Editing Snow Crash (section)

===Distributed republics===
Distributed republics are loosely connected state-like entities dispersed across the world. The concept was reused by Stephenson in ''[[The Diamond Age]]''.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Chartier |first1=Gary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0EYHEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT360 |title=The Routledge Handbook of Anarchy and Anarchist Thought |last2=Schoelandt |first2=Chad Van |date=2020-12-30 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-73358-8 |language=en |quote=In both ''Snow Crash'' and his later book, ''Diamond Age'', Stephenson describes ''distributed republics''—fluid governments that range across the world, occupying many various places at various times and following wherever their citizen-customers go.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Burstein |first1=Dan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uaQXvZG4P5cC&pg=PA97 |title=The Tattooed Girl: The Enigma of Stieg Larsson and the Secrets Behind the Most Compelling Thrillers of Our Time |last2=Keijzer |first2=Arne de |last3=Holmberg |first3=John-Henri |date=2011-05-10 |publisher=St. Martin's Publishing Group |isbn=978-1-4299-8367-9 |pages=97 |language=en |quote=In Neal Stephenson's ''Snow Crash'' and ''The Diamond Age'', the concept of a "distributed republic" is introduced; it means a "nation" where citizens and physical assets are scattered around the globe, often changing, in many loosely connected anarchist communities.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Perry |first=Richard Warren |date=2000 |title=Governmentalities in City-scapes: Introduction to the Symposium |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24497832 |journal=Political and Legal Anthropology Review |volume=23 |issue=1 |pages=65–72 |doi=10.1525/pol.2000.23.1.65 |jstor=24497832 |issn=1081-6976 |quote=A projection of this simulacral vision of "home" into an imagined Southern California future is offered by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 novel ''Snowcrash''. In his Tomorrowland, as in the ideal futurology of today's globalizing market liberalism, there no longer exists any single overarching national state-structure of governance that orders, regulates, or frames the proliferation of suburban enclaves. Instead, there are loose associations—"parallel distributed republics"—of spatially dispersed, but otherwise utterly identical "Burbclaves". These are "FOQNEs" or "Franchise-Organized Quasi-National Entities", each one a "city-state with its own constitution, a border, laws, cops, everything".}}</ref>