Chapter 10: The Geopolitics of Abundance
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Chapter 10 confronts the hardest transition: nation-states with armies, nuclear weapons, and leaders whose identity is welded to the old order. The Sovereign EXIT Protocol offers status, security, stability, and frontier access—making cooperation rational rather than idealistic.
Questions Addressed
- What happens when the resources that matter stop being in the ground?
- How do you convert militaries from conquest to planetary defense?
- What stops emergency powers from creating permanent dictators?
- What about China—a competing architect, not a backwards holdout?
- Why might AI convergence make national cooperation inevitable?
Related Topics
- Sovereign EXIT Protocol — Converting militaries via four levers
- Geopolitics of Abundance — Network States vs. land empires
- Emergency Protocol Design — Preventing permanent emergencies
- Labor Cliff 2025-2030 — Domestic instability driver
- Meiji Restoration & EXIT Protocol — Samurai lesson
- Roman Emergency Powers — How republics die
- Bronze Age Collapse Lessons — Simultaneous system failure
- Iron Law of Oligarchy — Preventing elite capture
- Three Scenarios Analysis — Star Wars, Trojan Horse, Patchwork World
- China’s Path to Sovereign EXIT — CCP priorities and convergence
Key Concepts
- Four Levers — Status, security, stability, spoils
- Founding Steward — Identity narrative for transitioning militaries
- AI Convergence — Rationality reaching the same conclusions
- Heritage Commons as Backup — Diversity as insurance against correlated failure
- Exit Guarantee — Networks can’t become empires if populations can leave
Characters Featured
- Douglas Chen — Bunker billionaire who takes EXIT
- Richard Castellano — Early adopter who shows the way
