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"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.'"
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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.

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 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Roman Empire examples of urbist systems took hold in parts of Europe under Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Feudalism and lasted as late as the rise of modern nation-states during and after the Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian, Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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 Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination 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.

Draw a ball,
Draw a diagonal line with rather dark grey on the ball,
Above the line draw fill with dark grey and below with dark cyan,
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

Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hoppeanism - "EUROPE OF A THOUSAND LIECHTENSTEINS."
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neoreactionarism and Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Neocameralism- A patchwork of microstates? Very based.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Anarchism - Supports local rule.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Libertarian Municipalism - Free municipalities are big.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Distributism - Subsidiarity forever!
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Athenian Democracy - This guy gets it!
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Elective Monarchism - Fellow HRE-enjoyer.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination National Libertarianism - Death to globalism!
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Jeffersonian Democracy - Being a slave owner is cringe af, but ward republics? Ngl very based.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Confederalism - Maximum decentralization is based.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Feudalism - All these principalities.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Separatism - Faster, FASTER!!!
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Lee Kuan-Yew Thought - Proof why city-states work.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Catholic Theocracy - You don't need to have a big state to have power over 1.2 billion people.
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Helvetic Model - Liechtenstein is ultra-based.

Frenemies

Most other ideologies.

Enemies

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

Further Information

Literature

Principia Politica: Politics and Ethics Under Scaling and Uncertainty by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Patchwork: A Political System for the 21st Century by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Mencius Moldbug
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarianism by Scott Alexander
Patchwork 101 and Patchwork from the Left by Xenogothic
Panarchial and Unitary Society by Correan Collar
City States – The Wave of the Future? by Max Trucki
Put Your Hope in Radical Decentralization by Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A "European Empire" Won't Work by Ferghane Azihari
Decomposing the nation-state:nations by consent by Murray N.Rothbard

Wikipedia

Examples

Videos

Why are there so few city-states? by City Beautiful
City-States by KhAnubis
Can London Be A City State? by KhAnubis yet again
5 Shades of Nationalism by Political Ferret
Micronations - Countries in Countries by Derek Adam Thomas
Let Them Leave! by John Stossel
The Advantages of Small States and the Dangers of Centralization (Hans Hoppe) by V for Voluntary Library

Online Communities

Gallery

By Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination User:Muddy Mudkipz

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