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Is there a reasonable notion of universal cover for schemes over arbitrary fields?

Let $X$ be smooth projective variety, such as an elliptic curve. We know that $X$ does not have a universal cover in the category of schemes. However, if $k = \mathbf{C}$, then $\tilde{X}$ exists as ...
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Finite etale covers of products of curves

Probably this question can be phrased in a much greater generality, but I will just state it in the generality I require. I work over $\mathbb{C}$. Let $C_1, C_2 \subset \mathbb{P}^1$ be non-empty ...
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Galois categories for topological spaces?

Can the theory of Galois categories (as developed in SGA1) be modified to produce the usual fundamental group of a topological space (maybe assumed to be path connected and locally path connected)? ...