While we're talking about developing countries and nepotism and corruption politics, are we talking about the kind of place where a son follows a father as president, or where an ex-president's spouse is almost elected president, or where a president's cousin is elected president? Just clarifying terms here. How many members of US congress and Senate are related to other politicians or ex-politicians?

Proportional representation won't have any effect on the two parties; here in Ireland we've had proportional representation from the start, and Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have dominated politics throughout. What it does do is sometimes necessitate a coalition, not that that makes a blind bit of difference.

The best type of government for me would be the type that keeps things as equal as possible in a society, so that people benefit from economies of scale by throwing money into the pot and gaining a good, free-to-use health service and education service, as in the Scandinavian countries and France.

The worst kind is so business-oriented that it celebrates its arms dealers selling guns and bombs and warplanes to all kinds of scrotes, and deliberately acts to destabilise other, democratically elected governments.