All the more reason to build the World Capital there! Think of Afghanistan as a constituency who sorely need a few billion World Federal Credits-worth of economic development money–kind of like West Virginia and Senator Byrd on a global scale.
Why not build a new world capital somewhere?? Or maybe the capital of a world wide government should shift around, perhaps moving every 4 years like the Olympics? I think picking an existing city, regardless of which city you picked, would piss off a huge percentage of your world governments citizens, getting things off to a rather rocky start right from the get go…
Moving all the offices and bureaucracy that goes along with a simple national government would be a pretty major undertaking, nvm a world gov’t. Can you imagine relocating all the gov’t offices in DC every four years?
But there is too little land, and not really that much fresh water to go around. I don’t think you can’t build any more thing on the island without it sinking or reclaiming more land. (But hey I am contiuned to be surprised but how they managed to squeeze usage out of every single arce)
What is the function of the capital anyway? If it is just to house the high level operations of the government, anywhere with good infrastructure and easily defensible will do. I guess technology has done away with all the trappings of old capitals, where you need massive statues and well-paved roads, to awe and inspire.
If it is a militant world government, I’ll suggest the moon.
Too far south. The center is supposed to be near the confluence of Tajikistan, China, India and Pakistan - so presumably the vicinity of the Wakhan Corridor.
It depends on what kind of “world government” you’re talking about. If it’s a democracy I nominate Athens. But what if it’s a totalitarian state or a theocracy?
And there’s always the International Space Station . . . or even the moon.