[G. Adams]

I agree with Dislogic, as long as the UN was democratic, being a world wide superstate would bother me.

Actually, it would be preferable. If there was one government, the real problems of the world could be dealt with first. Instead of the governments of the West ignoring starvation and drought in Africa, it would be first on the agenda. Once we are cleared of that problem, we can then move onto the bullshit that our government usually does.

And...with no national governments, there would be no national armies, meaning no wars. If they gave up their governments peacefully, that is. Which isn't likely. But then again, the US was succesfully formed, and that only took one civil war to sort out properly.

And with one world government, we could create international trade unions. An international minimum wage. The list of leaps forward for people around the world could go on for ages.

Pipe dream maybe, but a good one.