The Nomad Republic
#023 · Bali, Indonesia · founded by Pieter Levels
“Geography is not a job description.”
Distributed citizens with VAT-free passports. The polity has no capital. Every city is a node, every node is a coworking space, every coworking space has fast wifi.
indie hackers, solo SaaS founders, anyone with a luggage scale in their carry-on.
🇮🇩Bali, Indonesia
Bali, Chiang Mai, Lisbon, Mexico City, Buenos Aires. Five anchor nodes. Each with a coworking space, a citizen apartment cluster, and a daily standup that runs in someone's timezone.
The moral case.
Nomad List has tracked 10,000+ remote workers across 1,500+ cities for a decade. The data exists. The polity is the missing institutional form.
From idea to polity.
- 01Charter five anchor nodes (Bali, Chiang Mai, Lisbon, Mexico City, Buenos Aires)
- 02Open citizenship to verified Nomad List members with three or more cities lived in
- 03Charter a citizen rule: pay tax somewhere, then nowhere matters
- 04Charter the polity to issue a Nomad Passport NFT recognized across all five nodes
- 05Apply for member-state status with Interneta after 1,000 citizens
Why I sent you this link.
I have lived at Network School for over a year. I have watched the network state thesis go from a book to a real, lived experiment. I have seen Balaji put it to work, and I have seen what is missing.
The missing piece is a federation. A meta-layer that gives every distinct community a constitutional home, a shared census, an interoperable passport, an anthem, and a way to recognize each other as legitimate.
That is what Interneta is. The United States of Interneta. The optimistic meta-layer for network states.
The Nomad Republic is what I think you would build, if you decided to build one. The One Commandment is what I have inferred from your public work. The site scout, the next steps, the citizenry: all educated guesses. They are wrong wherever you say so.
If any of this lands, I would love a fifteen-minute conversation. If none of it lands, I would still love your reply telling me where I missed.