It seems governments [and by this I meant to say 'democracies' -Dan] have a lot in common with installations of Windows. I have no doubt that the people who first install a new government (say, the Founding Fathers) have nothing but the nation's best interests at heart. They just overthrew a tyrannical [or, less inflammatorily, 'unfair' -Dan] government and are full of idealism and altruism and govern based on what's best for their newly born country. However, with time, the system becomes more and more corrupt as people who desire power are drawn to the system and work their way into it; people who want to govern for personal, not altruistic, reasons. That seems to be an unavoidable aspect of government. Finally, the system gets so loaded down with crap that nothing is working correctly and it takes 10 minutes to start up MS Word (or three years to get innocent people, incarcerated without trial, released from a torturous prison) and the only solution is to reformat and start again with a new bunch of idealists, but with the sad knowledge that eventually it will all need to be torn down yet again.

The question, then, is to find which form of government is the analogue of Unix :)