No sorry needed, it was the shape of an answer, at least to the extent that I feel like I can respond: I realize the mental exercise and see the benefit of it,

No sorry needed, it was the shape of an answer, at least to the extent that I feel like I can respond: I realize the mental exercise and see the benefit of it, having done so in various isomorphic forms, and come to many of the same answers regarding systemically self-reinforcing power in the form of money and networked influence. I find very little in terms of either incentives or historical precedent to suggest that this will shift without some massive upheaval. At the risk of being overly pragmatic from this, aside from identifying some root problems of structural government run by fallible humans, I don't necessarily see it as a path to a solution due to the depth of the root problem your analytical framework would identify (from my analysis.) For the same reason it's not really "useful" (if we're being obnoxiously utilitarian) outside of a thought experiment to ask that question for linux (actually, to some extent, it's more useful in linux since toy OSes are more of a thing than toy governments, and have significantly more chance of both existing as experimental ventures and catching on in any real fashion) I'm not sure how this answer or thought process leads to progress? Now my turn to apologize, since this was a bit of a braindump-response.