For Human Rights, the potential of a hypothetical country is vast. One can explore whether the simple concept of a hypothetical country can contribute to human rights. For example, the United Nations is not a country, but it believes it has a right to declare the existence of human rights to be posessed by citizens of countries whose sovereignty the UN recognizes. If Newland similarly declares additional rights for citizens of other countries, would it lack standing to do so? What if the United States or China declared such rights for citizens of other sovereign nations?
If Newland declares rights and invites humans to declare themselves to be citizens of Newland and therefore entitled to those rights, who would deny them such rights? This would be especially useful if there were a respectable body of academic research underpinning the concept.