Phalanstere
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Phalanx (military) and monestary (religious autarky).
This was a utopian community model proposed by Fourier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanst%C3%A8re
Fourierist movement in general, was ultimately undermined by its unachievable utopian basis — a general creed which as one scholar observed "promised too much and required too little of its adherents."
The open source economy (distributed global + open design + microfactories) can address the stressors (lack of economic productivity) of such an endeavor.