"Hmmm. I admit, that does make it seem more probable that this is someone's mindgame."
"Among the events which contributed to my imprisonment, was my extrapolating a society in which sorcerers did not exist, and noticing that there were vastly nicer possibilities than our present one. Though of course there were less pleasant possibilities as well. I did say that it was obviously going to remain pure theory, and also that it was entirely possible that what you'd actually get--absent the basic structuring force of all society where a ruler can outfight the combined forces of everyone they rule--was a total absence of stability; just endless mundane armies taking their chances on attacking other armies. That nuance, like so many of my nuances, seems to have been missed."
"I'll bite the obvious bait. What was your nonmagical society like, and why was that configuration for it a stable one?"