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Any small business.
Those are really constitutional monarchies: there's plenty of labor law between the owners and the employees governing their interactions.
Fair point, there are always constraints on what a dictator can do, some explicit, some implicit. I was using the broader description:
Can you think of successful organizations that fit this description (description 3 from the wiki article)?
The trouble is, almost any organization within the jurisdiction of a state is going to be governed by some laws. But we should probably accept any candidate that is subject to no laws specific to its form of organization, which would probably include LW and moderated online communities generally. I can't think of any large organizations where very much is at stake in membership or organizational activities.
is everyone getting the point that you can't really say "Well, X works", when it only works because it embedded in some larger system that kind of makes it work (eg labour law constraining egotistical CEO's).
The problems of politics --actual politics -- are that it is inherently large scale,, and that it is where the buck stops.
They're all benevolent?
That scales up to the nation level? (Hint: "small")