I think there are some basic conceptual levels that could be explored, in order to understand how any community organization functions.
For one thing, there does have to be some locus of structure. Basically the purpose religions serve, as the center of gravity of the community. The totem at the center of the village, so to speak.
Then that as social super organisms, governments form as the nervous system, the executive and regulatory function. What is seriously overlooked though, is that money and banking form the mediums of exchange to bring it all together. Basically blood and the circulation system.
The problem is that as people function as cells within these larger super organisms, we have come to see that as the purpose of government is the welfare of the entire community, not just power grabs by those with the least morals, but miss that the same principle applies to banking. Its function is not to siphon as much value out of the entire community, but to enable it to allocate resources where they are most effective.
When the medium enabling markets is private, they are not really free, as we are all tenant framers to the banks.
As people see money as signal to save and store, while markets need it to circulate, Econ 101 refers to it as both medium of exchange and store of value.
They are not synonymous. In your body, blood is the medium, fat, as well as bone and muscle, are store.
Roads are a medium, parking lots are a store. If we treated roads like we treat money, everything would be paved over, but we would still be fighting over the lots.
As a medium, money is a public utility. Think community tokens. You own money like you own the section of road you are on, or the air and water flowing through your body. It's not your picture on it, you don't hold the copyrights and, most importantly, are not directly responsible for its value, like a personal check.
Yet we have an entire economy based around treating money as store. It is a contract. To store the asset side of the ledger, there has to be a debt on the other side.
Interestingly the one job the flunkies allowed in office seem to be really good at, is running up public debt. Consider the foundational purpose this debt serves in the financial sector. The secret sauce of capitalism is public debt backing private wealth.
I could go on, but here is a link;
