This is a copy of an outside source. The second article of the constitution keeps the country's manner of naming itself open to the people's decision. For twenty-two years the article was debated in the same council, the same margin of five votes was held, and the article was neither closed nor struck down. Inside that margin live eleven thousand four hundred unregistered people.

One reading holds that this openness is a virtue — that the country refuses to fix its name by force, and that to stand at the threshold is a choice. Another reading holds that openness left without result is a lack — that to be kept waiting at the threshold leaves people outside the record. Both readings face the same five votes.

The council closes neither. The annotation stands in the same place as the text, unadorned. Twenty-two years have left not a verdict but a distance. No answer has come.