The difference is that it has developed into an ongoing micro-society with a micro-government that directly exemplifies a principled alternative to the prevailing American order.
This conception takes us right from the macro-government of states down to the micro-government of communities, families, children, souls and so on.
On Tuesday, two judges ruled that it is not the business of the courts to "micro manage" government policy decisions, and that the pot of money allocated for discretionary housing payments (DHP) should provide local authorities with enough flexibility to deal with anomalies thrown up by the tax.
While that's encouraged the likes of Max New York, ICICI Lombard, Bharati Axa and Future Generali to raise the bar and launch a host of micro products, the government has, since last year, been funding its own micro health insurance program, called Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana.
Government micro-management is intrusive and contradictory.
However, for at least one green technology that can be used in the home, micro-CHP, current government indecision is threatening the future of 20,000 UK jobs, and a industry with a potential value to the UK economy of £1.5bn.
If, say, the Conservatives do as they propose and achieve "efficiency" by "cutting government micro-management", it will take a legion of IFS alumni to work out whether it was effective.
Investment is threatened as the Israeli military, directed by the Israeli government, micro-manages every aspect of the Palestinian economy.
I'm always a bit leery of government micro-managing internal decision-making in nongovernmental organizations -- too clunky -- but the idea should be studied.
The Internet has evolved as a model of competition and innovation, refereed by the strong hand of the consumer with little government micro-management.
Dating to 1967 and 1968, the first four issues of Micro-Gram, the government's restricted internal drug memo, recently appeared on Erowid, the always-essential psychoactives library.
