People that are taught correct principles can govern themselves. If all churches taught the laws of accountability everyone would learn to govern themselves. Passing more laws have little or no effect on people that do not have the moral and spiritual conviction to live by them. It is the spiritual citizens that create great nations not great legislators. It is the hearts of men that change nations.
Nations rise and fall on that principle.
There never was an atheist nation that prospered. That is one of the main reasons that Russian socialistic and communistic methods are so unproductive. A nation is not built on materialism it is built on spirituality in the hearts of men. Men that govern their lives spiritually require less regulation materially. When the intimate relationship of man and woman falls then the nation falls with it.