Existential risks are risks that could cause the collapse of human civilisation. Examples include nuclear war, pandemics, bioterrorism, and misaligned artificial intelligence.

"A condominium is a political territory in or over which multiple sovereign powers formally agree to share equal dominium and exercise their rights jointly, without dividing it into ""national"" zones."

Friendshoring refers to a country rerouting its supply chains towards geopolitical allies and away from countries with which it has geopolitical tensions. The rerouting of supply chains may include: changing the places where goods are manufactured, the way they are transported, the raw materials with which they are made, etc.

For the purposes of this debate, a government placing a group of victims in parens patriae means that the government takes the responsibility and exclusive right to sue the perpetrators of crimes on behalf of victims. That is, victims are prohibited from suing individually, or withdrawing from the government’s lawsuit while the lawsuit is ongoing.

“Balance-of-Performance” measures are regulations and mechanisms that maintains parity between competing racing cars by adjusting limits on the more dominant car's parameters (e.g. adding ballast, limiting engine fuel flow). In Formula One, Red Bull Racing have won 33 out of the last 35 races, 30 of which were won by Max Verstappen.

There exists a technology, The "Guiltometer", which measures the amount of guilt a person feels about a particular crime they have committed. It also contains information on the average level of guilt felt for any crime so that it can quantify how much more or less than average guilt an individual feels for a crime they have committed.