How each model solves the same problems
Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
| Question | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How are decisions made? | 150 randomly selected citizens deliberated in thematic groups, with expert hearings, and voted on proposals in plenary.Sortition / citizens' assembly | Unknown | Kings of small kingdoms (túatha) under over-kings; assemblies (óenach); customary law expounded by hereditary jurists rather than legislated. | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Governance committee, guarantors for independence, and a legal support group; the executive retained the final say on implementation. | Unknown | Brehon judges; sureties (naidm, ráth, aitire); distraint of livestock; ritual fasting against higher-ranking defendants; body-fines and honour-price compensation.Arbitration | |
| How are public goods funded? | Public funding; mandate to cut emissions by at least 40% by 2030 against 1990 in a spirit of social justice. | Unknown | Rules on shared grazing, co-operative ploughing, mills and fencing; obligatory hospitality; churches and monasteries; few public works. | |
| How is AI used? | No AI role. | Unknown | None; a medieval legal order. | |
| What are the main risks? | Reliance on presidential goodwill; dilution in the legislative process; a pledge of 'no filter' without legal force.CLM-0073 | Unknown | Status-graded and unequal protection, unfree labour, endemic raiding and dynastic war, and vulnerability to a centralising conqueror.CLM-0385 |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.