scenario: you are choose by the elders of somalia to find and implement government system that will be used to rule Somalia. so you go touring around the world.
1st stop America
a federal republic where the branch of govern are divided between a judiciary, legislative and executive branches. ideal each branch act as a check on on the other two. every level of government from the district level to the white house is sworn into office by the populous and the judiciary is independent. yet only 2 political parties are allow to exist and although the populous is important, the true power broker are big business( banks and large multinational corporation).
economy is based on Research and development, finance(Banks) and the service sector over the last 40 year it has gutted its manufacture and industrial sectors. leaving the old industrial hubs of the last century in the midwest into a wasteland. american culture/fashion are ubiquitous around world. Hollywood entertains us while american university roll out the newest gizmos and gadgets. america companies dominate fortune 500, these companies are given extensive tax cuts and are allow to lower their overhead by moving their operations oversee to make us of cheaper labour. this has the disadvantage of reducing the number of jobs but reduces the price of goods that consumer can buy. in america, nothing seem to be out of reach however the middle class in weakening in America while the rich get richer and poor fall further in debt, financial insecure and hopelessness. this country is become more and more polarized. in the 50, they send a man to moon, today they're broke and have scraped their last space shuttle. forget about going to the mars, they need to use old soviet rockets to get to international space station. even though pessimism is rife, america is still at it peak, it has the largest economy, it is one of the best technology and it spend more on it military more than the next 10 country.
socially America is polarized, between a liberal east and west coast and liberal zones in the major cities and it vast heartland which is deeply conservative.
1st stop America
a federal republic where the branch of govern are divided between a judiciary, legislative and executive branches. ideal each branch act as a check on on the other two. every level of government from the district level to the white house is sworn into office by the populous and the judiciary is independent. yet only 2 political parties are allow to exist and although the populous is important, the true power broker are big business( banks and large multinational corporation).
economy is based on Research and development, finance(Banks) and the service sector over the last 40 year it has gutted its manufacture and industrial sectors. leaving the old industrial hubs of the last century in the midwest into a wasteland. american culture/fashion are ubiquitous around world. Hollywood entertains us while american university roll out the newest gizmos and gadgets. america companies dominate fortune 500, these companies are given extensive tax cuts and are allow to lower their overhead by moving their operations oversee to make us of cheaper labour. this has the disadvantage of reducing the number of jobs but reduces the price of goods that consumer can buy. in america, nothing seem to be out of reach however the middle class in weakening in America while the rich get richer and poor fall further in debt, financial insecure and hopelessness. this country is become more and more polarized. in the 50, they send a man to moon, today they're broke and have scraped their last space shuttle. forget about going to the mars, they need to use old soviet rockets to get to international space station. even though pessimism is rife, america is still at it peak, it has the largest economy, it is one of the best technology and it spend more on it military more than the next 10 country.
socially America is polarized, between a liberal east and west coast and liberal zones in the major cities and it vast heartland which is deeply conservative.