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{{Ideology|title1 = [[File: Urb.png]] Urbism|image1 = Urbism.png|caption1 = "Every city a state"|aliases = Ultra-Municipalism<br>
{{Ideology
Sovereign Subsidiarity<br>
|textcolor=#353535
Pan-Separatism<br>|quadrant(s) = Non-Quadrant<br>
|themecolor=#007BC1
Micronational community<br>|family = [[Municipalismball]] (Mother)<br>
|title=[[File:Urb.png]] Patchwork
[[File: Nation.png]] [[Nationalism|Souverainismball]] (Father)<br>}}'''Urbism''' is an extremely Municipalist and in all other aspects varied ideologyball. The idea behind Urbism is that it's the principle of "Subsidiarity" (The idea that civic/state duties should be done at the lowest (closest to the people) level of governance at which they can be realistically done) taken to its "logical extreme" ― that being that sovereignty itself and with it all the powers that come with it should be transferred to the municipal level of government for it to decide for itself all these functions, meaning a world of thousands upon thousands of city-states.
|image=Skdfkskdfk.png
|caption=‘‘Every city a state.’’
|aliases=Urbism<br>
[[File:Anurb.png]] Urban Anarchy (pejoratively)<br>
Ultramunicipalism<br>
City separatism<br>
City statism
|alignments=
[[File:Nonquadrant.png]] [[NonQuad]]<br>
[[File:Nation.png]] [[:Category:Nationalists|Nationalists]] (Sometimes)<br>
|influences=  
[[File:Confed.png]] [[Confederalism]] <br>
[[File:Libertarian.png]] [[Libertarianism]] (most)<br>
[[File:Sep.png]] [[Separatism]]
|variants=
*[[File:Tinism.png]] '''Tinism''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Local.png]] [[Localism]]
**[[File:Sep.png]] [[Separatism]]
**[[File:Cultural Nationalism.png]] [[Cultural Nationalism]]
**[[File:Uninat.png]] {{PCBA|Universal Nationalism}}
**[[File:Antiimp.png]] Anti-Imperialism
**[[File:Anticap.png]] Anti-Capitalism (some)
}}
*[[File:MicroCon.png]] '''Micronationalism'''[[File:Micronationalism.png]] {{Collapse|
**[[File:Activm.png]] Activism (some)
**[[File:Libertarian.png]] [[Libertarianism]] (historically)
**[[File:Honk.png]] [[Satirism]] (most)
**[[File:Sep.png]] [[Separatism]]
**[[File:Uninat.png]] {{PCBA|Universal Nationalism}}
}}
|regional=
*[[File:Cball-HongKong-BlackBauhinia.png]] '''Hong Kong Localism''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Cball-UK.png]] [[Imperialism|Anglophilia]] (most)
**[[File:Anticommunism.png]] Anti-Communism
**[[File:AntiDengism.png]] Anti-Dengism
**[[File:Antimultcult.png]] Anti-Immigration
**[[File:Colonial.png]] [[Imperialism|Colonialism]] (some)
**[[File:Community.png]] [[Communitarianism]]
**[[File:Cultcon.png]] [[Cultural Nationalism|Cultural Conservatism]]
**[[File:Nordeastmodel.png]] [[Federalism|Decentralization]]
**[[File:Libertcon.png]] [[Libertarian Conservatism]]
**[[File:Agrnac.png]] [[National Agrarianism]]
**[[File:Natcon.png]] [[National Conservatism]]
**[[File:Natlib.png]] [[National Libertarianism]]
**[[File:Necon.png]] [[Neoconservatism]]
**[[File:Rpop-tinfoilhat.png]] [[Right-Wing Populism]]
**[[File:Sinophobia.png]] Sinophobia
}}
*[[File:Cball-Monaco.png]] '''Monaco Model''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Abmon.png]] [[Absolute Monarchism]] (until 1911)
**[[File:Conmon.png]] [[Constitutional Monarchism]] (since 1911)
**[[File:Corp.png]] [[Corporatocracy|Monopoly Capitalism]]
**[[File:Moncap.png]] [[Monarcho-Capitalism]]
**[[File:Natcon.png]] [[National Conservatism]]
}}
*[[File:Londependence.png]] '''Londependence''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Anti-British.png]] Anti-Brexit
**[[File:World.png]] [[Globalism]]
**[[File:Kak.png]] [[Kakistocracy]] (Accused)
**[[File:Multicult.png]] [[Multiculturalism]]
**[[File:Pop.png]] [[Populism]]
**[[File:European Federalism.png]] Pro-EU
**[[File:Sep.png]] [[Separatism]]
**[[File:PAP(Singapore).png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism#Singapore|Singapore Model]]
}}
*[[File:Cball-Veneto.png]] '''Republic of Venice Model''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Crusadism.png]] [[Crusadism]] (4th Crusade)
**[[File:Merc.png]] [[Mercantilism]]
**[[File:Plutodem.png]] [[Plutocracy|Plutocratic Republic]]
**[[File:Thalassocracy.png]] [[Imperialism#Thalassocracy|Thalassocracy]]
}}
|examples=
* '''Modern''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Catheo.png]] [[Catholic Theocracy|Vatican City]]
**[[File:PLB-Liechtenstein.png]] [[Libertarian Monarchism|Liechtenstein]]
**[[File:Cball-Monaco.png]] [[Monarcho-Capitalism|Monaco]]
**[[File:Cball-San Marino.png]] [[Diarchy|San Marino]]
**[[File:Cball-Andorra.png]] [[Ceremonial Monarchism|Andorra]]
**[[File:Cball-Singapore.png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism|Singapore]]
** '''Micronations''' {{Collapse|
***[[File:Cball-Christiania.png]] [[Anarcho-Communism|Freetown Christiania]]
***[[File:Cball-Liberland.png]] [[Libertarianism|Liberland]]
***[[File:Molosauto.png]] [[Stratocracy|Molossia]]
***[[File:Cball-Sealand.png]] [[Constitutional Monarchism|Principality of Sealand]]
***[[File:Cball-Seborga.png]] [[Elective Monarchism|Principality of Seborga]]
}}
}}
* '''Historical''' {{Collapse|
**[[File:Cball-Veneto.png]] [[Imperialism#Thalassocracy|Venice]]
**[[File:Athdem.png]] [[Athenian Democracy|Athens]]
**[[File:Klep.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Kowloon Walled City]]
**[[File:Cball-HRE.png]] [[Feudalism|Free imperial cities]]
**Zhongtai
}}
|influenced=[[File:PAP(Singapore).png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism#Singapore|Lee Kuan-Yew Thought]]<br>
[[File:Neocam.png]] [[Neocameralism]]<br>
[[File:Puzzle_Piece_Politics-Icon.png]] [[Puzzle Piece Politics]] <br> [[File:Fito.png]] [[Fitocracy]] <br>
|likes=[[File:Nycsep.png]] City states [[File:Dcsep.png]]<br>
[[File:Cball-HongKong-BlackBauhinia.png]] Free HK movement<br>
[[File:Cball-HRE.png]] HRE
|dislikes=[[File:Dengf.png]] PRC<br>
Big Countries
}}
{{Quote
|quote="The basic idea of Patchwork is that, as the crappy governments we inherited from history are smashed, they should be replaced by a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions. If residents don’t like their government, they can and should move. The design is all 'exit,' no 'voice.'"
|speaker=[[File:Curtis Yarvin.png]] [[Neoreactionaryism|Mencius Moldbug]]
}}
'''Patchwork''', also called '''Urbism''' or '''Ultramunicipalism''', is a political ideology that seeks the maximum possible increase in City-States and Microstates in general. Ideally seeing a world in which every locality is its own sovereign state.


Because of his affection for small jurisdictions, Urbism's praxis is effectively advocating for literally every single separatist movement there is in the world and then some and screeching at any unification movements.
==History==
The first states in human history were formed primarily around urban and agricultural centers and were at a first way smaller than the modern nation-state. A case in which a number of these states formed yet one state failed to conquer and subjugate all the other states can be considered the first example of a working urbist system, as can be seen in Ancient and Classical Greece.


== Personality ==
After the end of the [[File:SPQR.png]] [[Caesarism|Roman Empire]] examples of urbist systems took hold in parts of Europe under [[File:Feud.png]] [[Feudalism]] and lasted as late as the rise of modern nation-states during and after the [[File:Enlightenment.png]] [[Enlightenment Thought|Age of Enlightenment]]. The most famous examples are Germany and Northern Italy, but also included much of Eastern Europe before the expansion of Russia.
As a consequence of his belief, Urbism is an avid Micro-nationalist (someone who is involved with Micronations, like Sealand or Molossia for example).


== How to Draw ==
Patchwork systems largely declined after the rise of Nationalism and Colonialism (and the fall of the latter) from the 17th to 20th with nothing much left except for a small number of microstates scattered around much of the old world such as the 6 microstates in Europe and Singapore, with all these states being wealthy, proving that city-states can function in the modern age.
# Draw a ball with eyes
# Draw a diagonal line with rather dark grey on the ball
# Above the line draw fill with dark grey and below with dark cyan.


== Relationships ==
In the 21st century the notion of organizing the world around city-states and microstates became popular among a number of political circles, including [[File:Libertarian.png]] [[Libertarianism|Libertarian]], [[File:Nrx.png]] [[Neoreactionarism|Neoreactionary]] and local nationalist circles. Notably including the right-wing blogger Mencius Moldbug who coined the term "Patchwork" to describe the system in which a specific region is made up entirely of microstates. Patchwork is also popular among the HK pro-democracy camp, with many believing that the only way to have full democracy without PRC overriding their actions is to make HK fully independent.


=== Friends ===
==Beliefs==
* [[File: Hoppef.png]] [[Hoppeanism]]- "EUROPE OF A THOUSAND LIECHTENSTEINS"
In an urbist system, all localities on within a region have their own jurisdiction residing over them and primarily only them, in an even more radical version of this system this is even applied to the seas and oceans.
* [[File: Bckchn.png]] [[Bookchin Communalism]]- Free Municipalities are ebig
===Arguments===
* [[File: Distributist.png]] [[Distributism]]-Subsidiarity forever!
A common for a patchwork system is the belief that ''market competition'' over competing states creates an incentive for good leadership over a polity, as such the opportunity to compete within a market framework should be maximized as much as possible. Under this argument, patchwork is commonly combined with [[File:Neocam.png]] [[Neocameralism]], the belief that the state itself should be run for profit under a joint-stock framework.
* [[Athenian Democracy]]- This guy gets it!
* [[File: Monarch.png]] [[Monarchism]]- All these principalities.


=== Frenemies ===
Complementary arguments to the market argument are the ''experimentation argument'' and ''liberty argument''. The former is the belief that having multiple small jurisdictions rather than large-small ones leaves a greater opportunity and incentive for experimentation in policy allowing and allowing for good new policies to be implemented faster and the bad ones discarded faster. The latter is the belief that a small state under competition has a lesser incentive to infringe on the rights of its citizens than a larger state without much competition.


=== Enemies ===
Another argument for ultramunicipalism is the belief that the nation is too much of an artificial unit to base sovereignty around as compared to the much more "real" unit of the city, and as such it would make more sense to base sovereignty on the city rather than the nation.
* [[File: World.png]] [[Globalismball]]/[[World]]- Did I hear "global federalization"?
===Strategy===
The primary strategy for people who align themselves with patchwork is generally taken to be ''unconditional secessionism'' at all times, supporting every secession movement and every single break-away state that there is, including those that are not ideologically aligned with the movement.


== Further Info ==
Another proposal for creating a society of independent city-states is ''seasteading'', meaning creating new settlements in the sea away from the reach of current states.


=== Literature and Articles ===
==Personality and Behaviour==
* [https://www.futuresplatform.com/blog/city-states-wave-future City States – The Wave of the Future?]
Patchwork as a character isn't usually portrayed in any unified character. Although he can, but doesn't have to be shown as an enthusiast for microstates currently in the world as an enthusiast for creating micronations.


=== Wikipedia pages ===
==How to Draw==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-state Citystate]
Patchwork's design was created by the discord user '''Kapitein Kanker#7156''', on the Polcompball discord. The grey represents city infrastructure while the blue represents the seas on which city-states form on.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstate Microstate]
{{Flag|Patchwork flag.svg}}
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation Micronation]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_secession Urban Secession]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_city Independent City]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localism_(politics) Localism]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipalism Municipalism]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin#Libertarian_municipalism Libertarian Municipalism]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasteading Seasteading]


==== Modern Examples ====
#Draw a ball,
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore Singapore]
#Draw a diagonal line with rather dark grey on the ball,
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco Monaco]
#Above the line draw fill with dark grey and below with dark cyan,
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City Vatican City]
#Add the eyes, and you're done!
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein Liechtenstein] - Technically not a city-state but it's close enough, also hoppeans like it.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino San Marino] - Same as above, without the hoppean part.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_microstates European Microstates]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastic_Republic_of_Mount_Athos Monastic Republic of Mount Athos] (Not Fully Sovereign)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong Hong Kong] (Not Fully Sovereign)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macau Macau] (Not Fully Sovereign)
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand Principality of Sealand]


==== Historic Examples ====
{{Flag-auto
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Danzig Free city of Danzig]
|c1=Dark Grey
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_imperial_city Free and Imperial Cities]
|h1=#707070
** [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free_imperial_cities List]
|c2=Dark Cyan
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polis Polis] (Ancient Greek city-states)
|h2=#007BC1
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_City_of_Cracow Free City of Kraków]
}}


=== YouTube Videos ===
==Relationships==
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkdUz1zoZUY Why are there so few city-states?] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGc8ZVCsrR3dAuhvUbkbToQ City Beautiful]
===Friends===
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qD8vwKMee8&t=4s City-States] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_bV79AmugXVvjaASibPnw KhAnubis]
*[[File:Hoppef.png]] [[Hoppeanism]] - "EUROPE OF A THOUSAND LIECHTENSTEINS."
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-QSpkcpcas Can London Be A City State?] by KhAnubis yet again
*[[File:Nrx.png]] [[Neoreactionarism]] and [[File:Neocam.png]] [[Neocameralism]]- A patchwork of microstates? Very based.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFnFLC3-Vs&t=1s 5 Shades of Nationalism] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC65XiszmqyXbO95b6p_LN4Q Political Ferret]
*[[File:Natan.png]] [[National Anarchism]] - Supports local rule.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuQD5XmqmxM Micronations - Countries in Countries] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXCanKRF6yav4KwENbbZqg/featured Derek Adam Thomas]
*[[File:Bckchn.png]] [[Libertarian Municipalism]] - Free municipalities are big.
*[[File:Distributist.png]] [[Distributism]] - Subsidiarity forever!
*[[File:Athdem.png]] [[Athenian Democracy]] - This guy gets it!
*[[File:Emon.png]] [[Elective Monarchism]] - Fellow HRE-enjoyer.
*[[File:Natlib.png]] [[National Libertarianism]] - Death to globalism!
*[[File:Jeffersondem2.png]] [[Jeffersonian Democracy]] - Being a slave owner is cringe af, but [https://constitution.org/1-Activism/reform/us/ward_republic.html ward republics]? Ngl very based.
*[[File:Confed.png]] [[Confederalism]] - Maximum decentralization is based.
*[[File:Feud.png]] [[Feudalism]] - All these principalities.
*[[File:Sep.png]] [[Separatism]] - Faster, FASTER!!!
*[[File:PAP(Singapore).png]] [[Authoritarian Capitalism#Singapore|Lee Kuan-Yew Thought]] - Proof why city-states work.
*[[File:Catheo.png]] [[Catholic Theocracy]] - You don't need to have a big state to have power over 1.2 billion people.
*[[File:Helv.png]] [[Isolationism#Helvetic Model|Helvetic Model]] - Liechtenstein is ultra-based.


=== Online Communities ===
===Frenemies===
* [https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Main_Page MicroWiki]
*Most other ideologies.
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/micronations/ r/Micronations]
 
* [https://www.reddit.com/r/seasteading/ r/seasteading]
===Enemies===
[[Category:Non-Quadrant]]
*[[File :Polpot.png]] [[Pol Potism]] - I AM NOT URBANISM! GET AWAY FROM ME!!!
[[Category:Non-canon ideologies]]
*[[File:World.png]] [[Globalism]] - Did I hear "global federalization"?
[[Category:Characters]]
*[[File:Pan-Nationalism.png]] [[Pan-Nationalism]] - We need to work towards smaller municipalities, not larger nations!
*[[File:World Federalism2.png|frameless]] [[World Federalism]] - You are literally the opposite of what I want.
*[[File:Dengf.png]] [[Dengism]] - Free every city, especially Hong Kong and Macau!
*[[File:Farm.png]] [[Agrarianism]] - Don't call me a "city slicker" ever again!
 
==Further Information==
===Literature===
*[https://www.academia.edu/38433249/Principia_Politica Principia Politica: Politics and Ethics Under Scaling and Uncertainty] by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
*[https://www.unqualified-reservations.org/2008/11/patchwork-positive-vision-part-1/ Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century] by [[File:Curtis Yarvin.png]] [[Neoreactionarism|Mencius Moldbug]]
*[https://archive.is/EKXCD Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism] by [[Liberaltarianism|Scott Alexander]]
*[https://xenogothic.com/2018/04/12/patchwork-101/ Patchwork 101] and [https://xenogothic.com/2018/06/20/6638/ Patchwork from the Left] by [[Neo-Marxism|Xenogothic]]
*[https://thedayofthecollar.substack.com/p/panarchial-and-unitary-society Panarchial and Unitary Society] by {{PCBA|Libertarian Marxism|Correan Collar}}
*[https://www.futuresplatform.com/blog/city-states-wave-future City States – The Wave of the Future?] by Max Trucki
*[https://mises.org/wire/put-your-hope-radical-decentralization Put Your Hope in Radical Decentralization] by [[File:Hoppef.png]] [[Hoppeanism|Hans-Hermann Hoppe]]
*[https://mises.org/wire/european-empire-wont-make-europe-richer A "European Empire" Won't Work] by Ferghane Azihari
*[https://mises.org/es/library/nations-consent-decomposing-nation-state-0 Decomposing the nation-state:nations by consent] by Murray N.Rothbard
 
===Wikipedia===
*[[w:City-state|Citystate]]
*[[w:Microstate|Microstate]]
*[[w:Micronation|Micronation]]
*[[w:Urban_secession|Urban Secession]]
*[[w:Independent_city|Independent City]]
*[[w:Localism_(politics)|Localism]]
*[[w:Municipalism|Municipalism]]
*[[w:Murray_Bookchin#Libertarian_municipalism|Libertarian Municipalism]]
*[[w:Seasteading|Seasteading]]
====Examples====
*[[w:Singapore|Singapore]]
*[[w:European_microstates|European Microstates]]
*[[w:Principality_of_Sealand|Principality of Sealand]]
*[[W:Principality of Seborga|Principality of Seborga]]
*[[w:Free_imperial_city|Free and Imperial Cities]]
**[[w:List_of_free_imperial_cities|List]]
*[[w:Polis|Polis]] (Ancient Greek city-states)
 
===Videos===
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkdUz1zoZUY Why are there so few city-states?] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGc8ZVCsrR3dAuhvUbkbToQ City Beautiful]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qD8vwKMee8 City-States] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_bV79AmugXVvjaASibPnw KhAnubis]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-QSpkcpcas Can London Be A City State?] by KhAnubis yet again
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBFnFLC3-Vs 5 Shades of Nationalism] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC65XiszmqyXbO95b6p_LN4Q Political Ferret]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuQD5XmqmxM Micronations - Countries in Countries] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyXCanKRF6yav4KwENbbZqg Derek Adam Thomas]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVOc7sScFw4 Let Them Leave!] by [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjo1uN-aM3rmBV46xj7l2KA John Stossel]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBg23AqZlJI The Advantages of Small States and the Dangers of Centralization (Hans Hoppe)] by [https://www.youtube.com/user/Nielsio/videos V for Voluntary Library]
===Online Communities===
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/Tinism r/tinism]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/micronations/ r/micronations]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/seasteading/ r/seasteading]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/localism/ r/localism]
 
==Gallery==
<gallery>
Non-Quad Squad.png|By [[File:METBOL.png]] [[User:Muddy Mudkipz]]
Urbism.png
Urbinism.png
Urbinism-0.png
</gallery>
 
==Navigation==
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Latest revision as of 10:37, 20 November 2024


"The basic idea of Patchwork is that, as the crappy governments we inherited from history are smashed, they should be replaced by a global spiderweb of tens, even hundreds, of thousands of sovereign and independent mini-countries, each governed by its own joint-stock corporation without regard to the residents’ opinions. If residents don’t like their government, they can and should move. The design is all 'exit,' no 'voice.'"


Patchwork, also called Urbism or Ultramunicipalism, is a political ideology that seeks the maximum possible increase in City-States and Microstates in general. Ideally seeing a world in which every locality is its own sovereign state.

History

The first states in human history were formed primarily around urban and agricultural centers and were at a first way smaller than the modern nation-state. A case in which a number of these states formed yet one state failed to conquer and subjugate all the other states can be considered the first example of a working urbist system, as can be seen in Ancient and Classical Greece.

After the end of the Roman Empire examples of urbist systems took hold in parts of Europe under Feudalism and lasted as late as the rise of modern nation-states during and after the Age of Enlightenment. The most famous examples are Germany and Northern Italy, but also included much of Eastern Europe before the expansion of Russia.

Patchwork systems largely declined after the rise of Nationalism and Colonialism (and the fall of the latter) from the 17th to 20th with nothing much left except for a small number of microstates scattered around much of the old world such as the 6 microstates in Europe and Singapore, with all these states being wealthy, proving that city-states can function in the modern age.

In the 21st century the notion of organizing the world around city-states and microstates became popular among a number of political circles, including Libertarian, Neoreactionary and local nationalist circles. Notably including the right-wing blogger Mencius Moldbug who coined the term "Patchwork" to describe the system in which a specific region is made up entirely of microstates. Patchwork is also popular among the HK pro-democracy camp, with many believing that the only way to have full democracy without PRC overriding their actions is to make HK fully independent.

Beliefs

In an urbist system, all localities on within a region have their own jurisdiction residing over them and primarily only them, in an even more radical version of this system this is even applied to the seas and oceans.

Arguments

A common for a patchwork system is the belief that market competition over competing states creates an incentive for good leadership over a polity, as such the opportunity to compete within a market framework should be maximized as much as possible. Under this argument, patchwork is commonly combined with Neocameralism, the belief that the state itself should be run for profit under a joint-stock framework.

Complementary arguments to the market argument are the experimentation argument and liberty argument. The former is the belief that having multiple small jurisdictions rather than large-small ones leaves a greater opportunity and incentive for experimentation in policy allowing and allowing for good new policies to be implemented faster and the bad ones discarded faster. The latter is the belief that a small state under competition has a lesser incentive to infringe on the rights of its citizens than a larger state without much competition.

Another argument for ultramunicipalism is the belief that the nation is too much of an artificial unit to base sovereignty around as compared to the much more "real" unit of the city, and as such it would make more sense to base sovereignty on the city rather than the nation.

Strategy

The primary strategy for people who align themselves with patchwork is generally taken to be unconditional secessionism at all times, supporting every secession movement and every single break-away state that there is, including those that are not ideologically aligned with the movement.

Another proposal for creating a society of independent city-states is seasteading, meaning creating new settlements in the sea away from the reach of current states.

Personality and Behaviour

Patchwork as a character isn't usually portrayed in any unified character. Although he can, but doesn't have to be shown as an enthusiast for microstates currently in the world as an enthusiast for creating micronations.

How to Draw

Patchwork's design was created by the discord user Kapitein Kanker#7156, on the Polcompball discord. The grey represents city infrastructure while the blue represents the seas on which city-states form on.

Flag of Patchwork
  1. Draw a ball,
  2. Draw a diagonal line with rather dark grey on the ball,
  3. Above the line draw fill with dark grey and below with dark cyan,
  4. Add the eyes, and you're done!
Color Name HEX RGB
Dark Grey #707070 112, 112, 112
Dark Cyan #007BC1 0, 123, 193


Relationships

Friends

Frenemies

  • Most other ideologies.

Enemies

  • Pol Potism - I AM NOT URBANISM! GET AWAY FROM ME!!!
  • Globalism - Did I hear "global federalization"?
  • Pan-Nationalism - We need to work towards smaller municipalities, not larger nations!
  • World Federalism - You are literally the opposite of what I want.
  • Dengism - Free every city, especially Hong Kong and Macau!
  • Agrarianism - Don't call me a "city slicker" ever again!

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