The Frontier Atlas
3 ENTRIES CHARTED · SURVEY LIVE

Governance

The human operating systems being tried at the edge — council forms, charters, land trusts, network states. Each entry charts the form itself: who decides, how, and what tradition it draws from.

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Survey plate — a round council table with twelve chairs, fine cyan threads woven between every seat, a small candle at center

PLATE VI — THE COUNCIL TABLE

Communities4 sources

Auroville — The City of Dawn

A permanent international township founded in 1968 to 'realize human unity' — now home to roughly 3,300 residents from 60 nations, with stated support from UNESCO and the Government of India.

Founded by Mirra Alfassa ('The Mother'), based on the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo
Communities6 sources

Zuzalu

A one-time, two-month 'pop-up mini-city' for roughly 200 people in Montenegro (2023) — the originating experiment that Edge City and other frontier gatherings explicitly descend from, documented firsthand by its founder.

Founded by Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum) with a founding team of roughly 8 people
Writings3 sources

The Network State

The book that gave this territory its vocabulary — 'how to build the successor to the nation state' — already cited by two other entries on this map before it was charted itself.

Balaji SrinivasanCharter