"Oh, sure, there's all kinds of secret research in Civilization, ranging from startups working on something proprietary, to some of the stuff Governance does that would be socially-infohazardous, to, like, probably almost everything to do with the Keepers."

"That's just, like, mini-Science! where you pretend to be your own little Civilization.  Obviously if you could have one big Civilization under the Law of Coordination you could also have several smaller ones being governed by the same rules.  The only difference I can see is that any smaller mini-Science! like that is 'shoulder-standing' the bigger Science! project of the rest of Civilization of which it's part."

"Oh, sure, there's all kinds of secret research in Civilization.  Startups working on something proprietary, probably some stuff Governance does that would be socially-infohazardous like scalable-weapons research, and, one assumes, almost everything to do with the Keepers."

"That's just, like, mini-Science! where you pretend to be your own little Civilization.  Obviously if you could have one big Civilization under the Law of Coordination you could also have several smaller ones being governed by the same rules.  The only difference I can see is that any smaller mini-Science! like that would be 'shoulder-standing' the bigger Science! project of the rest of Civilization of which it's part."