"Distributed virtual states" (DVS) are evolving at an exponential rate. The Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains as a sort of proto-DVS already provide the sorts of governance services which were previously limited to nation-states.

Just like universal suffrage made forced marriage unnecessary to maintain consensus, distributed virtual states make forced nationality unnecessary and therefore obsolete, and so will evolve P2P nationality.

BITNATION Refugee Emergency Response has used what resources existed in the virtual state space, to give access to next-generation tools for those whose nation-states have collapsed into failed states. UNESCO and Netexplo joined in a celebration of that, and how the time has come for virtual states.