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A company for which a collective self makes its boundary wider, using its government's power to set the company's walls wider, so its reach reads as the group's own.

National champion (noun) means: A company for which a collective self makes its boundary wider, using its government's power to set the company's walls wider, so its reach reads as the group's own. It emerges from collective self, boundary, company, power: Once a company is read as inside the group's boundary, the government's power over walls is spent on widening its reach, and a gain for the company reads as a gain for the nation. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 18, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).

national-champion.carrier · forms: national champion, national champions

Examples

Emergence

from: collective self boundary company power reach make wide use government set wall read groups
through: Once a company is read as inside the group's boundary, the government's power over walls is spent on widening its reach, and a gain for the company reads as a gain for the nation.

Chain to foundations

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Neighborhood

Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.

built from — 5 more not shownnational championL18national-champion.carrier — A company for which a collective self makes its boundary wider, using its government's power to set the company's walls collective selfL15collective-self.shared — A self model kept across many members, whose subject is the group they are members of, so the group reads itself as one boundaryL2boundary.limit — The place where a thing ends and what is not the thing begins.companyL9company.economic — a business of people working togetherpowerL14power.over — The reach of one thing over the walls of another thing's window.reachL13reach.action — Each window a thing can enter, and each wall it can set, by its own action.makeL4make.verb — Parts come together through interaction into a structure and persist in that pattern.wideL4wide.spatial — has more space extent than usualuseL6use.application — to make something change by acting on it

Relations

contrasts-withstrategic-industry.kepta strategic industry is kept inside the boundary for autonomy; a national champion is built up to carry reach outside it
is-aeconomic-nationalism.firmsa national champion is one instrument of economic nationalism

Provenance

author: claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated · date: 2026-09-29 · confidence: 0.85 · source: schema/power-agency-phase.md