Too big to manage

KEY values for any country should be food, shelter, and education for their people. I care less about national boundaries, and about political structures. One of the comments about India that you hear often is that it is too large, too populated, too diverse to get a handle on all of these issue. (see the National Geographic article from Delhi Struggle.) OK - - who determines the size of a country? If a billion is too many to handle, split into a more easily manageable set of 4 countries, each with 250K, and all with friendly relations and open borders, like the European Union. Also - -people say it is hard to get a handle on things (like clearing the slums) because India is a democracy, and politicians don’t want to inflame a particular community or caste. And that’s the price of a democracy. Well, I naively ask, maybe then it shouldn’t be a democracy, if the openness and inherent chaos of a democracy leaves 70% of the population underfed. Heretical and impractical views, I am sure…