Geopolitics

Proposed one-sentence definition of democracy (or liberalism?) that's different from any I've seen:

**The government feels more like a game than like a player.**

That is, it's an environment for different people to interact, cooperate, compete etc, and not an actor exercising its own agency / intentionality.

Maybe try two axis?  (one player —> many players) and (one game —-> many games). 

One game feels too monolithic. And agency and cooperation aren’t mutually exclusive (agency even increasing at intersections with divergent signals from different cooperative groups).

So one-player, one-game is singularity. Many players, many games is plurality. there is some curvature so when you move into one direction is becomes easier to keep going in that direction. 

Players could be defined in terms of their informational uniqueness. So one autocrat with an arm of human robots counts as one.

When I think about democracy v autocracy the differences imo are superficially information/control (power) but more deeply how systems of feedback and adaption are structured to surface richer, information signals, and adapt themselves in structure. (Eg one-game surveillance states degrade or homogenize information)