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RE: Imagine: Sovereign communities in cyberspace. Territorial nations that compete for contract residents.
AFAIK from what I looked at earlier in response to your earlier suggestion, Estonia is exactly the opposite of what I am proposing. Estonia invites people outside of Estonia's territorial boundary to conduct business electronically within Estonia's jurisdiction.
What I am doing will enable people who are physically within Estonia's territorial boundary to conduct business both electronically and physically OUTSIDE of Estonia's jurisdiction.
IOW, just because your body is physically within a territory, will no longer imply that what you are DOING is within that territory.
oh.
The basic idea is that much of the behavior that territorial governments like to regulate consists of speech. The Internet makes it obvious since over an wire or a radio wave only speech can pass. The most important example is exchange. If I sell you my labor or my truck on STEEM, in exchange for crypto, all of that activity is pure speech, except for the actual delivery of the truck and the crypto. Since it is pure speech and it occurs "in cyberspace", I plan to claim that the activity occurred outside of the boundary of any territorial nation and is hence not subject to that nation's jurisdiction.
Such a claim is without practical effect unless it can be backed by force. That's where my software comes in.