What's your Utopian system of government for the country now known as the USA?

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What's your utopian system of government for the country known currently as the United States of America?

Some ideas to begin brainstorming below (though you don't need to stick to its structure, it's just an example.)




1. How Centralized or Decentralized is power in government, vertically?

-Is it more federal, or unitary, or confederate/alliance?

-If the number of states change, what are the new states (or whatever you call them) if any?



2. Is it still Democratic? If not, what is it? If it is:

-Is it parliamentary or presidential, or some mix?

-Who runs the elections?

-Who can vote? Can this ever be taken away for any reason?

-How accessible is voting? (poll taxes, voter ID, voter registration barriers, length of voting time, voting by mail, transportation access, handicap access, voter roll purging, etc.)

-Is it winner by plurality, run-off voting, or ranked-choice voting?

-Where does it stand on recalls, referendums, and mandatory voting?

-How are campaigns financed, what regulations are there for it, and how transparent is it?



3. How is the system of government organized, horizontally? Is is still three main branches? Four branches? Two branches? One branch?

-Is there an elected Legislature? (If not, what is there?)
a. If there is, how many chambers (unicameral, bicameral, tricameral, etc.) with how many in each, and what are the differences between them?
b. And how are each of them elected/selected? What are the qualifications? How long do their terms run? Term limits?
c. f there is redistricting like in the current system, how is that done?
d. Are all places/people fairly represented? (ex: Puerto Rico, D.C.)

-Is there a clear Executive (whether parliamentary or presidential or other?)
a. Is there only one chief executive, like a President or Prime Minister or Chancellor? Or is there a Triumvirate of co-equal executives in which all executive actions need at least 2/3 support?
b. How is/are the executive(s) selected/elected? What are the qualifications?
c. How long do their terms run? Term limits?

-Is there a clear supreme Judicial authority?
a. What is their number (9? 3? 1? 13?), how is the national system organized?
b. How are they selected/elected? What are the qualifications?
c. How long do their terms run? Term limits?

-Would you streamline congressional committees, the U.S. Code, the cabinet departments and other executive agencies, the Code of Federal Regulations, and record-keeping of judicial decisions to all match one another; or keep it an organic system that's built as we go along?



4. How much control does it have over the Economy?

-Is it more capitalist, socialist, communist, syndicalist, corporatist, or fascist?

-How much influence does it have over infrastructure systems (ex: electric grid, water, schools,
digital, transportation, housing, high-speed rail national network, etc.) and how energy is generated?

-Healthcare? (insurance, medical/hospital care, pharmaceuticals cost/access, malpractice/tort costs, etc.),

-Education? (PK-12, colleges, trade schools & apprenticeship programs, libraries, after-school/summer learning, cost/funding formulas, personnel in addition to teachers such as social workers/psychologists/nurses/security/mentors/tutors/TAs/cafeteria-workers/ELL & special education aides, curriculum that should be emphasized or eliminated from STEAM to Civics to the Arts to Sports to Financial Literacy to Job Preparation to Multicultural Understanding, etc.)

-Housing & Transportation? (including heating/water/electricity/internet/insurance costs, rent caps, mortgage caps, property taxes, public housing, homelessness, quality of public transportation & roads/highways, etc.)

-Care-giving services? (for children, the elderly, the disabled, etc.)

-Food/Agriculture? (food stamps, soup kitchens, prioritization of healthy foods, farming monopolization, sustainability, cost, genetic patents, urban agriculture vertical greenhouses, hydroponics/aeroponics, sustainable fishing, humane conditions for farm animals, vegan meat, national emergency food reserves, etc.)

-Where does it stand on issues like Social Security for retirement and disability, Paid Leave, Minimum Wage, or Universal Basic Income?

-Where does it stand on issues like Consumer protection, Labor regulations & unionization, Workplace safety, Financial/bank fees & interest rate caps, Pay Transparency, Debt forgiveness, transferable work licenses/certifications, encouraging Worker-owned cooperatives & credit unions, etc.?

-Where does it stand on the Federal Reserve or any similar national bank system, how its audited, how currency is regulated, etc.?

-Where does it stand on regulation of Emerging Technologies (nuclear, genetic, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, space mining, deep sea mining, deep earth mining, transhumanism, etc.)

-Where does it stand on the Environment? (clean water, clean air, pollution regulations, solid waste disposal, greenhouse gas emissions, wildlife protections, etc.)

-How does it manage Taxes for funding, is it progressive or standard, what is taxed and how much, which entities are given preference? Related: how would it handle/prevent government shutdown and debt ceiling crises?



5. How much mixing is there with Religion: is there an official established religion, is there a clear separation, is there freedom of religion?



6. What of the existence of other Rights?

-Free speech? Free Press? Right to Protest, right to Assembly, righto Petition?

-Can people be Tortured, or given the Death Penalty, or Enslaved?

-What of Surveillance versus Privacy, and the balance between National Security and Civil Liberties? Net neutrality?

-What of non-discrimination and anti-discrimination measures? For things like race/ethnicity, sex/gender/orientation, religion, age, disability, nationality, familial status, marriage status, genetic information, etc. for things like employment, housing, medical services, financial services, education, public accommodations, adoption, etc.

-How much personal/social freedom should there be, how many "victimless crimes" should remain?



7. How does it manage, and what rights are given in, the system of Criminal Justice:

-policing

-trials

-sentencing

-prison

-the War on Drugs in particular?



8. Where does it stand on Guns, regulations/rights/access?



9. Where does it stand on Abortion?



10. How does it manage Disaster preparedness, prevention, and response?
(pandemics, cyber attacks, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, wildfires, volcanic eruptions & super-volcanoes, asteroid collisions, solar flares, interstellar radiation, etc.)



11. How does it manage issues of Immigration and Trade?



12. How does it manage Foreign Relations:

-overall relationship with the rest of the world, how nationalist/isolationist versus internationalist/globalist?

-overall relationship between the government, military, and civilian citizenry?

-alliances (which ones to keep, which to eliminate, which to create)

-wars & similar military operations

-terrorism & counter-terrorism

-military code of conduct

-military spending

-the intelligence community

-auditing the military/intelligence

-military/intelligence bases in foreign countries versus rapid deployment/projection

-international arms trading & weapons sales

-defense contractors and the military-industrial complex



13. What's your name for the country/government? Is it still called the United States of America?

-Are its people still called Americans?

-Is the flag the same? What changes?

-Capital? Capitals? Rotating capital?

-Dollar?

-Anthem/motto/etc.?

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Any new thoughts? Particularly in the 13 questions/categories I posted?