  The problem, Popper and others have charged, is that the rulers aim  at the organic unity of the city as a whole, regardless of the  individual interests of the citizens. But this would  be surprising, if true. After all, the Republic provides a  picture not just of a happy city but also of a happy individual  person, and in Book One, Socrates argues that the ruler’s task is to  benefit the ruled. So how could the rulers of Kallipolis utterly  disregard the good of the citizens?