Nomad Initiatory Guide
Praxis

July 2, 2025

Nomad Initiatory Guide


I. What is Praxis?

Praxis is the world’s first Digital Nation. Our Mission is to build the next Empire of the West.

We preserve the flame of Athens, Sparta, and Rome, so that our children might possess it – on earth, and beyond.

In 2020, we invented a new political form for this ambition: the Digital Nation. With the reach of the internet, we are uniting the scattered People of the West under this Mission, and our flag.

Digital Nation (noun):
An internet-native organization with:
1) a shared culture, consisting of a worldview, way of life, and identity,
2) an internal economy, to develop internal capacities and a marketplace, and
3) governing institutions that create and enforce laws pertaining to membership and conduct —
formed to lead and advocate for its people.

Today, over 100,000 Praxians across 400 cities come together online and in-person to build relationships, live our culture, and execute the Mission.

II. What we are building.

Consistent with our definition of Digital Nation above, we are an internet-native organization developing a unique culture, economy, and government.

Culture

Our culture begins with the eternal wisdom of the West at its heights. We pursue Heroism, Truth, and Beauty as paths to transformation and understanding.

We manifest this culture through:

  • Practice — Living the Praxian way, by cultivating our Virtues, and manifesting them throughout your life:
    • Heroism — The systematic conquest of fear through deliberate challenge. We train courage like a muscle: dropping into half-pipes, stepping into fighting rings, plunging into frozen water, speaking hard truths in hostile rooms. We face fear daily so that when destiny calls—when your brother needs you, when your family is threatened, when your nation faces crisis—you possess the warrior's clarity to act without hesitation. Fear is the mind-killer; we kill it first in small battles so we can win the great ones. This is how ordinary men become capable of extraordinary action: the forging of will into reliable instinct.
    • Truth — The relentless pursuit of reality. We seek truth in three forms: First, the empirical: how the world actually works, studied with the rigor of engineers and scientists. Second, the forbidden: taboo questions and dangerous ideas that the crowd cannot face. Third, the eternal: the transcendent order behind material forms. Learn probability theory. Read lost texts. Worship. The highest truths are initiatic, to be discovered through ordeal and illumination.
    • Beauty — The cultivation of aesthetic perfection in ourselves and all we create. Beauty is vitality made visible—strength and life ascending. Like the Greeks, we know that form reveals spirit. Lift weights; master a craft. Against the brutal aesthetic of decline, we choose beauty.

Finally, Loyalty – Faithfulness to Praxians and to Praxis itself, which is loyalty to your people—the People of the West. This means honoring what your ancestors built and died for, the blood they shed, the civilizations they raised from nothing. When you stand with fellow Praxians, defend our mission, and choose the Empire over personal convenience, you serve not just the present but the eternal chain that connects you to Athens, Rome, and all who came before.

  • Communities — Building networks dedicated to these Virtues and our Mission, online and in hundreds of cities. Discord, Signal, Telegram. Industry groups, athletic clubs, reading circles, local chapters. Find your people. Build together.
  • Creation — Creating things that radiate our values and advance our mission. Books that tell forbidden truths. Software for parallel institutions. Beautiful buildings. Start with what you can create today—an essay, a design, a local gathering. Each action you take plants seeds of the Empire to come.

Embody the virtues. Attend events. Create. The path reveals itself through action.

Economy

We build economic power through technological leadership, strategic differentiation, and self-sufficiency. You can participate by trading with other Praxians.

Technological Leadership — We attract and support the world's most capable technical talent. Our citizens have founded companies valued in the hundreds of billions, pioneered breakthroughs in AI, hardtech, and distributed systems, and published foundational research that shapes entire fields. Praxians build the technologies that define the future.

Strategic Balance — We pursue both differentiation and self-sufficiency. We cultivate technical excellence thoughtfully to become an invaluable trading partner, building what others can’t. Simultaneously, we develop broad civilizational capacities: food, education, manufacturing, finance. This balance creates leverage: irreplaceable to the world, while increasingly capable of independence from its systems.

Internal Economy — We facilitate trade between Praxians. Today, we help Praxians invest in, partner with, and hire each other. Tomorrow, we will deploy specialized infrastructure – digital and physical – to accelerate our internal economy's growth.

Start by discovering and connecting with your fellow Praxians in the #Intros channel in Discord — follow their work, become their customers, offer your own skills for projects within our community. Your economic participation begins with a single transaction: buy from a Praxian business, hire a Praxian freelancer, make your first trade. Each exchange strengthens the bonds of our emerging economy.

Governance

Governance means creating order that serves human elevation: institutions that help people realize their destiny while advancing our shared mission.

  • Digital Governance — Our institutions operate wherever Praxians gather—online forums, city chapters, industry networks. We recognize and reward virtue: courage in adversity, excellence in craft, loyalty to Praxians and the Praxis Mission. We address deviation from our principles, and, when necessary, impose exile. These are both rules for coordination and systems designed to cultivate character—developing the kinds of people capable of building lasting civilizations.
  • Hosted Zones — We establish partial governance within existing nations through embassy buildings, neighborhoods, and economic districts. Here we test new elements of our system: schools that forge character, ceremonies that strengthen bonds, arbitration that upholds our principles. Each territory develops our governance capacity.
  • Sovereign Territory — We seek land where we govern completely—the capital of the next Empire of the West, the new eternal city. Here everything works to forge leaders of virtue: schools that train both mind and character from childhood, courts that judge by our principles, economic systems that serve Praxians and our Empire. The environment—public spaces, buildings, festivals—will all serve to heighten an awareness of virtue. In sovereign territory, the temporal order must reflect eternal principles, guiding us upwards as a people.

III. Your Current Role: Nomad

As a Nomad, you're here to explore, learn, and test alignment with our mission.

What you can access today:

  • Community forums, events, and educational content across our digital nation
  • Local chapters and networks in hundreds of cities worldwide

What we expect:

  • Embody our virtues: pursue heroism through deliberate challenge, seek truth in all its forms, cultivate beauty in yourself and your work
  • Show loyalty to fellow Praxians and our shared mission
  • Engage authentically: build something, contribute your skills, make your first trade
  • Demonstrate excellence in whatever domain you choose—this is how we recognize future citizens

Your path to Citizenship: Find your people. Attend events. Create something that advances the mission. Join the economic networks. Participate in governance as it develops. The path from Nomad to Citizen reveals itself through action.

The path from Nomad to Citizen is one of transformation—from participant to moral leader through mastery of our virtues and demonstrated commitment to the mission. Citizens earn governance rights, access to private councils, and the authority to shape our future, but more importantly, they become the kind of people capable of building and sustaining an empire.

When you have proven yourself through action, APPLY FOR CITIZENSHIP.

IV. Begin Today

  • Share information – help us personalize Praxis for you by sharing information about yourself and how you intend to get involved.
  • Join a gathering — Virtual or local. Show up and contribute to the mission.
  • Start practicing the virtues — Choose one: train courage through deliberate challenge, pursue forbidden truths, or cultivate beauty in yourself and your work. Begin today.
    • Share how you are doing this on socials and tag Praxis, and in the #Virtues channel in the Discord, for recognition and additional consideration for Citizenship:
      • Beauty
      • Truth
      • Heroism
  • Create something — Write an essay that advances our ideas, design something beautiful, organize a local meetup. Let your work demonstrate your commitment.
    • Share what you create on socials and tag Praxis, and in the #Creation channel in the Discord, for recognition and additional consideration for Citizenship.
  • Follow us for updates and to support publicly:

The gate is open. Step through and claim your place in the Empire to come.

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