I’m non-tech so I immediately though this might be re: <i>Distress</i>, Greg Egan, 1995.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_(novel)" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distress_(novel)</a><p>Advanced geekery / skullduggery on the artificial island home of an illegal unrepresentable (rogue) state (as in country) amid a global pandemic. Very now.