[ WP ] Humanity is the only race in the galaxy with such a massive lack of common sense that we 're the only species that requires laws to form societies . Other races just form naturally and are shocked when confronted with humanities laws and regulations .

( has anyone had the idea to create *flaws* to these societies? I like flaws. ) 
 
 Samuel Zhang cheered. `` This makes sense! The translator works! Eventually we can make contact with these... instances.'' This will be a great achievement! The humans had evesdropped the transmissions from the new planet for years already and tried to make heads and tails of it. When it eventually worked, it only did so via neural networks because no human linguist was able to crack the convoluted speech. But it worked and Samuel just hoped it would work in both ways. The translation was only slightly changed when translating it back, as such he hoped it would be successful. 
 
 Samuel Zhang was of course chosen to be on the first contact mission. He was the one who knew most about the culture of the Kongsimians or Instances, as they called themselves. It worked surprisingly well. The village they touched down in treated them friendly, there was one small hangup though, and that was when one of the political brass of the United Nations asked about the leaders of the country. The instances ( who had no real concept of names, making this all harder on the earthlings ) were confused. One asked what a `` leader'' does. The erthlings turned to Zhang to iron out the bug in the translator. Zhang realized that leader was translated as `` undefinable concept''. He tried to find a translation which did not make the system resort to undefinable concepts. After quite a few tries, this was input: Earth [ our home planet ] society relies on written down traditions which a master of the ceremony [ elected by the people rather than inherited ] can impose. If people violate these traditions, they are receiving disfavors because they violated them. 
 
 The instances looked confused and chattered among themselves. The translator found many implications of disbelief. Then the Instances just turned away and left. 
 
 Of course heads would roll and Samuel knew that his head was on the chopping block. He needed to prepare himself for the inevitable accusatory meeting. He decided to learn more about their culture... 
 
 `` So, what do you think happened?'' asked the UN general secretary. 
 
 Samue cleared his throat. `` Have you ever wondered why we visited the Kongsimians? And not the other way around?'' He waited a strategic moment, `` Kongsimian society is anarchistic, it has no laws, no leaders, nothing but vague agreements between people. What I did n't realize until now is that it made them *extremely* conservative. A country can allow or disallow international flights, the Kongsimians would need an agreement with each inhabitant of the territory they fly across. The general speed until Kongsimian inventions are accepted, even slight improvements took ages. Now, the introduction of new concepts... put them to a threat. So they did what they could and protected themselves.'' 
 
 The UN general secretary was speechless. 
 
 `` They have a society without crime, but also without noticable progress. Advancing from the first planes to jetplanes took them the better part of 5 centuries. I think we humans took a different turn somewhere in evolution. For better or for worse.''
