02 · Living Atlas · Catalogue
Institutional experiments
Every case with its status, legal standing and the mechanisms it uses. Sort any column; export what you see.
| Name | Type | Location | Since | Status | Legal status | Key mechanisms |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ostbelgien Citizens' Council and Citizens' Assemblies (since 2019) | Deliberative / sortition | Reference point: Eupen, seat of the Parliament of the German-speaking Community | 2019 | Operating | Recognised | |
| Paris Commune (1871) | Representative | Hôtel de Ville, seat of the Commune council; the Commune controlled parts of the city, not all of it | 1871 | Closed / failed | Unrecognised | |
| Participatory economics (parecon) | Participatory | Online | 1991 | Network polity | Not applicable | |
| Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth | Representative | Reference point: Warsaw, a seat of the Sejm; the Commonwealth covered parts of present-day Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine, and its earlier royal capital was Kraków | 1569 | Closed / failed | Not applicable | |
| Porto Alegre participatory budgeting | Participatory | Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil | 1989 | Contested | Recognised | |
| Preston model of community wealth building | Hybrid | Reference point: Preston city centre | 2013 | Operating | Recognised | |
| Project Cybersyn (Chile) | State-administered zone | Reference point: Santiago, where the prototype operations room was built; the telex network was meant to cover the country | 1971 | Closed / failed | Recognised | |
| Próspera (Roatán, Honduras) | Charter / proprietary governance | Island of Roatán (approximate) | 2020 | Contested | Contested | |
| Republic of Cospaia | Consensus / assembly | Reference point: the village of Cospaia, now part of San Giustino, Umbria | 1440 | Closed / failed | Not applicable | |
| Republic of Minerva | Charter / proprietary governance | Minerva Reefs (approximate) | 1972 | Closed / failed | Unrecognised | |
| Republic of Venice | Representative | Reference point: the Doge's Palace, Venice; the republic also ruled territory beyond the lagoon | 697 | Closed / failed | Not applicable | |
| Revolutionary Catalonia and the Aragon collectives (1936-1939) | Hybrid | Reference point: Barcelona; collectives also covered eastern Aragon and parts of the Valencian region | 1936 | Closed / failed | Recognised | |
| Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers | Cooperative | Rochdale town centre; the first store was at 31 Toad Lane | 1844 | Closed / failed | Recognised | |
| Roman Republic | Hybrid | Reference point: the Roman Forum; the state's territory grew far beyond the city | 510 BC | Closed / failed | Not applicable | |
| Seasteading Institute | Charter / proprietary governance | Tahiti, site of the 2017 French Polynesia memorandum (not implemented) | 2008 | Proposed | Not applicable | |
| Shaker communities (United Society of Believers) | Hybrid | Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester, Maine, the only active village. The movement's headquarters was Mount Lebanon (New Lebanon), New York, and its first settlement was at Watervliet | 1776 | Operating | Recognised | |
| Shenzhen Special Economic Zone | State-administered zone | Guangdong, China | 1980 | Operating | Recognised | |
| Swiss federal direct democracy (initiative and referendum) | Direct democracy | Reference point: Bern, the federal city | 1848 | Operating | Recognised | |
| Tangier International Zone | State-administered zone | Reference point: the city of Tangier; the Zone included a surrounding district of about 200 square miles | 1925 | Closed / failed | Recognised | |
| Tanzanian ujamaa and villagisation | State-administered zone | Reference point: Dar es Salaam, seat of government at the time; policy applied nationwide. The Declaration was issued at Arusha; Dodoma later became the official capital | 1967 | Closed / failed | Recognised | |
| Technocracy movement (Technate of North America) | State-administered zone | Online | 1919 | Network polity | Not applicable | |
| Telosa (proposed city, United States) | Hybrid | American West or Appalachia (site not chosen), United States | 2021 | Network polity | Not applicable | |
| Twin Oaks Community | Cooperative | Louisa County, Virginia (approximate) | 1967 | Operating | Recognised | |
| vTaiwan | Deliberative / sortition | Reference point: Taipei | 2014 | Network polity | Not applicable | |
| Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015 | State-administered zone | Reference point: Cardiff, seat of the Senedd and the Commissioner | 2015 | Operating | Recognised | |
| Whanganui River legal personhood (Te Awa Tupua) | Hybrid | Reference point: Whanganui city at the river mouth | 2017 | Operating | Recognised | |
| Yugoslav workers' self-management (1950-1991) | Participatory | Reference point: Belgrade, the federal capital; the system applied across socialist Yugoslavia, now seven states | 1950 | Closed / failed | Recognised | |
| Zapatista autonomous municipalities (Chiapas) | Consensus / assembly | Highlands of Chiapas (approximate) | 1994 | Operating | Contested | |
| Zuzalu | Hybrid | Luštica peninsula, Montenegro (approximate) | 2023 | Closed / failed | Not applicable |
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