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Originally Posted by whswhs
I don't know. It seems as if it could be interesting to set a story in a world where you need, oh, 500 billion people to maintain economic and technological functionality, and face new and exotic challenges from that scale that require quite different institutions.
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It might be interesting as an intellectual exercise, but necessarily on that scale individual human activity, other than the top tier of leadership (however that works) just isn't that relevant, which makes a compelling story that relates to the challenges of the society hard to make (you can of course have a story that is just using the society as a backdrop).