Types of Network States (2)

• There are a few different ways to classify.
• By stage
  • Startup only — network startup, startup society
  • Digital only — network union
  • Meetups — network mist
  • Physically present — network archipelago
  • Diplomatically recognized — recognized network state
• By type
  • Technological
    • Self-driving car
    • Drone delivery
    • Quantified self
    • Life extension
    • Cryptoeconomic
    • AI-governed society
  • Professional
    • Guild — Graphic Designers Guild
    • Union — Cancel-proof Culture
  • Sociocultural
    • Natal — childcare, mutual babysitting
    • Fitness — Proof-of-workout
    • Praxeological — Digital Sabbath
    • Dietary — Vegan, Carnivory, Keto Kosher
    • Economic — Henry Georgist, various socialist schemes
  • Traditional
    • Nostalgic — the dream of the 1890s is alive in Portland, 50s with wifi
    • Language — Catalan immersion
    • Religion — Parsis
    • Political — political parties that can’t achieve recognition at the national scale
  • What’s not on the list?
    • Geographical — the whole point of the network state is to put the community first and the geography second. If you’re in love with a particular set of hills or a river rather than the community
• Call to action: read Part III later
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  • Point is to give you an example of motivating a specific network state as opposed to the overall category (?)