What is Patchwork?

Patchwork is a hypothetical model of statehood which emphasizes local governance and exit rights as a replacement for the current nation-state paradigm. This system has been reinvented many times under many names by many authors from diverse backgrounds: de Puydt's Panarchy; Nozick's Meta-Utopia; Nassim Taleb's fractal localism. Its present name is inherited from the blog Unqualified Reservations in 2008. Here are three introductions to the idea from three very different political backgrounds:

• Reactionary/monarchist Curtis Yarvin's Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century

• Liberal/libertarian Scott Alexander's Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism

• Leftist/accelerationist Xenogothic's Patchwork 101 and Patchwork from the Left

This community is intended to be a home to discussion of the patchwork concept, whether its advantages and disadvantages, different methods for ruling patches, or routes for transitioning to patchwork in the 21st century.