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Let's say you have a strong world government like say the US already set up; we are past the initial war period where you can expect guerilla warfare and rebellions. All you would need is a strong police force then, right? If you have a democracy and fairly independent provinces (no armies, obviously, and you have global laws to follow) then the rate of revolts should not be too high.

The laws can be the same as what's in the US right now, except the provinces can't go independent (which no state in the US can do anyway considering history) Can't have armies forming out in the country-side. The world is big enough though that there are going to be isolated settlements but it's not like the government would have to even contact them. So I don't see a world government as necessarily being oppressive.