A consortium will decide on what an ideal modern democracy should look like, much like how the W3C has pushed web standards such has HTML4. Once there is a standard, any nation with a problematic form of government can switch, should they wish, to a modern democracy very rapidly by following the instructions outlined in the standard, as opposed to starting from scratch and taking a long time to invent their own form of government.
-- rhatta, Jan 11 2012

Open-source_20political_20manifesto [hippo, Jan 11 2012]

The European Union has tried to do something a bit like this - with mixed success.
-- pertinax, Jan 11 2012



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