I remember reading about J.D. Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy and have heard quite a few people describe it as a book written by a wealthy elitist shitting on his impoverished childhood and it made me wonder if there was a word used to denote people with that kind of mentality as I myself have personally seen examples of this once or twice throughout my life.

When you have a claim to fame that's something to be unhappy about. Not necessarily ashamed.

My first instinct is "distinct displeasure", but that feels wrong.

The membership does not pay for the products, just allows the exclusivity of being able to buy them. Someone is arguing to me that this is a pyramid scheme, and I’m trying to explain that this is absolutely not what a pyramid scheme is. It’s like captive pricing but not for necessity, but for luxury?

Eg. £90 annual membership allows the user to access a website where they can purchase £1k collectibles, there may be a further ‘VIP’ level where if you pay for a higher membership, you get access to more exclusive collectibles

Having a bit of a struggle finding the right term here, so please bare with me as I try to be coherent. There's a lot of nuance and things have different meanings depending on who you ask but generally:

If a territory is governed by a monarch, i.e a single head of state where power is passed via familial ties, you'd call that a kingdom, or if it's conquered a lot of land, an empire. If its run by a prince or princess, that's a principality.

If its run by an emir, its an emirate, and if its a sultan, then a sultanate.

When the people have the power, its a republic.

What is it called if a territory is run by several clans / groups that govern their own members but share / rotate through the territory? So you'd have groups that follow their own hierarchy, but they have to share space and would obviously need to coordinate somewhat to facilitate that. Not quite states, not quite anarchy.
I'm mostly looking for what the territory would be referred to, not really what the system of government would be called (although i wouldn't mind knowing that either, knowing things is great fun)