Network Theft

On the mission and motives of Concept Country, the world's first network state.

Something wicked slouches toward Terra. Storm clouds mumble forgotten spells. A new species sputters to life in the data centers, newborn and fearsome. Robber barons loot the commons, laying waste to norms and decorum. A Cambrian explosion of mental illness descends on the public like a plague.

The old world shudders under impossible weights.

Do you hold your nose? Jack into infinite jest in the gooncave? Summon necromancers for your favored ideology?

Concept offers, instead: a blank canvas. A higher third.

Some use the term "network state" to refer to the endgame of techno-oligarchy—a feudal billionaire utopia to be built in the rubble of the postwar order.

Well, we're stealing the idea.

At its core, a "network state" (or "network society") is a loose invitation to reinvent government in a post-internet world. And as a decentralized medium, the internet lends itself more comfortably to participatory and open forms of government—but only if we stop ceding ground to its enemies.

Part permanent hackathon, part art collective, part intentional community, Concept is a mutual aid society for the upwing. Join us. Live forever, go anywhere, become anything (if you want to.)