Polis Labs

= "Data-driven research institute guiding network states toward nonzero-sum governance". [1]

URL = https://polis-labs.com/

Description

1.

"Polis Labs studies voluntary order as a substrate for human flourishing. We work to expand liberty, prosperity, and dignity by understanding how cooperation emerges, stabilizes, and scales without coercion at its center. ... Polis Labs builds the science of voluntary order for the parallel society movement."

(https://polis-labs.org/about/)

2.

"Polis Labs is at the vanguard of this transformation and is beginning to explore how network states can integrate cosmolocal principles into governance, economy, and social organization."

"an independent research institute focusing on inspiring good sensemaking practices within parallel societies and network states"

Policy

Polis Labs consults Network States and other initiatives on achieving local buy-in:

"As part of the risk management process, we always recommend prioritizing relations with local communities. One of our key focus areas at Polis Labs is to protect local buy-in: - "Network states, charter cities, and intentional communities almost always land somewhere. That somewhere already has people in it. A parallel society that imposes itself on the locals it arrived among has reproduced the failure mode it claimed to escape. We help founders build the relationships, agreements, and shared institutions that make the people already living in the territory genuine participants in the governance, not subjects of it.” Over the long term, this also prevents the development of colonial attitudes and the enactment of coercive measures against local and nonlocal populations. Polis Labs prides itself on providing advisory and preventative measures to steer longterm communities away from activities that embrace failed legacy governance structures."

(https://polislabs.substack.com/p/compliance-is-not-legitimacy-key?)