Citizenship and "Belonging"

I have it on good authority citizenship means "I belong" or "I am a member" or "I have a right".

Time to review.

The Romans believed
1. Jus sanguinis ...I belong because my parents belonged
2. Jus Soli ...I belong because I was born on the soil

Pennsylvania believed
1. Taxes ...I belong because I pay Pennsylvania taxes (from a compilation of Pennsylvania statutes 200 years old)

The United States says
1. You MAY be a citizen unless you lied on the application and we catch you

In general the world says
1. If you purchase property here exceeding $500,000 and visit or contribute $1,000,000 to our economic development then you must belong here. In a sense this is the Pennsylvania view on steroids.

Honestly citizenship appears to be a hard concept to nail down. How about belonging?

Would you agree that the act of belonging is actually a duty? How so? Well, what you claim to belong to comes with a whole slew of statutes, rules, procedures, practices and laws that you agree to abide by. And if you agree to obey these and fail to do so then your consent will be used in your conviction. And without your agreeing "to belong" these statutes, rules, procedures, practices and laws are not binding.

Belonging comes at a price. Taxes. Donations. But also agreement to be REGULATED. This reminds me of a surgeon exiting the operating room and when asked how it went replies "The operation was successful but the patient died. Rules are written by people who don't like competition.