How each model solves the same problems
Instead of “democracy versus anarchism”, compare the concrete ways collective problems get solved.
| Question | + Model | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| How are decisions made? | Decisions by the president, ratified by parliament and the People's Council (Halk Maslahaty); constant rotation and purges of officials. | Kings of small kingdoms (túatha) under over-kings; assemblies (óenach); customary law expounded by hereditary jurists rather than legislated. | |
| How are conflicts resolved? | Courts subordinate to the executive; closed trials, incommunicado detention and psychiatric confinement of dissidents. | 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? | Free gas, electricity, water and salt from 1993; cheap flour and fuel; prestige projects funded from off-budget gas revenue while health, education and pensions were cut. | Rules on shared grazing, co-operative ploughing, mills and fencing; obligatory hospitality; churches and monasteries; few public works. | |
| How is AI used? | None. | None; a medieval legal order. | |
| What are the main risks? | Unchecked control of resource rents, total information control, collapse of public services, arbitrary repression, and dependence on gas export routes controlled by neighbours.CLM-1192 | 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.