What is the Perfect Form of Government?

[Sanguinea]

Semi-socialist semi-federal parliamentary executive constitutional monarchy

How does one be semi-socialist or semi-federal?

Being interested in the wellbeing of your people only half of the time.

[Nuverikstan]

Just make it absolute monarchy. It is the same amout of luck as democracy.

THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE WITH SOME SENSE!

Also having a King just sounds cool.

[Czechanada]

Also, any government with me at the helm would be perfect.

[Independent Wessex]

A fascist Anglican theocracy

[Divair]

THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE WITH SOME SENSE!

Also having a King just sounds cool.

If you're 12.

[The USOT]

A fascist Anglican theocracy

Your right!

If we combine a historical failure with a historical failure, nothing could go wrong!

On a side note...

[Divair]

A fascist Anglican theocracy

Your right!

If we combine a historical failure with a historical failure, nothing could go wrong!

On a side note...

Two negatives, so they cancel out.
*nod*

[Duvniask]

THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE WITH SOME SENSE!

Also having a King just sounds cool.

"Here's a reminder of the people that used to oppress your ancestors."

[Belique]

Also having a King just sounds cool.

"Here's a reminder of the people that used to oppress your ancestors."

There's no link smarts

[Duvniask]

"Here's a reminder of the people that used to oppress your ancestors."

There's no link smarts

What are you talking about?

Are you somehow under the impression, that I intended for it to be an URL?

[Kumrann]

It would be a parliamentary democracy with the following features

1. Bicameral - Lower house elected by FPTP every 5 years. 50% of the upper house would be elected every 10 years through a party list system. The other 50% would be appointed by a committee for life.
2. Federal - Strong regional government with as much done on a local level as possible.
3. Non Executive president - Give most powers to the PM have the speaker of the upper house act as President.

[Arcturus Novus]

I would like some sort of a midway between a parliamentary republic and a Roman-style republic. MPs are elected by the masses, two PMs/presidents serve simultaneously, and positions like aediles, praetors, and quasetors (all officials from the Roman Republic) are appointed by their fellow MPs.

[Kumrann]

I would like some sort of a midway between a parliamentary republic and a Roman-style republic. MPs are elected by the masses, two PMs/presidents serve simultaneously, and positions like aediles, praetors, and quasetors (all officials from the Roman Republic) are appointed by their fellow MPs.

What's the benefit of having 2 PMs/Presidents serving at the same time?

[Belique]

There would be too much responsibility for the uneducated populace. The system would fall apart! Nice try though!

[Siaos]

Weird how communism got so many votes, I'm surprised. There are plenty of socialists on here, but I don't see many communists in the General Section.

[The Great University of Planet]

A Plato-style government of philosopher-kings would be nice, if it didn't automatically entail gradual devolution into tyranny... to be perfectly honest, I don't think there is such a thing as an ideal form of government.

Plato thought the ideal ruler would be a philosopher king?

I have a feeling that if Plato was a cobbler, he would think the ideal ruler would be a cobbler king.

[Duvniask]

Weird how communism got so many votes, I'm surprised. There are plenty of socialists on here, but I don't see many communists in the General Section.

It may not be immediately obvious.
Besides, one can still think communism would be the perfect form of government without actually being a communist.

[Siaos]

Weird how communism got so many votes, I'm surprised. There are plenty of socialists on here, but I don't see many communists in the General Section.

It may not be immediately obvious.
Besides, one can still think communism would be the perfect form of government without actually being a communist.

True, I just hope they realize communism can not exist in its "perfect" form. Even if everything went well and they created their "utopia" there are inherent flaws to the system which keeps it from being a true utopia.

[The Great University of Planet]

Personally, I think the best kind of government is one that adapts its policies to suit the current situation. Obsessing over ideologies is counterproductive.

[Threlizdun]

It may not be immediately obvious.
Besides, one can still think communism would be the perfect form of government without actually being a communist.

True, I just hope they realize communism can not exist in its "perfect" form. Even if everything went well and they created their "utopia" there are inherent flaws to the system which keeps it from being a true utopia.

I've never met a communist who believed communism was a utopia. Almost everyone accepts that a utopia is impossible. Communists simply believe the communism is the best system we can implement, not necessarily a perfect one. It can definitely exist as theorized however, as it has an does exist as theorized. It was the dominant political system until relatively recently.

[Siaos]

True, I just hope they realize communism can not exist in its "perfect" form. Even if everything went well and they created their "utopia" there are inherent flaws to the system which keeps it from being a true utopia.

I've never met a communist who believed communism was a utopia. Almost everyone accepts that a utopia is impossible. Communists simply believe the communism is the best system we can implement, not necessarily a perfect one. It can definitely exist as theorized however, as it has an does exist as theorized. It was the dominant political system until relatively recently.

It was never the dominant political system. The "Communism" created in Cuba, Russia, and China wasn't communism at all. The fact that the government officials were obviously of a higher class than the "peasants" who worked the collective farms in China and Russia showed they weren't really trying to create a communist or socialist utopia, they just managed to convince the populace that they were.

And you've never come across those psuedo-communist teenagers who don't really understand communism, but act like they do?

[Duvniask]

I've never met a communist who believed communism was a utopia. Almost everyone accepts that a utopia is impossible. Communists simply believe the communism is the best system we can implement, not necessarily a perfect one. It can definitely exist as theorized however, as it has an does exist as theorized. It was the dominant political system until relatively recently.

It was never the dominant political system. The "Communism" created in Cuba, Russia, and China wasn't communism at all. The fact that the government officials were obviously of a higher class than the "peasants" who worked the collective farms in China and Russia showed they weren't really trying to create a communist or socialist utopia, they just managed to convince the populace that they were.

And you've never come across those psuedo-communist teenagers who don't really understand communism but act like they do?

I believe they were referring to primitive communism.

[Lux Invicta]

Sharia

[Siaos]

It was never the dominant political system. The "Communism" created in Cuba, Russia, and China wasn't communism at all. The fact that the government officials were obviously of a higher class than the "peasants" who worked the collective farms in China and Russia showed they weren't really trying to create a communist or socialist utopia, they just managed to convince the populace that they were.

And you've never come across those psuedo-communist teenagers who don't really understand communism but act like they do?

I believe they were referring to primitive communism.

Fair enough, but it has never existed in the more organized, advanced system that marx theorized, and it can't without horrific consequences.

[Kumrann]

I believe they were referring to primitive communism.

Fair enough, but it has never existed in the more organized, advanced system that marx theorized, and it can't without horrific consequences.

Alongside this where proper Communism (see Anarchist Catalonia) has been achieved it has been quickly and easily overrun by an organized, hierarchical fighting force.