Thread: how would you start the ideal civilization?

now, i've asked something like this before (maybe a year or so ago) and i got some pretty cool responses so i thought i'd do it again and see what i get.

now, what if tomorrow a meteor struck the earth, killing almost everybody. now YOU were somehow granted the power to decide all the rules and who would be the basis of your society. would you start with children or adults? would you start off a democracy or abandon all form of government at all?
c'mon now! impress me!

First let's kill all the lawyers.