Nation-State Scale Debate
The cluster discusses the optimal size and structure of political entities, debating pros and cons of large nation-states, smaller city-states, federations like the US or EU, and possibilities like world government or resource-pooling among multiple nations.
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The idea of countries is not taken far enough?
Dunbar number works for countries as well. A hundred countries can talk to each other, trade and make agreements. Much more than that and it becomes a mess. So we get another layer of governance, called unions. You see USA being a union of 50 states, or EU being a union of 28 states. Expanding such a union to the whole world defeats the point.
You can still have a federated world-government.
Why does it have to be only one nation state? Couldn't it be multiple pooling resources?
wouldn't fewer countries make government _more_ centralized? ;)
Sounds like a step toward world government.
This sounds like an argument for smaller nations?
Countries are known to do this on big issues, see eg. NATO.
Can't we break down governance to city states rather?
As you say, the threat of invasion was the only reason people banded together physically. Now the the threat is gone, we should see more (as small as possible) city-states because everyone loves freedom and more control over their lives. There would not be a world government. Instead multilateralism is how the world would coordinate/cooperate.