Freewill enables us to project and develop individuality on our own pace. Freewill is the core of humanity, freewill let's you exercise your rights at your own personal will.
Freewill doesn't necessarily mean individual, it is important for a country to have a freewill to progress itself and in turn humanity in exploration, medicine and environment.
I would say the atmosphere because of the mood that is set at the time kind of like the setting in how people feel like in a group or their surroundings.