A Grid is an area of land governed by a community.
The GRID Network is in a gradual process of expansion. New Grids are formed through a democratic process online: individuals make Grid proposals on the GRIDS platform, and proposals are accepted if they garner enough support to form a community that can actually run the Grid.
Each Grid is customised to reflect the values of its community. No overseers govern. Instead, the communities govern themselves, abiding only by the common law that every Grid upholds to keep the wider societal system intact.
That common law prohibits the invasion and destruction of land, and the abuse of innocent people. It is reinforced by a security prompt on every device — the way anyone, anywhere, can send an emergency alert to neighbouring Grids and to the experienced volunteers who handle Law & Ethics.
From the joiner's side, the logic is simple: pick your community, live the way you want, leave whenever you want. Everything else is architecture.