Enclaves and Special Zones [245-2]

Special Economic Zones are a type of proto-state. They function as adapters zones to globalism. Ideally they are stripped of cultural, local, national, linguistic, fiduciary, monetary, regulatory, ethnic, and social barriers, idiosyncrasies, identities, and flavors. These Nationettes are run by corporations, governments, authorities, or organizations. At the same time they are incubators for new arrangements, agreements and contracts of social, commercial, and industrial infrastructure in a networked world. A network of SEZs would represent a structurally new, highly fluid state morphology - the antithesis to the nation state concept of the early 19th century.

Foreign Aid [247]

Thicker lines drawn from captial to capital indicate aidflow in excess of 66 million dollars per year. Thinner lines represent the 20 to 66 million bracket. Smaller amounts have generally been ignored unless they represent a significant portion of the donor country's budget.

Rainfall [233]

As drawn according to rainfall, a picture of our “waterworld” reveals contours that are subtly influenced by continental masses, but not beholden geography in any way whatsoever. Darkest regions receive on average more than 2000 millimeters of rain annually while white regions receive less than 100 millimeters. Arabian peninsular shown in the center of the perspective.

The World Is All That Is the Case [220]

The first sentence of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.