Asgardia – The Space Nation

Why, when watching any of the pompous Asgardia videos, am I unable to think of anything other than this? (Rufus T. Firefly of Freedonia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsUoxlSADk

A step backward. Their democratic and governance system is horseshit.

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.

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.

People vote in their own judges and military commanders, and so on, just like in the Athenian Polis (although the Athenians did use slaves for their police force tho).

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).