"polystate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2014 March 22, Rick Weber, “Polystate: Book 2”, in Notes on Liberty:",
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          "text": "Weinersmith, who is best known for his webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, describes the polystate as a geopolitical entity in which multiple overlapping states exist — but each “state” consists of citizens who have agreed to the laws of a single non-geographic state; typical geographically-bound nations, or traditional “geostates”, would be replaced by “polystates”, which are collections of “anthrostates”.",
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