II.   Sovereign

Topography is the use of fictional language and culture to name a place defined by certain Geography.

The word Topgraphy comes from Ancient Greek τοπογραφία (topographia) from τόπος (topos) meaning “place” and γράφω (grapho) meaning “carve, draw, sketch or write”.

Similar to Geography, Topography requires the physical visitation to the place by an agent or official of the sovereign, or sovereign themselves and the honoring of key place names and associated cultural history to validate claim of sovereign terrain.

Topography depends on the pre-existence of a Geographic survey first. In the absence of a Geographic survey, Topography has no context.

Unlike Geographic Surveying which requires the physical walking of the “metes and bounds” of a place, the surveying of Topography is accomplished by the creation and dedication of permanent memorials and the recording of certain historically significant events of a place.

Topographical surveying is the ability to walk a geographically defined area and recount names for geographically significant land marks as well as stories of historic significance as to previous events account those named land marks.

A Topographical survey cannot be extinguished by the deliberate destruction of monuments and associated history of the Geography by a conquering force. Even if false history and false monuments are inserted as an attempt by a sovereign power to an earlier claim than is entitled, once the true history is revealed, all such claims are rendered null and void.

A new culture may perform its own Topographical survey upon the ruins of a conquered culture. However, such survey only holds true so long as the previous culture remains vanquished and does not re-assert its rights.

Similar to Geographic surveys, Topographic surveys by ancient custom and tradition since the 3rd Century CE in accordance with Holly (Tará) Law must be undertaken by an agent or representative of the sovereign every seven (7) years to be a claim without legal or lawful challenge.