Yeah, but try to understand what you read this time.
In the book, the government isn't based around war or has the military as its backbone. It's just a meritocracy. Simple, really.
But yeah, it probably wouldn't work. Something to do with the inherent stupidity of humankind, I guess.
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And yet he want's you to have to serve in the military before you can vote. Were this to happen then you'd have a serious problem actually getting a represtentation of what the people really want. Vet's tend to lean towards the right wing. thus the Military would be recieving Cold War levels of budget while the domestic side of things is handled with an Iron fist. Eventually within a few decades maximum a group of relativly stupid people would find themselves with guns and decide to revolt. The revolt would be put down with rather ruthless efficency because they seem to follow Tarkins ideal of "rule through Fear of force rather than force itself" and use the idiots as an example. Only problem is that there would be some people who would become disenchanted with the state of things who were smarter than the first batch and end up subverting the system and eventually after a large amount of planning take a strategic center. Maybe with the help of a few vets who were family but felt impotent because they were drowned out by the rest of the world. thus a full blown civil war would be on and the military would get the upper hand initially but from what we've seen in history, when it comes to war humanity learns fast. thus the rebels would be able to figure out how to kill MI and start to really get momentum until things ended with either two states or with the entire system fractured into several small pieces. ONe state would remain the same as it had always been (this is the origional "federation") the others would be based off of the previous more successful governments who would end up becoming dominant because they had a much higher industrial capacity. Eventually, because humanity is inherently aggressive, sombody would set off a second war and the federation would get beaten through the ground by the more capable groups. The federation would be analogous to Japan and the other state/states would be the US in terms of WWII.
A side note: this is a situation i just came up with in the past five minutes so... I expect it to be flawed.