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The Network State - Sequel to the Nation State
A network state is a social network with a clear leader (the founding influencer), an integrated cryptocurrency, an explicit purpose, a sense of national consciousness, and a plan to crowdfund territory.
It is a non-convex archipelago of digitally-linked, interconnected enclaves, which means the digital territory of the state is like islands scattered across the world and separated by the internet instead of the ocean.
A network state can also be explained by 3 aspects: a country that you can start from your computer, a territory that is acquirable but not conquerable, and a group that is geodesic-centric rather than geographic-centric.
A major aspect of the network state is that anyone with access to the internet can begin one, or become a citizen that can be employed by the founder. It is also possible to transition between the two at any time (founder to citizen, citizen to founder, citizen to citizen, founder to founder), which highlights the vision of global equality of opportunity.
A network state can be easy to acquire but not conquer because selling it is as easy as Instagram being sold to Facebook, and all that’s needed to do after it is to port over the records from the network state being sold’s blockchain to the parent state’s blockchain. It is difficult to conquer due to their geographic decentralization and the fact that network states can make their maps encrypted which makes them, essentially, invisible countries.
A network state is organized by geodesic (the number of degrees of separation between two nodes in a social network along the shortest path) rather than geographic distance because it enables certain flexibility that allows any individual to instantly become adjacent to anyone else in the network.
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