The United States of
America
Successful Federation
With 48 states, roughly equal in size and potential strength,
no authority in the United States except the federal can rule
over all of them.
Such a small-state organization makes the development of an oversized
member impossible.
Federal power, even if small, outweighs any other 47 to 1, is
therefore always effective. (first published as
Appendix I to The Breakdown of Nation by Leopold Kohr in 1957)