The Laws is Plato's last longest and perhaps most loathed work. The book is a conversation on political philosophy between three elderly men: an unnamed Athenian a Spartan named Megillus and a Cretan named Clinias. These men work to create a constitution for Magnesia a new Cretan colony. The government of Magnesia is a mixture of democratic and authoritarian principles that aim at making all of its citizens happy and virtuous.