Halfbakery: The Big Game

This comes in a few parts.

First, we need to establish a very good system to run a country. Since there is so much experience out there about this, you pretty much could write it up in a book. It would describe things like economics, healthcare, space industry, and daycare, and how to manage holidays off in large global companies where people operate in different time zones as well as have multiple queens birthdays to worry about, and the most key part, how to build a bureaucracy that is both highly functional as well as impenetrable.

Second, gift the book to everyone in the world currently in process running a country. Most of them would be glad to have a guide.

Thirdly, wait a decade while seeds take root, bureaucrats are hired, and we have, generally speaking, a good running set of countries. People are fed, kids are looked after, teeth are capped, the monarchy has ended, forms are filled, and race and gender issues are secondary to all the pain of logging in with 2-factor for all the SSOs you have.

Fourthly, it is revealed a set of details and instructions for the Big Game.

The Big Game is an internationally legal instrument approved (by a variety of people who are international) to describe a game as thus:

* Every leader of every country, can take part in the game
* Anyone who takes part in the game, has at risk, in part or in whole, their country.
* Anyone who takes part in the game, has a possibility to win, in part or in whole, anyone else's country.
* The game itself is simply a board game in a nicely set up room somewhere in Antarctica that is easily reachable by airplanes or suborbital rockets or very expensive boats.
* Everyone who arrives, needs to wear masks from the door, until they sit down. Then they can take them off.
* The rules of the board game are interesting and very detailed and basically describe a system whereby a leader can pool virtual resources to overcome some section of a neighbor's territory. Leaders can also plot and scheme amongst each other. There are so many games like this out there it is hardly worth going into it.

* This is dragging on but - the key idea, that makes this whole thing sing, is that whoever wins any section or county, or borough, or region or state, 100% legally becomes the new owner. It is theirs! Such a prize. It belongs to them and they can do what they want with it. As long as they fill out the right forms, because none of those bureaucracy can process data unless it is formatted right.

Therefore, leaders can win and overthrow and legally own as much as they like. In a room in Antarctica.

Conquest is absolute, until re-conquested by someone else.

But the average person, protected by a thick layer of bureaucracy, may never know their county has been taken over. It is like the good old days of Attila the Hun, where there was so much space and so little conquerors that even if a continent was won, the peasants tilling the mud would have no idea or even care. They just get on with logging into all their services.