The MetaRepublic

Mark Tremblay is a patent lawyer by training who also has a degree in physics. A day without politics for Mark is like a day without coffee — it just doesn’t happen. A hands-on homeowner and revolutionary at heart, he’s interested in reforming the way things work from the ground up. He can build you a real staircase or a metaphorical one, no joke. Having lived in Connecticut, Virginia, and Texas, Mark now resides in the Squam Lake region of New Hampshire with his loyal mutt, Faith. Together they hike their local mountains year round, because snow just augments any good slope.

Kate Oden works with words: translating, editing, reporting, and writing make her day. A native of New England, she went to the University of Chicago and has also lived in Germany, where she learned the language together with about a dozen other students from much more interesting countries (Romania? Israel? Turkey? Yeah, break-time was always interesting.). She lives with her daughter, Freya, their baddog Selkie, and a very large, black-and-white cat named Horace in Hanover, New Hampshire.

What is the MetaRepublic? It’s an organization that you can fundamentally trust with representing and addressing your needs – something we feel has been slowly corroded in our current government. Revolutionary and creative, the main tenets of this meta republic are that it banishes corruption, transcends geography, and reforms representation. There’s no membership fee; all that’s required is a willingness to take this as far as we can go. We’ll build a body that is transparent at all levels, with the free broadcasting of internal revenue streams and employment ledgers. Beyond that, it’s up to you, however, and we expect you’ll tell us what you want in face-to-face meetings, over the course of votes, in direct messages, you name it. States need a minimum of just seven people to fly and can be formed around any common denominator (Avocado Eaters, Freelance Writers, Selena Gomez Fans, Zen Purists… the marketplace is wide open). Then again, there’s nothing saying you must vote with your state – members can take their vote wherever they want, vote partially in one state and partially in another, or act as a completely free agent in this republic. Although not expected to cost much more than time in the beginning, soon enough we’ll want sources of funding. At the moment we’re hatching plans to market a line of food and drink in our home of New Hampshire, which could eventually involve some promising innovations in hydroponic foods. This reflects another interest of ours in reforming the (currently sorely underfunded and outmoded) nutrition guidelines to treat and prevent disease. More on this at a later date.For now, if you’ve just landed here, consider your satisfaction with your democracy and what you would change, from the ground up, if you had the chance. What state would you form, with whom? What do you believe is most essential about America and how could that be better expressed in the MetaRepublic? Then take this chance to its limit.