Sovereignty does not scale through mass onboarding. It scales fractally. A single sovereign node replicates not by recruiting headcount but by transmitting a standard—keys, practices, contracts, cultural norms—and proving that the standard holds under pressure. Another node forms around that standard, then another, and the relationship between nodes is expressed in voluntary contracts and lived law rather than in marketing language. In this way the pattern extends: node to node, contract to law, law to civilization. Each replication is small, grounded, verifiable, and expensive in the right ways. Anything that appears to scale instantly through surface metrics is almost certainly an instance of simulated adoption, because the expensive parts have been hidden or negated.
