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In my article from May 15, 2025,1 I rebuke in the harshest terms both the oppositional nation-state system (1648-present) and its artificial scarcity-based economic systems (Agricultural Revolution-present) that together are leading us into what I call auto nuclear annihilation of humans on Earth, as opposed to auto nuclear annihilation of humans across space, a problem that we can solve now.2
Walker3 and Katzenstein4 invite us to understand our world from enduring regional perspectives as opposed to ever-changing national identities and geopolitics based on bloc competition – Walker from a historical perspective confined to Europe and Katzenstein from the perspective of an integrating world for good and bad in the near past of 2005. Below, I fill my broad outline from my May 2025 article and past writings and vlogs of three deliberately broad regions, 1) Asia-Pacific, 2) The Americas and 3) Africa-Europe for the purpose of unleashing positive human synergy from about 36 cultural bioregions to ensure our preservation in the face of a brutal universe.5
Note that my construction is in South-North team roster form as opposed to the anachronistic-suicidal and impositional term from the nuclear-competitive era (1945-present), “East vs West.” Goddess and God damn the self-absorbed global Baby Boomer Generation as a whole for bringing the human endeavor to this point of likely near extinction during their time in power after the Cold War. Going forward, consider the following 36 preliminary outlined cultural bioregions, including some evocative renaming of consolidated current polities, near-future floating megacities as part of space-launch infrastructure, all defined as more alike than different in the context of the whole of Earth, our homeplanet6 as positively synergizing humans:
ASIA-PACIFIC
1. South Pacifica: French Polynesia to Hawaii
2. North Pacifica: Isla Guadalupe to Alaska
3. Unnamed: Australia – New Zealand – New Caledonia
4. Indian Oceania: Madagascar – Diego Garcia – Christmas Island
5. Unnamed: India – Indonesia – Southern China – Wake Island
6. Unnamed: Northern China/Beijing – Koreas – Japan
7. Unnamed: Yemen – Palestine – Iran – Pakistan – Kazakhstan – Mongolia
8. Russian Steppes: Ural Mountains – Irkutsk – Bering Strait
9. Unnamed: Malaysia – Indonesia – Papua New Guinea
10. Unnamed: Thailand – Cambodia – Myanmar – Vietnam
11. Unnamed: Taiwan – Philippines – Caroline Islands – Micronesia – Mariana Basin
12. Arabian Sea: Maldives
THE AMERICAS
1. Falklandia: Cape Horn – Osorno
2. Unnamed: Bahia Blanca – Cordoba – Buenos Aires – Paraguay – Rio de Janeiro
3. Unnamed: Ecuador – Peru – Northern Chile
4. Unnamed: Bolivia – Brazil – Venezuela – Guyana – Suriname – French Guiana
5. Nuevo Mesoamerica: Colombia – Mexico City – Tallahassee – Caribbean Sea
6. Western North America: Guadalajara – Alaska – Denver
7. Middle North America: Dallas – Northwest Territories – Ottawa – Louisville
8. Eastern North America: Baton Rouge – New York City – Quebec – Newfoundland
9. Unnamed: Greenland and Iceland
10. South Atlantica: Gough Island – Saint Helena – Ascension Island
11. Middle Atlantica: Canary Islands – Cape Verde – St. Peter and St. Paul Rocks
12. North Atlantica: Bermuda – Azores – Madeira Islands
AFRICA-EUROPE
1. Antarctica: Including surrounding seas
2. Southern Africa: Cape Town – The Congosphere
3. Eastern Africa: Tanzania – Kenya – Uganda – Somalia – Ethiopia
4. Western Africa: Gabon – Senegal – Sudania
5. Northwestern Africa: Mauritania – Algeria – Tunisia
6. Northeastern Africa: Libya – Northern Chad – Egypt
7. Mediterraneana: Lisbon – Madrid – Andorra – Sarajevo – Ankara – Beiruit
8. Eastern Europe: Poland – Armenia – Moscow to Ural Mountains
9. Nordica: Finland – Norway – Sweden – Denmark
10. Neo Anglosphere: England – Wales – Ireland – Scotland
11. Unnamed: Germany – The Netherlands – Belgium – Northern France
12. Northern Seas: Norwegian Sea – Barents Sea – East Siberian Sea
Above images from, “Continentalist reconfiguration for human expansion beyond Earth,” Martin Schwab. Posted September 24, 2020 (7:21): https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/461359568. Images: Martin Schwab.
As always, take your freedom to critique, revise, substitute, recast or complete this framework as you see fit. Earth has always been our world, never that of national leaders and financial institutions. “Yesterday,” Earth; “today,” the Earth-moon system; “tomorrow,” the solar system; “next week,” the galaxy; “next month,” the universe; “next year,” the multiverse.
Quote to consider
Below, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson’s command to British naval forces at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 is reframed from, “England expects that every man will do his duty”7 to:
Past human souls demand that all humans co-explore together.
REFERENCES
1. Martin Schwab, “Eight billion humans can replace 195 nations with 36 cultural bioregions,” 3×3 Global Drills, May 15, 2025. https://3x3globaldrills.com/2025/05/15/eight-billion-humans-can-replace-195-nations-with-36-cultural-bioregions/. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
2. “Transforming nuclear competition (2017), 1 of 2 – North Korea |3×3 Global Drills Worksheet Series,” Martin Schwab. Posted September 19, 2017 (8:11): https://youtu.be/Ep9Bl7qM-GY?si=q73RGXzJcDKB5Djo. Retrieved May 2, 2026.
3. Mack Walker, German Home Towns: Community, Estate and General Estate, 1648-1817 (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1971).
4. Peter J Katzenstein, A World of Regions: Asia and Europe in the American Imperium (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2005).
5. Martin A. Schwab, Prospects for Collaborative Power in a Brutal Universe, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii, 2012. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/f71abd7c-66fb-4d25-898f-e61f357cc386/content. Retrieved May 3, 2026.
6. Martin A. Schwab, Homeplanet Defense: Synergizing the Global Populace to Subdue a Brutal Universe (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: FriesenPress, 2014). https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22267791-homeplanet-defense. See also, Martin A. Schwab, Homeplanet Defense: Strategic Thought for a World in Crisis (West Conshoshocken, Pennsylvania: Infinity Publishing, 2005). http://www.buybooksontheweb.com/product.aspx?ISBN=0-7414-2597-1. Both retrieved May 3, 2026.
7. “England expects that every man will do his duty,” Wikipedia, Webpage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_expects_that_every_man_will_do_his_duty. Retrieved April 28, 2026.
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