It is the theoretical ideal City explained by Plato in the book Republic (Politeia). The City is a carefully designed system that establishes Plato's ideal of Justice. Plato believed that Justice could not be achieved for the individual unless it was first established systematically at the scale of a City. According to Plato, each individual has a unique aptitude and interest which can manifest in the form of specialized labor, for a specific manifestation of "KALLOS" (beauty, the good, virtue), and Justice, at the City and individual level. Another name for Plato's City is therefore Kallopolis (the beautiful city).  

KALLOS is a Network State. A KALLOS City is to be built and governed based a whole system redesign, as a living and learning development (a private knowledge city). It is a venture capital "unicorn" and holds it's own 'portfolio' of Mentor led projects/companies/services/boutique classes. It is a city centered around a state of the art school, university, research-complex and lifestyle development, supporting 20,000+ community members by year 2033. 'Faculty' - accomplished experts in academics, business, arts and every domain - are Mentors. 'Students' – independent child and older prodigies - are 'Mentees.' Everyone is family; a knowledge-community in luxurious model architecture grounded in sustainability and integrated with the natural environment. Here, knowledge is constructed, not taught. Mentees of all ages can learn deep tertiary knowledge; they work on real world research, products and services, with domain expert Mentors. Within the physical City, Mentees are admitted on merit from any country, fully sponsored on all costs, and achieve their individual Justice.

Plato's correct understanding on individual Justice carries forward through time, while his class concepts serve as guidelines for behavior and division of roles, rather than hard rules. Specialization of labor and individualized education through a mentoring process, are at the core of the planned whole system redesign of the city's built world, cultural, and governance layers. 

For the purpose of redesign, we can divide a city into the Built, Cultural and Governance layers. The built world layer is everything that makes up our physical environment, especially the human constructs, like houses and infrastructure, that are ostensibly adapted to our needs. The cultural layer includes our mental constructs, the products of our socialization. The governance layer includes laws and policies applicable. It is important to understand that these three layers constantly interact with each other and shape each other, usually in unforeseen ways. The problem most 'reformers' face is a uni-dimensional approach to fix only one of these layers at a time, while pretending the others won't change, or not attempting to redesign all three in harmony, as a 'whole system.' Therefore a whole system redesign carefully works on all three variables in concert. We have clear guidelines on how to shape these three elements, on something of a blank slate. The key is an ideal mentoring seed population, who are enabled in their individual justice in part by matching them with ideal mentees, to raise a new generation that unlocks human flourishing.

According to Balaji Srinivisan's book, the Network State, "a network state is a highly aligned online community with a capacity for collective action that crowdfunds territory around the world and eventually gains diplomatic recognition from pre-existing states." Balaji goes on to add that "a network state is a social network with a moral innovation, a sense of national consciousness, a recognized founder, a capacity for collective action, an in-person level of civility" (among other technical points).

Yes, quite closely. Balaji's is a real world present day analysis. The specificity of his proposal may seem limiting, but it makes sense: we have to make limiting choices (scope actions) based on what is possible today or at least feasible in the near future. In this, Balaji's book doubles as a philosophical analysis and highly practical instruction manual. He is focused on results. The technological layer that Balaji tends to highlight integrates across the cultural, built world and governance layers, complementing the whole system redesign. Starting with a distributed mirror community was always the plan. The Network State model is a mirror of KALLOS City within virtual online spaces using our chosen platform, which will be transferable (people, utility + real equipment) to the physical city (and distributed real estate internationally, such as country offices or embassies). It also enables our economic model to prime itself. A virtual network state start greatly de-risks and protects the physical KALLOS City model. Balaji advises a "one commandment" moral innovation. Achieving even one such innovation, especially one as broad as Plato's Justice in the form of KALLOS, is a significant challenge. In our case this requires a whole system redesign.  

From the newcomer spaces where you introduce yourself, you can either become a Mentor (start a space on the platform offering to teach or coach specific knowledge or techniques, often with specific project outcomes like building something material) or a mentee (go under a mentor to learn and usually to contribute labor in the process). You may be a Mentor in your space and yet be a mentee in someone else's space. A protege is a mentee within a specific mentor space who the mentor considers highly valuable and recognizes as a leader among his peers. Mentees may pay mentors with labor or money and vice versa in some cases. . We will facilitate this economy on our online platform. Spaces and their occupants will be transferable to the physical city in future, where they can truly realize their potential. Mentees and Mentors can be of any age. In some cases people may chose to use the KALLOS network state platform in place of school or university, for the purpose of individually tailored learning or to focus on specific interest or to engage in specific or higher level studies with a domain expert, that aren't otherwise available.