Vitalik's latest views on popups, network states, coordi-nations, zones, and where all of these things could lead us. "Let a thousand societies bloom". He calls for simpler Ethereum design and pluralistic societies.

Some strands of this thought include: -Various attempts to make "digital countries", to various degrees of seriousness -Balaji Srinivasan's 2022 book on "network states", which I reviewed -The "coordi-nations" and later "networked nations" movement -"Phyles" -Seasteading (and also on the purist end, Liberland and Sealand) -The Charter Cities Institute (see also: my own thinking about crypto cities) -Attempts by existing nations to "renovate" themselves, such as Estonian e-residency, and more recently on a bigger scale, Bhutan's Gelephu Mindfulness City -Similarly-themed projects from earlier generations, eg. Freetown Christiania and Walt Disney's city EPCOT

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