As you may know, steem-engine.com allows one to create crypto tokens of their own. Some are just for fun like Drama coin or Beer coin, yet they also have an option to offer a team associated with it. A team is basically running a Condenser portal like steemit.com, yet with its own speciality. Such teams only display posts which have their name in the tag of a post. There is a sport team that only wants posts about sports and another that only discusses crypto topics (leo if memory serves). One very special aspect of PalNet is that flags are not considered when displaying posts. So Bernie et al have no influence there.

When you upvote a post on a Team Site one not only receives STEEM rewards but also the coin of that Team. On PalNet one receives PAL. One can power up their Team Tokens just like one does with SPs. So the more PAL one has powered up then the more PAL stake one would have (the same with all teams) and one's vote would give more Team Token rewards; as is the case with STEEM itself.

Hope that explains things a bit.