[Wings of Fire]

Would a state of anarchy be good or bad for the populace of any given first world country and why?

The main two theories to contrast here are that of Thomas Hobbes who in his book Leviathan stated that the 'State of Nature' would be a land of scarcity, no industry would thrive because why on earth would you plant a tree if you're not fully entitled to the apple and people would generally be distrustful of eachother, leading to a perpetual state of war. Without central authority there would be no insurance that you are not a constant target of other peoples' opression and each and every person would know this.

Contrast Rousseau who believed that pre-society earth was a fantastic forest of plenty, where humans led primarily solitary lives without fear of leaderships or persecution, there would always be enough apples provided by nature herself as every man would only take what he needed. Greed is a contrivance of the state and fear of other people taking what we want is a purely social phenonoma manufactured by a feudal/capitalist evolution of society.

Basically think The Coral island vs Lord of the Flies.