Take Earth in the late 19th century.

• Industrializing democracies and de-facto constitutional monarchies like the UK and US east coast. Industrialists, bankers, engineers.
• Frontier sectors where "the cavalry" hunts down natives like the US West or southern Africa. Cowboys, settlers, bandits and sheriffs.
• A great bureaucatized monarchy in China. A different autocracy in Japan, with different outcomes.
• Small tribal units in much of Africa, not explored by the rest of the world (which wrote the maps).

However, the industrializing countries from the first bullet point did have a global reach, and the others did not. As the poem went

Whatever happens, we have got

 

The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Hilaire Belloc, The Modern Traveller

Take Earth in the late 19th century.

• Industrializing democracies and de-facto constitutional monarchies like the UK and US east coast. Industrialists, bankers, engineers.
• Frontier sectors where "the cavalry" hunts down natives like the US West or southern Africa. Cowboys, settlers, bandits and sheriffs.
• A great bureaucatized monarchy in China. A different autocracy in Japan, with different outcomes.
• Small tribal units in much of Africa, not explored by the rest of the world (which wrote the maps).

However, the industrializing countries from the first bullet point did have a global reach, and the others did not. As the poem went

Whatever happens, we have got

The Maxim gun, and they have not.

Hilaire Belloc, The Modern Traveller