Small town secession : representations of micro-statehood in the US TV series Republic of Sarah (2021)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The 13-part US TV series Republic of Sarah (2021) represents the emergence of Greylock, a microstate on the US/Canada border. The establishment of the microstate is initially represented as a tactical ploy by opponents of a mining enterprise that capitalises on a (fictional) error made when the international boundary between the US and Canada was drawn up in the 1840s. This premise allows the series to explore the practical difficulties in establishing a microstate in the early 21st Century. But the radical autonomist aspect of this theme is undercut by the new state’s close adherence to ideals of US participatory democracy and the manner in which Greylock is presented as a more humane and participatory alternative to contemporary America. Following an overview of secessionist movements in the US and the legal structures that have prevented them gaining traction, the article provides an overview of the issues presented in Republic of Sarah, the impulses behind its production and aspects of its critical reception.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".