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Originally Posted by Xujhan

In the extreme case I suppose the US might simply become 50 separate countries. I think that would be at least sustainable, though I can imagine that problems would crop up.

50 countries? Most likely more than that. Small communities would theoretically survive without government - but then, that's essentially the same as the villages established when the British first colonized the US, isn't it? Very small communities without a federal government, or centralized government.. but even then, there were some laws to abide by, to keep order.

I mean I guess, theoretically, having no government could work, but the US would have to be broken down into much, much smaller territories. There's just no way to have people in such a large area (even just metropolitan cities) live peacefully without a form of order. And yeah, I know anarchy has a solution - to more or less just send criminals and the like to certain areas to live together, but it's not realistic.

Kind of reminds me of Animal Farm.. they tried to live together in peace, without a master (government) to control their actions, but in the end someone always rises to power. It's just human nature.