Quote Originally Posted by Ego View Post
Russia has more nukes and more ways to deploy them/more launch areas.

And no, family is something pretty normal in the animal kingdom. You can never have the anarchy you're talking about because most people are content to live their lives like sheep guided by a select few. And you know what? That's perfectly fine. What happens to animals on a farm when the farmers suddenly vanish without a trace? They starve because they can't think for themselves anyway. In short, if you've got a herd of livestock now, they're not going to become self-governing individuals just because the hand that feeds them and pushes them in a certain direction isn't there anymore.

Actually, you'd be very hard-pressed to convince people to not form some sort of group or government, some way to keep things in order.
Russia doesn't have that many working launch capabilities, officially owned by the government. The private interest that rule Russia could have any thing. Family is only temporary in most other species, like mates. Its all short lived and in crisis falls apart, with mothers eating children and fathers killing mothers, ect.
Only sheep have the problem of needing to form groups. That's not alright. The government is not a provider or benevolent. Its a terrible dangerous thing that is constantly being exploited and used by special interest and only when the societies that create them are educated, civil minded, and constantly active do they avoid its complete corruption. People must think, people must not be sheep. The cycle must be broken. There are many that would adapt in the event of the removal of the government, tons more would die.The race would be better off for it.
My version of anarchy is anarchy at its ideal, simple as that. Not all people need a government or a group to impose order, they do it themselves.