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I am glad I dumped that series early on... Baxter has talent, but his stuff often turns into a huge slog and his interesting ideas and grand scale get drowned out by incompetence and slog. I think I'd throw in all of earth's governmnets from Seveneves here as well. We have to save somebody, so...

TBH that is more civilization than government, like the Draka, the Klingons or the Nietzscheans from Andromeda. Anyway, most government bodies in Heinlein's vsrious novels, ranging from whoever ran things in The logic of Empire to the fragmented, corporate controlled governments of Earth in...

Tell that to Victor Cachat. I am sure that he would agree after his little trip to the le Martin sector(one of the short stories by Flint. and also I think that the one that introduced him and Zilwiki also dealt with massive StateSec corruption and incompetence, but don't quote me on that.) Drug...

The biggest problem with the likes of Saint-Just was that they did not clean out the corrupt thugs from the former InSec, they made the situation worse. He was IIRC something of a paranoid control freak. Rob Pierre was even sympathetic by comparison. What? I mean, I stopped around At All...

The Old and New Republics, the latter is inept in both the old EU, aka Legends, and the New canon. Mostly any human government facing a Zombie outbreaks of the shambling and stupid variety.

So TL;DR a few examples in The Worst Scifi and Fantasy Militaries were generally competent overall, however political meddling, corruption and incompetence basically shot them in the foot repeatedly. Also, we have discussed SF&F military incompetence before, in a bunch of threads and a bunch...