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For services that are not location-based, sure, they could be transferred to dispersed entities, but we probably don't call those entities governments. |
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03-21-2018, 03:26 PM | #222 | |
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I think the real problem with lots and lots of small intermingled sovereignties tends to be choice of law. It's not so bad for anticipated issues - you can spell it out clearly in every contract well enough, but if you run over my cat there could potentially be three separate law codes (yours, mine and whoever owned the chunk of street you were driving on) involved here that could say three different things, not just about what you owe, but about who has jurisdiction in the first place. When that's true for every legal dispute, well you have a mess.
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03-21-2018, 07:01 PM | #223 |
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A representative democracy...except that the large cities are treated as semi-autonomous zones, the residents of which may not vote in the national government.
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03-21-2018, 07:45 PM | #224 | |
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Also, if I'm understanding this correctly if "None of the Above" gets 10% of the vote all lists with less than that get punished? |
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03-21-2018, 08:18 PM | #226 | |
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GURPS Terradyne had an interesting variation: a 2-chamber legislature in which either chamber alone could pass new law by a (IIRC) 2/3 majority, or both together with simple majorities. Or there could be a 3-chamber legislature, and legislation requires a majority in any two of them. In a polity with a hereditary nobility, you could have a parliament made up of a commoner chamber, and a separate chamber for each 'grade' of the nobility. That is, the Commons would be one house, the Barons another, the Viscounts another, the Dukes another. Each chamber meets separately and votes separately. Maybe there would be a life peer chamber, too. A two (or more) chamber legislature, with opposite franchises. That is, one is elected the familiar way, for a set term. The other is appointed by some authority, and holds office for life, until voted out. That is, every so often he must stand election and if a majority votes to remove, the appointing authority must pick a new member. A familiar 1 or more chamber legislature, in which the longest-serving member is the head of government, regardless of party or majority. (This would give a given electoral district a big incentive to keep reelecting their man, the more so the longer he has already served. Variation on the above, a gerontological system in which the oldest member of the legislature is head of government, regardless of length of service. A system of multiple royal families, who are not permitted to intermarry or even have sex (to avoid producing cross-family heirs), the crown passes not from the current monarch to his offspring, but to the oldest member of the next family in line. That is, King John Smith dies and the throne passes to David Jones, the oldest Jones. When he dies, the crown passes to Ronald Ross, the oldest of the Ross line. Eventually it circles back to the Smiths. A hereditary monarchy, in which the new monarch is chosen by lot from among the eligible offspring of the precious ruler. It might equally well be the oldest, the youngest, or in between. (I suspect intra-family rivalry in such a system might get...ah...intense.)
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03-22-2018, 12:53 AM | #227 |
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Rather than casting conventional votes, the electorate provide entries into a random drawing. A write in candidate that gets one vote has a tiny but non-zero chance of winning.
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