Your biological analogies seem compelling, but they are cases in which a population of mortal coalitions evolves under selection to become a more perfect union. The case that we are interested in is only weakly analogous—a single, immortal coalition developing over time according to its own self-interested dynamics.
Your biological analogies seem compelling, but they are cases in which a population of mortal coalitions evolves under selection to become a more perfect union. The case that we are interested in is only weakly analogous—a single, immortal coalition developing over time according to its own self-interested dynamics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Saudi_Arabia
...is probably one of the nearest things we currently have.