That would be Ancient Athenian sortition [1], but it wasn't a random sample - they were drawn from a self selected set of citizens. It was random-ish.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy#Selection_b...

It was not just considered, it was the original democracy.

sort of like the a jury system

This was actually depicted in Arthur C. Clarke's book "Songs of Distant Earth": a distant robo-seeded colony of Earth is visited by the last starship from dying Earth, on the way to another world (this world doesn't have enough land area for all the humans on the starship) to rebuild its ice shield. The society on this world is very small, about the size of a small city, since it's basically one small island on a waterworld. The society has a mayor, who is drafted for the job, with only one disqualification: anyone who actually wants the job is barred from having it.

Part of the electoral college in some Greek cities was chosen randomly.

From memory a third of what would be our chamber.

That was design to keep the other in check.

There was a big revivance of that idea in Western Europe 10 years ago.

What happened to freedom of speech? What if a citizen doesn't want to serve the country?

Is that how that works? The guy with no experience in the job, does nothing all day, rejects work holistically, lives in his parent basement, is the single best person to do everything in the world?

I'd think he's a depressed, useless, complete loser. The only thing I'd trust that guy with is my *coffee order, and that's questionable.

I know you're mostly repeating a meme statement on the internet, but I'd wish it not be repeated, because we both know you don't really believe it.

*I don't drink coffee. Probably never will.

That movie was a complete fabrication. Not even trying to be partisan here—the writer-director was accused of making stuff up and zero fact checking when it came out and his response was “well yeah, I was going for the feel of the era.”