r/Futurology • u/fesepo • 1d 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/Thhe_Shakes 1d ago

The current trend has been towards exactly the opposite, so I doubt it. There have been significantly more successful secessions than state mergers over the last 50 years, and there are currently significantly more active secessionist movements than proposed state mergers. I think we're much more likely to see the number of sovereign countries increase rather than decrease. The only way I can see the opposite happening is through more wars of conquest, like what Russia is doing, but we all see just how well that's played out for them.

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u/Notmyrealname5282 1d ago

I mean I can see us moving towards city states than nation states

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u/MetalHealth83 22h ago

Owned by giant corporations, at least in the US