Sumerians would be the answer
I believe it is the last option... "Its political system cannot be easily changed.
It's where only a few people get to rule someplace.
It was principally the fact that the British Navy was carrying off American sailors and making them work for on the ship of British vessels during the Napoleonic Wars that caused the United States to carry out economic sanctions (commercial and financial penalties applied by one or more countries contrary to a directed country, group, or individual) against them.
