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 This sounds like a tribal organisation. So you want to organize the country as it was when natives were ruling it ?

My experience in France is that everything very big we achieved was made possible thanks to the gouvernement and public money:

- highways and roads (very good and dense ones)
- health care (one of the best un the world)
- TGV
- nuclear power plans and bombs
- aerospatial (Airbus, Ariane)

Today, things are not so good because this global effort has been jeopardized by privatisation of public services, lead by the financial system (privatisation of profits, socialisation of losses).