Interesting post cryptoctopus. The DPOS system I see as a sort of blockchain republic, with voters, candidates and elected accounts/nodes that are like senators.
Here's a comprehensive guide to Steem witnesses I wrote: https://steemit.com/steemit-guides/@pfunk/a-full-steemit-user-s-guide-to-steem-witnesses
vote_for_witness youraccount pfunk true trueAnd if you wish to vote for me as a witness I'd really appreciate it! I have been running a node 24/7 since I first got one running back in April. It's running on good hardware (multicore Xeon, lots of RAM) which can be expanded to meet the needs of Steem's growth. You can vote for me here: https://steemit.com/~witnesses or in the cli_wallet: