You may find "The Ringelmann effect" to be an interesting footnote to this topic. It states that group members become less efficient as group size increases.

You may find "The Ringelmann effect" to be an interesting footnote to this topic. It states that group members become less efficient as group size increases. I'd be very interested to see you point out a form of governance which does scale. Even totalitarian regimes start to buckle under large population sizes.