Community

Community := this is the set of people (cf. human being) living within a geographical area (defined by the community confines) and this geographical area and the atmosphere above the surface.

As can be seen, the definition is analogous to that of the term state. Hence, the state is a community, i.e. the top-most community encomassing all sub-communities.

Communities range from the smallest so-called basic communities, over regions and quarters to the entire state.

A basic community has 40 to 280 grownup citizens (parameters). It is governed by 7 representatives, each responsible for 1 of the 7 domains. Each basic community must contain at least 14 marriages (c.f. Persons administration, parameter)

A higher-order community is composed of 5 to 11 (parameters) basic communities or higher order communities which are then referred to as the direct sub-communities of the higher-order community. Also, we say that a higher-order community contains the sub-communities.

The order of a community is the distance to the basic communities, i.e. 0 for the basic communities, 1 for the community bundling basic communities, 2 for the next, etc.

When the order of a community is 2 or higher, then of the direct sub-communities all contained further sub-communities until down to the basic communities are called indirect sub-communities. And the direct + indirect sub-communities are just referred to as the sub-communities.

Communities up to order 3 (parameter) must be geographically coherent with the thinnest part being 50 meters (parameter), i.e. no small exclaves or inclaves are allowed. Larger geographically non-coherent communities are allowed (e.g. Alaska, Finland and Greenland might form a community - a purely ficitve example).

The built-vs-free-land-ratio of a community is the total built-over surface (buildings without the garden, streets/parking lots/paved or gravelled paths/roads/places, railway tracks) versus the total surface, excl. open water, of the community.

A higher order community with 30'000 (parameter) or more grownup citizens and a built-vs-free-land-ratio of 10% (parameter) or lower may call itself a region. If the built-vs-free-land-ration is greater than 10%, then it may call itself a quarter or suburb or city.