polystate

Definitions

A set of separate political units that overlap and exist under a central government.

Examples

“Anthrostates have⟳ rules relevant to their members, while polystates have⟳ rules relevant to the interaction of anthrostates and their members.”

“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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