I'd probably arrange a system of advisory depending on ethnic, regional and monetary states, so that every group would have a voice in my forum. Id prioritise militant strength and social stability (even if that entails the anihilation of local/tribal/familial identity). so that I'd be left only with advisors in the regional and monetary castes. Id engage a system of controlled breeding. Social imperatives such as higher education and social skills would be made priorities as well. All citezens of apropriate age would engage in military service and, ideally become highly regimentalised within. Low-level crimes would be punished with inprisonment and light torture (such as beatings, et cetera) repeat offenders would leave this behind and offered a chance to rejoin society: one idea I have had in the past is placing them several miles ofshore and telling them to swim. Those who make it prove their loyalty to the state, those who do not... Well, they are no use to the state anyway.
So, my civilisation would be no utopia. But it would be strong.