Oh man, the music and style of this is amazing, takes me back too 😉

You know what, I never thought before that the worlds they go to could be more or less stateless. Maybe you could assume that the hypergates are run by governments but there's nothing to say that they are not run by totally independent parties working for mutual benefit. The cash system could easily be a cryptocurrency. Wow, I must watch it again with that perspective.

What strikes me on reflection is that though there may or may not be a lot of states, what there is a lack of, unusually for a space sci-fi, is an empire of some sort. Things are fractured in that kind of wild west way the show heavily borrows from.