Citizenship in the proposed republic would be open to people of all and to any resident of the land Lakotah claims. The group said they planned to issue their own passports and driver licenses in the name of the proposed nation. The group proposed that the nation be organized as a that would respect the of ' and '; would offer "individual liberty through community rule;" and would collect no nationwide taxes. Individual communities within the proposed nation, however, would be allowed to levy taxes with the consent of the taxed. Means suggested that the proposed nation should not use but instead adopt a . Means stated that this system of government is derived from the traditional Lakota government system, saying, "...we are going to implement how we lived prior to . Each community will be a mini-state unto itself... They will form the federation known as Lakotah." Leaders of communities would be informally chosen by of the community.