Everybody's a foreigner - to me

Still no rulers. I'm strangely confident that this rules-without-ruler approach might work except for one issue: diplomacy. Diplomacy is and has always been something between people. The system proposed in this manifesto would call for diplomats who handle a given diplomatic issue and then leave the post for someone else. For foreign diplomats this would imply dealing with perpetually changing diplomats - which would probably not do. Instead diplomats should try how they get along with given foreign diplomats and then be assigned to specific foreign diplomats with whom they get along rather well.

Diplomats would thus not be topically or geographically specialized but they would be specialized on persons. Since they have no personified government behind them, it would be harder for diplomats to commit to proposed covenants. Such committal would have to be left to the standard rule making mechanisms. The topic-centricity that I talked about above would still apply to the actual decision makers in diplomacy.

The transparency of the proposed society would make it easy prey for foreign secret services. At the same time this would render that society a particularly nonthreatening and reliable diplomatic partner, which might even turn out to be an advantage (my naiveté stops at nothing).