Poll: Capital City of Earth
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Somewhere on the Equator and easy enough to travel to, whilst connected to a major landmass. Or possibly somewhere in Southern Russia or maybe Turkey, Turkey might be appropriate given it's symbolism as a bridge between East and West.
You have to ask yourself the question though if there was a world government, would you really need a capital?
I mean if you're going to go the whole nine yards and completely eliminate Nationalism (and I can only pray iot will happen sooner rather than later), the very first objective of any world organization would be ascertaining the value and tradeability for a single world currency (which would create an uproar in the financial sector, particularly banking institutions, as currency trading is effectively halted).
You'd also have to decide what to do with national debts ... whether wipe them clean or create a new system of debt recollection given that populations would no longer be hampened by borders and political dead weight controlling trade and movement of goods and people throughout the world would be halted.
Then you have to create provisions by region to determine what civil services survive in this world ... universal healthcare and cheap education for all people of Earth and a redistribution of medical & educational staff and resources to every corner of the earth based on population.
Then you have to work out effective tax rates and the subsequent utilization of said tax in reconstruction, defence, R&D, education, medicine, transport, civil services (post offices, hospitals, police, fire brigade, libraries) ... etc etc
In the end such a capital would only really inevitably need would be a mint and an attached barracks filled with soldiers to ensure it's safety as the primary beacon of capitalism and exchange in this brave new world.
You have to ask yourself the question though if there was a world government, would you really need a capital?
I mean if you're going to go the whole nine yards and completely eliminate Nationalism (and I can only pray iot will happen sooner rather than later), the very first objective of any world organization would be ascertaining the value and tradeability for a single world currency (which would create an uproar in the financial sector, particularly banking institutions, as currency trading is effectively halted).
You'd also have to decide what to do with national debts ... whether wipe them clean or create a new system of debt recollection given that populations would no longer be hampened by borders and political dead weight controlling trade and movement of goods and people throughout the world would be halted.
Then you have to create provisions by region to determine what civil services survive in this world ... universal healthcare and cheap education for all people of Earth and a redistribution of medical & educational staff and resources to every corner of the earth based on population.
Then you have to work out effective tax rates and the subsequent utilization of said tax in reconstruction, defence, R&D, education, medicine, transport, civil services (post offices, hospitals, police, fire brigade, libraries) ... etc etc
In the end such a capital would only really inevitably need would be a mint and an attached barracks filled with soldiers to ensure it's safety as the primary beacon of capitalism and exchange in this brave new world.
Hmmm
It depends what you mean by Capital City. If it's like Washington where it's where all the main governmental buildings are then I think we'd have to build a completely new city from the ground up. It'd be more of an office-park, but when you place the executive and legislative control of EARTH in a city, you don't want it in one where the culture is different from somewhere else that is also controlled by the Capital. Since no such place exists on earth, we'd have to build it
If it was capital as in "biggest city" then it'd be New Delhi or Mexico City or something
It depends what you mean by Capital City. If it's like Washington where it's where all the main governmental buildings are then I think we'd have to build a completely new city from the ground up. It'd be more of an office-park, but when you place the executive and legislative control of EARTH in a city, you don't want it in one where the culture is different from somewhere else that is also controlled by the Capital. Since no such place exists on earth, we'd have to build it
If it was capital as in "biggest city" then it'd be New Delhi or Mexico City or something
London. Why? Because I'm quite the nationalist. I could list other reasons, but they don't make London any better than any other city. It's just the capital of my country, therefore it should be the capital of the world.
Washington DC is seperate from the states in teh US, so I'd assume that sort of thing is how the Earth Capital would be. Likely be New York, since it has the most rich white people and rich white people are the ones that will own the world (once they finishing buying out the last few countries, they already own all of Europe and North America).
He who controls money, controls everything else. The governments gave up control of their money a long time ago to private business (like the US's Federal Reserve which is not at all federal, it is a privatly owned organization of banks).
He who controls money, controls everything else. The governments gave up control of their money a long time ago to private business (like the US's Federal Reserve which is not at all federal, it is a privatly owned organization of banks).
London because the if its a good enough target for the Reapers then it should be a seat of the world government. But in reality Geneva because Switzerland seems to be the neutral zone of the world. Also because NY is too US interest centric, Tokyo too out of the way, Beijing is in China and they don't seem to get along with other countries. Basically it would give they country who had it too much power but Switzerland is nice and neutral towards most countries. However each country should be able to govern itself in most matters.
Earth is the capital of Earth, by the time we're "one united planet" we'll most likely be fucking Coruscant-scaped (one big fucking city pole to pole) so we won't have to fight over what city's the fucking capitol. End of line.
Why not somewhere in the cradle of civilisation (that's the middle eastern one btw) was? It's, apparently, where civilisation started so not have the ultimate example of human civilsation put there? Colossal flight of fancy, I know, but let's assume existing religious and ethnic animosities are gone by this time.
When I read the title the first thing that popped in my head was New York (well, that, and the well known song, but anyway). London sounds fine too, but I can't help but think, if it ever became the capital of the Earth, that all those disastrous events from Doctor Who would happen. >.> What? I got this fixed idea in my head that aliens love London...
Assuming such a nation is only possible through war, I'd say either Washington DC, Moscow, Beijing, or Geneva/Vienna(where ever the UN establishes after they leave Manhattan). It won't be because we all agree to play nice and join forces, it'll be because somebody got it into their heads that the world would be better off in their iron fists. Sory, we humans aren't nice enough for this.