In football we get teams now that use "systems". It's no longer a football team buying just the best players, they buy the best players for the system. I believe that this can work for top level governance structures in a land also. I myself prefer early 2000s free-flowing football that allowed more expression but I've seen how devastating well-implemented systems in football can be to my preferred (outdated) style of romantic football. So if you can't beat them, join them. A well-engineered system is often near unbeatable. People will be people & they will always be imperfect but you can create a system that can utilise the strengths & imperfections of a people to create a successful land. What am I talking about? The three examples below are systems that realise the imperfections of people & uses them to benefit a land.
Compulsory military service: It is a given that people need certain skills in a land & enjoy doing certain things more. As males, we are naturally more militant & are best controlled in military structures. What good can this bring? It increases a lands defence, border security & studies show that a land with compulsory military service for males usually does better in various other fields. Being in the military gives a youth a sense of belonging which reduces his need to join street gangs. This is just one example where a system can exploit the natural characteristics of individuals.
State-subsidized marriage: In some Fareast Asian countries we see countries that do mass weddings. This is "unAfrican" to some because in Africa marriage is usually a tribal thing where certain customs & rituals must be done. But again, a system that would work for creating stable families is simply doing mass weddings, which are perhaps subsidized by the state every month for a certain number of couples. Not that the state would provide livestock to slaughter for every couple but the official legal procedure of marriage could be done & rituals could be done by the couple at their own pleasure. This would create a culture of marriage being a norm more than the exception in black communities of Africa. As for dowry, livestock rituals - the state could legislate such practices & create a sort of subsidy for that itself.
Internet structures: I believe that a land should exercise it's sovereignty on the internet also. The internet is one place where countries have little control of things, Google virtually has a monopoly on the internet. Google being a Usonian company works with Usonian laws which may often clash with the laws of other lands. I imagine a land (which is not the USA) could create systems to prevent online espionage & cyberattacks - systems that could protect a land's cyberspace. These could be:
• An indigenous operating system with it's own search engine & app store. The app store could have it's own instant messaging, media messaging, VOIP & video calling app which could counter WhatsApp, Telegram etc.
• An indigenous email service.
• Indigenous social media / dating services that could be used in place of Facebook, Twitter, Badoo & YouTube.
• An indigenous employment website like LinkedIn.
• A knowledge hub that could document events & knowledge on Wikipedia & an indigenous language encyclopedia website.
In an authoritarian state, if the above were established, they might naturally ban foreign devices that don't use the local operating system / software & ban non-indigenous internet websites from foreign lands citing that they no longer need them. This could be "infringing on internet freedom" but would be to the benefit of the land's cyberspace. What is internet freedom? Freedom is having a land free from outside threats & this could mean banning foreign internet services because at present, the world is at the mercy of Microsoft, Google & it's technologies &, therefore, at the mercy of the USA.
Some lands employ protectionism with their economies also, in fact most lands (including the USA) do. An insular economy where a land develops it's own technology, weapons & businesses is less prone to succumb to global economic wobbles. We've heard of La Masia development & Barcelona using mostly Catalan players to great success, relying on homegrown & local-made talents to succeed. You can translate this way of thought to other fields in the world, especially national governance. Limiting the damage foreign forces can inflict on your land.
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