The reason for existence of states is a matter of security and basic geometry.
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Land area increases quadratically in terms of its perimeter. Collective defense is an optimization problem. I will demonstrate with a simple model.
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Here we have nine houses on nine square lots. Assuming it takes one person to guard each edge, if each house must provide for its own security, each household requires four guards for a total of 36.
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If instead the nine households pool resources and agree not to invade each other, the same nine houses can be secured with 12 guards instead of 36. This frees up 24 people to work in production of other goods and services. And this improves with area and number of households.
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