Selfederation

A "Selfederation" (also shortened as "Selfed") is recursively defined as a completely autonomous individual or confederation of Selfeds; any political entity is called a Selfed when it is completely autonomous (i.e.: self-sufficient and self-governed), and entirely made up of one or more Selfeds.
The "order" of a Selfed is either 0 (when the Selfed consists of 1 single individual) or 1 + the order of the highest-order Selfeds among its members (when the Selfed consists of more than 1 individual); example:
- an autonomous individual is an order-0 Selfed;
- an autonomous confederation of various order-0 Selfeds is an order-1 Selfed (ex.: a community);
- an autonomous confederation of various order-1 (or less) Selfeds is an order-2 Selfed (ex.: a city);
- an autonomous confederation of various order-2 (or less) Selfeds is an order-3 Selfed (ex.: a nation); and so on...
The last-order Selfed (that is, the confederation of all selfeds in the world) is called the Universal Selfederation, which represents the complete and definitive form of the autopian society.

The property of "autonomy" is defined as the ability to determine every aspect of one's own existence entirely by itself; this implies the simultaneous fulfillment of 2 requirements:
- Self-government: the ability to decide about oneself entirely by one's own accord, with no external interference;
- Self-sufficiency: the ability to implement any decision entirely by onself with no external intervention;

In order to fulfill these 2 requirements each Selfed requires the ownership of a specifically designed production system called "Self Sustainment System" and the adoption of a specifically designed decisional process called "Proportional Preference Protocol".

From the aforementioned definitions derives that any political entity is called Selfed only when every individual that comprises it is entirely self-sufficient and self-governed, and that the main condition and purpose for the achievement of Project Autopia's ultimate goal (the Universal Selfederation) is for every single individual in the world to become completely self-sufficient and self-governed.

Simplified scheme of a Selfed.
Each grey circle delimits a Selfed. Each grey dot with circling arrows is a Self Sustainment System.
Each S.S.S. is owned by all individuals falling inside the circle with that S.S.S. as the center.