[Swarm-Modelling] ABM models of alternate forms of government?

[Andy Cleary]

I'm wondering if anyone knows of work involving ABM modeling with a goal of 
being able to model the evolution of societies under alternate forms of 
government? I'm particularly interested in work focused on systems with 
"small" government (minarchy, libertarianism, zero-state, etc), which, 
because of its decentralized definition, necessarily leads to a society in 
which emergent behavior is a huge organizing principle. This would seem to 
be good niche for ABM analysis with its ability to capture emergent behaviors.

I realize the task has enormous complications at any realistic level, but 
even toy simulations with that basic theme would be of interest. I know of 
the existence, as a point of comparison, of several efforts to model 
international relationships or race relationships via simple ABMs (often 
just cellular automata or something slightly above that), but these 
simulations do not seem to have the element of varying the form of 
government (the "laws" if you will).

I've never seen any but as a computational scientist and not a social 
scientist, there are likely large gaps in my knowledge of the latter.

Any pointers or even "pointers to pointers" would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Andy