Time Continuity Interface This node is audited through [[wiki/Deep Time Continuity|Deep Time Continuity]] for future control-surface conversion, ontological drift, succession, irreversibility, due process, and resource incidence. The backlink records analytical relevance; it does not establish continuity intent in the present rule or institution. <!-- END DEEP TIME CONTINUITY INTERFACE -->