The Network State: How To Start A New Country

Quickstart
	Preamble
	The Network State in One Sentence
	The Network State in One Image
	The Network State in One Thousand Words
	The Network State in One Essay
		How to Start a New Country
			1. Election
			2. Revolution
			3. War
			4. Micronations
			5. Seasteading
			6. Space
			7. Network States
		Minimum Necessary Innovation
		What Counts as a New Country?
		Most Countries are Small Countries
History as Trajectory
	Prologue
		Why History is Crucial
		Why History is Crucial for Startup Societies
		Why Startup Societies Aren't Solely About Technology
		Applied History for Startup Societies
	Microhistory and Macrohistory
		History as a Cryptic Epic of Twisting Trajectories
		Microhistory is the History of Reproducible Systems
		Macrohistory is the History of Non-Reproducible Systems
		Bitcoin's Blockchain Is a Technology for Robust Macrohistory
		The Bitcoin Blockchain Can Record Non-Bitcoin Events
		Blockchains Can Record the History of an Economy and Society
		Cryptohistory is Cryptographically Verifiable Macrohistory
	Political Power and Technological Truth
		Political Power as the Driving Force of History
		Technological Truth as the Driving Force of History
		A Collision of Political Power and Technological Truth
		A Definition of Political and Technological Truths
		A Balance of Political Power and Technological Truth
	God, State, Network
		What is the Most Powerful Force in the World?
		Rubber Hoses Don't Scale
		The Network is the Next Leviathan
			Network > State: Trump's Deplatforming
		The State is Still A Leviathan
		Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis
		Synthesis: The Network/God
		Synthesis: The Network/State
			Positive Syntheses: BTC, Web3, Efficiency
			Negative Syntheses: USG, CCP, Monopoly
		Synthesis: God, State, and Network
		New Leviathan, New States
	People of God, People of the State, People of the Network
		American Tribes and Their Leviathans
			Blue Tribe: Left-Authoritarians, Left-Libertarians
			Red Tribe: Secular Nationalists, Internationalist Capitalists
			The Realignment
		Tech vs Media, aka PC vs PC
			The Conflict: Technological Progressives vs Technological Conservatives
			The Enormous State, not the Entrepreneurial State
		The Base-Rater as a Flat-Curver
	If the News is Fake, Imagine History
		Distortion of the Present
			Patterns of Information Distortion
			The Network Delivered Actual Freedom of Speech
			The Establishment Launched the Counter-Decentralization
		Distortion of the Past
		Jurassic Ballpark
		Further Reading
	Fragmentation, Frontier, Fourth Turning, Future Is Our Past
		The Fragmentation Thesis
		The Frontier Thesis
		The Fourth Turning Thesis
		The Future Is Our Past Thesis
	Left is the New Right is the New Left
		Why Discuss Left and Right at All?
		Reunifying Technological and Moral Progress
			Moral Progress is Moral Innovation is Moral Inversion
			Political Arbitrage and Financial Arbitrage
			The Market for Revolutionaries
			Startup Societies Reunify Technological and Moral Progress
		Two Ideologies
			The Spatial Theory of Voting
			Fights Create Factions
			Left and Right as Temporary Tactics, Not Constant Classes
			Frontiers Mitigate Factions
			Two Ghosts, Different Hosts
			My Left is Your Right
		Three Cycles
			The Left Cycle
			The Right Cycle
			The Libertarian Cycle
			The Unified Cycle
			New Boss: Not Exactly The Same As The Old Boss
			Holy War Wins Wars
		Four Flippenings
			The Proletarian Flippening
			The American Flippening
			The Global Flippening
			The Historical Flippenings
	The One Commandment
		Communities are Causes First, Companies Second
			The Concept of a Parallel Society
		Examples of Parallel Societies: Digital Network Unions
			Renewal Culture: the Cancel-Proof Society
		Examples of Parallel Societies: Physical Network Archipelagos
			Keto Kosher: the Sugar-free Society
			Digital Sabbath: the Partially Offline Society
		Examples of Parallel Societies: Recognized Network States
			Your Body, Your Choice: the post-FDA Society
		Analysis of Parallel Societies
			Why Not More Than One Commandment?
			What About Older Doctrines?
		Parallel Systems Catalyze Peaceful Reform
			Parallel Systems Once Required Contiguous Land, Now They Don't
		Four Points on One Commandments
The Tripolar Moment
	NYT, CCP, BTC
	The Dated and the Timeless
	A Bipolar America and a Tripolar Triangle
	Moral Power, Martial Power, Money Power
		Moral State, Martial State, Money State
		Moral Network, Martial Network, Money Network
			NYT: The Moral Network
			CCP: The Martial Network
			BTC: The Money Network
		Overlaps and Exceptions
	Submission, Sympathy, Sovereignty
		Extremes and Counter-Extremes Are Undesirable
		A Recentralized Center
	Conflicts and Alliances
		One Pole Against Another
		Two Poles vs the Third
		Intrapolar Conflicts
		The Road To Recentralization
Decentralization, Recentralization
	The Possible Futures
		Analytical Axes and Scenario Analyses
		Strong Form and Weak Form Models of the Future
		Building the Future Rather than Defaulting Into It
	Sociopolitical Axes
		International Indians
		Transhumanism Versus Anarcho-Primitivism
		The Identity Stack
			Example: Twitter Bios
	Technoeconomic Axes
		The Internet Increases Variance
			BlueAnon, QAnon, SatoshiAnon
			Social Media is American Glasnost, Cryptocurrency is American Perestroika
			The 100-Year Information Tsunami
		Naturally Physical to Natively Digital
			Three Phase Transition
			Truly Digital News: Dashboards, On-Chain Event Feeds
			Remote Work to Remote Life
			From Printing to Materializing
		The Productivity Mystery
		Linguistic Borders of the Internet
		Network Defects
	Foreseeable Futures
		AR Glasses Bridge Physical and Digital Worlds
		Experimental Macroeconomics
	American Anarchy, Chinese Control, International Intermediate
		American Anarchy
			Prosperity, Tyranny, or Anarchy?
			Maximalist vs Woke
			How America Builds Towards Conflict
			A War for Minds, Not Lands
			Maximalist vs Woke Rotates Left and Right
			Who Wins?
			Wars Aren't Romantic
		Chinese Control
			Attempted Coup Leads to Total Control
			China Blocks the Exits
			The Path to Chinese Control
			China Caveat
		International Intermediate
	Victory Conditions and Surprise Endings
		The Victory Conditions
			The ``Base Rate Fallacy'' Fallacy
			China Can Make a Pencil
		The Surprise Endings
			Duopoly of Digital Despotism
			Bitcoin Ends Human War, but not Robot War
	Towards a Recentralized Center
		In Defense of Recentralization
From Nation States to Network States
	Why Now?
	On Nation States
		What is a Nation State?
		What is the Nation State System?
			Assumptions of the Nation State System
		The Nation State as a Term
		Micronations and Multinations
		0-nation, 1-nation, N-nations
		What is a Nation?
			A Definitional Approach
			An Empirical Approach
			A Philosophical Approach
		What is a State?
			The Definitional Approachw
			The Comparative Approach
			The Pragmatic Approach
			The Philosophical Approach
			Statecraft Strategies and Programming Paradigms
		What does a Nation State look like on a Map?
		How were Modern Nation States Founded?
			The Historical Angle
			The Patronage Angle
			The Military Angle
		Why were Nation States Founded?
		How does a Nation State Expand and Contract?
		How did States Influence Nations, and Vice Versa?
		What is not a Nation State?
		What Technological Developments underpin the Modern Nation State System?
	On Network States
		What is a Network State?
			The Definition
			Breaking the Definition
		What is the Network State System?
			Assumption: Digital Primary, Physical Secondary
			Assumption: The State Becomes An Admin Dashboard
			Assumption: Divide Networks Rather than Land
			Assumption: Consent and Cryptography Constrain
		The Network State as a Term
		Micronetworks and Multinetworks
			Startups create Networks, but Nations create States
			Startups create Networks, but Startups aren't States
			Startups create Centralized Networks, but Chains create Decentralized Networks
			Only Decentralized Networks can give rise to Network States
		0-network, 1-network, N-networks
		What is a (National) Network?
			A Verbal Description
			A Computational Approach
		What does a Network State look like on a Map?
			The Physical Map
			The Digital Map
			Example: Physically Proximal, Digitally Divergent
		How is a Network State Founded?
			Startup Societies
			Parallel Societies
			The Network Union
			The New Tokenomics is Nation Formation
			Path to the Network State
			The Bootstrap Recognizer
			Digital Civil Society
			Recognize Why We Need Recognition
		Why Would we Found a Network State?
			Network States for the Technological Innovator
			Network States for the Political Progressive
		How does a Network State Expand and Contract?
		What is not a Network State?
		What Technological Developments enable Network States?
Appendix
	Acknowledgments