If you just look back at what we've had up until now, I think it's pretty obvious. Governments grow larger and larger as communication and transportation gets cheaper, easier, faster, and more reliable.

There's no way to stop it because it's obviously human nature to do this sort of thing.

I think that having a world government would be great for a lot of reasons and possibly necessary... but there are different ways to do this.

When last I described my journey into creating a new "more perfect" government, I didn't say much about what I did. I just said it was like a math problem, which is inaccurate.

I started with one question, and that was "What is government's main function?". I found through simple thought that it must be to secure domestic peace. Governments have many other functions, but to the people of the government, that is the most necessary (according to my train of thought).

So I started by selecting the easiest socio-ecological model that I could work with, and it was a city-state. The reason I chose a city-state is so that you could have many sovereign states within reach of each other, like miniature states or nations but not too complex from an individual standpoint.

This is very important to me, to be able to have sovereignty, and simplicity, in a democracy (which was the model I was assuming I would find when I came out of the thought exercise). Well, I then started working on the government by setting up a stand-alone "de-facto" governmental operating system, that would ensure for one, that there would be domestic peace, and two, a fail safe for the citizens, so that the government if susceptible to corruption, can seek federal aid in correcting the issue (which would ultimately handled by other City-States under federal jurisdiction).

This "operating system" was like a universally acceptable base of laws and principles that could be implemented or standardized via federal law and contested fairly easy by a sovereign city state if justifiable. The reason the laws are there, is to stabilize the city-state until they recreate the laws themselves or alter them and then enact them. So, there is a sort of starter kit for new city-states, but they are flexible so that they can meet the needs of the city. This way laws feel more familiar and are respected more by the citizens.

All government control will be decided by the public, as will essentially everything else. People will be appointed by the public, and the education system will in all city-states be required to teach philosophy, under federal law. Again, there is no punishment for not teaching philosophy for whatever reason, so long as there is in fact a reason.

Philosophy, I think is very important for demonstrating the power of the mind, and opening the doors to curiosity and the feeling of true freedom. Logic and reason will be some of the courses taught because they help remedy the ignorance of bias.

The city-state under federal law, would allow people to be transported from one city-state to another based on skill, and belief or just to move. This would mean that in one city, you would see so many Christians, and in another, so many Catholics, and with that demographic, you would see a lot of rules changed to better suit their belief system, but it would still be governed by the federal level government. In that case, if there's something going on in one city-state that isn't acceptable to most of the other city-states under federal jurisdiction, then the federal government can reset the operating system for say, 15 years as a penalty, and if the city-state still feels the need to, they can re-enact the laws that were reset... try, try again.

Oh man, typing this all out is going to take FOREVER. Everything flows so much faster when it's just a thought...

ANYHOW, I think this is what the world government should be like. Break down Nations into sovereign City-States with a number of hierarchical systems of governance that control blocks of area, that is essentially neutral and plays no role in governance but communication and universal operating systems by which all City-States must obey if they step out of line... and if they don't, settle it the old fashioned way, war.

So in short, the people control the city, the cities report to a higher state (which for now I'll just call a meta-state), which could just be based on geography or population, the 'meta-state' is neutral, but communicates with other city-states on city-state issues according to the federal governmental operating system, and then to the federal level that overlooks all geographically sectioned meta-states and then to the city-states. This way the people are always in control...

Er, If you have a question ask, I'll answer it.