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1) If you centralize everything into one government: what if that one government becomes corrupt? Then you cannot run to any other governments.

2) Cultural differences will require that different populations operate and behave differently, you will never be able to put the same constraints on different cultures.

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> Cultural differences will require that different populations operate and behave differently

so you have local/regional government, responsible for local and regional policies. But global policies would be controlled by a global gov't.

sounds a lot like Russia

Or the US with Federal and State law

Or pretty much everywhere, with a whole gradient of levels of autonomy.

Centralised government and democracy are not mutually exclusive.

Democracy has become a mantra. It means nothing. There are many corrupt and dysfunctional democracies throughout the world.

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