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Is it possible to have a decentralized country?

Take the united states... people are basically free to sneak in, without becoming residents, without "downloading the American OS into their brains" aka citizenship.

Now, what if all countries allowed this? Or, what if a "decrentralized country" offered citizenship with no actual geographic location?

Does American citizenship offer people benefits overseas? For example hostage situations? What if there was a better, decentralized country, that would come to your aid?

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You underestimate things quite a bit.

Decentralized ideologies are what's being practiced right now; and in fact, it's part of the USA's geopolitical strategy of pushing democracy onto countries, whether subtle or otherwise.

And in any case, any individual should be focused on empowering other individuals to the point they can at least vote with their own wallets and migrate to another country or group should the need arise.

Right, but if they empowered to move, they have only a limited list of countries to select from. Those countries could be puppet states, corrupted, etc.... So what if one of those countries were to be formed on decentralized, open source principles?

I guess what I'm saying is we should start a new country that will be constitutionally immune to some of the new challenges of modern times.

Again, I think there's an underestimation of what it takes to make a country, especially in a world of organized hostile players.

You're far better off with spreading ideology.

  What is a religion, if not an extension of citizenship overlayed onto existing governments?  It's basically additional rules you follow, with some benefits of membership.

Moreover, what is the fundamental difference between a government and a religion? Should governments be compatible with religions, and should religions be compatible with governments?

how are they supposed to come to your aid through hostile territory? its so much easier to protect you when you are within the borders.

> how are they supposed to come to your aid through hostile territory?

Isn't that what american taxpayers fund the US military for?

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