You don't have to join ours — you can build your own association, in your country, under your law, owned by its members. Pick your country; each guide is written in its own language.
Then nothing is lost — the pattern is universal, only the paperwork is local. In almost every country on earth, a handful of people can create an ordinary member association: not a charity, not a company — an entity that answers only to its members. Here is how to find your country's version of it:
Search for "found a non-profit member association" plus your country's name, in your language — and look for the chapter of your civil code or the dedicated associations act that governs it. Every guide on this page is built from exactly that starting point.
The minimum number of founders; the authority where the association is registered; whether assemblies may be held virtually; and what the law says about expelling a member — because due process before exclusion is the right this federation exists to defend.
One review before filing costs little and prevents the only expensive mistake: statutes that conflict with mandatory local law.
From there, the arc is the same everywhere, and it is the same arc every guide on this page follows: adapt the model statutes → check the name is free → hold the founding assembly (adopt the statutes, elect an unpaid board) → register → obtain the tax number → open a bank account in the association's name with two signers → adopt the Federation Charter and sign the name licence → open membership.
And everything after the founding is identical in every country: the software, the model statutes, and the country kits live in one repository — https://github.com/UnicAtor/soli-stack — free and open source (AGPL). The repository opens to the public with the open-source release; until then, this page is the map of what is coming. Your association adopts the Charter, earns the name, and returns to the federation as a peer. Questions, or a guide you want us to add for your country: contact.admin@unicate.ai.