NN Ep:13 - Intentional Communities & New Jurisdictions with Jessy Kate Schingler

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In this episode of the Network Nations mini-series, Primavera De Filippi is joined by Jessy Kate Schingler, co-founder of the Embassy Network, to explore how intentional communities and new jurisdictions can give Network Nations real-world grounding.

Jessy shares lessons from over a decade of building translocal co-living communities, explains why the Embassy Network thought of its spaces as "embassies to the future," and how identity, culture, and entanglement emerge without formal membership rules.
The conversation then turns to jurisdictional innovation, including Gelephu Mindfulness City in Bhutan, and how special administrative regions, charter cities, and regulatory sandboxes could act as physical anchor points for Network Nations.

A rich discussion on culture, identity, subsidiarity, functional sovereignty, and how digital communities might interface with states without losing their values.

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⏱️ Timestamps 

00:00 – Can Network Nations become political actors without land?
01:10 – Intentional communities vs new jurisdictions
02:25 – Introducing Jessy Kate Schingler (Embassy Network)
03:20 – What intentional communities look like today
04:45 – The origin of the Embassy Network
05:40 – "Embassies to the future" where the name came from
06:45 – Membership, curation & why formal rules failed
08:15 – Sister communities & translocal identity
09:30 – Cultural, financial & people-based entanglement
11:40 – Cultural transfusion as the strongest glue
13:00 – Financial support between community nodes
14:20 – Identity through shared people & movement
16:20 – Drift: experiments with shared currencies & mobility
18:05 – Private law vs public law in Network Nations
19:10 – Why jurisdictions matter for scaling
20:05 – Rise of new jurisdictions worldwide
21:50 – Introducing Gelephu Mindfulness City (Bhutan)
23:30 – Values, culture & mindful development
25:35 – Experimentation, subsidiarity & the "diamond strategy"
27:20 – Visas, access & digital-first services
29:35 – Jurisdictions as platforms for Network Nations
31:45 – New corporate forms & DAO-native structures
33:45 – Network state vs network nation approaches
36:05 – Polycentricity & layered governance
38:00 – Embassies as portals between cultures
40:15 – AI, credentials & future statutory innovation
42:40 – Regulatory equivalence & sandboxing
44:40 – Intentional communities vs territorial zones
46:40 – Dispute resolution as a legitimacy bridge
50:30 – Lessons from working with states
52:40 – Land policy, mutualism & functional sovereignty
54:50 – Where to follow Jessy Kate & closing thoughts