Levels Of Scale
The canonical ladder, from the person outward: each level a domain, a superorganism of the levels below, and a subsystem of the levels above — roughly an order of magnitude between neighbours.
The Sovereign · the Circle, three to thirteen · the Neighborhood, fifteen to forty · the Village, fifty to a hundred and fifty · the Microlocality, about a thousand · the Community, about ten thousand, anchored by its three hundred · the Mediolocality, a hundred thousand · the Macrolocality, a million · the Macrocomplex · the Ecoregion · the Bioregion · the Georegion · the Planet · the Star System · the Galaxy · the Cosmos · ØNE.
Certain levels are thresholds where the mode of coherence changes rather than merely the count: around thirteen, where an intimate Circle must divide; around a hundred and fifty, above which everyone-knowing-everyone breaks down and structure becomes necessary; around ten thousand, the Pattern-anchor scale held by its three per cent; and upward through the scales at which ecology, culture, and specialized capacity each become the thing that coheres.
Two further claims matter. There is no true bottom and no true top: a person is already a superorganism of cells and fields, every "elementary" level has turned out to be another federation of smaller patterns, and every apparent summit has revealed itself as a subsystem the moment perception widened. And the ladder does not exhaust the Body: four cross-cutting axes — Guild, Tribe, Species, Voluntary Association — federate across places and generations and are not scales at all.
The canon holds its own map lightly and says so: the categories are not the reality; hold them as tools and not idols; when the wise right thing in this Circle, this place, this season contradicts the articulation, do the wise right thing and rejoin the map when it serves again.
Also called: The scale ladder Stands on: Holarchy · HoloFractal · Living System · Sovereignty At Every Scale Opens onto: Holofractal Scaling · The Two-Stake Principle · Subsidiarity Of Authority · Levels of Abstraction · Bioregion · The 300 · Supercell · Complex Adaptive Living System In play: beyond Sources: Levels of Scale (Card, canon-grade) · The LIØNSBERG Pattern Language — Synthesized 2026-05-24 (draft, §From Circle To Cosmos) · The Sovereign Path (§Holofractal Scaling) · THE DNA OF HEAVEN Part IV · lionsberg.wiki: Levels of Scale Open: The Card's ladder and the seed text's differ at the lower rungs (the Card places the Neighborhood between Village and Circle; the seed text omits it and places the Community after the Microlocality). · The Locality and the City appear in some listings and not in the canonical table.