Houses of Betazed

Government on Betazed is remarkably less egalitarian than is suspected from the outside. The noble Houses of Betazed have survived into the present day and dominate the politics of the planet. The tendency of this sort of situation to lead to tyranny is rather curtailed, thankfully, by the telepathic nature of the Betazoid species. Through this ability, it becomes extremely difficult to backstab, betray, or oppress. Put bluntly, the Betazoids in question would go quite mad with the telepathic feedback.