Nation States and Protocols

I'm currently doing a study on trust and organizations (trust as a form of social capital that lubricates the work of organizations). A thought occurred to me:

Nation-states, and particularly their bureaucracies, were the critical institutions that built the trust (in the social capital sense of that term) in the late Modernity Machine.

However, as the Divergence Machine continues to ascend, national bureaucracies are undermined and their logic is increasingly marginalized. So what mechanism replaces that trust-generating function?

I would argue protocols. Protocols are what will stitch together the diverging canonicities of the Divergence Machine.