The Network State: How To Start a New Country

A key concept is to go cloud first, land last — but not land never — by starting with an online community and then materializing it into the physical world.

A network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility, an integrated cryptocurrency, an archipelago of crowdfunded physical territories, a virtual capital, and an on-chain census that proves a large enough population, inc... See more

Technology has allowed us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we use it to create new cities, or even new countries?