The concept of policy frameworks extends beyond the delivery of public services to include more fundamental issues such as the delivery of law and order.

To consider how this might work, it is necessary to introduce the concept of metaframeworks.

Metaframeworks are those which impose constraints on the other policy frameworks which are available for citizens to choose from.

They are required in order to serve two purposes.

First, they can fulfil the role of laws which apply to all citizens regardless of what choices they have made about their own frameworks.

For example, it could be permissible to opt into a Dutch-style policy on marijuana until a majority of the people in a state – or perhaps an enhanced majority of 55 per cent in order to prevent frequent changes in policy – joined a metaframework that called for the Dutch framework to be banned.

In such an eventuality, anyone who had chosen it would be switched to a second preference drugs policy and notified of the change.

But providing there was no metaframework providing a requirement one way or another on marijuana then an individual could opt themselves into a framework either permitting or prohibiting it.

They would then be held to account against whatever governance arrangement they had opted for themselves, and in this case potentially their children too. This would, in addition, require identification systems and police access to an individual's personal framework so that they could be accordingly be arrested if breaking the laws their frameworks include.

Second, metaframeworks provide a means of overruling any given framework if such a decision is felt to be in the national interest.

For example, if a group of local residents oppose the expansion of a near-by airport and have the support to implement such a framework, that would remain in effect unless and until a metaframework is passed which would overrule this and approve the airport expansion on grounds, perhaps, of economic interest.

The difference would be that no longer could the local residents blame the government. The target of their ire would have to be their fellow citizens, and their microparty would have to make their case to the national audience in order to reverse the decision.

In practice, it is likely that any society would wish to impose a large range of metaframeworks, on issues ranging from drugs to road speed limits to intellectual property. This would then bring more stability to the range of base policy frameworks, easing their implementation.

It is important to note that this would not undermine legitimacy, however, as the metaframeworks would be the express will of a majority of the public.