Network States

The Church is one of the best examples of a network state. A distributed organization with shared values, that owned property and was able to collected taxes (tithes) from its members. 

Are network states in part an attempt at filling the void left by a lack of religion in the western world?

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But in the past, the church has fulfilled social services that weren’t adequately provided by the government. It acted as a services provider and a builder of community, both of which seem to be focuses of current network state discussions (in the absence of a truly sovereign network state without a neocolonial bent).

I think politics is filling the religion-less void

Network states more an answer to increasing failure of geographic and “chance via birth” lottery based governments to meet their citizen’s needs.

Lolololol churches aren’t real states though since the renaissance popes 

Other religions though intertwine religion and state 

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Almost. The rise of the nation state came at the expense of the church. Network states hope to capitalize on the weakening of the nation states

They're not necessarily filling the role as a moral guide, but rather the administrative role that organized religion used to serve

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