The Philippines follow a policy of "assertive transparency" which frames China as a "bully" of smaller neighbouring countries who have competing claims over the South China Sea (e.g. publicising altercations between China and Filipino fishermen and coast guard or navy personnel).

Anthropic is made up of executives from OpenAI who were concerned about the lack of guardrails in AI. Anthropic has a significant contract with the US military but refuses to give them unrestricted access to its AI models.

Ethiopia became landlocked when Eritrea, a significantly smaller country, became independent from it. Ethiopia retained free access to the Red Sea through Port Assab until the 1998–2000 war between the two countries ended that arrangement. Since then, Ethiopia has paid significant port fees to neighbouring Djibouti for use of their ports instead.

The Sibyl System is a technological system that produces the likelihood each person will commit a crime. If this likelihood reaches a threshold, law enforcement can pursue, apprehend and arrest that person.

Night courts are courts that stay open until midnight and on weekends to hand out instant justice in crime hot spots.

A "walled garden" is a closed platform that does not allow the distribution of internally-generated material outside of the platform.

Subscription-based primary healthcare is where patients pay healthcare providers direct monthly or annual fees and receive unlimited doctor visits, routine exams and urgent care.

The FIRE Movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early) promotes aggressive saving and investing so individuals can retire younger.

Estée Lauder is the second largest cosmetics company in the world and mainly manufactures mass-market beauty products. Puig is a Spanish cosmetics company which owns luxury fashion and fragrance brands.

A free city is an independent city established and governed by corporations.