I hear lots about Nation and City states and so on which I don't really understand so I was wondering:
What types of states have there been throughout history?
What are there pros and cons?
What is (in your own opinion and/or historically) the perfect form of state?
Well, your first few questions are easy to answer. There's been tons of different types of societies in history. As for pros and cons? We're still debating that even in this era.
As for what I think is best? Meritocracy. Barring that, synarchism.
There is no perfect form of state like there is no perfect form of life.
>>1272090
Do states only change depending on scaling (For example a Democratic City state or Meritocratic Nation state) or is there another component such as composition or function that changes there classification like a meritocratic state as you said?
>>1272093
Surely depending on a nations goal there is a prefect size and composition? also what is your ideal form of state? I am interested to see different views
monarchy with a good king is the best form of government by far.
>>1272177
Would the size of the kingdom play a part in its effectiveness? Is a monarchy better in a small state or a large one?
National Socialism
>>1272071
city states founded by confederation of tribes
this is naturally occurring statehood
>>1272199
Does the ideology the state follows determine what type of state it is or is it the scale and/or its structure that determines what it is? Would national socialism be better for smaller states for the nationalist side of it as it would have a more unitary identity or larger states for resources?
>>1272203
So the general trend of statehood is to expand confederation<city<nation<continent? Have there been any historical downsizing of states or is this not the case mainly due to population increase?
