Manifesto · Version 1.0 · September 2026
The Sovereign Family: A Jurisdiction Planning Manifesto
Published by the Journal and maintained by the Association for Jurisdiction Planning. Read the full text or download the PDF.
Articles of the Association for Jurisdiction Planning
- Jurisdiction planning is on the side of the family.
- Jurisdiction planning curates and arbitrates only.
- Jurisdiction planning advisors should never gain at a client's expense.
- Jurisdiction planning diversifies between jurisdictions.
Therefore the purpose of jurisdiction planning is to make families sovereign.
Laws of the sovereign family
- A sovereign family holds its citizenships by choice.
- A sovereign family decides its jurisdictions before it decides anything else.
- A sovereign family holds residence or citizenship in at least two jurisdictions.
- A sovereign family deals with every jurisdiction as an equal.
- A sovereign family contributes to every jurisdiction that benefits it, on terms its citizens welcome.
Instruments
JP Success Index
173 countries scored from 0 to 100 on the four conditions a jurisdiction owes the families it holds: Security, Prosperity, Justice and Posterity. Each condition fails at a breaking point: Violence Outbreak, Economic Collapse, Lawlessness, Demographic Exhaustion.
173 countries 10 at critical risk to families 56 at high risk median score 52.0 v2.1 · reviewed July 2026
- JP RankingsFifty jurisdictions ranked apart on the three positions a plan holds: the Vault, the Forum and the Refuge.
- JP Custody MapWhere the world's private wealth is held, and which authorities have frozen it: the wealth map and the freeze ledger.
- JP ChokepointsThe narrows that carry the world's seaborne trade and most of its oil, and the distance of each jurisdiction from them.
- JP Influence ZonesThirty zones and the three poles that pull on them, read for the protector each jurisdiction sits under.
- JP Natural ResourcesThe materials a rival can withhold, who mines them and who refines them.
- JP Cable MapThe undersea cables that carry the world's data, the corridors where they cluster, and a ledger of cuts.
- JP Self-SufficiencyWhich of 175 countries could feed and power themselves if trade were cut, one of the tests of a Refuge.
JP Atlas · standing instrument
One world, read every way
The same map, one lens at a time: jurisdiction risk, private wealth, spheres of influence, political regime, and self-reliance. Over any of them lie the financial centres and havens, the seven chokepoints, and the arteries of trade, energy, data, and rail.
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Principles
Principles · No. 1
Jurisdiction Planning
The curation standard: how an advisor reads a family's jurisdictions, measures their concentration, and chooses the ones it should hold.
Principles · No. 2
The Sovereign Family
A family that guarantees its own security, prosperity, justice and posterity without depending on any single jurisdiction, and the standard each of the five laws sets for it.
Principles · No. 3 · In preparation
Generational Planning
How a family keeps posterity, the condition families fail most: marriage, succession, health and education designed as one plan.
Principles · No. 4 · In preparation
The Sovereign Company
A family's enterprise held across several jurisdictions: its entities, its treasuries and its names.
All publications, including the standing instruments of other publishers.
In preparation: JP Passport Index · country-by-country maps of the laws that reach families, beginning with Brazil · briefings on bills and windows in motion · Principles No. 3, Generational Planning · Principles No. 4, The Sovereign Company.
Latest
- 1 Oct 2026The Sovereign Family: A Jurisdiction Planning Manifesto, version 1.0, published in full with its PDF. The Principles are revised to align with it, and Generational Planning becomes Principles No. 3.
- 1 Oct 2026The JP Risk Index becomes the JP Success Index, scored on the manifesto's four conditions. Data and method are unchanged; scores now run from 0 to 100 with 100 the best, and each country's band reads as its risk to families.
- 27 Jul 2026JP Passport Index announced, now in preparation. Four axes scored for the family holding the passport rather than the market selling it: mobility where a family actually banks, retention, the claim the state keeps on the holder, and consular protection.
- 24 Jul 2026The instruments take their working names: JP Atlas, JP Risk Index, JP Rankings, and the rest of the shelf. Same instruments, plainer names.
- 24 Jul 2026New standing instrument: JP Rankings. Fifty jurisdictions ranked three separate ways: asset protection, business flexibility, and immunity.
- 23 Jul 2026JP Atlas gains regime and self-reliance lenses, country search, and zoom.
- 20 Jul 2026Two new instruments complete the shelf: JP Cable Map and JP Self-Sufficiency. The same six things great powers fight to control, now mapped end to end.
- 20 Jul 2026New standing instrument: JP Natural Resources, on the materials whose refining, not mining, is the chokepoint.
- 20 Jul 2026New standing instrument: JP Custody Map, a ledger of who can freeze the world's wealth and where it is held.
- 20 Jul 2026New standing instrument: JP Chokepoints, a map and reference brief on the maritime narrows that carry the world's trade and oil.
- 20 Jul 2026Index v2.1: coverage extends from 118 to 173 countries, the United States among them. Additions are provisional, scored by anchoring on the same sources, pending the 2026 edition.
- 20 Jul 2026The Journal moved to jurisdictionplanning.org; the .com address forwards.
- 15 Jul 2026The Sovereign Company announced as Principles No. 3, now in preparation (renumbered No. 4 in October 2026).