Each state, province, region has a unique resource that another region needs, whether it is an idea, a belief, respectable behavior. As if each region were an organ of a body, that region needs something from another organ. To sustain a body, "food" must be brought in, and the particular food for that organ may depend on the breakdown of a collective source. As well, discharge from one organ may in fact be food for another organ. And collectively, all of the organs doing what they are supposed to be doing, may in fact create food for a general consensus which would be representative of the body as a whole to another nation. And if collectively all of the members at "Table Earth" understand "can you pass me the potato salad?", there would be little friction among ourselves. When members at Table Earth do not pass the potato salad, or a region in the body can not count on a food supply from another region, that body will become ill because as one organ that cannot function without the assistance of another organ, there would be Irritated Bowel Syndrome. And then the members at Table Earth would finish their meal together, and there would be hostility.

Now, we as a body do not have to like another seated at our table, but we, as a body, the organs must come to some agreement to keep the body as a whole, healthy. Just thought you might want to know why a product from another region may be useful in sustaining the body as a whole; as well, discharge or throwaway products might be salvaged by another organ.