No matter how cool their residents are.

There is a book out there making the case for “network states”, that is “states” created out of nothing and nowhere by “a group of people who get together on the internet and decide that they’re going to start a country”, run and managed “in the cloud”, and paid with cryptocurrencies, of course.

The whole idea is a pile of crap because it completely ignores that minutiae like ageing, poverty and illness couldn’t care less what pretend country you like to play with. If that review is not enough to prove that point, help yourself to these posts of mine:

• Cruise ship proves that cyberspace does not exist
• Kazakhstan dispels Bitcoin myth
• Cyberspace NEVER existed

Image source: Wikipedia illustration for “LARP, that is Live Action Role Playing”