A step backward. Their democratic and governance system is horseshit.<p>Elon Musk mentioned having a direct democracy on Mars. Maybe they should take a page out of his book and go look at what the Kurds are doing with democratic confederalism.<p>FYI: Democratic confederalism is a "system of popularly elected administrative councils, allowing local communities to exercise autonomous control over their assets, while linking to other communities via a network of confederal councils." Decisions are made by communes in each neighborhood, village, or city.<p>People vote in their own judges and military commanders, and so on, just like in the Athenian Polis (although the Athenians <i>did</i> use slaves for their police force tho).<p>Either way, at the very least, one would hope a nation of the future would have some kind of system of direct democracy. It would be a great testbed, especially at this early stage, of testing different modes of bureaucracy (automated, AI based, career bureaucratic admin, or as in the Athenians, a required service to be fulfilled by all, much like the jury system).