How state territoriality really works – site-specific locality is irrelevant

It is important, therefore, to understand how territoriality (basically, the information platform that is the state) really works (on how it was really created, see §11.00.00, particularly §11.00.03) in order to disentangle this from a state’s analogue-world location and locality (i.e. the specific place on the planet where a state is located today), as these only create confusion. The analogue world (i.e. Nature) was not created by states (any more than the digital world was). However, the state is the necessary medium through which humans understand and use it (again, this is the same for the digital world), that is, through which humans are able to process Nature’s information. It is through states (through the information platform that is the state) that humans become individuals, and it is through states that meaning and action (within the context of a meaningful human life) are made possible for humans. States therefore create, maintain and expand the information environment in which each human lives (or has ever lived). Within this environment states are sovereign—they completely control it, because it is their creation. Crucially, the fact that states’ information processing infrastructures had to be installed somewhere on the planet as processing needs expanded (specifically, after writing was invented), has nothing to do with the above. Installation in a specific territory was simply the next step, the second milestone in humanity’s development (we are currently living in the third, in the form of the advent of the digital world, see §00.02.06.03), exactly as is now happening with the digitisation of information, and hence the disentanglement of state-necessary infrastructures from location (in theory at least, unless politics intervenes). In other words, the state essentially does not need a territory—a territory is the result of the unavoidable installation of information processing infrastructures (as a result of humanity’s processing capabilities).

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