The Worldcoin Republic
#008 · San Francisco, California · founded by Sam Altman
“Every human has a basic income and a verifiable face.”
Citizens hold a Worldcoin orb scan and a daily UBI in stablecoin. Compute is a public utility. The economy floats on AI dividends.
AI researchers, UBI advocates, post-labor curious.
📍San Francisco, California
San Francisco is unavoidable: OpenAI is here, the orbs are deployed in the Mission, the test bed for compute-as-utility is already running. Anchor a citizen campus in Hayes Valley with shared GPU compute, a daily UBI distribution, and a public square where any human can verify their humanity.
The moral case.
AI is going to render most current jobs obsolete. The transition needs a polity that has UBI, proof of humanity, and a credible plan for what comes after labor. Sam already has the compute, the capital, and the orbs. The polity is the missing piece.
From idea to polity.
- 01Charter the Hayes Valley campus as the founding node
- 02Distribute daily UBI in USDC to verified citizens
- 03Open citizenship to anyone who completes a World ID verification
- 04Charter a compute commons fund: every citizen gets a baseline GPU allocation
- 05Apply for member-state status with Interneta after 100,000 citizens (UBI scale)
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 Worldcoin 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.