"I am willing to believe you about all of that but as a dath ilani I am used to knowing why equilibria balance where they do, and I am very far from understanding that here.  I get the basic point that, if 0.1% of a country's population is 90% of its military power, then they form an internal coalition and don't let anybody else vote.  I could not then predict that this coalition adopts rules that look like 'if you kill the person at the top of us you now own our city'.  Why don't the 0.1% of the people with 90% of the military power form their own government-of-revocable-delegations among themselves?  If one person at the top has 51% of the military power it should work a way, which is them running everything.  If #1 and #2 can gang up to beat #0 but get beaten in turn by #3, #4, and #5, it would work a different way.  I need to play through some minigame for how this works with, like, six people before I try to visualize how it works for a planet.  What is the simplest case, with the smallest number of people, where you'd kill somebody and get power."

"I am willing to believe you about all of that but as a dath ilani I am used to knowing why equilibria balance where they do, and I am very far from understanding that here.  I get the basic point that, if 0.1% of a country's population is 90% of its military power, then they form an internal coalition and don't let anybody else vote.  I could not then predict that this coalition adopts rules that look like 'if you kill the person at the top of us you now own our city'.  Why don't the 0.1% of the people with 90% of the military power form their own government-of-revocable-delegations among themselves?  If one person at the top has 51% of the military power it should work a way, which is them running everything.  If #1 and #2 can gang up to beat #0 but get beaten in turn by #3, #4, and #5, it would work a different way.  I need to play through some minigame for how this works with, like, six people before I try to visualize how it works for a planet.  What is the simplest case, with the smallest number of people all of whom are on the gameboard not just in the background somewhere, where you'd kill somebody and get power."

"I am willing to believe you about all of that but as a dath ilani I am used to knowing why equilibria balance where they do, and I am very far from understanding that here.  I get the basic point that, if 0.1% of a country's population is 90% of its military power, they can form an internal coalition and not let anybody else vote.  I could not then predict that this coalition adopts rules that look like 'if you kill the person at the top of us you now own our city'.  Why don't the 0.1% of the people with 90% of the military power form their own government-of-revocable-delegations among themselves?  If one person at the top has 51% of the military power it should work a way, which is them running everything.  If #1 and #2 can gang up to beat #0 but get beaten in turn by #3, #4, and #5, it would work a different way.  I need to play through some minigame for how this works with, like, six people before I try to visualize how it works for a planet.  What is the simplest case, with the smallest number of people all of whom are on the gameboard not just in the background somewhere, where you'd kill somebody and get power."

"I am willing to believe you about all of that but as a dath ilani I am used to knowing why equilibria balance where they do, and I am very far from understanding that here.  I get the basic point that, if 0.1% of a country's population is 90% of its military power, they can form an internal coalition and not let anybody else vote," assuming the populace hasn't otherwise been trained in the decision theory of coordinating their refusal of an unfair bargain.  "I could not then predict that this coalition adopts rules that look like 'if you kill the person at the top of us you now own our city'.  Why don't the 0.1% of the people with 90% of the military power form their own government-of-revocable-delegations among themselves?  If one person at the top has 51% of the military power it should work a way, which is them running everything.  If #1 and #2 can gang up to beat #0 but get beaten in turn by #3, #4, and #5, it would work a different way.  I need to play through some minigame for how this works with, like, six people before I try to visualize how it works for a planet.  What is the simplest case, with the smallest number of people all of whom are on the gameboard not just in the background somewhere, where you'd kill somebody and get power."