Patchwork is Yarvin's proposal for a world of many small sovereign jurisdictions competing for residents, capital, and legitimacy rather than a democratic national order.
The concept imagines politics as fragmentation into many separate sovereign units, often discussed in quasi-corporate or proprietor terms. Its logic is closer to exit and sorting than to one regime capturing an entire democratic state.
Patchwork is not identical to Neocameralism. Neocameralism describes the sovereign-corporate governance form; patchwork describes the broader system of many such units.
It is also not the same as ordinary federalism or decentralization. The current repo uses it for a much more radical break with democratic national sovereignty.
The concept appears as one of the main positive-program terms in the early Unqualified Reservations corpus and as an important bridge from anti-democratic critique to applied political design.
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Seasteading, charter cities, and later network state discourse remain only partly ingested in this repo and should not be collapsed into patchwork by default.