# Nation state

`kaal:entity:nation-state`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `nation-state`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2021 to 2021.

**2021**

- [3808873-020](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-020) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Experimentation with decentralized organizational forms of society is curtailed by the principle of territorial integrity of nation states, a foundational principle of international law under which forced border change justifies war and which sustains a permanent national military presence.
  > Experimentation with decentralized organizational forms of society is curtailed by the principle of territorial integrity of nation states.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873
- [3808873-021](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3808873-021) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Governments will try to tax increasing distributed value creation wherever they can assert national jurisdiction, and exercising that assumed authority inhibits distributed value creation.
  > Naturally, governments will try to tax increasing distributed value creation if they can assert national jurisdiction. Exercising this assumed authority inhibits distributed value creation.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization Neutralizers (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808873

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