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I assumed that since part of the network state is to achieve a grouping of minds rather than land, then later in that life of the group was to obtain physical sovereignty which can be pooled together to service the network state so I did some magic math in my head and assumed that’s how a network state gets a police force.
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I think that’s the part that remains unproven. Previous attempts have either operated in no-man’s lands (e.g. international waters) or have leased a piece of land — and many have been kicked out or at least have caused some local discontent. Maybe space is the final frontier for the most techno-optimist NS believers, I’m not sure. But if you consider communities that aren’t physically instantiated — such as religions — then cultural hegemony (the rewriting of the beliefs and norms to the benefit of the ruling class) is how power sustains itself. Here’s a good example:
