> grew up The poster did not seem to mean "grow taller". Edit: now that was an ambiguous use of '«they»'. For <State>, hence "rule", one would have used 'it'.

> grew up The poster did not seem to mean "grow taller". Edit: now that was an ambiguous use of '«they»'. For <State>, hence "rule", one would have used 'it'. But 'they' suggests at least the possibility of plural, hence "the people". And that the people share the same view of the rule is not a given.