In addition to citizenship rights within a specific country, the multitude also demands the right to make decisions regarding its own movements. It demands the right to choose where to move and the purpose for movement, as well as to remain in place if this is the preference. As such, citizenship has become a matter of choice, according to movement that occurs by choice rather than by necessity. The above-mentioned demand for choice radically modifies the traditional structure of the national empire towards a global structure, in which the empire no longer has absolute control over production and indeed over the life of the multitude. This modification of empirical structure comes with the modification of the global citizenship structure. As citizens in individual countries are increasingly aware of their rights firstly as human beings and secondly as citizens, the phenomenon is increasingly globalized. As such, the empire is...

The multitude controls production and labor in order to meet the needs of the global citizen in a mutually beneficial manner. By association, the needs of the empire are met by the multitude who satisfactorily meets the needs within the multitude itself. The power of control previously belonging to the empire has now shifted to the multitude. The empire in its current form exists only as maintenance for the world order, implementing rules and regulations as decided by the multitude. According to the authors (p. 410), the traditional form of empire is at the last stages of its demised, not only undermined but also reformed by the new, globalized dynamic of the multitude.