"That's the most effective one. Ordinary bread and circuses can also work for keeping populations happy, and a tyrannical rule with a steel fist can enforce laws, but making people not want to harm society is a ruler's dream come true. Since I imagine you're going to make me stop the Soothing, I'll have to increase policing and probably have some public executions or pillories or similar.
I've spent more time thinking about how best to expand the emotion project than about what lesser methods exist."