It depends on public institutions, on citizens’ faith in them, on shared hopes and values. It is these same factors that determine the progress of a nation. To cite Cavour again: “A nation’s political resurgence can never be divorced from its economic resurgence.
… Civic virtues, wise laws affording equal protection to each and every right, sound political arrangements, essential to the betterment of a nation’s moral condition – these are also the prime cause of its economic progress.” The intertwined vested interests oppressing the country in so many ways must be eliminated.