Meaning of geostate | Babel Free

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A political unit that is defined by its geographical borders.

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“Even in a geostate, some people are willing to fight⟳ and die⟳ for their views, but the institutional change⟳ to a polystate seems somewhat orthogonal to such issues. […] I don’t like⟳ geostates (I don’t think⟳ many people truly do), but I think⟳ geographically localized governance is effective because it reduces interaction by people with contradictory conceptions about good behavior and so reduces conflict while supporting order⟳.”

“Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist⟳ — but each “state” consists of citizens who have⟳ agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.”

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