Land ownership in Illuminatia
Personal and corporate land ownership in not permissible in Illuminatia and is not a recognized or accepted practice. Land cannot be held as private property. The entirety of the surface area of the Neonisi planet, including the full land area of Illuminatia, is held in public trust and administered by the various agencies of the Illuminatian government responsible for land management. Within urban areas, the authority to grant land usage resides with the local tertiary assembly.
While the erection of private dwellings and other structures is a commonplace practice and the exclusive right to occupy a space is recognized in Illuminatian law, the land upon which those spaces stand is borrowed or rented from the common trust with the permission of the appropriate governmental entity. The land upon which one's home or business is erected can never be permanently owned—the land may only be leased on a short or long-term basis.
The in-common public trusteeship of land is in accordance with Lucidus guidelines, which understood that permanent private ownership of the land itself and space itself is a mechanism for many of the social ills observed during Earth's archaeomodern historical era, including accumulation and hoarding of wealth. It was understood that the inability for the public in general to somewhat flexibly manage the usage of space in the shared environment results in irreparable dysfunction of the space and the community occupying and relying upon that space for its existence. This lack of provision for private ownership of land is a direct attempt to avoid the commoditization of land as an asset, avoiding problems associated with speculation on the value of real estate and the amassing of wealth which the Department of Monetary Policy (DMP) was designed to discourage through financial policy focused on cash.
Personal and corporate ownership of buildings and structures themselves is permissible and is commonplace, however the ownership of this real estate never includes the land or publicly-managed structure upon which the structure stands. Public ownership and management of base structures within which modular components of sub-buildings is possible. Publicly-administered and organization-based ownership of buildings and structures is also commonplace, in which case structures might be to some extent also publicly managed.
The right to occupy a piece of land is "rented" from a local tertiary assembly or other governmental entity based upon a regularly occurring property use tax. Authorities and land users must agree to and maintain the terms of this property use tax for the term of the lease and the terms of this lease may not be changed during the effective period of the lease, however the financial and other regulatory terms of the lease may be changed upon renewal of the agreement. Strong regulatory safeguards favor personal lessees utilizing land for their personal primary dwelling; these safeguards are intended to not provide any favor for corporate entities or those using a dwelling for something other than a personal residence.
In a city, the local tertiary assembly in question is fully responsible for land management, taxation, and city planning matters, which interact deeply with the building of and continued existence of buildings and structures upon the land. Tertiary assembly policy is intended to affect the existence and use of land and the structures on that land.
Rights and taxation related to land use are considered in a four-dimensional basis. The definition of a lease, the permissions granted, and the taxation incurred is considered not only based upon street frontage and the surface area of a piece of land but is also strictly defined based upon the three-dimensional space occupied in height above ground and depth below ground. Land usage rights are granted with practical consideration for height and depth, and time-based criteria can be made to be flexible to consider various levels of temporary or semi-permanent occupation of any portion of three-dimensional space upon a piece of land.