{
  "id": "self-sufficient.autarkic",
  "term": "self-sufficient",
  "sense": "autarkic",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 17,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "A collective self that narrows its boundary until nothing it needs comes from outside it, so no out-group can set its walls.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "need.psychological",
      "nothing.absence",
      "come.arrive",
      "out-group.outside",
      "autonomy.self-governed",
      "dependence.condition",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "time.dimension",
      "outside.spatial",
      "set.fix",
      "wall.range-end"
    ],
    "interaction": "By making the boundary the edge of everything the group needs, dependence on outsiders is cut, and with it every wall they could set; the price is what the group can reach.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "autonomy bought with a narrower reach",
      "no outside setter because no outside need"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Juche, North Korea's official state ideology, makes self-reliance a stated aim of the state.",
      "domain": "politics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "autonomy.self-governed",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "autonomy is walls set from within; self sufficiency pursues it by needing nothing from outside"
    },
    {
      "id": "strategic-industry.kept",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "a strategic industry keeps one need inside; self sufficiency keeps all of them"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "autarkic",
    "autarky",
    "self reliance",
    "self sufficiency",
    "self sufficient"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-sufficient.autarkic"
}