Do you really want to vote on every little bit of minutia that you would have to if this were a direct democracy? There's an old game, Anachronox, that does a

Do you really want to vote on every little bit of minutia that you would have to if this were a direct democracy? There's an old game, Anachronox, that does a wonderful job of making fun of this when the player is on the planet Democratus. Worth a play if you haven't.