Let me explain my point exactly in that case. The purpose of TFA is not to give a copy/paste line-for-line example of how we should run our modern civilization

Let me explain my point exactly in that case. The purpose of TFA is not to give a copy/paste line-for-line example of how we should run our modern civilization, using the ancient systems in totality. The point is to give some examples of how tyranny has been a problem that humans have been dealing with for centuries, and how the earliest, truly organized societies dealt with that one specific issue.