States such as the U.S.A and Singapore currently offer citizenship based on sporting ability, inviting athletes to compete in their domestic institutions on condition they take citizenship in order to be eligible to compete for that state's national team.

The East African Federation is a proposed political union that would make 6 African states — Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda — into one sovereign, federated state using a single currency (the East African shilling). A draft constitution for confederation will be completed by 2021, and the confederacy will be implemented by 2023; a customs union and common market have already been established.

Criminal trials typically end in one of two verdicts - "guilty" or "not guilty". Under Scots law there exists a third verdict -"not proven". This is functionally the same as "not guilty" but is typically used to indicate the jury believe the defendant is guilty but lack sufficient evidence, and is different from a mistrial in that a second trial is not guaranteed.

Recall is a supernatural phenomenon that records a copy of the recent memories of a randomly chosen target without their knowledge. It then remotely implants this copy in the memory of a second randomly chosen target, who upon recalling the memory experiences it in the same way as the person from which it was recorded (e.g. they have the same emotional response to that memory)

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to mass production in Europe and the United States in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1840. It was characterised by the advent of steam & coal powered machinery, automation and a shift from agrarian lifestyles towards mass production.