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Subject: Re: The splitting of China.
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That will only help a little, at 1200 million those 6 nations would
have an average of 200 million people, which is two and a half times
Germany and about 2/3rd of the USA. These sizes are already
unmanageable, therefore their ruling class would become corrupt, and 
this would very likely produce war. When 200 million empires go to
war with each other, it will spread around then then you can have
a big problem, and descend back into the super-empire that China is
already.

If you reduce the nation sizes in China to the much more manageable
30 or even better defended from corruption 10 million, say you average
it on 20 million causing China to become 60 sovereign nations, then
you are still running an almost certain risk of corruption and war
unless they almost all have a high end state and economic system that
precludes corruption from taking over, and in addition a people that
seek national peace sufficiently. If that doesn't happen you can still
end up with a gigantic war and then another unification as a grand
empire.

Whatever the quality of the system though, at 200 million I don't see
it work very well one was or the other (never mind the absurd 1200 million.)
Pretending not to be corrupt, well that is of course an entirely
different matter, any empire can and does pretend that much.

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It was bruttaly occupied under the Dalablabla too, although if these
people really do want to persue their theocratic dictatorship I guess
it is their own problem. But I sometimes wonder who is the oppressed
in the Bhuddist religion: is it the people, or are the monks opressed
by the people who are superstitious and force their children into these
monestaries. I guess it is not our business, but we in Europe I guess,
we don't like theocratic dictatorship much (bad experiences with it).
Keeping the people distracted with whatever is part of a dictatorship.
Games, superstitions, religions, popular figure culture like an ongoing
soap about everything that doesn't matter, etc.
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