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META City and META Village
As the META City system expands and develops, there will be opportunities for small civic units to join. The META Village defines a town, which has sufficient economic potential to benefit from association with the system but is not large enough or economically complex enough to provide or receive all of the services that a META City can offer.
A META Village would consist of a small free trade or bonding area and a communications center, linked to the System's data bank. In most cases this would facilitate the business of a few local manufacturers, extractors of certain kinds of raw materials, or producers of certain kinds of agricultural items in demand in national and international trade. Farmer cooperatives would benefit greatly from membership in the system.
Through providing better access to markets and materials, membership in the system would greatly aid the economic life of the mother town lower priced goods could be ordered through the system to the benefit of town consumers, Electronic education and training of the highest quality would be available through the META system to towns people, as would employment experience within the system.
It is anticipated that META villages would often be organized and staffed by individuals who had worked in META cities and were returning home to apply their considerable skills and knowledge for the benefit of the community. | 
