I don't think that democracy is necessarily a system that penetrates other alien races. I think... And this might be an unpopular opinion. That's why we went to war in Afghanistan. We were trying to bring democracy to the spiders. This might be an unpopular opinion for humans circa 2017, but democracy might not be where we end up landing. It's a great system in some ways, but we might be able to find better. It's possible. And maybe these spiders know something we don't.