You can't do all that with the real world. People need to eat, have water, electricity, sewage etc. You need access and transport. And security (private armies

You can't do all that with the real world. People need to eat, have water, electricity, sewage etc. You need access and transport. And security (private armies, anyone?) All of a sudden, control over basic resources becomes a problem that just doesn't exist in the simplistic internet mirror. And people will kick up a stink about that much quicker than they would over eg, FB misinformation or "free speech".