The Future of Democracy in Australia
If you look at Russia, some believe it is so big and has such diverse territories that it cannot be a functioning democracy. It's not as rich as America so it can't induce cooperation through benefits. For instance, the state of Mississippi would be much poorer through an extended period of bad management, if it were not in the USA. So Russia must use force to hold its empire together. Australia is a big country too. If, in the future, we had hundreds of millions of people living here, how could we hold so many people together willingly in one country for one purpose? In my opinion, if all the inner territories were reliant on clean water being piped from coastal territories, this is as good as the money the USA uses to hold it's states willingly together. You won't need enforcers as Russia does, so you won't threaten the democracy we enjoy in this country. You might say, "but the coastal territories with access to the sea for water cannot be bound by the nee...