Building a nation is hard, much like building a software stack; you have to stand on tons of infrastructure to be able to make it work, and the underpinnings of

Building a nation is hard, much like building a software stack; you have to stand on tons of infrastructure to be able to make it work, and the underpinnings often aren't pretty and/or efficient. Look at the mess that most TCP/IP stacks are, and at some of the more baroque forms of administration you find out there, like those old livestock rights they have in the City of London.