To me honestly the idea of non earth colonies are an amazing potential, IE I feel like most of the good in the initial US founding came from basically being able to start later in the game with knowledge others didn’t have, and thus make a better government than currently existed faster, thanks to not having the centuries of red tape and “tradition” to deal with. Of course after that head start I think they set themselves up in a way that made them progress slower than the rest of the world.

Now it feels like the actual true start needs to be another form of that, and best part of a non earth civilization is, it would be perhaps the first recorded history of expanding into an area, that we aren’t actually just killing off and replacing an existing civilization. So true governance from zero is actually on the table.