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Topic	If Earth became one nation, where should the capital be?
adjl 02/01/24 10:02:00 PM #25:	speedpunk posted... What if it were two capital cities for Earth instead of one? They could be antipodal so the time zones wouldn't be an issue. The idea of having a capital city is to centralize government activities. Having more than one kind of defeats that purpose. You'd effectively have two separate governments that way, which is largely unnecessary for the highest level (and lower levels would already be regionally divided, not unlike the current arrangement of federal, state, and municipal governments). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:978606343] in If Earth b... [t:80684996]...</cite> <quote>speedpunk posted... </cite><quote>What if it were two capital cities for Earth instead of one? They could be antipodal so the time zones wouldn't be an issue.</quote>The idea of having a capital city is to centralize government activities. Having more than one kind of defeats that purpose. You'd effectively have two separate governments that way, which is largely unnecessary for the highest level (and lower levels would already be regionally divided, not unlike the current arrangement of federal, state, and municipal governments). --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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