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...yet the place I was born in ultimately decides the boundaries of the space I'm allowed to live in. But not some places. There is the rather awful condition
by geomark 8y ago
...yet the place I was born in ultimately decides the boundaries of the space I'm allowed to live in.
But not some places. There is the rather awful condition of being stateless for some people, such as many people living in northern Thailand. For example, four of those boys who were trapped in the cave in Thailand. Many people like that were born and lived their whole life in Thailand but are not citizens of any country. So they cannot get an ID card, open a bank account, have an official residence, get married, etc, etc.
- lisper 8y agoNowadays it would be possible to establish a "virtual nation" not bound to any territory but defined only by a group of citizens and a set of laws resident on a server farm somewhere (hosted by some friendly ally that does have territory). At least one such nation should be established to provide a citizenship of last resort for anyone who is currently stateless. I would call it the People's Republic of Hackistan. :-)
- noir_lord 8y agoMicrostates including virtual ones where a staple of cyberpunk. They have the problem of fundamentally how do you back up the laws without force against other states who can.
- lisper 8y agoThe same way Vanuatu does: by allying with one or more patron states. Or maybe the U.N.
- jabbadabbadooba 8y agoEstonia does something like this, they offer digital passports.
- geomark 8y agoDigital residency, not passports. Very different than citizenship.
- geomark 8y agoThat's great for people who have citizenship already. But if you start life as stateless then it may difficult even to access that server where the virtual nation is defined since you can't get internet access (i.e. buy a SIM for a phone) without an ID. Also, once you go stateless and then decide you can't do things that you want to do, you probably can't go back.