What do you like about Venice?

Venice achived the goal of making actually desirable to serve the country and invest your own resources in it. The system is pretty complex but is similar in many aspects to the Roman cursus honorum, where if you were noble you were expected to serve the community for free, to build things for the state and to set an example for the rest of the population. Obviously, while serving for the state, you were able to achieve "honor", which means status, to build useful connection and to maintain your power against the competition. This resulted in an elite that identified itself with the state and was mostly working for his best interest. it's extremely different to, let's say, the feudal nobility, where one was able to just switch possession one with another, as it happened a lot of times, or even switch king / feudal overlord. Instead, all the Venetian aristocracy was only bound to the Venetian state, and to the Venetian state as a whole. Moreover, while the head of the state was a lifelong office, it was completely elective, so it prevented a single family to devolve in a feudal power against the others. This system was strong enough to survvive over 1000 years, which is more than most of any other European institution, except for the Catholic Church. But the church has also a strong ideology, the religion. Venice was able to do so thanks only to the political architecture.

Honestly, I consider Venice the true heir of Rome when it comes to political system. Evola was fixed with the feudalism, but it was just because when he was young the right was extremely monarchic and idealised the middle age - he was also anti-nationalist because he correctly linked nationalism with the french Revolution, which is something that today is heavily downplayed. He should have look deeper into the Roman heritage, not in the Germanic one. But that was kinda the zeitgeist.