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There's no decent voting system for a body of government this large. Every kind has critical flaws. The best solution is not to have a nation as gigantic as the

There's no decent voting system for a body of government this large. Every kind has critical flaws. The best solution is not to have a nation as gigantic as the U.S., but obviously that's not gonna happen any time soon. It used to be a flawed option too, before WMDs, but now all nations are on roughly the same playing field. Plus there's still something to be said for owning as much land as you can, for things like oil more so than farms.

patcon 10y ago
I feel like the world would be better if some nation(s) were legislatively stream-lined for experiments in secession (perhaps with trial periods and other conditions). Would allow for governance innovation without the calamity of conflict that's required for carving out space today. EDIT: Perhaps it could involve a hypothesis of sorts before secession, with baked-in options to re-join the parent state if the parent considers adopting some learnings after a successful experiment. Lots of possibilities. Would likely involve re-gearing the concepts of how quasi-independent states (child + parent) would keep relations open, so as not to polarize populations unnecessarily. I don't normally think of diplomacy as exciting, but learning how to make such a system work effectively would be pretty interesting