power centers
Where authority concentrates
Power centers are locations or entities where authority, influence, or control concentrate.
In politics and business, they're the places where decisions get made: Washington remains the power center of American politics, The company's power center shifted from New York to Silicon Valley.
In retail, a power center is a large outdoor shopping complex anchored by several big-box stores.
In some spiritual traditions, power centers are geographic locations believed to hold concentrated energy—places like Sedona or Stonehenge.
- superpowerDominant nation or magical ability
- commandAuthoritative instruction given
- governanceHow authority is exercised
- supremacyHighest rank or power
- regimeSystem of governance
powerhouse · deep state · hierarchy · inner circle · jurisdiction · intelligence agency · military industrial complex · authority figures · Pentagon · smoke-filled room · influence · IMF · control · Silicon Valley · old boys club · sovereignty · World Bank · administration
- geopoliticsbipolarity, bloc, blocs, brinkmanship, buffer state
- Capital CitiesParis, Tokyo, Madrid, Berlin, Moscow
power centersthe periphery
Outer edge area
backwaters · rank and file · the masses · flyover country · forgotten places
power centersouter edges
branch offices · outposts · dependencies · buffer zones · hinterland
power centersthe periphery
Outer edge area
backwaters · remote regions · satellite states · buffer states · borderlands
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