polystate

polystate

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ state, coined by author Zach Weinersmith.

Noun

polystate (plural polystates)

  1. A set of separate political units that overlap and exist under a central government.
    • 2014 March 22, Rick Weber, “Polystate: Book 2”, in Notes on Liberty‎[1]:
      Anthrostates have rules relevant to their members, while polystates have rules relevant to the interaction of anthrostates and their members.
    • 2014 June 12, George Dvorsky, “12 Futuristic Forms of Government That Could One Day Rule the World”, in Gizmodo‎[2]:
      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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