Axiom 0: The Right to Exit

No Chapter may prevent, delay, penalize, or disincentivize the departure of any Sovereign.

This is not Axiom 1. It is Axiom Zero – the prerequisite for all others. Without exit, all other rights are decoration.

Mechanism

SoulKey portability, ChapterPassport, reputation snapshot at departure. Cryptographically enforced; no Chapter can delete the SoulKey or corrupt the reputation.

Inalienability

The right to exit cannot be waived, traded, or contracted away. Any agreement that imposes consequences on the act of exit itself – whether financial, reputational, or physical – is void from inception.

You may agree to obligations that survive departure. You may never agree to barriers to departure.