What you've pointed out are problems with large governments in general. Australia still has a lot of problems and when you have larger states that means the la

What you've pointed out are problems with large governments in general. Australia still has a lot of problems and when you have larger states that means the law applies to more people. Even if the majority of people are in favour of a law, they're still forcing the minority to abide by their choices and that's pretty much mob rule. On the flip side, if there's fewer people voting in elections, a minority of voters can force the rest of the people in the state to be represented by some jerkoff politician.