The core aim of individualised policy frameworks and microgovernance is to provide the state with legitimacy that democracy will eventually become unable to deliver. Ironically, however, this reform sets in motion a series of further changes which will bring about the end of states as they currently exist.

One of the aims of these reforms is to spur innovation through a mixture of decentralisation and immediate user feedback.

The internet will provide the platform for delivering and making the choices, and providing reaction about how different policy options actually work in practice.

If an idea works, it will spread across boundaries and borders. And this has the potential to improve the low levels of public understanding which currently seem to exist between countries when it comes to policy development and implementation.

The internet is obviously capable of providing global feedback on policy frameworks, and the other side of that coin is that voters in different countries which adopt this mechanism of governance will easily be able to make comparisons between the options available domestically and elsewhere.

This would suggest that microgovernance will bring about a blurring of national boundaries. How far could this process go?