Good Craft, unbelievable politics

Good things first: Believable, flawed characters. A plot that is interesting to see unfold. Fleshed out world building without going into information dumping.

Now the problem (for me): The characters are, for all intents and purposes, humans like us. It follows that - barring other factors - their politics should, given enough time, make the same observations and experiences as us about human behavior and power corruption. In this story, however, a political system where elected officials have no accountability to the electorate is presented as the best possible system that could exist, while those who wish for accountability are portrayed as becoming terrorists, effectively. The main character even goes into a fairly exhaustive research of previous political systems and "analyzes" them "neutrally", coming to the conclusion that yes, having no accountability is good because it allows the officials to not be bound by potential lobbyists, essentially.

There are good reasons why in reality most democracies use a secret ballot at the electorate level while keeping (most) decisions by elected officials public. The cast of the book basically hand waves all of these away and pretend otherwise, which is extremely infuriating.

If you can ignore this you'll find an enjoyable read, otherwise you might constantly question the mental faculties of the main characters.

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