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What‘s the most decentralized nation state?

Switzerland.

This May in Switzerland, you‘ll get a glimpse into the future of human civilization.

In this post:
- Why Switzerland is awesome
- What are Zuzalu & Zuitzerland
- NextGen Village?
- MetaFest Switzerland???

✨ Switzerland ✨

...is made up of 26 regions with their own constitutions, legislative bodies, governments and judicial systems?

For the past 700 years, the Swiss built cooperatives for anything from food and housing, to banks, media and fashion.

As a result of their long history of egalitarianism and cooperative governance - most decision making and ~80% of public services are managed at the regional and municipal levels.

They also vote on national issues ~4 times a year, and anyone can propose change to constitution.

Finally, 75% of the Swiss regularly enjoy outdoor physical activities while strong social safety nets and affordable housing policies allow the "Swiss poor" to live well too.

Tl;dr
- Well functioning democracy
- Culture of cooperatives & decentralization
- Emphasis on wellbeing

The DAO '16 survivor, Summoner of DAO Accelerationism & MetaGame

✨ Zuzalu ✨

Zuzalu started as a 3 month residency in Montenegro. They rented a whole resort where 200+ people could stay, then organized a shitload of events - from conferences to infinite meetups.

Topics included:
- Crypto
- AI
- Longevity
- Network states

Let‘s just say that bringing people from across these different fields, resulted in a lot of very interesting encounters as well as projects.

Since then, they did dozens of events around the world and built a whole suite of tools for their community, events and discussions.

You could call Zuzalu a movement or a network state, but it kind of refuses to be boxed in.

In short, I‘d say Zuzalu is about aggregating the brightest minds to bring together the frontiers of tech, push the boundaries and build cool shit.

✨ Zuitzerland ✨

Long term, it‘s about building a permanent node for the Zuzalu network and about becoming Switzerland‘s 27th canton.

More than anything, Zuitzerland is about learning how the Swiss run Switzerland and their cooperatives.

Zuitzerland will start as a 6-8 weeks gathering for 200-300 people.

We‘ll be:
- Learning from the Swiss
- Teaching them about Web3
- Balancing Solarpunk & Lunarpunk

Anything from DAOs & d/acc, to regenerative living & incubating new projects at the intersection.

OK but where?

✨ NextGen Village ✨

“A home for pioneers and a place that sparks our collective imagination of what life in a regenerative, technologically advanced and culturally thriving society of the future could look like.”

They secured a 100,000m2 location that will be remodeled into this “civilizational accelerator”.

Exploring a range of topics including governance, economy, philosophy, space, health, mobility, energy, resource management, housing, manufacturing & robotics.....

Each of the labs will be hosting one or multiple startups, each of the labs and utilities will be managed by different DAOs etc.

It will house 500 people, with sleeping pods and camping areas for temporary accommodations.

Zuitzerland will be the first event held there 👀

✨ Relation to MetaGame ✨

MetaGame occupies itself with topics like DAOs, network states & well-functioning socioeconomic systems.

Moreover, you can see how Switzerland, Zuzalu, and the NextGen Village are all playing metagames in their own ways.

MetaFest Switzerland 2025?
Yes, almost certainly.

- [Stay up to date with Zuitzerland](https://t.me/Zuitzerland)
- [Or read the full post first](https://metagame.substack.com/p/prototyping-utopias-in-swiss-alps)