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Trekkies The default unit of the Trekkie phyle is the spacecraft. Several hundred is an average crew, organized as meritocratic-ish dictatorships based around military discipline controlling access to the fabricators through passwords and biometrics. Essentially, an 'ensign' has only limited...

Yeah, that was my thought in the alternatehistory forum version of this thread. Though I'm curious, if the apocalypse can be averted and/or survived by distribution of humanity such that a single disaster can't get everyone*, then what are plausible phyles? * Cookie-cutter explosives have a...

A combination of MAD and easy alternatives. For lebensraum, artificial islands and supergiant buckminster sphere airships both showed up in the book and for MAD deterrence, remember the bumblebee-sized drone airships whose patrol routes make up the "immune system" of various phyles' territories...

Scenario: Welcome to Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. Post-scarcity nanotechnological manufacturing has made the nation-state obsolete as people no longer need to interact with people they don't want to to maintain a technological standard of living and society splinters into self-selected groups...