Anybody can theorize. Only some of them are right. But results are something you cannot argue against as they stand in front of you. We can bring many ideas about governments. But we can't fake he ones that have and haven't worked. Middle East is a great case with similar people with a similar religion creating vastly contrasting results of hellish torture and cities that are practically out of future.

Dubai Oil and Capitalism

Dubai is one of the greatest statements about the power of capitalism and visionary leadership as opposed to cronyism, socialism and cancerous democracy. People still have this idea of "Oil Rich Middle Eastern Country" but that's basically just an old stereotype. The developed Middle Eastern Countries that doesn't accept refugees and leave taxes out of most things in life barely depend on oil anymore. It's still a lot of good money.

Having Sharia Law can become a significant handicap to progress. But Dubai even created Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) Courts which fall under British common law. Yes. They created a British court system that use English as the official language within their country to help the development of businesses and investments. You can dig things deeper in this 9 page PDF: https://www.lw.com/thoughtLeadership/dubai-legal-and-regulatory-system

Another Example

All these massive changes and prosperity in the middle of a dessert was achieved not through regulation, not through voting on things, not through wars, not even through religion but through voluntary trade. It's a simple act of Christians and Muslims are working together because making money is better than making each other bleed.

It Was All Entrepreneurial Vision

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) free zone, opened in 2002, is physically set on a block of desert off of Sheikh Zayed Road. The DIFC complex, designed by San Francisco architecture firm Gensler as a massive horseshoe-shaped office building wrapped around a central 12-story arch, soon filled up with the giants of global banking, including Citibank, HSBC, Standard Chartered and Credit Suisse. As with the architectural blueprints, the intellectual blueprints for the DIFC had been drawn up for the monarch by an American firm — consulting behemoth McKinsey — which advised the Dubai government to create a financial district governed by Western-style business regulations. It fell to veteran finance regulator Errol Hoopmann, who was hired away from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission in 2003, to write the legal code. “The whole concept here was to vacate 110 acres of [land of UAE] laws, just empty it of civil and commercial laws,” Hoopmann explained in his Australian accent, wearing a pinstriped suit in his office atop the arch. “And then we had to write our own laws to fill up that vacuum. And those laws are based on mainly UK [regulations] — though there’s an awful lot of Australian because I wrote it.”

The SimCity Chryslers are a fitting icon for the Internet and Media City free zones, since the zones themselves mimic America on a deeper level, hoping to approximate the constitutionally protected free inquiry that has helped make the United States a global leader in media and technology. To entice companies to locate in Internet City and Media City, Dubai’s authorities exempted the contiguous free zones from the UAE’s strict Internet censorship policy. In the twin zones, the government promised, the Internet would be fully searchable (except for sites based in Israel, which would remain blocked). The government of Dubai could be open about the special Internet City and Media City regulations because, unlike other authoritarian countries, notably China, the UAE is completely transparent about its Internet censorship. In the UAE, censored sites are blocked not with the message “The connection has been reset” but with “We apologize the site you are attempting to visit has been blocked due to its content being inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the United Arab Emirates.” A few more clicks and Emirati Internet users can read the official criteria for blocking sites, which prohibits, among other sites, web pages with instructions for computer hacking and bomb making and sites that offer Internet gambling and Internet dating, which, according to the regulations, “contradicts with the ethics and morals of the UAE.” The openly closed system even allows appeals to the censorship authorities if a user believes a site was blocked in error — assuming the user is willing to give her name and contact information to the authorities on the reporting form.

All of that and more happened because some Sheikh wanted to run his country like a business. It worked (as it should) and some others emulated it. Dubai still isn't an ideal city. But it has the ideal model. What do I mean by this ideal model?

I simply mean that it is better to be a vegetarian in KFC than waiting in line for your daily bread under a system that allegedly wasn't real socialism.

Dubai Doesn't Need Change - It Needs Competition

Okay, well, a phyle is a group of people that’s self-defined by whatever values they share. A phyle is not limited by race or language or geography – or, most importantly, by borders on maps or other such fictions – although it could be, if its members chose to be so limited. The word phyle was coined by science fiction author Neal Stephenson in his masterwork, The Diamond Age. It comes from the Greek, φυλή which means “tribe” or “clan.”But it would be at least as apt if they were called philes, stemming from the Greek word philia, which means “love”– the same root in the word “philosophy”. The basic idea is that man is a social animal, and we tend to prefer to run with others who are like us – or who love what we love. Birds of a feather flock together, in either case.

A lot of people can now see that the Tunisian, Egyptian, Libyan – all these governments – are just swindles that work against the average man in every possible way. I think we’re on the cusp of seeing new forms of social organization arise. That’s what Stephenson postulated, and I think he’s right. In the not-too-distant future, we’ll see more and more people grouping themselves in phyles. They’ll stop identifying themselves as Americans, or Russians, or Chinese – unless that accident of birth is really important to them. But that is just as stupid as identifying yourself as being black because you happen to have been born with black skin, of thinking of yourself as white because that was an accident of your birth. Racism and nationalism are the hallmarks of an unevolved, or even degraded, person. I have neither time nor patience for either of them.

I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating: I have less affinity with my neighbors in Aspen than I do with friends in the Congo – even though we’re of a different race, religion, culture, and mother language. Why is that? Because those things are unimportant to me. What’s important to me is character, and the values one holds dear. Some Congolese think the way I do and care about the same things I care about – unlike most of the people in Aspen. In fact, most of my “fellow Americans” are probably my enemies. Why? Because they’re net recipients of money from the government, and that money was taken from producers by force. They not only have nothing meaningful in common with me – at least in the current context – but they are an active threat to my well-being.

The simple fact these “U.S. persons” – can’t call them Americans – were born in the same bailiwick as me means next to nothing. I have much more in common with my friends in the Congo, or Colombia, or Thailand – people who want to play polo or race cars or do business with me. They don’t see me as somebody who is a source of taxes, but as a valued ally.
Source: https://www.caseyresearch.com/doug-casey-phyles

If private cities lead by entrepreneurs were competing against Dubai fairly under the Non Aggression Principle, the world would be so much better. We are already seeing privatization and competition of many sectors such as https://qured.com which is now serving in London making NHS look really bad in all ways except for price. https://freeprivatecities.com is promoting the idea of exactly what the name suggest.

There were lots of talk related to Hard Fork 20. But things are fine now. I can even put my idle resources to claim accounts as I've shown here. Imagine things were a democracy. Actually Bitcoin operate much loser to a Democracy. It's a mess with factions going into BCH and other projects while everybody is going at their enemy's heads. In fact Bitcoin politics is simply are more civil and intellectual version of modern politics.

Consensus; Not Voting

Free market is all about consensus. Build something that is useful and people will accept it. Even the biggest Marxist who talk about underpaid workers in Vietnam or some place is still using a $999 phone made by underpaid workers in an offshore factory. If people were asked if they want an ethical and modular smartphone they'd simply say "Yes " to the survey/vote. But in the free market the idea has already been tested. The consensus was a "No". Soruce: https://www.fairphone.com Just visit the website and ask yourself would you buy this phone. Then ask yourself "What if regulations demanded me to buy this phone and this phone only".

At least FairPhone was a noble attempt and I applaud the effort. But what if it was something destructive and mass movement related like this:

How the “Most Human Human” passed the Turing Test

The Turing Test, named for the British mathematician Alan Turing, is designed to figure out if a machine can fool a person into thinking the machine is a human. It has been staged annually since 1991 by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour’s Loebner Prize.
No computer has passed the Turing Test at the competition so far. But some have come close. And the day when a machine finally wins might not be that far off. As Christian points out, in a world of increasing communication via text and emoji (or even Google Smart Reply), human communication is becoming more bot-like, blurring the distinction between humans and machines.

“We are meeting the machines in the middle,” he concludes.

This is what the current popular systems have brought us to. We need to move into something that at least contain the devolution of humans. If birds of a feather flock together, at least the stupid ideas will ruin themselves. No two parties would be fighting to take over a country. There will just be two different countries for individuals to choose and their choices and vision will decide the future of each private state.