Comment by more_corn

Or a Neil Stephenson one. “You would choose your nationality like you choose your broadband provider. You would become a citizen of the franchised cyber statelet of your choice.“

Maybe the story could focus around a plucky courier named YT, a reluctant hero in black and feature swashbuckling hi jinx in a Balkanized landscape of competing franchised techno micro states.

Pretty sure he’s just pitching the social layout of Snow Crash.