Nation states have traditionally organized around common traits, but even more importantly, land.

A nation's governance is hard and complex, but it can be summarized in:

Why UBI is meaningful and critical for the world at large needs no explanation: it provides a certain level of financial stability and therefore guarantees a quality of life that every human being deserves.

Programming has become so much more productive during the last decades. The sheer amount of tools available has enabled programmers to focus more on their code, and not on reinventing the wheel.

The Internet has been the fastest growing economy of our times. But it still relies on old-world railways: the financial system and the legal system.

What does a nation state really do? Today's nation states simultaneously do a lot and very little. They tend to be very paternalistic and constantly expand scope, all while failing to deliver on the basics — like improving common goods or implementing technology that would benefit everyone.

We are used to the concept of taxes. They were exercised by many entities through history, from feudal lords to modern governments. In principle they don’t differ much from paying for services, given out by someone controlling the land in which activities are carried out.