And since no actual person ruling in a city possesses this knowledge, the best current government could (paradoxically) only be that directed by an imitator a 'sophist', one who as has explained is aware that he does not know the right thing to do, but makes it appear to others that he does; such a government would have good laws and would enforce them, under this 'sophist's' direction, but the knowledge of statesmanship itself would only be weakly reflected in these laws and in the 'sophist's' behavior it would not actually reside anywhere in the community.