Afterlyfe is a technology that scans a consenting individual and stores a copy of that scan. In the event of the users death a digital avatar is created from the scan that possesses all of the mental capabilities of that person. Living people can pay to visit this virtual world and with the consent of the avatar, may interact with them. The average person can afford to pay to visit Afterlyfe once every few years. Avatars in the virtual world have no physical needs and only exist whilst they are interacting with the living.

Insider Trading is the act of using information gained from confidential sources which is not publicly available to other investors whilst trading on the stock market. Knowledge is publicly available if the opportunity exists for other investors to access it from a public source. For example, paying to gain access to a publicly listed stock report is a use of publicly available knowledge whilst trading based on tips from individual employees of a given company or from your own position at that company is not.

A multi-speed Europe is a model of the European Union in which the EU allows countries to engage in different levels of integration, with different countries participating in different regulations and gaining differing benefits according to their individual needs. To some extent, a multi-speed EU exists in the status quo via projects like the Eurozone and the Schengen area.

"Lesser evil" politics refers to the active support of candidates and policies that are both likely to succeed, and have made commitments to reduce/do least harm, at the expense of throwing one's support behind candidates who are unlikely to succeed but are more ideologically desirable.