This is Chapter 17 of my book, How to Dismantle an Empire. It continues Section FIVE: Lands of Milk and Money, which is about system change and reimagining how we’d want money to work. In this chapter, I look at the right size for sovereignty. In the years since I wrote it, so many of the global narratives I believed turned out to be psyops. I’d thought myself on the bleeding edge of radicalism. But even the alternative news was another means of control.