Failed states

Can a state be legitimate to its citizens but not exist in the analogue world? This would appear to be an absurdity; a state is a Being and, if it is legitimate, processing is carried out by it and thus it exists (as a Being, not a Thing) in the analogue world (see also §14.00.07). It may be the case, though, that other states do not recognise a state, that is, they prohibit the dissemination of information on its citizens to their own, they refuse to process its information (because states, with the exception of the EU, are still living in a state of nature, see §19.00.02 and §19.00.07). In this case, a state may be legitimate with regard to its citizens but fail them in practice, that is, it seriously reduces its citizens opportunities to augment their information processing compared to the opportunities afforded to the citizens of other contemporary states on the planet. Whether this would lead to the state crumbling from within cannot be determined (and certainly such a state would not be a ‘failed state’, which is an entirely political, and thus arbitrary, term).

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