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Rule of Law (NL) > Judiciary > Governments (Various) > Nations > Federations > Trade > Govt Legitimacy produced by trade and lost by it’s failure.

There are in fact disputes where some nation is cut off from access to the sea by another. This is a challenge of the two dimensional gravity bound, but not irreconcilable. We have been solving it for centuries.

Most quests for regional hegemony have been to suppress rent seeking (negativa) or acquire resources (positiva). There are very few ‘hot spots’ in the world that are not either national problems (most of africa, caucuses, some south america, etc), resource problems (mostly water, oil).

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