City states and some sort of 'neo-medieval' organisation principle with lots of overlapping allegiances and identities. There was an interesting article on thi

City states and some sort of 'neo-medieval' organisation principle with lots of overlapping allegiances and identities. There was an interesting article on this some time ago that broached some of these ideas: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329850-600-end-of-nations-is-there-an-alternative-to-countries/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329850-600-end-of-n...