ERIC MIKImapping alternative communities
Communities are evolving beyond traditional structures...
From DAOs to Network States to Digital Nations
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Traditional communities are breaking down.
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New digital communities are emerging everywhere.
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At a glance
Key facts
The author
Eric Miki maps the next technological layers of society: network states, charter cities, pop-up cities and other new communities.
His current ventures are Cartographers, investment tours to new country projects, and NS Nodes, a hub and live map of network societies. More at ericmiki.com.
The book
Alternative Communities is a guide to DAOs, network states, pop-up cities and digital nations, and how to navigate, join and invest in them.
It comes as the $5 Quick Start Booklet, a short introduction, and the Complete Guide: the 2025 edition at $50, and the new 2026 edition at $500 (coming soon). Compare editions.
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The landscape in numbers
- 108Societies Tracked. Network societies, pop-up cities, special zones and DAOs (Oct 2026). Source: NS Nodes
- 38Startup Societies. Listed on the Network State Dashboard (Oct 2026). Source: The Network State
- 350+New Cities. Master-planned cities built worldwide since 1945 (Nov 2024). Source: Charter Cities Institute
- $25.1BDAO Treasuries. Held across 12,108 DAOs tracked by DeepDAO (Mar 2023). Source: DeepDAO via Cointelegraph