In the 2008 Unqualified Reservations post series 'Patchwork', Yarvin proposed replacing nation-states with a global patchwork of small sovereign realms, each a joint-stock corporation with a single executive, secure encrypted governance, and residents free to exit. He argued competition between realms would discipline rulers better than voting ever did, citing joint-stock governance models and historical chartered companies as precedent.
The real-world cousins are milder: charter city projects, free private cities, and the Seasteading Institute (co-founded by Patri Friedman and backed early by Peter Thiel, 2008) experiment with startup jurisdictions without the monarchy. These projects pitch exit and experimentation, not corporate sovereignty, but share the premise that governance is a product.
The patchwork is Albert O. Hirschman's 1970 triad, exit, voice, loyalty, radicalized: delete voice entirely and let exit do all the work. Its admirers see consumer sovereignty; its critics note that exit is a right exercised by the mobile, and every realm needs people who cannot leave.
If a state is a firm and citizenship is a subscription, what happens to the people who cannot afford to unsubscribe?