<span>The British felt that the colonies should pay for the protection they received during and after the war.</span>
Let's take a look at some command economies: today: North Korea
In the past: The Soviet Union.
We can see that in both cases the countries failed to provide enough food and supplies for their citizens, so one way that command economies influence the citizens of the countries that had them was by inducing hunger. (the same is not true of mixed economies, or not always true).
Augustus, the nephew of Julius Caesar turned rome into an empire.