num_pages: 262
description: Technology has enabled us to start new companies new communities and new currencies. But can we use it to start new cities or even new countries? This book explains how to build the successor to the nation state a concept we call the network state.This book introduces the concept of the network state: a country you can start from your computer a state that recruits like a startup a nation built from the internet rather than disrupted by it.The fundamental concept behind the network state is to assemble a digital community and organize it to crowdfund physical territory. But that territory is not in one place  its spread around the world fully decentralized hooked together by the internet for a common cause much like Googles offices or Bitcoins miners. And because every citizen has opted in its a model for 100% democracy rather than the minimum threshold of consent modeled by 51% democracies.Of course there are countless questions that need to be answered to build something of this scope. How does a network state work socially technically logistically legally physically financially? How could such a thing even be viable?This book attempts to answer these questions.
language: English
title: The Network State: How To Start a New Country
publisher: Amazon Kindle