"This is the essential dilemma of my position," Judge Fang said. "The 
Mao Dynasty lacked a real judicial system. When the Coastal Republic arose, a 
judicial system was built upon the only model the Middle Kingdom had ever 
known, that being the Confucian. But such a system cannot truly function in a 
larger society that does not adhere to Confucian precepts. "From the Son of 
Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the 
person the
root of everything besides.' Yet how am I to cultivate the persons of the 
barbarians for whom I have perversely been given responsibility?"