Status Updates From Il contratto sociale

Dissolution of a state: corruption, tyranny, despotism, anarchy, oligarchy.

Hotter lands trigger a bullying state, colder lands trigger a barbaric state, warm lands trigger a state with a good communal trajectory; demographic & physiologic analysis of food consumption in Iran, Europe, India, Armenia, equatorial regions; state of living and luxury across regions; there are no best practice on governing, yet if the population stalls on growth it is therefore not considered to be optimal.

More administrators mean less power of the state as well as less speed of operations; democracy is for small states, aristocracy is for medium states, monarchy is for large states; democracy is for Gods, this established form is not for humans; aristocracy based on selection is preferred over nepotistic aristocracy; inconsistencies in monarchy; taxes are low in democracy, high in aristocracy, and highest in monarchy.

Equality and freedom; the betterment of the state comes if the two extreme economical sides of the community are brought together; a state forms continuity based on the communal interests: farming versus craftsmanship, religion versus literature&information, war versus virtue; ritualistic values driving a society beneath lawmaking; sovereign body needs to be just as strong to keep the government in check.