I think I wrote about this somewhere else in relationship to the “rock band” as a potential nucleus of social systems & movements, but this guy says it way better and more directly:

A primary loyalty is a connection to a non-state group that is greater than loyalty to a state. These loyalties include those to clan, religion, tribe, neighborhood gang, etc. These loyalties are reciprocated through the delivery of political goods (see the brief Weak, Failed, and Collapsed States for a list of political goods) by the group that the state cannot or will not deliver.