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Turbeaux wrote:

I don't understand why people are rushing to determine a capital city for Forest. We are a multi-continental union. We can meet virtually over the Internet. Also, most Turbeauxers exist as unbounded beings within our computer networks (This is why our population is so enormous. Very few Turbeauxers have actually died. Also, we coexist with a myriad of separate sapient AIs.) Physical capitals are utterly meaningless to us for that reason alone. Computerizeed consciousness has a much smaller ecological footprint than having millions of meat puppets walking around. We still need a few to maintain certain systems and structures but are working on robotic replacements.

Have you read Asimov's "The Last Question" by any chance? If not, I think you'd like it! It's a short story/quick read, readily available for free on the internet. Some elements sound very compatible with your description.