Sublime

The economic frontier is where new discoveries allow for the making of new things that can be sold to ever more people.

You’re founding a startup society. You begin as a network union, maybe crowdfund territory to become a network archipelago, and could someday grow into a network state. All of these are types of parallel societies.

Just over a year since its declaration of nationhood, New Potsdam’s border arrangements were still on the ad hoc side of adequate. To Rudi’s eye it looked theatrical and ill-thought-out, but that was the way with new polities. The first thing they tended to do was put up defences. A sure sign of a polity approaching maturity was when the work-crews

That’s why the reopening of the frontier is so important: it gives space to morally innovate without affecting those who don’t consent to the experiment.

In Manchuria, the relationship between Chinese and Koreans emerged as the crucial principle defining the boundary of the Chinese nation.

was an attempt to find an alternative path to India around the Ottomans, but it ended up using technology to reopen the frontier in the face of political roadblocks.

The French had acquired Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos) in the nineteenth century during a period of European colonial expansion.