Topic: Decentralized, Digital Country (DDC) (Read 470 times)

I like it, sounds like some good framework.

the anarchist said.

I'd like to hear the community's ideas about a decentralized, digital country. (let's call it a DDC)
This is still a very fledgling idea in my head so I'd like to get people's thoughts and input.

Here are my preliminary ideas:

This DDC will have no physical borders.

To be a citizen of DDC a person will pay a yearly citizen's fee. Non-payment of citizen's fee is considered voluntary withdrawal of citizenship from the DDC.

Features of this DDC citizenship include:

- DDC passport (eventually when this DDC has enough power or influence)
- DDC currency
- a business legal framework, wherein all businesses must adhere to the DDC's laws or face expulsion
- business registration
- direct voting on policies, laws
- completely voluntary
- completely anonymous, private citizenship. citizens register through Tor-like service, pay in anonymous currency, and can give up citizenship anytime

other potential DDC laws or edicts
- mandated or non-mandated universal healthcare for DDC citizens (automatic enrollment in DDC healthcare plan)
- mandatory education or optional education
- negotiations with physical countries, allowing DDC citizens to live in said physical countries (outsourcing military / physical protection)


Other intangible benefits of DDC:
- easy to start, impossible to conquer
- ease of system transfer or withdrawal: if co-opted by powerful interests, citizens can move quickly to another DDC. Because DDC are easy to start, this is a facile process
- benefits of decentralization
- more power and freedom in citizens' hands than they have in physical democracy
- borderless