a term from the Kingdom days. "Dan Lorentz, a prominent figure in the new government, had articulated the philosophy of "Peculiarism" which sought to define Talossa not as a country-like community, but as a wacky, borderless Zen-like 'afterglow' or plasmatic blobule unlike anything else on earth, with no claims to territory or physical space." Its opposite is often derided as derivativism.