In the context of too much providence where abundance is too easy to achieve, the challenges of governance are the challenges of the ruling elite's insulating itself from the care of the general public.
Corruption of governments is made easier when the conditions of governance are especially providential. It is in such circumstances that a divine ruler is needed: to represent the interests of the unrepresented or under-represented, be they of the past, of the future, of the present poor, or the present stranger.
The solution to the problem of corrupt leadership with a too easy access to too much oil is governance under divine rule.
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