What are they? Simply put, confederations are groups of cities and towns that band together to complete projects too big to do on their own. Things such as new railways, airports, dams, or collective defense installations are too complicated and effect too many people for just one town to control. For these, confederations will be formed that allow cities to freely work together for the common good.
These confederations will provide most services we currently think of countries or states providing now, and as always cities will be free to leave at any time.
While confederations have a considerable degree of power, ultimately they are less powerful than tribes because only tribes have access to the global society (a supersized version of the UN), and completely control the economic sphere of life. Both tribes and confederations help plan and manage The Venus Project.
The resource-based-economy is planned for on the basis of self-organizing confederations, which will tend to come together in the most efficient way.
Because confederations are self-forming, the cities within them will tend to get along better than today's often grumpy neighbors. Nothing says that cities in a confederation have to be coterminous, although common sense would prevent a city joining a confederation 1000 miles away.
It's that "of convenience" part that matters the most though: These confederations could be created to design and build a single project, then disappear when they're finished. Flexibility is key to maintaining freedom.
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