The Templin Institute

  Zyobot

  Good video.  Very accurate as well.  The likelihood of an unified Earth government being viable increases if/when humanity gets into space and especially when we establish contact with other intelligence's simply because there's something to unite again.  However its far from certain this would occur and even then you could see multiple human states inside the Sol system and beyond as their likely to have different interests.

  Its also frustrating that most such world governments are basically idealised US colones but I think that simply because so much in terms of western films are made in the US and/or for the US market so its unlikely to change, at least in the western world in the near future.  You could see other types of governments, based possibly around India or China or less likely an EU identity if that survived, Russia or possibly an Islamic centred Earth as such regions develop the resources and desire to present such scenarios.  There could well be such in say China or Russia already but their simply not well [or at all ] known in the west.

  In SF in general there is often more variety although its still largely dominated in the English speaking sphere by the US and more often a right wing hypo-capitalistic one but its a lot easier to get a book published with a different background than a film or game franchise.

  Steve