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Wyoming, $29 a year, from the higher cloud

Here is Wyoming. Courthouse first, then where we are, then the yearly bill, then the fee, then the rule, then the rest. The state wrote the long parts. Read them sitting down. We did.

The courthouse, when we are up here

Served on the state instead of the cloud

... is appointed, service of process on the business entity shall be upon the secretary of state until a new appointment is ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-104(b); § 17-28-103(e)

Where we are

Up here. A little higher than the plural. Bright. Not at the address, as such.

The yearly bill in Wyoming

Once a year the state sends a bill and the company stays on the books. The amount is below. Skip it and you save it, for a while. Like holding a breath. Then not.

Yearly charge, LLC

$60. Yearly. Or so it says. Yearly.

... assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), whichever ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-29-209(a)

Yearly charge, corporation

$60. Yearly. Or so it says. Yearly.

... assets reported, of sixty dollars ($60.00) or two-tenths of one mill on the dollar ($.0002), whichever ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: W.S. 17-16-1630(a)

The fee to come back down and be counted

The fee to come back down

... payment of a two hundred fifty dollar ($250.00) reinstatement fee and payment of any fees and taxes then delinquent.

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1422(a)(v)

The rule. Breathe. Read.

The rule

Wyoming code. Their words, not ours. Ours would be shorter:

... service of process as provided in W.S. 17-28-104; (C) A foreign business entity authorized ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-101(a)-(b)

What comes up the hill after you

The code, unedited. We tried to lighten it. It would not lighten.

Struck off, from below

... its registered agent or registered office has been changed, that its registered agent ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1420(a)(iii)-(iv)

Struck off, from below

... privileges acquired under the laws thereof ... Unless compliance is made within ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-29-705(a)

Out-of-state company: authority taken back

... changed, that its registered agent has resigned, or that its registered ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1530(a)(iii)-(iv)

Also in the code, further down

... the entity as delinquent awaiting administrative dissolution, revocation or forfeiture of its ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-28-103(f)

Courthouse door shut, down there

... authority may not maintain a proceeding in any court in this state until it ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(a)

A fine, per the code

... and received a certificate of authority ... and in addition shall be liable for a penalty in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), reasonable audit expenses and ...

Source: state statute, via incFACTS: Wyo. Stat. § 17-16-1502(d)

incFACTS captured this 2026-08-01 and checked it against the Wyoming code 2026-08-10. The legislature meets and the code moves. We read it again from up here and it moves again. Or we do.

Steam we have stood in

Everything up here steams. The ground, the pools, us after the stairs. These are five places where the state lets off pressure, photographed by people with better lungs.

Grand Prismatic Spring from the overlook, its blue centre ringed in orange and green under a storm sky.

Grand Prismatic Spring

Orange at the edge, blue in the middle, steam over all of it. Too many colors at once. We looked for a minute and needed to sit.

Photo: U.S. Geological Survey, public domain.

Snow dusted travertine terraces at Mammoth Hot Springs with mountains behind.

Mammoth Hot Springs

White terraces, step after step, water trickling down all of them. Like stairs. We are not going up those either.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

Castle Geyser erupting at night beside an empty boardwalk under a starry sky.

Castle Geyser

A cone like a small castle, steam coming out the top. It has been building that cone a long time. Longer than twenty-nine dollars a year builds anything.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

Orange and rust coloured runoff channels crossing the pale crust of the Norris Geyser Basin.

the Norris Geyser Basin

The hottest ground in the park, they say. Flat, pale, hissing. We walked the boardwalk. Halfway. Then back. Lovely.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

Old Faithful erupting in a white column over a snow covered basin under a clear winter sky.

Old Faithful

Goes up on a schedule. We admire that. We go up the stairs on no schedule and sit at the top. Bright. Very bright.

Photo: National Park Service, public domain.

$100 stays with you. Every year. Twenty-nine dollars goes up the hill.

Or read the ledge page first, and sit a while.