I believe it would be the food rations it deployed.
There are too many citizens for each of their interests, ideas and opinions to be heard and taken into account one by one. a representative can take the majority vote of the people and refer it back to the higher power.
<span>The time period after the war of 1812 which saw only one political party was called the Era of Good Feelings. </span>
Because it was easier for Europeans to cross the Atlantic than for Chinese to cross the Pacific.
