User blog comment:GrandMethuselah67/Lore-Sheet: The Technocratic Coalition of Humankind/@comment-4867780-20170705213734/@comment-26322734-20170716032031

Well, I realized a few things. Typically, direct democracies tend to devolve into chaos due to the fact that politicians compete for votes. Voters typically vote based on emotion and fear, and people accept any number of horrible draconian ideologies (like communism or fascism) when they're scared, so maintaining the Ethical Egoist society that Malcolm had wanted to create requires a lack of democracy.

I also realized that Monarchies devolve into chaos too (over a much longer period of time, mind you) due to dictators being...well, dictators. So if the T.C.H. was going to be an effective Laissez-Faire Monarchy (something like Augusto Pinochet's Chile, minus the brutality in most cases), there were going to have to be checks and balances in place. That's why Malcolm essentially automated the Judicial Power of government with Night Watchman, creating an A.I. strictly programmed to step in if he gets out of line.

So it's really just me understanding the lack of realism in democracy creating a classically liberal society, since in a democracy, the rights of others (especially the rights to property) are essentially up to vote. So I thought having the T.C.H. ruled by a powerful God-King devoted to preserving the ideology of the nation, checked by an equally powerful A.I. devoted to preserving the ideology of the nation would be better.

It's also a result of me incorporating the ideas of later Libertarian philosophers like Fredrich Heyek and Hans Herman Hoppe into Malcolm's character. In a way, Malcolm is being Machievellian here; since he sees how Bradley Hargrave's civilization manages to stay afloat despite the obvious issues going on, and that's because he's the boss. So Malcolm created a civilization in which he has the same extent of political power, but he generally leaves the citizens alone and governs over them very little.