Catalog of the Weird Parallels

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by PTTG

In Shatter-1, a psionic anomaly has resulted in the abrupt breakdown of what cliodynamists are calling 'cohortostatic inertia.' People of all walks of life very suddenly stopped considering themselves part of any organization that extended past the regional borders of their home nation; indeed, the very concept no longer made sense in anything but the abstract.

While this makes sense for many of the people of modern nation-states, there are significant numbers of people in the world that do not consider themselves primarily part of the state they reside in. They include:

Exiles and governments-in-exile. Have their views changed?

People who consider themselves to live in territory occupied by a foreign government, which properly belongs to a different government. What's happened to them?

People who subscribe to ideologies that consider territorial governments unimportant. There are varieties of Islamism and Communism where adherence to the group counts for far more than the place they happen to live. What are they doing now?