About Polis Labs

Promote wisdom and restraint in governance with the goal of expanding liberty, prosperity, and human flourishing globally.

Polis Labs provides data-driven research, strategic insights, and governance frameworks to network states, ensuring they grow synergistically without falling into harmful competitive dynamics and Moloch traps.

Polis Labs aims to help build a resilient ecosystem of prosperous network states by defending against the coordination breakdowns that currently imperil legacy governance architectures.

Polis Labs conducts quantitative and qualitative research on nascent governance models to achieve success. It establishes a ‘governance menu’ and advises network states on the most optimal paths to creating successful and sustainable communities:

• Creating governance frameworks based on ingested data to prevent coordination failures inside and between network states.
• Influence network state governance via research, partnerships, movement-building, and recommendations.
• Work personally in a boots-on-the-ground fashion with emergent network states, local communities, and startup societies.
• Ensure that the local people have buy-in for the network state project.
• Publish regular content that supports the network state movement and contains an innovation and market-based ethos.