>There's two sides to every coin. That some would move to set up their own free community is a good thing. A great luxury for low populations. But there were

>There's two sides to every coin. That some would move to set up their own free community is a good thing. A great luxury for low populations. But there were quite a few rival and very undemocratic "ideal" communities. The most common was the plantation. Another was the theocracy. Thankfully history (mostly) deprecated these and the ideal that survived is the town-hall, its flaws minuscule in comparison.