"Home as a Small State" is the first comprehensive book on home management, combining time-tested tools from various fields of knowledge. Diana Khodakovskaya views the spheres of life in a similar way to the state system, presenting them as separate ministries - from the Ministry of the Interior and Finance to the Ministry of Food and Energy. The author analyzes different forms of control and, using an analogy with political science, transfers them to the home environment. Diana Khodakovskaya identifies three key models of family management, comparing them with the monarchy, republic and federation. The family, like the state, is able to change shape under the influence of circumstances, so it is important to find the appropriate tools, skills and, possibly, draw up its own constitution for the conscious and effective development of family life. Our effective management of all daily and never-ending household needs serves to free up time. That is, those pleasant and important moments, for which, in fact, the house exists. For the sake of communicating with households, building mutual understanding, developing a family family, passing on family traditions and spiritual values ​ ​ by inheritance. And the quality of the second - getting pleasure and semantic content from life under one roof - largely depends on how the first question is resolved - life.