In 1982 God revealed to one young lad, a 13 year old boy, His vision for something utterly new and unprecedented and yet more ancient and sacred in its essence: the new dawn of a Kingdom Nation established intentionally among people all over the world from every ancestry one can imagine. It will be a nation as a spiritual construct that transcends political power or race and ancestry in how it is established and maintained as a single but globally-distributed People, or NATION, outside of the boundaries of race or political states.
This represents a declaration of shared spiritual sovereignty, intentionally agreed by all who choose to freely participate, amounting to the world's first globally-distributed, web-based Kingdom Nation called Upadaria which will mostly manifest its existence through local distributed intentional communities and clusters of people who are part of our nation and/or our commonwealth of freedom.
A Kingdom Nation is a new form of manifesting the Kingdom of God among us and through us to the nations for Jesus Christ. A Kingdom Nation is a diversity expression of Kingdom nationhood, which is the aspects of the Kingdom which apply to the whole community of all Believers as a nationality but applied in a unique manner between all the diverse institutions we can call Kingdom Nations.
Upadaria as a people gathering virtually and locally shall be born as a Kingdom nation to reach the nations for Jesus. It will engage in the work of rebuilding kinship, which in turn restores a strong social fabric. Upo Clusters of around 120 or so stakeholders will gather locally to form a sort of distributed intentional community that is financially and materialally as self-sufficient as possible, a modern model but loosely based on the old model of ethnic neighborhoods and close-knit extended family groups harmonizing within a larger pluralistic community of many such people.
People adopt the Upadarian identity in one of three ways: as a nationality, as an international Commonwealth of freedom which is a sort of fraternal collaboration at scale to advance freedom for all, and as a civilizational paradigm that also acts as a governance and lifestyle discipline or philosophy. What I need now are people confirmed to share a calling to launch a Kingdom Nation through a virtual-to-local approach who can aid in filling in the many details needed so that people can follow a simple pathway spelled out clearly but adapt things for their own needs and situation.
There are Upadarians by nationality called Peers, Upadarians by affinity for freedom based on the principles of our Commonwealth who are called Denizens, and Upadarians by philosophy/civilizational paradigm often just called upadarians, not capitalized, or Civs, meaning adherents to the core ideals and principles of the new civilization.
What I envision is the steady growth of casual or sometimes readers and backers until the first core of around 10 or so candidates for Electorship are found and go through an informal series of live Zoom sessions from whence eventually The Liberation Within Experience and the first Revolution Within Experiences can be developed. These are immersive and participatory, role-playing learning experiences in which you build an impression of a character in our fictional future history by which you discover and develop your true scroll of destiny and purpose.
A key feature of the Upadarian Nation is the concept of the Shirehold and the Shirehold Community, but more broadly the concept of clustering together in larger cohabitations than the single family residence in a manner more akin to an ancient tribal band or extended kinship group, all clustering around a central hub for maximum mutual support and profit.
A Upo Cluster may not be able to have a single piece of land for all to have their own residence, but it can have a central hub and use our blueprints and frameworks to adapt the Shirehold model to your local needs, resources, priorities, preferences, and the like. Do not assume we intend to build Upo Communities that are closed to all save fellow Peers, Denizes, or Civs, or Christians, who, as Denizens who also agree to the Kingdom Universals, we refer to as Ecclesians.
While all these groups are to be served, a Upo Community is meant to be a safe haven of freedom for all, thus meaning we envision a free and pluralistic society of equals under the law, we manifest our Kingdom Nationhood in physical spaces and through services that welcome and serve all. Even a distributed intentional Upo Community would have spaces and services welcome to and in the service of the general public, including residency in a Upo Owned Land Trust.
Within Upadaria, we will gather and organize a global network of people to build an international commonwealth of freedom. We will transcend our limits and become the vanguard people of a new Christian civilization. We are a nation ordained by God for this time to arise within many lands and from among many diverse peoples to express its presence as a manifesting of the Kingdom of God among us.
Nationhood more than anything defines cultural and social norms, goals that are held in common, and especially what marriage, family, and community mean within the context of its broader kinship among everyone who identifies with that nation.
While in some ways nations emerge from family groups who form an identity of meaning, common standards and norms, and goals, the truth is that without nationhood, the maintaining of families in general becomes problematic. Outside of some form of nationhood as the source of organic cohesiveness, a culture that affirms such things as marriage and family within a homogeneous community within a pluralistic society would be impossible to create and maintain.
In the language of Scripture, we see that there are many instances where God addresses human being as nations, an institution clearly ordained by God before the founding of this world. The idea nations as an institution are addressed collectively/corporately by God as if they were individual living things requires us to consider whether our blueprints for nationhood are Kingdom precepts or the world's precepts.
Nationhood is not a political border, and they are not established within the Kingdom through military or police power. They are not defined strictly on the basis of blood ancestry as people can be and often are adopted into tribes or national people groups, even if these sociocultural and/or socioreligious communities do not deem themselves a nation.
Nationhood is within the Kingdom. Diverse nations even exist in the world to come, according to the Book of Revelation. If nations exist within the world to come, all of whom have made the Lord their God and King, then why can't such Kingdom Nations exist now? And if we dared to create a Kingdom Nation based on the sacred and ancient precept of nationhood within the Kingdom, what would that look like?
I discovered, years into studying this immense vision, that the addition of an intentional form of Kingdom Nationhood adapted to our present reality, needs, and technology, as well as legal frameworks, is as essential to restoring marriage and family as the heart of a healthy society as the two people meaning their wedding vows. A shared identity that speaks to your sociocultural and socioreligious norms and values, an identity you can trust because of its meaning, is the glue that can connect people in a way that is positive, nurturing, and supportive without becoming smothering or controlling.
Thus the vision for a Kingdom Nation called Upadaria was first revealed in 1982 but we shall find out, based on what support emerges for this content, if now is the time to proclaim and build the world's first intentional, international, web-based spiritual nation ordained and established by God as a diversity expression of Kingdom nationhood and therefore a Kingdom Nation.
In general I hope to gather, build, and organize the first pioneer builders and founders through this website and if this works then shift my focus more and more to develop content for courses as as well as guidebooks, blueprints, and frameworks people can use to adapt these ideas to their local needs.
I would like to see myself and perhaps 20-30 others in a local Upo Hub Community who work on building the elements and structures of this vision, including an international virtual Commonwealth platform, a local pilot Hub Community which people can visit to learn from and be inspired by, and ultimately a 1200 member National Regency to oversee and administered the services of nine governing bodies over key functions.
The new dawn of a Kingdom Nation called Upadaria may not be the first intentional Christian nation, but it may indeed be and it will certainly be the first to be the intentional vanguard people of a new Christian civilization. The idea of being intentional about how a new civilization will emerge during the latter stages of old civilizations is perhaps quite new. There are no records of intentional civilizations being created from advanced pre-planning.
The new dawn of Upadaria as a Kingdom Nation is the starting point as this ultimately ends with an international non-territorial Commonwealth of freedom that has some standing under international law to protect the rights, safety, and interests of its Denizens who pay to subscribe and be part of the Virtual Commonwealth and who also Pledge Allegiance to the official International Commonwealth, called The Crown Commonwealth of Upadaria.