The Politics of Doone

Buccas compares the politics of doone to thomas hobbs 16 51 work leviathan, in which there is no centralized authority but rather a collection of individuals looking out for their own interests. So it's not like the emperor actually does have absolute control over everything. And that comes back to the way the guild operates itself again, because the guild very much wants stability, at least so far as its spice goes. They don't want anything to threaten that supply.