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Start a New Country with Long History Applying Learnings into a New Country Questions Facing the New Citizens Conclusion AI (Artificial Intelligence) means Love in Chinese.
When other girls dream of being a princess, I desire to be a King. I played a nation simulation game called the NationStates and started to build up my Republic. As time went on, my nation fell apart and became a dictatorship country. I realised at a young age that good intentions don’t equal good results. It is always easy to raise and reveal the problems, but without a reasonable solution, nothing would change. If you look back at history, many revolutions started with an ambition to remake society but ended up with chaos, mass murders or economic depression. Those who succeeded in deposing the old state’s head also followed the same pattern and fell into a similar regime. Starting a new country is challenging in many ways. Unless we could solve the fundamental problems facing human beings, such as inequality, exploding populations, race, geopolitical tensions, resources, climate changes, there is no point to start a new country under the current situation. Balaji S. Srinivasan recently wrote an article called How to Start a New Country on 1729.com that made me rethink building a new nation. I love his concept of building a cloud first and land last country, which offers a unique approach and perspective to solve the societal problems with technology and cryptocurrency. His article stated why and how to start a new country and defined the narrative of ‘New Country’. Here are a few reflections after reading his article. Start a New Country with Long History
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Lessons Learned from China
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Application in Cloud Country (examples)
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Vision and record history
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Trade
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Innovation
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Population
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Questions Facing the New Citizens
I’m sure Balaji and other people will write more articles on this massive topic of Starting a New Country. Here are a few questions I’m pondering about. I’m still an infant in the blockchain and cryptocurrency world with limited knowledge. So, please mind the dumb questions listed below.
- Since everything is decentralised in the Cloud world, I assume there is no point to pay tax to a central organisation or governing institutions. Are we abolishing the taxation system in the new country?
- Will we have multiple Cloud countries as an end goal or have ONE only? What criteria shall we follow to start a new country and join a new country?
- How to protect citizens? Will we have a similar military system to defence as a country?
- What’s the social contract people have to follow to be a good citizen?
- Once we build the mature cloud country and ready to move it offline, how shall we solve the visa and citizenships problems in the physician world?
- Are we using avatar or VR body to live in the digital world? Do we need an inclusion and diversity policy?
- How do we deal with digital privacy?
- Will we face the same inequality, class difference and social hierarchy in the cloud country?
Conclusion
In summary, Balaji started a good initiative that makes us think about the possibility in the near future. I use China as an example to argue how we could preserve our civilisation and apply the learnings into the digital world. I’m an advocate of a decentralised world and very interested in the approach of starting with a digital community first and then physical territory.
Let me finished this review from Friedrich Hayek’s saying in his book, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism.
Let me finished this review from Friedrich Hayek’s saying in his book, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism.
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralising decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralisation actually leads to more information being taken into account.”
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Revolution comes from a million individual voluntary actions. We all have something to contribute to making the world we want, and the next generation want to live.
Let’s start from right here, right now.
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