On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.
Look at lemmy. Same country, different laws per instance and different laws in the communities.
Lemmy works because you can create new instances and communities and change federation rules and move around between them completely uninhibited. In the real world, the overwhelming majority of people are stuck where they are with whatever government was there before they were born.
I don’t understand what the country is in your analogy
The country is Lemmy the software itself.