Topics split! Yay!
@Lizard: you really think Rome had a good government? I don't think so. Present day democratic (or republican, I should say - true,
direct democracy does not exist in our world) governmets are pretty much based on Rome's system. Are they good? No, they aren't. And for pretty much the same reasons that all the other systems are not as well.
It's not only greed that f**ks everything up. Sometimes it's the emotions, sometimes it's pure stupidity, sometimes it's just unbiased evil. We humans, are rejectamenta.
Have you seen Enemy at the Gates? The political agent, don't remember his name, before his death said, 'Even if we're all even there still will be something to kill or die for. For example, some of us are rich of love, while the others aren't', and exposed himself so that Koenig could shoot him. I think that's unfortunately very true.