Isn't the insistence on having One Ring Person To Rule Them All kind of cultural-centric, too? I mean, not all societies function with One Big Head Guy In Charge, or even if they do, who it is is constantly shifting, so you can have a system of checks and balances that way. There's no guarantee that someone placed in charge, even under a democratic government *whistles and refrains from political commentary* won't make bad decisions or abuse their power at some point.

We just... I don't know. We're very loose in our in-system 'government,' which isn't to say that everyone in here has always made perfectly good decisions, because they certainly haven't, but even for the people in here who I see as having a lot of "wisdom"... well, you know, no one's omniscient.