Ok what exactly does political power do?

[Celestial Tesla]

I am thinking of going utopian abudance from the start (despite the high consumer goods cost, but will have robots so it will not be as bad), but i wondering if i am getting a postive or negative from no one having increasing political power.

So what exactly does political power do?

[cooltv27]

political power is how influential a pop is compared to another pop.

for example, average planet happiness is based on political power. keep the rulers happy and the other classes dont matter much. its also important for factions

with utopian abundance all pops have equal political power, meaning rulers in general are unimportant cause there is so few of them