Alicorn comments on Open Thread: December 2009 - Less Wrong
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The relatively innocuous information about the wider world is there to read about on the earliest guidelists; less pleasant stuff gets added over time.
You can leave. That's fine. You can't come back without passing more tests. (They are very big on tests.)
They aren't politically components of other nations. The communities are all collectively one nation in lots of geographical parts.
They can leave. The communities are great for people whose priorities are being content and secure. Risk-takers and malcontents can strike off on their own.
I wish our own world was nice enough for that kind of lifestyle to exist (e.g., purchasing sovereignity over pieces of settle-able land; or existing towns seceding from their nation)... It's a good dream :-)
It was the first thing.