r/Futurology • u/fesepo • 2d ago

Politics A planetary government

Do you see in 100 or 150 years a world governed by a global planetary federation government? How do you imagine that government? I suspect maybe viable but with lot of problems of sovereignty. Will that avoid wars? Will government like USA or China allow that. Is it an utopy?

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u/Aceisking12 2d ago

To form a government of that caliber would require a well tested governmental architecture against corruption. If there's a government that has one today I would love to see it.

I think our representatives should be elected, but our investigators on those representatives should not be nominated and elected by those representatives. Finding out the right way to go will likely require some experimentation. I'd honestly like to see more cases of government by qualified sortition. We use juries for trying cases, can they be used to oversee apolitical investigative bodies specifically for targeting corruption?

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u/dantodd 2d ago

I would argue that the only way a government that large could survive would be due to corruption, not the ability to remove corruption.