I am greatly enjoying this edifying series, but I cannot resist any longer making yet another attempt to let people know that a solution does exist.

Between theologies and ideologies (including nationalism), peace hardly stands a chance anywhere for very long. We humans simply have to opt for a principle for governing the governance of society that involves no belief, either sacral (theological) or secular (ideological). 'Mutual respect in effecting choices' is that principle.

It has occurred to me that Great Britain's approach to constitutionalism puts it in a particularly good position to get there. With no written constitution, mutual respect as the ethic of justice could be formally adopted as the basis of governance. The result would be a Union that any geopolitical entity would be eager to remain within or even join: maximum liberty, a democratic political process, and an economy with no unemployment, poverty, taxes, or public debt and increased sustainability.

Those economic outcomes are irrefutable (though concerning taxes and public debt, with the caveat that total spending by government could not exceed its current per capita level). That's because they do not depend on people acting any particular way. Rather, they are built into the structure and functioning of the existing economy with a new and different monetary paradigm that makes possible a "democratically distributed income." (That paradigm could be adopted as an end in itself, without any broader reference to justice.)