Starting a New Country [Review]

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[Disclaimer: This article is a review of “How to Start a New Country”. It’s a task and part of the contest. More information at https://1729.com/how-to-start-a-new-country/]

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Kindly share your feedback in the comments. All Points are numbered so that sharing feedback is easy for you.

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Note: Only constructive ones are bolded or explained.

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1. Fix Prize Money in BTC, not in USD.

It’s just symbolic but important. Also, the hypergrowth of Bitcoin price is making prize money look devalued after every task in terms of BTC.

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2. I can see Objective/Intent is to make this world a better place.

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3. Clean Slate approach is neither a revolution nor an evolution, but only in theory.

It has to be either a revolution or an evolution. I believe the Crypto movement is more of a revolution at present. Yes, there will be no violence.

Existing Power Centers are not going to like it. They’re going to be a massive pushback from them. It’s going to be a war [hoping it remains a non-violent one] of decentralization over the existing centralized structure.

There will be massive friction in the minds of people too.

While executing a new country [digital to land], it’s still going to be a reform of the existing world, and we have to face endless conflicts.

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4. New Digital Countries are possible.

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5. I was about to start a new community next week, now I’m going to address it as a Digital Country.

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6. For common people, election creates the perception of having the power to choose who will be in the power.

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7. Revolution is still inevitable, but it might fail like every other revolution.

Osho explained it well here. Below is a summary of it.

Revolution is possible only in the individual soul. The social revolution is a pseudo phenomenon because society has no soul of its own.

We have thought that if you change the society, change the structure, economical or political, then one day the individuals, the constituent elements of the society will change. This is stupid.

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8. Enlightened Society is the Ultimate Solution.

When I say Enlightened Society, I mean a society where the majority of people are at peace, aware of their reality, creating wealth by pursuing their passion, and are knowledge seekers.

I’m not at all saying to disown everything as Buddha did.

The education system failed to create such a society.

Social media and Messaging apps have certainly increased the knowledge of an average person on neutral subjects. But their algorithms have exposed negative aspects of who we are as a society. [Racist, Biased, Prejudiced]. On top of that, they enabled network effect for those problems.

Now imagine a country full of wise people, whether it’s a new form of Digital Country or an existing old form, the problems will be a lot lesser.

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9. Knowledge Seeking should be incentivized.

If this Crypto or Decentralisation movement needs to succeed in building a better world, it has to spend a huge amount on incentivizing knowledge seeking.

Think of it as a Universal Basic Income. Paid to everyone against knowledge seeking.

Below is a tweet that provides a glimpse of what I meant knowledge seeking.

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10. If everyone read just one good book on Sociology and understood it well, half of the world’s problems would not exist.

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11. Digital Nationalism is inevitable unless we focus on building an Enlightened Society with Incentivized Knowledge Seeking.

It’s important to understand the journey of an average person in the Crypto World.

I got introduced to Bitcoin like a get-rich-quick thing. That’s how Crypto is projected by the most. That’s how most got to know, unfortunately not as a decentralized movement to make the world a better place.

I didn’t believe it then. In the last 6 months, I read lots of books, and a book on economics was one among them. I realized anything can be a currency if some people collectively believe in it.

But still, I wasn’t into it yet.

Recently I saw a tweet from an interview of Vitalik with Naval, that read “We wanted Digital Nations, but We got Digital Nationalism”. This made me realize the Crypto movement, not just a Currency or Defi.

What if everyone who gets into the Crypto, gets in just like the early adopters to make this world a better place, co-create wealth along the way.

Again I would like to highlight building an Enlightened Society with incentivizing Knowledge Seeking has to be the core of this Crypto movement.

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12. Thousands of fragmented lands mean millions of micro-border issues.

[This imaginary piece was the most fun part while writing]

Just In: Two Etherians and Five Bitcoinions were killed in a streetfight after a dispute arose while playing a basketball match.

Everything started when a Bitcoinion from the audience used racial slang against an Etherian team player.

Both Etherian Team and Bitcoinion Team players stay in the same apartment. But after this incident, the whole apartment is declared as Etherian Land by Etherians who hold 67% of the apartment. Bitcoinions have been asked to vacate. Even the Memers who are a minority in the apartment were asked to either to become Etherians or Vacate.

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13. Need to Promote Global Citizenship, Affiliated to many Digital Countries.

People who have spent their life in multiple countries usually are not advocates of Nationalism or similar Problems. They usually become liberals in their approach.

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14. I would like to know Why do we need validation/recognition for our Digital Country from Old Order [ex from UNO]

Can’t we just start UDNO [United Digital Nations Organisation]

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15. I would like to understand the impact on different kinds of Power Centers

Democracies might become less powerful after decentralization.

Authoritarian or Dictatorial countries might remain or relatively become more powerful.