In regards to the trumpnomics video and stuff, I was seeking the wisdom of a few people I keep an eye on like Neal Stephenson, and it reminded me of one of the lesser concepts in Snowcrash that is "Distributed Republics". Snowcrash doesn't go very deep into it, there's another Neal book called The Diamond Age which allegedly goes, and I should read it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
>Distributed republics are loosely connected state-like entities dispersed across the world. The concept was reused by Stephenson in The Diamond Age.