"Because a society where everyone could eat their fill and stay warm was too advanced—there would be no room for feudal nobles! So, to preserve their rule, they would rather keep suppressing the development of productive forces and let this world remain stagnant for eight hundred years!"
Mousse then explained the concepts of productive forces and relations of production to Bartholomew Kuma. Only then did Kuma realize that overthrowing the Celestial Dragons was not merely an emotional necessity—it also served the real interests of the vast majority of people in this world and possessed unquestionable justice!
Compared to the Celestial Dragons, the nobles of other nations were somewhat better off. After all, the World Government played a game of "dynamic balance." If a country's nobility became too rotten and incompetent, even a World Government member state could easily be destroyed by pirates or other countries.
However, there were exceptions, such as the Goya Kingdom, the homeland Monkey D. Dragon had just visited.
The nobles of this country could be said to be rotten to the bone—corrupt, incompetent, cruel, and heartless. Yet because the World Government had established it as a model and protected it closely, the kingdom's capital had incredibly maintained peace and prosperity for decades.
Back when Mousse watched the anime, he had once been puzzled. The nobles of the Goya Kingdom learned useless things like etiquette and had little ability to work. They despised the supposedly lowly bloodlines of the poor and drove them outside the city. So who exactly labored and produced enough to support that royal capital?
Only after coming to this world did he learn that the Goya Kingdom did not develop industry at all. Instead, it had taken advantage of Monkey D. Garp becoming a Marine Hero, which allowed it to be almost entirely