Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow argue that the sovereign nation state — fixed in place by the 1648 Peace of Westphalia — is a 380-year-old human technology, and perhaps no longer the best one available. A deep dive into how blockchains and smart contracts might be applied to cooperative human governance, sketching a voluntary, post-nation-state order. Published by Logos Press Engine under CC BY-SA 4.0.