Meaning of polystate | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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“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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