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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    Name Boarder Walk Time Max Boarder (km^2) Travel per Day to reach Max (km/day) Rough land Area at Max Scale km^2 Lower Levels Max Size Pop Per Rep Total Pop per Rep Minimum Pop Representatives Minimum Pop State Max Pop State (150 Pop Representatives) 1: Manor 1 Hour 5 5 1.56 0 7 7 42 294 1,050...
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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    @LordsFire I'm debating between ripping out the existing first post and replacing it with a mock Constitution showing the current "consensus" for this imagined government, updating it as I think of things and update things. Or, I might write up the constitution as I've figured it by that point...
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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    Territorial thoughts Level Allowed Pop Range (min-average-max) Max Size Min number Per Texas (695k km^2) Per pop (min - average -max) County 1k -10k - 30k 100 km^2 6.9k 29k - 2.9k - 966 State 31k - 1m - 7.6m 10,000 km^2 70 935k - 29 - 3.8 Confederation 781k - 100m - 1.7b 1 million km^2...
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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    Name Tax Rate Income Tax Rate Land Per Capita Tax, $70,000 Average Income Per Capita Tax, $60,000 Average Land Value US Estimated "Average" represented Reps US (300 million) Governments(average assembly) US Average Income Per Rep Clan 10% $7,000 6.6 45 million 600k (75) $46k County 9%...
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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    Hm, maybe, but that sort of seems like suggesting every Republic is an attempt to re-create the Roman Republic. Its a federal system, but the mechanism here seems rather different. Edit: Some continuing thoughts/reforms If each representative is not chosen by a traditional at large election...
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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    Hm, doesn't any theory of government generally abstract out the much of the relationships outside the hierarchy? I'm not sure this abstraction doesn't do so particularly, besides it being an idea in the process of baking, instead of something with a full book of explainers. On diffusion of...
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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    One thing I've thought over is how much voting might need to go on in this system: if you have the full 10 layers, that's 10 representatives, and if you vote for the executive too, that's 10-30 executives to vote for too. So, 20-40 people to vote for. Very hard to get enough info to make...
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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    ... Shoot. I meant to get the whole thing posted over the weekend, but finking with the spreadsheet took all the time. Was hoping to have time tonight to finish it, didn't really mean to post it yet. Shoot. The short of it is I was playing around with the idea of a State organized out on...
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    Philosophy Dunbar's State

    Constitution Of Dunbar Purpose of Project My goal is to lay out and explore the constitution and functioning of a Global State set up to run on human scales. This is the source of the title Dunbar, in reference to Dunbar's number. I will lay out some principles and goals guiding this project...
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