Yes but each individual entity involded must still be autonomous
au·ton·o·mous /ɔˈtɒnəməs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[aw-ton-uh-muhs] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective
1. Government.
a. self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only.
b. pertaining to an autonomy.
2. having autonomy; not subject to control from outside; independent: a subsidiary that functioned as an autonomous unit.
There are a few
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_area, russia and china have them.
With a collection of single entities and nation states working like that there is very little conflict.
The only main question left is what happens in certain circumstances during war.
What happens exactly to smaller members like AI. Do we
have to get involved? Are we a passive member state that contributes in other ways?
A.I have enjoyed a period of quiet growth after a pretty severe massing that saw us lose a lot of resourses and members. We were massed by Nightmare and his buddys from the actions of one member.
I am not sure if A.I are ready for conflict at this time. Our largest members are only relatively small members of a small alliance, of newbies. Say we are attacked by a large alliance, wuold the nation come to our aid, even though if other membewrs were attacked we would be playing a minor (if any) role?
No lock in, there should be no concequences for quitting. May be a part of A.I and Replination while A.I is not a part?
One way would be to have the RepliNation and a RepliArmy. The RepliArmy is the Soldiers amongst us. Ready to fight for the less capable/pacifist replicators.
Don't get we wrong I like the idea. I just have concerns I need sorted before I would be comfortable in presenting this to my replicator brothers and sisters in A.I I do not want to lead them into open conflict again. Just think of this as writing code to make replicatiors programming work together.