Type II
#005 · Boca Chica, Texas · founded by Elon Musk
“Become a multiplanetary species.”
Hard engineering. First principles. Eighty hour weeks for the first decade. The polity ships on a launch cadence and aims to hit Mars by year ten.
rocket engineers, ex-Tesla, hardware tinkerers, anyone who reads tech specs for fun.
📍Boca Chica, Texas
Starbase already incorporated in May 2025. The next move is to charter it as a network state too: same physical territory, additional digital citizenry, a satellite campus on Mars when it's ready. Boca Chica becomes Earth-1, Mars-1 follows.
The moral case.
Civilization either expands or contracts. Type II is a bet that humanity is one good launch window from multi-planetary status. The polity's One Commandment is the only One Commandment that bends the long arc.
From idea to polity.
- 01Federate Starbase, Texas as the first Type II node
- 02Open citizen residency for engineers willing to commit five years
- 03Launch the Mars Citizenship Lottery once the first uncrewed mission lands
- 04Charter a constitutional convention that automatically expands to Mars on landing
- 05Apply for member-state status with Interneta as Earth-1 polity in year three
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.
Type II 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.