“In Harperland, a nation can have many national governments. There, people are not bound by the reactionary need to see a nation as a unitary organism, bound by collectively experienced values and ambitions. There, all physical, biological and political laws obey the Chairman, so that nations comprised of politically autonomous, culturally disconnected entities are perfectly viable—even ideal. Similarly, Harperlanders do not consider the human body to be in optimum physical condition until it has had its limbs and head lopped off and become a body of six sovereign, decentralised bodies.”
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