Good advice from your link:
“You do not want to live as a trapped and cut-off minority in what might become “enemy territory.” If you live amidst your civil war enemies, as defined and located within the CW2 Cube, you will be in mortal danger even if your immediate neighbors know, love and respect you.”
Just to make it clear for all, you know that the author of that, Matt Bracken, is FReeper Travis McGee, right?
I remember the first hand-sketched version of the meta-cube getting posted here.