nyar said: At this point in time I'm afraid only a drastic drop in population and a radical change in the overall mental state of humanity would be necessary. Maybe a pandemic that wiped out 99% of the human race, especially anyone over the age of puberty. Given the damage done by testosterone driven men aggressively seeking power, mates and status, I would say a 10 to one ratio of females to males for the survivors. Perhaps a permanent mental and physical retardation of all males forcing females to take over leadership roles and hard labor. No usable pool of obedient male slave labor. Too easy to use them as mook cannon fodder. Only good for light labor and eye candy. Given how men have consistently messed things for their own selfish purposes in the past I don't see any other way. Sort of Uganda after the genocide on steroids.



Of course that's for a positive one world government. To get a dystopia like the Expanse just continue lying to the people and feed them bread and circuses. Easy. Click to expand...

Erm... what? I'm sorry, but that is just wrong. For starters, your first scenario is not positive whatsoever. Women, surprise surprise, are not different enough from men that they would govern differently. They are just as selfish as men, and just as aggressive. Women and men are still in the same species, they are different only in a few ways that are mostly physical. Mentally, they are not different. Men can be pacifists, and women can be diehard imperialists. What is really needed for this scenario, instead of your genocidal plague that leaves 10 times as many women as men, is a state dominant enough to enforce its will on the whole world, while having the desire to own it all. The U.S.A. right after World War II fills the dominant requirement, but not the desire. I suppose that if there is a communist takeover of continental Europe, that the US may gain the desire to bring the world under its banner to remove every trace of communism. Even then, the chances are extraordinarily slim.