essential means of production and in consumer goods and
services; on a competitive survival struggle for wealth,
prestige and power between individuals and social groups;
and on the exploitation of man, society and nature for the
material benefit of the privileged few who occupy the summit
of the social pyramid;

(3) a unified, centralized political apparatus or bureaucracy
that attempts to plan, direct and administer the political,
economic, ideological and sociological structure;

(4) a self-selected and self-perpetuating oligarchy that owns
the wealth, holds the power and pulls the strings;

(5) an adequate labor force for farming, transport, industry,
mining;

(6) large middle-class elements: professionals, technicians,
craftsmen, tradesmen, lesser bureaucrats, and a semi-parasitic
fringe of camp-followers;

(7) a highly professional, well-trained, amply-financed apparatus
for defense and offense;

(8) a complex of institutions and social practices which will
indoctrinate, persuade and when necessary limit deviation
and maintain social conformity;

(9) agreed religious practices and other cultural features.