It's a dictatorship, with the ruler controlling basically everyone and everything.
They call it a democratic republic, though.
The state of rapt attention that Eric is in is called to be the flow. This is the term being used when the person just goes with the flow or which he moves in a continuous and steady way. It is seen from the scenario above as he works on the task without doing any effort as it implies that he just goes with the task in a steady and continuous manner, this happens because of the reason that he is immersed and focused at his work.
Scarcity.................
They were a house for the pharaohs so that when they ''come back to life'', they would have a place to stay before they're ''taken to heaven'', and did you know they used to bury all their possessions with the body. And also for beauty.<span />
An assembly: the athenian democracy