The following literature was intercepted from a primitive communication system called the internet. Apparently humans communicate using crude machines that transform their written language into binary form. It is believed that this document, available to only a select group, is a summary of their past political structures (circa Twentieth Century). Some of the political systems are quite illogical, however, this is characteristic of human behavior.

FEUDALISM: You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk. 
 
PURE SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes them and 
puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows.  You have to take 
care of all the cows.  The government gives you as much milk as 
you need. 
 
BUREAUCRATIC SOCIALISM: You have two cows. The government takes 
them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. They are 
cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the 
chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The 
government gives you as much milk and as many eggs as the 
regulations say you should need. 
 
FASCISM: You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you 
to take care of them, and sells you the milk. 
 
PURE COMMUNISM: You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take 
care of them, and you all share the milk. 
 
RUSSIAN COMMUNISM: You have two cows. You have to take care of 
them, but the government takes all the milk. 
 
DICTATORSHIP: You have two cows. The government takes both and 
shoots you. 
 
SINGAPOREAN DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. The government fines 
you for keeping two unlicensed farm animals in an apartment. 
 
MILITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes both and 
drafts you. 
 
PURE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who 
gets the milk. 
 
REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. Your neighbors pick 
someone to tell you who gets the milk. 
 
AMERICAN DEMOCRACY: The government promises to give you two cows 
if you vote for it. After the election, the president is 
impeached for speculating in cow futures. The press dubs the 
affair "Cowgate". 
 
BRITISH DEMOCRACY: You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' 
brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything. 
 
BUREAUCRACY: You have two cows. At first the government 
regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. 
Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both, 
shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. 
Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the 
missing cows.. 
 
ANARCHY: You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair 
price or your neighbors try to kill you and take the cows. 
 
CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull. 
 
HONG KONG CAPITALISM: You have two cows. You sell three of them 
to your publicly - listed company, using letters of credit 
opened by your brother - in - law at the bank, then execute a 
debt / equity swap with associated general offer so that you get 
all four cows back, with a tax deduction for keeping five cows. 
The milk rights of six cows are transferred via a Panamanian 
intermediary to a Cayman Islands company secretly owned by the 
majority shareholder, who sells the rights to all seven cows' 
milk back to the listed company.  The annual report says that 
the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more. 
Meanwhile, you kill the two cows because the fung shiu is bad. 
 
ENVIRONMENTALISM: You have two cows. The government bans you 
from milking or killing them. 
 
FEMINISM: You have two cows. They get married and adopt a veal 
calf. 
 
TOTALITARIANISM: You have two cows. The government takes them 
and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned. 
 
COUNTER CULTURE: Wow, dude, there's like... these two cows, man. 
You got to have some of this milk. 
 
SURREALISM: You have two giraffes. The government requires you 
to take harmonica lessons. 
 
LIBERTARIANISM: You have two cows. One has actually read the 
constitution, believes in it, and has some really good ideas 
about government.  The cow runs for office, and while most 
people agree that the cow is the best candidate, nobody except 
the other cow votes for her because they think it would be 
"throwing their vote away."

~*~*~*Author Unknown*~*~*~