Originally Posted by Alan Fry

There will be thousands of federal states, so that they can still run their own affairs, all communist states (bar North Korea) have become capitalist, military dictatorships and war lords can be dealt with by force or money (much to the relief of the local people), the same will apply to Sharia Muslin states (a large number of people do not like their governments, hence the Arab spring)!

In other worlds, all nations will become part of a world government, whenever by choice or force!

In this global government, companies will become will either be state owned or become co-operatives and the co-operatives will depend on loans from the state development bank, so the government will reduce profit margins without raising prices