Any system can develop, or at least survive, only if its resource capacity exceeds or at least equals the pressure exerted by the environment. A shortage of resources must be compensated for by improving the quality of governance. — A rule of the Sufficiently General Theory of Governance.

However, there is a limit to a system’s resource capacity. Accordingly, there is also a limit to how much the quality of governance can be improved in order to ensure the system’s development or even its survival.

In relation to the state, this means that there is a certain lower threshold of the people’s resource capacity (such as population size, science and education, industrial production, food security, armed forces) below which the state and its sovereignty become impossible.

From State, the first volume of the three-volume series "War. State. Bolshevism."

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