I think the United States has more in common with Athens than it does Sparta. Athens was one of the first civilizations to practice democracy, the used pebbles to cast votes. And the United States is also ruled by a democracy.
"The main reason why the author invents various citizens and residents of Verbonia is to "<span>to draw readers into the story of the city's life" among other things. </span>
The French intellectual, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is best described as D. <span>an Enlightenment philosophe who believed in the goodness of human nature.</span>