2. What coordinates the actions of the thousands of people involved with your
steak dinner? In other words, what provides the incentive for people to act?

we both have laws and checks and balances.

in an absolute  monarchy, the  monarchrules as an autocrat, with absolutepower  over the state and government — for example, the right to rule by decree, promulgate laws, and impose punishments. the  monarch isnominally sovereign but the electorate, through their legislature, exercise political sovereignty.

answer; ///any two strangers are likely to share many coincidental similarities;