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The ANSWER

Radical border nationalism, along with borders as barriers, fell to history with the advent of the cheap flying car. What do you do ? Shoot them all down? As impractical as it is evil. No. The idea sunk in that shooting down the thousands of flying cars now darting everywhere was no way to make money. Charge them for crossing, for parking when they get where they go, for anything anybody could think of. Dead laser blast crash victims don't accrue much up-billing.

Border guards became obsolete, merely ceremonial. To the delight of the local wildlife, fences came down, traffic analysis towers went up. Regionalism became more of an aspect of the citizen divided by the unique regional quirks that make a place attract tourists with money. Certainly everybody gets their credit allotments from the Government calculated by the local regional tax and resource revenues that can be converted anytime into monets or local currency. The wealthier the citizens homeland the larger their cut of the credit. And the more skimmed from all the paids to fly from some here's to most there's, the more attractive the region. The more folks fly over or to and the bigger the border charges, tax's, fee's, ect; and when divided up into the credit the more for everybody.

Soon there were no more actual poor people. Tourists coming to see the poor people made them rich. Rich people continued to get richer. No more fears of poor people from elsewhere sneaking in and stealing jobs. Everybody from somewhere else at your particular here means more money for you to be richer. Almost everybody is proud of where they live and acept their share. Of course you don't have to be selling trinkets to be part of the benefit of all these people spending money to hang out with you in your hood. You still benefit in the local split, even if you hate them for coming around. They all leave eventually anyway. Who doesn't want to go someplace else sometime. I wish I was there now. They have to go back to keep their own local split. Or they could stay if they want. With money you can have what you want, even citizenship of someplace else.

It was all part of the themeparkization of every myriad local culture, which sometimes ment tour vehicles full of strange people in ridiculous clothes crowding the shops. This is what civilization is anyway, from the beginning: market day. And the local market is everyone, everything, everywhere. And that's how cheap flying cars ended violent nationalism

Cheap flying car tech was suppressed for decades by the rubber tire industry till they sold the flying car builders on rubber flying car bottoms.