The network state idea has it that they start on the internet, then migrate into meatspace in waves; in their meatspace incarnations they would have contract enforcement, including property rights, etc.
I should catch up on the state of this, the degree to which anything resembling the idea exists in the world. Not sure -- it would be primitive, if so. It's more a theoretical idea of how human organization at scale could be accomplished.
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