On 05Sep2020 0111, Jeffrey Schwartz wrote:
> The story I saw was:
>
> 0 No government structure. -- very small group of people, scouts,
> prospectors, etc trying to figure out if the world is worth anything
> 1 Company/Corporation.--- they found something, and the company comes
> in to exploit it.
> 2 Participating Democracy. -- enough non-company employees that they
> need frontier-town style town hall government
> 3 Self-Perpetuating Oligarchy. -- and the Political machine comes in.
> Certain people got elected, and set things up to make sure who took
> over for them
> 4 Representative Democracy. -- until the people got fed up with it and
> wanted reforms
> 5 Feudal Technocracy. --- but they elected by face and personality,
> not competence. People who actually know how to solve problems take
> over
> 6 Captive Government. -- until some other world noticed the place was
> profitable and had good resources, and bought the technocrats out.
> 7 Balkanization. -- and then the people got fed up with that, and
> fought among themselves
> 8 Civil Service Bureaucracy. -- Until a group of people negotiated
> contracts and deals between the warring states, so they could at least
> trade between factions on planet
> 9 Impersonal Bureaucracy. -- and then the people handling the
> paperwork decided they were more important than the people who were
> doing the real work
> A Charismatic Dictator.-- and the people doing the real work found
> someone to follow
> B Non-Charismatic Leader -- but when he died, his son took over... and
> he was an idiot.
> C Charismatic Oligarchy. -- so the friends of the guy from "A" took over
> D Religious Dictatorship. --- and one of them had an epiphany