borganism

Definitions

noun rare An organization of autonomous organisms that exhibit collectivism: individual "units" that have merged to yield a unified construct and may have a collective consciousness.
noun rare, idiomatic, science fiction, politics Some forms of government.

The word and concept are derived from The Borg, a race of cyborgs in the fictional Star Trek universe with a hive mind that operates as one.

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REVIEW: Glasshouse by Charles Stross 2008
If they're not actually a fashion borganism they're not far from it, dressed head-to-foot in the highest quality Chanel and Armani replicas, making a classical twentieth-century statement.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004
These include: possession of nuclear weapons, possession of unlimited autonomous replicators [see: _gray goo_], coercive assimilationism [see: _borganism, aggressive_], coercive halting of Turing-equivalent personalities [see: _Basilisks_], and applied theological engineering [see: _God Bothering_].

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004
It will create a parliament -- a merged group-mind borganism that speaks as one supermind built from the beliefs of the victors.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2004