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9077 Systems of Government
-9077.1 Government by random people
–9077.11 Those whose parents also did the governing
—9077.111 Somehow the populace are on board with this
–9077.12 Those who have been appointed by some mystical authority
–9077.13 Those who just sort of wandered in and started governing
-9077.2 Government by whoever is best at shooting people
-9077.3 Government by people who were actually voted for
–9077.31 People who were voted for once and have managed to turn this into a perpetual mandate
–9077.32 People who were voted for under a one party official, ten thousand votes system
–9077.33 People who were voted for entirely legitimately on the basis of policies aimed at making the next electoral term awesome at the expense of the entire rest of the future
–9077.34 People who were voted for entirely legitimately on the basis of policies aimed at making life awesome for the small number of people who bothered or were able to vote, at the expense of everyone else
–9077.35 Governments genuinely interested in optimising welfare
—9077.351 Engaged in perpetual arguments about the definition of optimising and the components of welfare
-9077.4 Government by perpetual crisis
–9077.41 In which democracy will totally be resumed as soon as the crisis is over
–9077.42 In which democracy is still in place, but who would trust a country in crisis to those other people?
–9077.43 In which the timing and winner of elections is largely governed by who has been impeached most recently
-9077.5 Government by those who did a revolution
–9077.51 In which democracy will totally be resumed after we’ve finished renaming streets, airports and cocktails after the date, heroes and symbols of the revolution
-9077.6 Government by those who have the most stuff
–9077.61 Additionally optimised towards making sure that more stuff goes to people who already have a lot of stuff
-9077.7 Evanescent government by the beautiful and doomed
-9077.8 Government by cats
