UDC 342.5-042.4:004
Dmitrii N. Ivanov, Cand. Sci (History), Associate Professor of the Department of International Entrepreneurship (Department 83) at Saint-Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation, SPIN-code: 9787-0485, ORCID: 0000-0002-8915-6014, e-mail: ivanov_d_n@inbox.ru
In the context of the intensive development of information technologies and the gradual transfer of various functions of the state online (remember the same portal “Gosuslugi”), as well as numerous virtual environments in which real people interact through their avatars with the avatars of other people, sooner or later projects should appear, seeking to create from such a virtual reality a certain structure with the features of the state. The first more or less significant attempt against this background was the creation of the “decenturion blockchain state”, which has ceased to exist today and is considered by many no longer as a visionary attempt to create a new subject of law, but as a somewhat specific, but well-known “financial pyramid”. However, we should expect that in the future we will see some more attempts to create quasi-state formations in the virtual world, some of which will probably be able to gain some weight in the real world. The article discusses the criteria that make it possible to attribute the state to the number of superpowers and the fundamental possibility of the appearance in the 21st century on the Internet of an education that identifies itself as a state and meets the criteria of a superpower.
Keywords: web superpower, internet state, online state, Decenturion.
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