anthrostate

plural anthrostates

1. A political unit that is defined by its population and ideas rather than geographical borders.

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   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”.

   2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 24 Jul 2021

   Each citizen of a polystate would choose allegiance to an anthrostate, agreeing to be bound by its regulations and gaining the advantages of its services. Citizens of multiple anthrostates would coexist in the same region, with next-door neighbors possibly choosing to live under completely different systems. […] Importantly, citizens would be able to change anthrostate on a regular basis, allowing them to experiment with different types of governance.

   2014 August 29, tanukifune, “People of the (Face)book”, in Kenotic Ledger, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2017