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People-centred Global Governance realistic view, would all national Simpol organisations commence negotiations with one another to hammer out a final set of policies to which Adopters in each nation would then be asked to consent. This final set of policies would, of course, include any appropriate exemptions or exclusions for certain nations, including any provisions for redistributing wealth or resources across national borders. In this way, while the entire policy package would be implemented by all, or virtually all, nations simultaneously, its effect would be graduated and tailored to equitably suit the differing priorities, needs and abilities of each nation.

A further key point to note is that the condition of simultaneous implementation by all or sufficient nations removes each nation’s fear of losing out to others; it effectively removes the key objection of first-mover competitive disadvantage which is, today, the underlying obstacle that prevents governments from taking the urgent and substantive action needed to solve many global problems, in particular global warming. Simpol’s policy content could thus include all and any desirable policy which hitherto could not be contemplated for fear that its unilateral implementation might impair a nation’s economic competitiveness or attractiveness to global markets. This potentially includes many undiluted and far-reaching policies we all know are needed to solve global problems; problems such as global warming, out-of-control financial markets, excessive corporate power, nuclear arms proliferation, sweatshop and child labour, global poverty and many, many others. Indeed, Simpol could probably include most of the key policy demands made by the many thousands of NGOs and activist groups who together constitute the global justice movement.

But beyond being merely a collection of policy measures, Simpol is also a political process; a process by which its policy measures can come to be implemented. This is because, rather than merely choosing between the largely indistinguishable policies offered by the existing political parties as voters conventionally do today, Simpol instead reverses this by offering citizens world-wide the opportunity of directing 67