1516. Have not these superpowers become even better able to assert their egoistic desires or demands on other foreign states today? If a small country is compelled to have such a superpower as a buyer of its commodities, is one to believe that the small country will always, easily and without hindrance, be able to get the price for these products that is one-hundred-per-cent necessary if it is to be able to pay the manufacturers or producers to supply them? Is it not sometimes necessary for the governments of small states to subsidise the producers with the amount that the purchasing superpower has underpaid for the goods? Is it not likely that a superpower will far more easily obtain the necessary price for its exported products? Indeed, among nations the dictator principle, the right of the stronger, still rules to a far-reaching extent. And since states consist in the main of intellectual individuals who are to a great extent in the process of abolishing the dictatorship in their own country's form of government, they are not prepared to let their country be subjugated voluntarily to the whims and egoistic or robbing tendencies of a greater power either. It is self-evident that the relationship between the world's various nations or peoples does not fulfil the conditions for "lasting peace". It is just as obvious that a police service or judicial system must be created to hold in check the states' lust for power and egoistic taking of the law into their own hands in the same way that it does within states, where police services and judicial systems have long since been created to hold in check the stronger individual's taking of the law into its own hands in relation to beings in the society who are weak or less able to defend themselves.