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? | Zone authority or developer under national legislation; in charter-style zones, partly autonomous governing councils. | Unknown | A stratified random sample of 523 voters deliberated in moderated groups and plenaries and answered questionnaires before and after; no decisions were taken.Sortition / citizens' assembly | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | National courts, or special commercial courts and arbitration in zones with their own law. | Unknown | Balanced briefing materials, trained neutral moderators and competing experts structured disagreement. | |
| How are public goods funded? | Infrastructure, utilities and customs services funded by the state, developers and zone fees. | Unknown | Privately funded; produced published results, media coverage and a peer-reviewed study. | |
| How is AI used? | No inherent AI role. | Unknown | No AI role. | |
| What are the main risks? | Fiscal giveaways, enclaves without local links, labour-rights erosion, land disputes and sovereignty conflicts. | Unknown | Self-selection into attendance; artificial setting; analysis by the method's designers; no institutional uptake. |
This illustrates differences in design; it is not a universal claim about outcomes. Each cell links to mechanisms and the claims behind them.