What are you talking about? Of course we know how to locate other optimums, experimentation. We just need to be systematic and small scale about it. If first world populations would tolerate new undemocratic charter cities or city states or seasteading colonies and help build them we could soon get as good or better data set as Aristotle had when doing political science.

Western governments, NGOs, the UN and all sorts of other insitutions have already done experiments by "promoting democracy" in places like Somalia or Rwanda with terrible results.... (read more)