"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJSI7QTAt_o&amp;t=1h05m20s"">1:05:20</a>  "democracy doesn't work"", says  the earliest defector, Mia, to a player who acted honestly and got screwed for it.  It worked just fine once you stopped stealing, Mia.<br><br>This wasn't a case of a benevolent authority solving the problem.  This was the case of smart players opting out of the defectors' obvious deceptions, followed by the defectors discovering how bad their plan actually was.<br><br>If they had all been Mia, they would have left with a pittance.