> Using the extended definition, how would you classify a 'government' that
> is not a unified one, but is instead a bunch of overlapping amphictyonies,
> each one securing a particular important common resource that all of its
> members draw on? Any particular member may - probably is - a member of
> several separate amphictyonies, and not all of the members of _this_
> amphictyony for resource A are members of _that_ amphictyony for resource B
> (of a different type). There _might_ be a single world-wide amphictyony for
> a resource that is solitary and important to everyone, but there is no
> absolute necessity that such a resource exist, nor is that amphictyony
> necessarily any more important than any of the others.

Honestly, it's Type 7. Amphictyony merely describes a relationship
between governments.
There could be a couple other classifications it falls into, but I'll
have to think about it.
It could be an FT, where the "citizen" is a government - a hydraulic
confederation, if you will.