Anybody who tried has starved to death or needed a bloody revolution to get rid of their dictator and his nomenklatura.
Oh, and to address your earlier point:
> you fine fellow serfs have made this a fertile land for discussion
Yes, the community is where the value is. But we all congregated here and not on some free and open-source place somewhere else on the Internet. So there must also be some value added by the creators and maintainers of this place, value we recognized and built upon.