[anywherenotes]

The point of the nation is some kind of laws as well as ability to enforce those laws. If you belong to this digital nation, you still will have your body in some type of earthly nation like US or Russia or Italy, etc. Therefore your body will be subject to local laws. For example if in digital nation you have the right to drink at 20, then US might still arrest you if you try to buy a drink (or whatever they do - deny?), and they will not buy into your claim that your nation allows you to drink. However if your body is in Russia, they might laugh at you if you turn yourself in for drinking at 20, as they (I believe) have a lower drinking age. None of physical nations are going to enforce or abide by the laws of the digital nation.

Nations must have not only laws, but a way to enforce them, and a way to protect their citizens from foreign nations.

There are many online communities, such as ycombinator and reddit and WoW, and people feel like they are a part of them, but they are not nations. You can certainly create a community where you pool money and educate your digi-zens (digital citizens), you can provide disaster services by perhaps sending food/drinks to them in case of disaster, but they will still have to follow local laws - you wouldn't be able to request countries to extradite them to you for example.

[starshadowx2]

Yes, I understand that local laws would still apply. I've mentioned in other comments that this wouldn't be a replacement of those.