"Corbell learned of two brush-fire wars that had half destroyed the world. In ashes of war and fires of idealism the State had been born..."
-Larry Niven, A World Out Of Time (New York, 1976), CHAPTER TWO, p. 43.
In Anderson's version, the UN world government had been born out of World War III - and is advised by the Psychotechnic Institute.
Niven's State is "...a benevolent fascism..." (ibid.)
That sounds superficially like the society in James Blish's and Norman L. Knight's A Torrent Of Faces. (See Benevolent Fascism?) However, in that system, everyone on Earth, whether employed minority or unemployed majority, receives identical accommodation and diet whereas Niven's State is "...drastically stratified." (ibid.)
Sf is a laboratory of thought experiments.
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"identical accommodation and diet"
Which sounds like what is said here about the Athens area between the fall of the Mycenean culture and the rise of classical Greek culture.
https://lawcomic.net/guide/?p=10476
This is based on the archeology of the villages, with speculation about extreme egalitarian ideology in reaction to the hierarchical culture of the Mycenean culture that fell violently. (Go back a few pages on the website for that)
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