Two basic questions

The government may be the Being controlling the (dataset, the information platform that is the) state, but nothing has been said so far about who (which Being(s)) control(s) the government. Because it is itself an organisation, it is subject to control by the humans that participate in or created it (see §02.00.07). This can be anything from a single person to a large group of individuals (rotating into and out of roles of control or not)—broadly aligning with the concepts of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy. The humans controlling the government, as individuals, need to augment their information processing through the organisation they control. Although in the case of the government, because it controls the state, the advantages for ‘its’ individuals are plain for everyone to see (therefore, the question of whether to keep or dissolve a government has never been an issue, as is the case for any other organisation, see §02.00.07), the way in which it accomplishes this matters (because it is human nature to compare) as this ultimately affects how a state is run by its government. Political systems, therefore, basically address two questions: the question of who (who controls the government, i.e. who participates in it), and the question of how (how is control over the state exercised)—with political philosophy frequently adding a should to the mix, a mistake that will nevertheless be avoided here. Obviously, these are not the only questions a political system needs to address. Because it formalises the most complex relationship on the information platform that is the state (that of the state and its government), a wide array of issues may, and do, occur. The list is long. For example, with platform rights being a given, a political system needs to address the question of whether platform rights are to be respected and, if so, in what manner.

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