The Network State: How To Start a New Country

The Network State: How To Start a New Country

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  • Create Date:2022-03-19 16:21:33
  • Update Date:2025-09-06
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  • Author:Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • ISBN:B09VPKZR3G
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Summary

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 — it’s spread around the world, fully decentralized, hooked together by the internet for a common cause, much like Google’s offices or Bitcoin’s miners。 And because every citizen has opted in, it’s 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?

That’s why you should read this book。

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