So I did a deep drive, and found a web version of the book I presume they're referring to, giving this definition;

"A network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states.

, 2022

thenetworkstate.com/the-networ

So ... it's a distributed diplomatic entity, whose population consists entirely of landlords?

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@strypey
They appear in Neal Stephenson's dystopian SF novel Snow crash.
As does much else.

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