Jakaumamaailma

Jakaumamaailma is a fictional world-building concept used in speculative fiction and game design to explore distributed economies and decentralized governance. In its core framing, it envisions a planetary-scale society where decision-making, production, and resource distribution are organized through transparent, participatory processes rather than centralized authorities.

The name is a compound drawn from Finnish roots: jakaa, to share, and maailma, world, signaling the central ethic of shared stewardship. Since its inception, several authors and designers have used the term to describe different but related configurations of society rather than a single canonical setting.

Geographically, Jakaumamaailma is described as a patchwork of interconnected regions—coastal archipelagos, forested highlands, and arid interior zones—linked by energy, data, and goods grids. Urban centers operate as federations of cooperatives; rural areas feed materials into common pools that support both local needs and surplus redistribution.

Its economy emphasizes communal ownership, participatory budgeting, and circular production. Worker-owned cooperatives and commons management govern resources such as energy, water, and digital infrastructure. Trade relies on open accounting, local currencies, and mutual-aid networks designed to reduce inequality.

Governance is described as distributed or lattice-based, with decisions reached through consensus mechanisms supported by AI-assisted mediation and transparent logs. Legal frameworks are encoded as smart-law contracts and public norms, designed to prevent coercion and ensure accountability.

Jakaumamaailma has been used as a thought experiment in academic and creative contexts to examine how societies might function under distributed systems of power. Its depictions vary across works, reflecting differing assumptions about technology, culture, and human cooperation.