China Maybe a change schedule for China, the world's largest country (population), with a grand and unified culture, can be something that is drawn out in time, to fit the longevity of the Chinese Empire. The first 10 years could be the "10 years of thinking." In it, the poponents of change, the adversaries to change, and people more or less undecided, will think and talk with each other and not try to force changes on one another. So everything stays more or less the same, or rather go the way the Government wants them to go. If the central Government would decide to implement vast changes in the direction of a DAVID system, then that is its free choice to make. Then after the years of thinking, the years of deciding. Should things change into a DAVID model, or not, and if so to what degree. This can have a potential for civil war, which is very bad. The civil war must be prevented at all cost. The best way to avoid it is to have a very large majority in favor of one option. Let's say: two thirds. A group out numbered 1 to 2, merely faces extinction when fighting, thus civil war is prevented. Hence, the years of deciding would go on, and on and on, until a 66.6% majority. The people who favor change shouldn't try to force a grand revolutionary take over, if the opposing sides are still too much the same. Better wait for the next generation, who might be smarter. I think: time is on our side, in principle the truth should win out the longer we wait. Of course oppression and exploitation should not become unbearable in the mean time, if they do then a war has already been started. If an oppressor plays it soft, we should also play soft and play the waiting game, until a vast majority is achieved. Without a vast majority, the system won't function anyway, because it is hard core democracy. Then when finally a decision seems to have formed in the people, and when finally a period of potential oppression that might have formed in opposition to possible changes is coming to an end and the oppressors - if any have emerged - decide that there is really no reason to go on with fighting the people, then the "10 years of federalization" could start. During the years of federalization the borders of the new Chinese countries is being debated and formed, the new democratic systems are installed inside the federated states and it is debated and decided what this new democratic system should be. Then at the end of the 10 years of federalization the central Government is reformed from its old self, to a gathering of all the new Chinese nation Governments. Somewhere around that time all chinese nations start creating their new money, and they try to keep it at equal value to the other chinese currencies, for instance through a fixed exchange rate and of course keeping it at the same value (state income from taxation only). Ideally 1 unit is the same everywhere, only the appearance of the notes is a little different. Then if one country goes crazy and prints 3 times more money, they will not be able to maintain that equal value and hence they'd be punished by their own irresponsible money printing in seeing the value of their coin drop. That is a big benefit of having many currencies, the responsible nations don't suffer with the irresponsible ones. The responsible nations keep the value in their coin at ideal level. Each nation could decide when it is ready for its own coin, and then drop out of the unified chinese currency (yuan). I suppose one would need to change all old money into the new, unless the yuan is being dropped all accross China at the same time. If not all old money is exchanged in some nations, the left over money will press heavily on the countries that still use the unified yuan. That will make it difficult to use a new money to clean out old financier capital. Even when changing all money, some money will not trust the new currency and press on the yuan of other chinese nations. This distrust is not wrong, because that capital still needs to be destroyed, which becomes a lot easier once it is denominated in the new currency of a chinese nation. They can rotate the currency again, and this time the piled of bad money have nowhere to run. On the other hand, suddenly changing the currency in all chinese nations is in principle a recipe for chaos. If only a few nations remain with the unified yuan, it is possible they feel a pressure from lingering capital (who can still buy in their countries), pressuring them to also change into a new currency, to protect themselves. So maybe, it is a good idea to have all new chinese nations change to their own new currency during the years of federalization when a central Government is in control. That way it can all be done in a great operation at the same time, and the central Government would control the printing of all new currencies thus making sure they all have the same value (only a different appearence). Through guaranteed exchange rates the money can truly remain at equal values (but one would generally trade in the local currency, although that isn't even really necessary in principle - the good point about different currencies is that they can change values over time, and guarantee national sovereignty; where they are all used does not matter as much; but I suppose the national Government would only accept its own currency in taxation, thus pressuring its economy to use its money). After the period of federalization, every so many years all the Governments of all new chinese nations could come together in Beijing, for meeting and celibration or whatever seems adequate. Then the years could be called "many (chinese) nations, one (chinese) culture." One of the things that could be discussed is new chinese characters for writing. The old Empire was founded on writing, it seems appropriate to continue to use the same characters for writing accross china. Maybe this sense of cultural unity and a grand meeting of all the new chinese top Governments every so many years, will make the chinese people happy, provide for a sense of unity now that there are many sovereign nations, but still together in peace (and eating sticks). It is entirely possible that most or all new chinese nations will mimmick each other in great detail or even completely, by both making the same decisions and taking over each others decisions. Only in exceptions going different ways, later to merge on one path once one path has been proven the better one. I guess that when most/all new chinese countries use a DAVID economy and more or less the same Constitution, things will already be quite unified because of that. "We have a central Government, just like you." The primary goal is to make things democratic, not necessarily to make them different. What works well, works well. "We have good control over our Government, they respect us and we them, we are them, just like you in your country" (ideally). But when some chinese nations wants to go an entirely different way, nothing can stop them, because they are truly sovereign. I doubt that would happen quickly, assuming that the new system would work wonderfully in the main, but who knows. Needless to say the borders should be open for people. To visit their families and so on, so the families are not torn apart when they are suddenly in different nations. But to some degree families now in different nations could feel some pain, because it is still different then living in the same nation as the national life might have a different rythm. However because things are so similar in the DAVID system, and people can keep track of what happens in the other nations (particularly with a unified written language), hopefully it will not be too much pain. The difference between Holland and Germany (basically the same capitalist system, but different language, history, laws, Constitutions) is probably going to be much greater then between two new chinese nations (same written language, similar unified history, same DAVID system and maybe even a similar Constitution, maybe even the same spoken language.) (Spoken language borders are also a good line to use for borders of new nations. It still is a good idea to put similar people into the same country, per character, language, religion and so on, so they can adapt their nation to their own wishes that fit them best.) posted on Friday, April 10, 2009 12:31 PM Comments No comments posted yet. Post Comment Maybe something like this works for other Empires (India ? USA ? EU ? Indonesia ? Brazil ? ... ).