In the early 1900s, due to trade expansions, the British nation had connections and control over nearly a quarter of the world. The British people of the early 20th century had an idealistic, exotic and exploratory view of the Empire; they were not in touch with the reality of the authentic situation in the distant lands and the popular media promoted pro-British propaganda. Britain believed it had a divine obligation to expand the reaches of its administrative control and to instigate structures of just participation in different countries of the world.