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> The long run trend is very obviously toward a single government Is it? I believe there are far more countries now than 30 years ago. We seem to have some mo

> The long run trend is very obviously toward a single government Is it? I believe there are far more countries now than 30 years ago. We seem to have some more powerful international organisations now than a century ago, but earlier than that we had world spanning empires, and Europe was less than 10 countries before WW1. I want to believe that we're heading towards a star trek like unified post scarcity planet, but I'm unsure we're not just seeing a local trend.

AndrewKemendo 8y ago
It's misleading actually because unincorporated territories or completely unmanaged or ungoverned groups could be counted in a "sultinate" and it would effectively mean nothing. Much how King Arthur, Lord of the Britains was not known to the members of the anarcho-syndicalist commune.
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